{"id":318162,"date":"2025-10-17T16:19:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/?p=158461"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:19:47","slug":"getting-nostalgic-about-developing-the-90s-themed-the-big-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/getting-nostalgic-about-developing-the-90s-themed-the-big-con\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Nostalgic About Developing the \u201890s-themed The Big Con"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-xbox-summary\">\n<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A look back on the decisions that made <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/p\/The-Big-Con\/9P01R01ZJ9BX\">The Big Con<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, a weird and wonderful \u201890s nostalgia trip of a game, happen.<\/li>\n<li>It answers the questions like how the adventure games of the decade influenced it and what is Rockapella doing there?<\/li>\n<li><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/p\/The-Big-Con\/9P01R01ZJ9BX\">The Big Con<\/a> <\/em>is available for pre-order today on the Xbox Store for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S and will be available to play on August 31.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>I\u2019m writing this moments after we found out that <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/p\/The-Big-Con\/9P01R01ZJ9BX\">The Big Con<\/a><\/strong><\/em> has passed certification to be on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/p\/The-Big-Con\/9P01R01ZJ9BX\">where you can pre-order it right now<\/a>!). It\u2019s got me feeling a little nostalgic for the past three-and-a-half years of working on the game, so join me on this journey about how we got here, won\u2019t you? (Insert &#8220;Wayne\u2019s World&#8221;<em> <\/em>doodledy-doo screen effect here). Excellent.<\/p>\n<p>All that we knew when we started was that <em>The Big Con<\/em> was going to be a game about a con artist. Hustling people, talking to people, and ultimately building on the gameplay of the adventure games from my youth &#8212; <em>Day of the Tentacle, Zac McCraken<\/em>, and of course, <em>Monkey Island<\/em>. Games that were about puzzles, and conversation, and most importantly, games that made me laugh<strong>. <\/strong>Even if it\u2019s fun to be a grifter hustling people, I hoped that the game would make people feel like they\u2019re clever con artists, and that they would get a few chuckles out along the way.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of games about criminals are set in the &#8217;80s, or the &#8217;60s, or Los Santos (ahem), but we knew early on that <em>The Big Con<\/em> belonged in the early-mid-1990s. It\u2019s a strange, liminal time for the world: the Internet hadn\u2019t fully taken hold and almost no one had a cellphone (and those that did were real weirdos).\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/getting-nostalgic-about-developing-the-90s-themed-the-big-con.jpg\" alt=\"The Big Con\" class=\"wp-image-158464\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Picture it. If, hypothetically, a teenage con artist approached you and said she wanted to sell you a rare Burblo, you wouldn\u2019t be able to text a friend or quickly Google to see if it was on the level. You just had to give the kid your money and hope she would get enough to save her video store, right? Wait. I\u2019m getting ahead of myself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We knew the game belonged in the &#8217;90s. We\u2019d get to bring in bright beautiful colors, vibrant backgrounds, and thick lines, and pay homage to cartoons and comics we grew up with, like &#8220;Doug,&#8221; or &#8220;Ghost World.&#8221;<em> <\/em>We could use words like rad<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But we wondered, who is this mysterious con artist?<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/getting-nostalgic-about-developing-the-90s-themed-the-big-con-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Big Con\" class=\"wp-image-158463\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the 1990s the fastest growing cultural phenomenon was video rental stores. There were some mom-and-pop-shops, but big chains were rapidly becoming the only VHS rental game in town. It seemed like a great premise: A world-ending event for a small town teenage girl.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So Ali was born, a wisecracking, backwards-hat wearing young woman who is capable of solving any problem with quick wit (or a sneaky hand). With Ali came her mom Linda, a pushy-but-loving small town video store owner who just wants her daughter to be a famous trombonist one day. Then came the gangsters that are threatening to take it all away, and then the enigmatic grifter Ted that shows her how to steal the money she needs\u2026&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And who knew, Ali was pretty funny.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/getting-nostalgic-about-developing-the-90s-themed-the-big-con-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Big Con\" class=\"wp-image-158466\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>That kind of acerbic-not-rude sarcasm was a perfect fit for Ali, and bringing in Erika Ishii to voice her seemed like a perfect fit too; someone who has a positive attitude running under everything she does and can really bring the heat when she needs to.<\/p>\n<p>And then there\u2019s Rad Ghost. Oh, sorry, have I not mentioned there\u2019s a character named Rad Ghost?<\/p>\n<p>Ali\u2019s imaginary friend \/ voice in her head \/ ghost of a former MTV-VJ is with her throughout her journey as someone to give her hints, support her, and remind her that the power is inside her (because, again, he is totally a rad hallucination). When I was describing this, were you picturing the voice of Dave Fennoy? Because we\u2019ve been building this game for three years and let me tell you, I was thinking of Dave Fennoy the whole time. So hey, we brought him on board. (I\u2019m trying to sound cool but am fully freaking out). No big.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/getting-nostalgic-about-developing-the-90s-themed-the-big-con-3.jpg\" alt=\"The Big Con\" class=\"wp-image-158465\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>So we had some of the best voice actors in the business, an art style that makes people smile, and a country-spanning journey to save a small-town video store. We got to watch as people played the game and beat levels in different ways, choosing who and how they wanted to con, and laughing their way through it. We got to make some amazing music, and that was before we hired Rockapella to make a music video\u2026 and then we got the news that we made it through cert, and that the game is coming out for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S this month.<\/p>\n<p>You should be all caught up now. I know, it\u2019s a lot. It\u2019s a lot of feelings when you look at them all in one big burst like this. Three years working on a comedy adventure game set in the 1990s has taught me there\u2019s only one word for this feeling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The word is rad, folks.<\/p>\n<p>It feels rad.<\/p>\n<div id=\"msp1628879199994\" class=\"\">\n<div class=\"ms-product-badge mspb-large\" data-product-id=\"9P01R01ZJ9BX\">\n<div class=\"mspb-primary-image\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/store\/apps\/9P01R01ZJ9BX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/store-images.s-microsoft.com\/image\/apps.35961.14465388396342523.28ec13a2-04a9-4247-986a-5d1303ace16b.6ad9ee12-75b9-4402-ac8d-52906bf2e080?w=400&#038;h=600\" alt=\"The Big Con\" class=\"skip-lazy\" \/> <\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"mspb-details\">\n<div class=\"mspb-feature-badges\">\n<div class=\"mspb-feature-badge xbox-live\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/getting-nostalgic-about-developing-the-90s-themed-the-big-con.png\" alt=\"Xbox Live\" class=\"skip-lazy\" \/> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>The Big Con<\/h2>\n<div class=\"mspb-secondary-details\">\n<div class=\"mspb-left-container\">\n<p>Skybound Games<\/p>\n<div class=\"mspb-rating\">\n<div> <span>\u2606<\/span><span>\u2606<\/span><span>\u2606<\/span><span>\u2606<\/span><span>\u2606<\/span> <\/div>\n<div class=\"mspb-full-stars\" style=\"width: 0px\"> <span>\u2605<\/span><span>\u2605<\/span><span>\u2605<\/span><span>\u2605<\/span><span>\u2605<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mspb-price\"> <span>$14.99<\/span> <\/div>\n<div class=\"mspb-buttons\"> <a class=\"mspb-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/store\/apps\/9P01R01ZJ9BX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pre-order<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mspb-bottom-badges\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mspb-right-container\">\n<div class=\"mspb-description\"> Hustle and grift your way across America in the \u201890s as a teenage con artist on a crime-filled road trip adventure. Play as Ali, a curious and sarcastic high schooler who ditches band camp to go on a cross-country road trip. But this isn\u2019t a joyride! Ali is on an all-important mission to save her family video store from the nasty loan sharks trying to shut their shop down. Swindle strangers, pickpocket people, and con commoners across a wacky America of the \u201890s. And \u2013 it should go without saying \u2013 lie to your mom about all of it. Choose who deserves to be conned and who might need a helping hand. The world is your oyster (and hey, pearls are worth a lot!). One Con Doesn\u2019t Fool All Con people your way! Wear disguises, sneak around, eavesdrop on conversations, and learn how to approach each mark. Maybe you think you can make enough cheddar just by pickpocketing. Or seek out more complex grifts that involve breaking and entering, smooth talking, and more. It\u2019s up to you to outsmart everyone and lockpick everything that stands between you and saving your mom&#039;s video store. A Coming-of-Age Comedy<br \/>\nIf there\u2019s one surefire way to discover yourself, it\u2019s by setting out on an adventure. Luckily for you, you\u2019ve got the aid of an expert grifter to coach you in the elusive art of charm. But a life of crime is no laughing matter! Not unless you turn on the laugh track and make it a criminally funny sitcom. Get ready to talk your way into deals, hearts, and trouble. And don\u2019t forget to call home every once in a while to check in with your mom. Sure, you might argue with her sometimes (most of the time?), but you\u2019re a teenager &#8211; that\u2019s kind of your job! The Weird and Wack 1990s the Way You Remember Them<br \/>\nWhether you were a \u201890s kid or not, this game is brimming with nostalgia. It offers you the perfect opportunity to relive your own awkward high school years, or if you sadly missed out on the \u201890s, finally experience all of the classic teen movies that feel so old and outdated. Plaid, payphones, VHS tapes, and malls \u2013 THE BIG CON has got all of the outrageous fads you remember (and some you want to forget) from the 1990s. But most importantly \u2013 you can ride the Hormipillar as much as you want! <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Related:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2021\/08\/13\/how-it-all-started-for-cardaclysm-shards-of-the-four\/\">How It All Started for Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2021\/08\/12\/art-of-rally-created-in-a-van\/\">Art of Rally: The Racing Game Created in a Van on an Epic Road Trip Across North America<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2021\/08\/12\/chivalry-2-house-galencourt-new-features\/\">Chivalry 2: House Galencourt \u2013 New Features To Get Excited About<\/a><br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2021\/08\/13\/getting-nostalgic-about-developing-the-90s-themed-the-big-con\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary A look back on the decisions that made The Big Con, a weird and wonderful \u201890s nostalgia trip of a game, happen. 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It\u2019s got me feeling a little nostalgic for the past three-and-a-half years of working on the game, so join me on this journey&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/getting-nostalgic-about-developing-the-90s-themed-the-big-con\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":318163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Getting Nostalgic About Developing the \u201890s-themed The Big Con | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SummaryA look back on the decisions that made The Big Con, 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