i remember seeing this on a Commodore 64, but sadly it wasn't a location i returned to.

this is all good to know since (though i bought the full pack from GoG a while back) i still haven't played any zork since iii.

it saddens me (and in a way, creeps me out) that this series seems so invisible to the present-day gaming world (compared to, say, Ultima or BG). being eclipsed by Halo seems the only obvious piece of that puzzle, but I have stumbled over this:

thanks for this! much like being a BBS denizen but then sleeping through the IRC golden age until everybody and their mom were dicking around on the interwebs, I was a great lover of Starflight in its day, but completely missed that SC ever happened.

(i am more interminably drawn to adventure epics, but for strategy and tactics, i have spent the most time with warcraft 2 & starcraft...)

sweet! i only just read the Audran trilogy a few years ago. thanks for the retro-heads-up!

D3 should have been D2? okay...

+1

pocket plane is where i started my BG modding community affair! also where i felt the most at home getting into assorted geekouts/arguments with the regulars. jcompton definitely deserves one of the big cheers for keeping the dream alive. i also learned to love the goods at spellhold studios (great fixes and…

"the reason bioware fails to measure up these days is because" EA.

+1 for even knowing about any Ultima.

David Warner ftw! for those of us who grew up with Time Bandits, it was almost too good (Evil) to be 'actually happening'.

finally, some nuance up in here!

now a Better Off Dead sitcom, that I could get behind.

well put! i always thought of 'old' (or usually 'grown-up') as about 30 years ahead of wherever I was. i'm past 40 now, and i think the number is getting bigger instead of smaller. it's possible i'm too big a fan of denying mortality, though.

I really ought to know better than to question the specificity of any Lovecraftian reference. #lose[d100]SAN

i thought it was the key and guardian of the Gate?

sounds crazy!

yep, i found out just how not-so-consistently-wet Seattle had been* after I moved to far-flung.... Olympia for ~8 years. then I'd be home for winter breaks and think "damn, it's dry and cold..."

the uncomfortable tangent I prefer to avoid rabbitting(?) down is the notion of validating the coping mechanisms of people who supposedly gain comfort from the ilk of gooey-facebook-display dubious *pathy...