Love these reviews. I started reading your classic rock reviews on Only Solitaire when I was 12 years old (I'm 38 now). Two humble requests from a longtime reader:
1) Would you share how you're playing these games? Are they all available on Steam or do you have an older computer system for gaming?
2) Any chance you would be able to review the Quest for Glory series (especially the first game)? It's another Sierra franchise I assume you are familiar with. "So You Want To Be A Hero" is one of my all-time favorites.
Hi Jason, always pleasing to hear from those who share both of my passions. To answer your questions:
1) I actually have my old copies of many of these games from long ago, but yes, I think they are all easily available if not on Steam, then certainly on GOG.com (GoodOldGames). It's only possible to play them through emulators like DOSBox or ScummVM these days, but I think that they come bundled with these anyway, and it's pretty easy stuff. (Much easier than it used to be in the days of Windows XP, when old DOS games became unplayable and easy-to-use emulators did not exist yet).
2) I'm sort of saving the best for last - Quest for Glory is my absolute favorite Sierra series after Gabriel Knight, and I want to savor them slowly. I'll probably refresh the Conquests (Camelot / Longbow) series first, but who knows.
Great breakdown on the game setup, thanks George! I haven't done much PC gaming but I remember downloading GOG a while back (I think for Sim City?), glad to know these are on that platform.
And I will patiently await your Quest for Glory review! I only ever played the first one in my youth, so it might inspire me to give the rest of the series a spin.
P.S. Apropos of nothing, I completely agree with you that Too Old To Rock n' Roll is an elite and underrated Jethro Tull album. Hopefully you will forgive me for slightly cross-pollinating subjects on the blogs :-)
Thanks Alexander! (sorry for replying so late, for some reason Substack does not notify me of new comments and I only found this one today accidentally).
To be fair, I did not live in crime-infested LA in the 1990s either, though I did live in 1990s Moscow which was most certainly more crime-infested than Denmark back then (and fairly comparable to LA in some ways, though obviously quite culturally different in others). Also to be fair, I like Jimmy's serious approach to researching all his topics and all the background information he supplies - but when it comes to actually evaluating the product, I feel like our approaches are extremely different indeed.
I think I actually crossed paths with your blog a couple of times in the past when looking up things - great job, very exhaustive! I'll be sure to give it another look when writing further reviews.
Love these reviews. I started reading your classic rock reviews on Only Solitaire when I was 12 years old (I'm 38 now). Two humble requests from a longtime reader:
1) Would you share how you're playing these games? Are they all available on Steam or do you have an older computer system for gaming?
2) Any chance you would be able to review the Quest for Glory series (especially the first game)? It's another Sierra franchise I assume you are familiar with. "So You Want To Be A Hero" is one of my all-time favorites.
Thanks for all of the great content!
Hi Jason, always pleasing to hear from those who share both of my passions. To answer your questions:
1) I actually have my old copies of many of these games from long ago, but yes, I think they are all easily available if not on Steam, then certainly on GOG.com (GoodOldGames). It's only possible to play them through emulators like DOSBox or ScummVM these days, but I think that they come bundled with these anyway, and it's pretty easy stuff. (Much easier than it used to be in the days of Windows XP, when old DOS games became unplayable and easy-to-use emulators did not exist yet).
2) I'm sort of saving the best for last - Quest for Glory is my absolute favorite Sierra series after Gabriel Knight, and I want to savor them slowly. I'll probably refresh the Conquests (Camelot / Longbow) series first, but who knows.
Great breakdown on the game setup, thanks George! I haven't done much PC gaming but I remember downloading GOG a while back (I think for Sim City?), glad to know these are on that platform.
And I will patiently await your Quest for Glory review! I only ever played the first one in my youth, so it might inspire me to give the rest of the series a spin.
P.S. Apropos of nothing, I completely agree with you that Too Old To Rock n' Roll is an elite and underrated Jethro Tull album. Hopefully you will forgive me for slightly cross-pollinating subjects on the blogs :-)
Thanks Alexander! (sorry for replying so late, for some reason Substack does not notify me of new comments and I only found this one today accidentally).
To be fair, I did not live in crime-infested LA in the 1990s either, though I did live in 1990s Moscow which was most certainly more crime-infested than Denmark back then (and fairly comparable to LA in some ways, though obviously quite culturally different in others). Also to be fair, I like Jimmy's serious approach to researching all his topics and all the background information he supplies - but when it comes to actually evaluating the product, I feel like our approaches are extremely different indeed.
I think I actually crossed paths with your blog a couple of times in the past when looking up things - great job, very exhaustive! I'll be sure to give it another look when writing further reviews.