READY PLAYER ONE: Rise of the OASIS | LORE in a Minute!
3,055Welcome to the OASIS, a virtual world where knowledge of Dungeons & Dragons, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Joust, Godzilla, Indiana Jones, Cowboy Bebop, The Bible, Spider-Man, Supaidaman, Pac-Man, Superman, He-Man, Rain Man, Ultraman, Battlestar Galactica, Contra, Zork, Quake, William Gibson, Galaga and Real Genius can make you rich beyond your wildest dreams!
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Written by Debbie Staab
Animated by Danny Reyes:
https://www.youtube.com/user/oryozema
Voiced by Jace Willcutt:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3LxkCQEV8wiCGJYzg2ZDFw
Transcript:
In 2045 the world is a dump-fossil fuels are all but burned up, precipitating a Global Energy Crisis, a food shortage AND a housing crisis. To top it all off, a few major corporations control most things. It's your standard issue wasteland, but with a twist!
This dystopia comes with a U-topia in the form of the OASIS, a massively multiplayer online simulation game that absolutely everyone uses to make life livable. This powerful piece of saving grace comes courtesy of Gregarious Simulation Systems, founded by benevolent eccentric geniuses, James Halliday and Ogdon Morrow, who for years have staved off the unwanted advances of IOI, a global communications conglomerate and the planet's biggest Internet service provider. Halliday and Morrow, once the bromance of a lifetime, parted ways under mysterious circumstances. Morrow sold his stock in the company to Halliday, who became reclusive, then ill, finally passing away and leaving behind the greatest Easter Egg hunt the world has ever seen.
The prize? Halliday's enormous fortune and ownership of the OASIS. Oh, yeeeaaah.
All the egg hunters, or "gunters", need is the OASIS and an exhaustive knowledge of Halliday's favorite decade. Enter Wade Watts, an 80's obsessed trailer park resident and ardent egg hunter. But right behind Wade are IOI's gunters bent on total world wide web domination… and they'll do anything for Halliday's estate.
Have fun!
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