I can't imagine claymation being "easier" to do than any other medium, but they did use computers to help with certain animations like the morph head early on in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElHWGiSlUTU
You might be onto something about the limits of computers at the time though. These days you could probably just build believable claymation models as CG graphics, but I imagine you need some pretty talented artists to make that look believable still. I wonder if it was more about tech limits at the time or more because the 90s had a decent amount of "indie" minded creators who might have just liked doing claymation cause they did it in film school or something. Probably some mix of both.
Other than that, I have ... no reference for any of these things, and 1998 was a big year for 8-year-old me cause I bought my first CDs this year (Hanson's first CD and Garbage version 2.0 cause "When I Grow Up" was in the Big Daddy soundtrack).
Man, 1998/1999 was when EVERYTHING started going pop. Boy bands were becoming big, Blink 182 was about to make punk even more pop-sounding than Green Day ever had, Semisonic's "Closing Time" was a big "alternative" hit that sounded very little like the harder rock sound of that genre from the early 90s, etc.
Mafia! sounds up my alley though. I love Airplane! and Naked Gun.
Wargames is not my thing, but add that Brian Seltzer song to the list of "things I thought were way older than they actually are." I heard that song on some ads in the 90s or maybe some movies/TV shows, I forget. But man, that is not a sound I associate with 90s. I do like it though.
Funny you mention private school and Beowulf together cause I remember reading part of it in my 8th grade Catholic school English class and the teacher censoring bits and pieces (well, not really; just did not assign parts of it because of content; same thing happened when we read A Day No Pigs Would Die and there was a certain scene involving a bull we were told we shouldn't read).
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