[07] Going down a rabbit hole...

I was in the middle of writing my latest post, and circumstances happened.  I found myself impulse buying a new computer to replace my 10 year-old desktop (Thanks, Amazon Prime Day!) So I got to thinking about some of my routines, whenever I upgrade hardware.  The last time I upgraded my monitor (to a 28" I still use), the last computer upgrade, the last time I got a larger TV.  How do I test these new things?

For the new TV, I pull out the DVD for my favorite movie, the 1980 sleeper classic Used Cars.  New speakers?  The gunshots near the beginning of Grosse Pointe Blank. For that one, I was introduced the the movie by a friend of a friend, showing off the new subwoofer in his college dorm room.  It's what started this tradition for me.

Hey, Jenny Slater.

For a new computer, it's often one of my favorite games, even if it's something not graphically impressive.  I've played some favorites like the original Police Quest often (and I promise, I will be getting to that game on this blog soon), but this time, the first game I played was a game that forced me to buy a new graphics card for my old desktop.  On this trip down the rabbit hole, we're going down into The Cave.

[06] Now, This is the Game of a Carpenter

For the last few entries, I have been excited about writing this post.  Finally, the first graphical adventure game, which from this point on would become my favorite genre.

Then, I started playing the game, and realized I had no reason to be excited, because this game wasn't very good.  But this blog is a blog of firsts, of memories -- if I was writing simply an adventure game blog, I would skip this game for the much, much better follow-up entry in this game series, Fate of Atlantis.

But that's getting ahead of myself.  First, let's set the stage.  Another game I copied from my friend Troy came on a bunch of floppy disks and had a seemingly-important, very large manual, the grail diary.  To be fair, if I had seen the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade yet, I'm not entirely sure.  But it would definitely become one of my all-time favorites.

This is the companion, of sorts, to the 1989 cinematic gem by George "Star Wars" Lucas.  Set in 1938, Dr. Indiana Jones goes off in search of the biblical Holy Grail, after his father was lost on the same quest.  Some of the historic locations include Hitler's Germany, a scenic Italy, and more.

In replaying this game after some time, I planned to run the CGA/EGA version, but sadly, I decided I couldn't stomach it.  I think this is why I gave up on the game very early back in that time.  Well, that, and the fact that I didn't have access to a BBS to get a walkthru yet.  Nor was I yet a subscriber to QuestBusters, and their incredible hint pages each month.