{"id":359,"date":"2004-12-12T22:49:47","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T06:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/?p=359"},"modified":"2004-12-12T23:05:17","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T07:05:17","slug":"please-insert-disk-2-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/2004\/12\/12\/please-insert-disk-2-to-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Please insert disk 2 to continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m kind of a fairweather homestarrunner<\/a> 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:)<\/p>\n

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<\/a>.” 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.<\/p>\n

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. \ud83d\ude21 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am Rather Dashing… not Graham Daventry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undreamt.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}