Please insert disk 2 to continue

December 12th, 2004

I’m kind of a fairweather homestarrunner fan. At best. I like the site well enough, but I’ve never found the time to truly explore it (my knowledge is limited mostly to Strong Bad’s emails. *snicker* Strong Bad types with boxing gloves. :cool:)

Anyway, I’m not a big fan of just watching cartoons, so naturally I wandered off to the games section of the website. I found this hilarious text/graphics (Flash) adventure game entitled… “Peasant’s Quest.” The story? You’re Rather Dashing, a young man’s village which has just been BURNINATED by Trogdor. Obviously, you have nothing better to do and swear revenge on the Burninator. So you set off on your little quest.

It’s funnier if you’re aware that it’s (at least partially) a parody of a series of games called “King’s Quest.” After playing Peasant’s Quest, I was feeling a little nostalgic and dug up the King’s Quest V CD I stole from my cousin. I remembered watching him play similar game a long time ago, and I’d always wondered what it was. I loaded it up on the ancient computer downstairs–actually, it’s the same one I was using to make my websites when Reina first offered to host me–and found that I couldn’t. 😡 I fiddled with the settings, gave up, played a shareware version of Diablo, finished it, and tried to re-install KQ5. No luck. Finally, I changed the display settings (256 colours (:shock:) and 640×480 resolution)… At last, I was starting to play the game.

First I sat through a very long and mostly pointless “cartoon” detailing the backstory. Then, to my chagrin, I discovered that audio was absolutely CRITICAL to this game. Some of you might remember those storybook CD-ROMs. The ones where you clicked random things and they reacted? A page would turn, a toaster would pop, a dog would go into hiding… this game was like that. But imagine someone narrating everything. Not only that, I had to deal with an annoying owl and a slow main character. I was impatient so I stopped playing.

In conclusion? Nostalgia only works when you’ve played the game in question. Go play Peasant’s Quest. :tongue: It’s still hilarious even if you don’t get all the jokes.

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3 Responses to “Please insert disk 2 to continue”

Neale Says:

I know what you mean about being a fairweather fan of that site… sometimes it’s just too predictably weird. Peasant’s Quest was one of the high points of it in my opinion. I remember when I was younger I had a friend who owned an Amiga 2600, which was the coolest thing in the world to me, and we’d play Monkey Island for hours. Because we were really bad at it. I remember that King’s Quest, when it was on floppy disks, was on approximately sixteen of them that you’d have to reinsert periodically. Those games are never as good as you remember, but the memories… ah, priceless. Did you beat Peasant’s Quest? I thought the ending was the best part… Trogdor speaks!

Strange that we both wrote about ‘self-reflexivity’ within two days of each other… unless your protected post was actually about my post, and I’ve just realized I have no idea whether that’s the case or not. Errr… yes. Never mind.

Have you had your exams yet?

December 13th, 2004 at 3:03 pm

Neale Says:

I know what you mean about being a fairweather fan of that site… sometimes it’s just too predictably weird. Peasant’s Quest was one of the high points of it in my opinion. I remember when I was younger I had a friend who owned an Amiga 600, which was the coolest thing in the world to me, and we’d play Monkey Island for hours. Because we were really bad at it. I remember that King’s Quest, when it was on floppy disks, was on approximately sixteen of them that you’d have to reinsert periodically. Those games are never as good as you remember, but the memories… ah, priceless. Did you beat Peasant’s Quest? I thought the ending was the best part… Trogdor speaks!

Strange that we both wrote about ‘self-reflexiveness’ within two days of each other. Unless your protected post was about the same thing as my reference or about my post itself, and I’ve just realized that for all I know, it was. Errr… never mind. Yes, I probably shouldna^^(TM)t talk about things that I dona^^(TM)t know.

Have you had your exams yet? Also, I think I might do a post about my adventures in old skool gaming… you’ve given me much to think about.

December 13th, 2004 at 4:08 pm

chuck Says:

I CAN”T GET ANYWHERE IN PEASANT’S QUEST!!!!!!!!!!!HOW IN GODS NAME DO YOU DO IT!?!?!?!?

October 12th, 2005 at 9:18 pm