The Eternity Clock goes in a different direction, and turns the Doctor Who video game into a cinematic platformer, not unlike Prince of Persia or Another World. This isn’t even the first Doctor Who video game since it came back there were a handful of adventure games with the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond running around solving puzzles. None of them really turned out to be all that good. Doctor Who dabbled in video games before. Aside from being a mystical video game Macguffin to be collected. It would probably help, then, to define what The Eternity Clock is. This, friends, is Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock. Naturally, licenses are made and agreed upon, the ever-present billowing dress of Lady Capitalism securing the creation of something that will make plenty of money. Its success gives way to Playstation 2, and then to Playstation 3… and that leads us back to a world where the anoraks have taken over the asylum since the novel days, and Doctor Who is The Biggest Thing On Television. Sony, to its credit, uses this knowledge to create the Playstation.

Nintendo works in tandem with Sony on this, but creative differences cause it to never happen, relegated to a different universe where we all have pods in our ears. Plans are made to give the Super NES an upgrade, a CD expansion. Put the wide-angle lens back on, and zoom out to track the course of history that stems from this grey box’s success. The Nintendo Entertainment System was born.

It transcended the sea between worlds and became corporeal, becoming a magical grey box that was bigger on the inside. It was up to a red and white box from a land that did not exist now. Howard Scott Warshaw, unfairly maligned man that he is, did what he could. 1983 saw video games in North America face their own Ragnarok at the hands of over-indulgent capitalists. You know what else got better? Video games.

One could argue it was the blow that eventually killed it. As has been noted, this was the first major blow to Doctor Who in the 1980’s. The program failed to get a passing Grade and was put on hiatus. The final straw came just as Peri Brown was running away from a cannibal with bushy eyebrows. The Doctor, he of bright coat and bravado, faced off against deadly foes like the Bandrils and the tree mines. In England, Doctor Who was supposedly struggling to entertain the masses.

Swap out your wide-angle lens and zero in towards two of the important moments of that year, for our purposes. 1985 was a very eventful year, when one looks back on it from a broad perspective.

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