Posts Tagged ‘interactive fiction’

Midwinter Rites – Ahh winter, the season of Orc-love

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Apr13Remember back in the day when games were still 2D, and you had to use your imagination to make that lonely pixel turn into a space ship, or a human, or a mouse in a maze?  Okay now remember earlier than that?  You know back in the back in the day.  You had to type everything and REALLY use your imagination to make that word conjure up images of daring sword fights, dangerous pirate battles, or exciting princess rescues?  Yeah, okay so go back even farther, you know when dinosaurs ruled the Earth.  ER maybe that was too far.  Let’s fast forward to the days of wine and text adventures.  The days where one wrong move could kill you, and if you didn’t have a save game you had to play the whole blasted thing over.  Or where you could ultimately get stuck and not ever be able to finish the game and not know where you went wrong.  Well those days are over, so get over it!

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