Cookie Cutter episode on reward mechanisms.
To the Moon ep on neurodiversity.
Super Meat Boy ep on perseverance.
Baldur's Gate 3 ep on grooming.
Undertale ep on friendship circles.
Psychonauts ep on... everything.

FTL. Never accept surrender when there's more loot to be had from slaughtering the enemy (or slowly asphyxiating them).

Big difference is lack of instant info back then. A sudden incident far away from journalists is going to take time to get good info on, and less likely to become headline.
Also at the time the expected downfall of Major was a huge rolling piece. That's where public interest was.

Don't knock it till you've tried it.

What really gets me is the constant perspective switching. It's such a core part of the gameplay experience. Glitchy environments I can half live with - constant changes in gameplay mode I can't.

In the south it's referred to as a smoking gilet, whilst in the north a lounge gilet or longilet for short. In some parts of Yorkshire it's known as a lopsilot.

These are based on real bomb preservation shelters from WW2. You can see them in the London Transport Museum.

One of my favourite bits of London river trivia is that the Westbourne river runs in a pipe through Sloane Square tube station. You can stand underneath it waiting for your train. secretldn.com/secret-river...

So boring!

Farticle.
(good read otherwise, but I couldn't help but laugh at this)

One of the AIs is a DM and the other AI is a player. Both are apparently "sentient".

Obra Dinn and Paradise Killer are obvious ones you'll doubtless know well.

Persuasion RPG is a recent odd little procedural game with information gathering and interrogation: dementia5.itch.io/persuasion-rpg

Since the 00s roguelikes have broken free of the D&D mold a lot more. There's more emphasis on positional combat and environment manipulation, which are less expressed in D&D but easier to build upon in a grid-based game.