Dad’s Basement #3c1 – The Shadow Over Denis Dyack: The Colour Out of Place

Part of a Video Series on Video Game History

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On the press response and reception to Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem. Long overdue, part Three of this three-part (plus) series covering Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem and its attempted spiritual successor now is a posthumous survey of the failure of the Kickstarter for Shadow of the Eternals, split into multiple chapters.

Footage Sources:

1. “Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem”, Silicon Knights/Nintendo;
2. “Technopoly”, by Neil Postman, read by Jeff Riggenback;
3. “E3 2001 Video Coverage”, PlanetGamecube.com (Nintendo World Report)/Billy Berghammer;
4. “Interview Dumptruck”, GiantBomb.com;
5. “Response to Kotaku Article”, Precursor Games/Denis Dyack;
6. “Famicom Dojo Podcast”, Powet.tv/Sean Corse;
7. “Eternal Darkness Four Year Retrospective”, IGN.com;
8. “E3 2001 Eternal Darkness Demo”, IGN.com;
9. “Resident Evil Revelations”, Capcom;
10. “Silent Hill 3”, Konami;
11. “Resident Evil (Remake)”, Capcom;
12. “Resident Evil”, Capcom;
13. “Resident Evil 6”, Capcom;
14. “Commander Shepard: A Dramatic Reading? by Jennifer Hale”, Sneaky Zebra;
15. “Electronic Gaming Monthly 1991 TV Commercial”, ???;
16. “Retronauts”, 1up.com/Ziff Davis;
17. “1up’s E3 2010 Rumors”, 1up.com/Ziff Davis;
18. “Question of the Week”, Weekend Confirmed/Shacknews.com;
19. “GameLife”, Wired.com;
20. “Murder, She Played”, Jenn Frank;
21. “Too Human XBox 360 Interview”, IGN.com;
22. “Pac-Man”, Namco;
23. “Defender”, Williams;
24. “Super Mario 64”, Nintendo;
25. “Tomb Raider”, Eidos;
26. “Batman: Arkham Asylum”, Rocksteady Studios/Square Enix/Warner Bros.;
27. “Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty”, Konami;
28. “The 1up Show”, 1up.com;
29. “1up Yours”, 1up.com;
30. “E3 2011 Press Conference”, Konami;
31. “E3 2001 Press Conference Highlights”, IGN.com;
32. “Weekend Confirmed”, Weekend Confirmed/Shacknews.com;
33. “Nintendo Voice Chat”, IGN.com;
34. “Sins of a Solar Empire”, Stardock;
35. “Samurai Shodown Sen”, SNK Playmore/XSeed;
36. “Samurai Shodown 2”, SNK Playmore;
37. “Bathory’s Theme”, Precursor Games/Giancarlo Feltrin;