Filed under: Blog
I wanted to apologize for the complete lack of posts in the past two months. I promised myself to update this blog more frequently, but shortly after the last post, a few sudden events shook my life at its foundations and derailed any progress I had made committing to this project. The problem hasn’t been a lack of interest, rather a lack of motivation to put in the effort to get it back on track.
I’m not sure how often I’ll be able to update this blog or the YouTube account since classes and work have restarted, but I’ll try to add something at least once a week. I love writing about old games, and I enjoy the writing practice. And more than anything else, I really want to share my experiences.
Filed under: Adventure
Thanks to popular demand, I’m devoting my gaming time to planning and recording a run-through of Byron Preiss Multimedia’s Robot City. It’s one of those adventure games that popped up past the genre’s prime in the mid-90s right around the time Quake and the PlayStation were coming out, so no one bought or remembers it. And of course, as with some other games that came out then, it tries a couple aspects really differently that, even if they don’t pan out completely, still make the end product a little special and just unique enough.
Robot City tinkers like this with almost every convention and tries a couple things I really, really enjoyed.
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Filed under: Blog, Essay
I love old, weird games. That’s probably obvious, and that’s why I started this blog. Writing about the netherworlds of classic gaming is as much a fun, educational project as it is a personal one, so I feel obliged to give a bit of personal background for my obsession, my experience, and the unconventional childhood that let me down this bizarre and obscure road.
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Filed under: Blog
So put aside a bit of time for schoolwork and to rethink how to run this blog, and I think I’ve finally found the winning solution!
The Obscuritory is now a personal blog about my experiences playing weird, forgotten, and unknown classic games. I’ll try to update it at the very least once a week, or possibly more often. My last few weeks of this semester are coming up, and exams are coming along with them, so updates might be sparse for a while. But count on me to get this thing rolling again!
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Posted on February 21st, 2010 by Shadsy
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