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Shine On, Golden Warrior

The Eyes of the Overworld, by Jack Vance – The first book in the Dying Earth series was a collection of short stories that take place on the same world but aren’t really related. While this one also started out … Continue reading →

Posted in Altaic, Book Reviews, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Oz, Video Games | Tagged aspara, batu and the search for the golden cup, c.t. rwizi, cagmar, charlie holmberg, cugel the clever, dombyra, erbs, grues, house of gold, jack vance, jeztyrnaq, simurgh, the dying earth, the eyes of the overworld, the hanging city, time travel, trolls, zork |

These Judges Are Such Cretans

When the world of the dead is presented as a place of reward or punishment, as has become pretty standard, that generally means that someone has to decide who goes where. The Underworld of Greek mythology came to have three … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Greek Mythology, Monsters, Mythology, Poetry, Roman, Video Games | Tagged achilles, aegina, aeneid, alcmene, androgeos, ants, apollo, apollodorus, arabian nights, aristophanes, bulls, cadmus, cerberus, cyclopes, daedalus, dante alighieri, divine comedy, eleusinian mysteries, elysian fields, europa, fortunate isles, hades, helios, hell, hera, hercules, inferno, king aeacus of aegina, king aeetes of colchis, king asterion of crete, king minos of crete, kronos, law, minotaur, myrmidons, nymphs, odysseus, odyssey, pasiphae, patroclus, peleus, plato, polyphemus, poseidon, rhadamanthus, sarpedon, sinbad the sailor, the frogs, theseus, triptolemus, trojan war, underworld, virgil, zeus, zork |

Put a Zork in It

I remember seeing magazine ads for Zork and other text-based adventure games when I was a kid, and thought they seemed pretty fascinating. I never actually got to play any of them at the time, though. I don’t think they … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Douglas Adams, Games, Greek Mythology, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, bats, cassius, colossal cave adventure, cyclops, dante alighieri, divine comedy, don woods, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, flatheads, glinda of oz, great underground empire, grues, hades, hell, hunt the wumpus, inferno, infocom, jack vance, julius caesar, lucien kaine, odysseus, odyssey, polyphemus, swords, the dying earth, the zork anthology, weapons, will crowther, wizards, zork, zork i, zork ii |

Curse You, Programming!

I have completed Cosmic Star Heroine, which is a fairly short game, but I’d only been playing it on and off. I think I played it on the second easiest level, although I can’t remember for sure. It was challenging … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Monsters, Phantasy Star, Technology, Video Games | Tagged alyssa l'salle, araenu, arete, borisusovsky, chahn keneko, cosmic star heroine, cthulhu, final fantasy viii, finian, fujin, gunmancy, h.p. lovecraft, live a live, nuluup, orson bolibar, psybe, raijin, rhomu, scimerex, x'zorv, zombies, zork |