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Bureaucracy
I recently (as part of that damnable “growing up” routine) purchased a house in the ‘burbs and moved in. I keep receiving mail from a large insurance company for a previous tenant, for whom I have no forwarding address. When the first letter arrived, I simply wrote “No longer at this address” and stuffed it [...]
The President is Missing!
June 6th, 1996 – A daring military raid on a secret UN meeting in Liechtenstein results in the kidnapping of ten of the most influential world leaders. No group takes responsibility, but a list of impossible demands is anonymously delivered, along with taped statements from some of the captive heads of state. The political implications [...]
Deadline
I can hear some of you groaning right now. If you genuinely believe that games can become too dated to play, you’ll be rolling your eyes that I’m reviewing a text-only game that’s 25 years old. I have no defense against this, except to say that if you automatically discriminate certain games because they “look [...]
Police Quest II: The Vengeance
In Police Quest 2, Jim Walls and Sonny Bonds make their respective returns, two years after Sierra’s release of the original. In this episode, Walls focuses on that eternal emblem of police the world over – the homicide detective. It’s the job that’s a goal for many, the most glamourized in the media, and here [...]
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel
Police Quest represents an interesting experiment in changing what adventure games were all about. Previously Sierra, and others, had focused on creating these interactive adventures out of cartoonish, comedic properties from the minds of some very creative writers and designers. Police Quest still attempted to be a fun adventure, but also wanted to nail down [...]
Leisure Suit Larry 7: Love for Sail
By the time the mid-1990′s rolled around, the adventure game genre was beginning its decline. Back when computers were exclusively for geeks, it’s no surprise that cerebral games with irreverent humor topped the sales charts. But as the PC began to sneak into the home of “John Q. AOL”, it became much more profitable to [...]