I had never been to San Francisco before I took a vacation to the West Coast in 2006, but I already knew I wanted to see Coit Tower, the Ferry Terminal and Vaillancourt Fountain at Embarcadero. I hadn’t read a travel guide or particularly researched my trip. Many years earlier I’d played a gruesome future-noir […]
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I draw a lot of pleasure from introducing my eight-year-old niece and five-year-old nephew to the old PC games I grew up with. Fortunately the Internet Archive has preserved practically every title from the early days of PC gaming history, and have made them playable through any internet browser via DOSBox. If I could tell […]
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So this week a game that I frequently enjoy playing is about to intersect with a game that I haven’t played in decades, but get very nostalgic for. Let’s reach deep down in the Kave and take it out again. It was the year Probably 1987 AD, when I was just a wee sprat, and […]
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(or Playing ‘Perils of Rosella’ With My Niece) This past President’s Day (Week) gave me some time at my parents’ home in Western NY with my six-year-old niece, while her mom enjoyed a much-needed vacation. There was plenty of snow for sledding down the backyard hills of my youth, and plenty of time inside while […]
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