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Learn How LEGO Island Came to Be
 Posted on Wednesday, December 30th, 2020 at 5:02pm by Andrew, BZPower News ManagerIf you're of a certain age, commonly referred to as being a 90s kid, you probably remember playing LEGO Island on PC CD-ROM back in the day. On the latest episode of the Bits N' Bricks podcast, documentarian Ethan Vincent and journalist Brian Crecente look back at the creation of this watershed moment in both LEGO and gaming history, talking to a number of the people involved in the project to get the ground truth on the game. There were a lot of interesting things covered, like Tormod Askildsen's 'Elvis report,' so named because videogames had The LEGO Group 'all shook up,' the fact that Mindscape had a physical version of the entire LEGO Island that they brought kids in to play with to get ideas for the game, or the unceremonious way in which the company closed to avoid paying its employees bonuses. This podcast continues to be an amazing look back through the past at the stories behind the games we all know and enjoy.
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