I really miss the days of Police Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and most importantly SPACE QUEST. Those games were truly involving and made you enjoy playing them. The writing was also fantastic. I break out those collections now and then, and while the graphics always seem more and more crude, the gameplay is still great!

The Simpsons has been used as a teaching tool for years. I took a course in mass media that included analysis of the show. Professor Renee Hobbs (one of the world's leading experts on media literacy) has taught with the Simpsons, and her article on them is widely quoted.

What's new about this is that an entire course is being dedicated to them.