Soundtrack was damn nice though. David Wise (and Kirkhope from other Rare games of the same-ish era) wrote some excellent stuff.

Not ridiculously pedantically, of course… but yes

Newspeak was an intentional in-universe conlang designed and handed down by Ingsoc based on “how you speak affects how you think” (which is a hypothesis that has… some kind of name). This is a bunch of people trivially avoiding automated filtering like it’s been done since the first puritan implemented the first world filter.

One of the main differences is that self-censoring seggs and raep and ahh-es or whatever still leaves it plenty obvious what you mean, it just outs you as a Tiktok user. Conceptually word filters are a blacklist whereas Newspeak was intended to be a whitelist with the restrictiveness that entails.

I think the oldest thing I’ve played is mostly just NES stuff. Some of those will have been ported arcade titles or whatever, otherwise it’s plain ol’ SMB1 (1985, I think). I still play SMB3 ('88) quite often.