Monday April 30, 2012
Before we had video games we had roll-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, and if you're not old enough to remember any of that, I'll put it in terms you can better understand....
Before next-gen consoles and their ultra high-res, 3D, super detailed art, we had text adventure games.
What? You mean you've never heard of text adventure games?
Why they are what kick started the adventure game genre! How one call themselves an adventure gamer if they've never played Zork, or explored the depths of the Colossal Cave Adventure? Heck, even the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had it's own text adventure game.
What do you mean you've never heard of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy? What kind of gamer are you?
Oh, you accidentally came across us while searching for Flirty Text Messages? Well, why don't you hold on a minute kid and let me tech you a little about the history of the original Text Adventures...and if you're good I'll show you a picture of Roberta Williams in a hot tub on the cover of the text adventure game Soft Porn Adventure...hubba hubba.
Monday April 30, 2012
Now for Part 3 in our 4-part tribute biography of legendary Commodore founder Jack Tramiel.
After single-handedly building Commodore from scratch, and having the guts, know-how and business savvy to make it into one of the most successful home computer companies in the market, at Commodore's peak, Tramiel was betrayed and ousted out of his own company,
Without skipping a beat Tramiel did a 360 turn and charred directly back at his former company in an all out corporate war.
Friday April 27, 2012
Al Lowe, creator of Sierra On-Line's naughty adventure game franchise Leisure Suit Larry, has teamed up with game developer Replay Games to crate an all new remake of the historic software of sleazy fun, Leisure Suit Larry In The Land of the Lounge Lizard.
Instead of shopping the game around for a publisher, Lowe and Replay are going solo and publishing the game themselves for PC, Mac, iPad and Android Tablets. To try and drum up the cheddar, their following in the footsteps of fellow adventure game developers Double Fine who recently broke records in raising funds from their fans via the idea funding website Kickstarter.com.
The Leisure Suit Larry remake Kickstarter.com page went live April 2, 2012, and reached, then exceeded, their $500,000 goal in less than a month - but things aren't over yet. You've still got time to jump on board the bandwagon with 4 more days left to contribute.
The Kickstarter method of fundraising has brought adventure games back into the spotlight, as fans find they have control over seeing a game they want get made, and per-ordering it at the same time via a set contribution.
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Wednesday April 25, 2012
It's time for the second part of out tribute to the legendary Jack Tramiel.
After surviving the tragedies and hardships of the Nazi concentration camps, Jack Tramiel made his way to America and went from working at a typewriter repair shop to starting his own manufacturing and distribution company, Commodore.
As the market changed Tramiel moved his business from typewriters, to adding machines, and then calculators, but when things fell on hard times he had to take on an investor for a bailout that would save the company, but also cause Tramiel lose some of the controlling interest.
Moving from Canada to the Silicon Valley, Tramiel soon found his way into the emerging home computer market and would quickly dominate the industry in Part 2 of our tribute to Jack Tramiel.
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