That's why they pay him the big money, folks. For being correct as hell. KQVI is the only King's Quest game that's actually good (and VII is the only other one that even rates as "playable").

The QFG games are probably my favorite adventure gaming series (with the exception of Dragonfire, of course).

I had that one! As a Zork game, it's kind of terrible, but as a dark, creepy adventure, it's pretty well done.

Plotkin's Spider and Web is probably my all-time favorite Interactive Fiction. Not particularly newbie-friendly, but the tricks it plays with the parser and your player's identity are amazing.

I have the biggest nerd-crush on Emily Short.

Agreed. The deaths are the best part!

The first level of Bart Vs. The Space Aliens is kind of great. You can tell they put almost the entirety of their time into it, since the rest of the game is lame platforming. But level one is full of all sorts of weird tricks and secrets to cover up purple stuff.

The thing about Hitchhiker's is that it's only barely functional as a game. It's more like a very long, very mean joke about games.

I don't want people asking me about Grim Fandango.

If my memory is correct, those games would kill you in a blink of an eye. Random, vicious deaths all the time. Say what you like about Sierra, they weren't quite as cruel.

Freddy Pharkas was designed by Josh Mandel, who also did about (if I'm remembering right) 2/3rds of the clusterfuck that was Space Quest VI, and the really, really, really good Callahan's Crosstime Saloon game for Legend.

Run, you pigeons! It's Robert Frost!

Jimmy Olson >>>>>>>> Snapper Carr

Along with Daniel Radcliffe.

Does anyone else assume that all the Sims-bashers who show up every week, despite the fact that they aren't going to enjoy the reviews, are operating out of some sort of erotic obsession? Either with Sims himself, or with their own anger?

SPOILERS (kind of, I guess)

I enjoy the idea of Summer Glau being a commodity that the networks keep in a backlot somewhere until someone starts developing a genre piece that needs some nerd sex appeal dashed in. Then they decant her storage jar and we're away to the races!

It could work (Lord knows dumber premises at least make it to pilot all the time), but not with a character as played-out and toxic as Dwight Schrute. They've spent seven years straining all charm and likeability out of him, like a beet being juiced, if in fact juicing is something you do to beets.

You guys just made my night.

You're ignoring the real question here.