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[spikedog]

Lately I've been hunting down some old apothecary jars / prescriptions / labels etc from the late 1800's on ebay. I bought a set of 4 little jars, and I think I will make an old west-apothecary themed bathroom now. The actual reason for this obsession likely started with Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, which was a little-known game from when I was

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[hallucinas]

I remember playing that with you! I was scared of adventure games sometimes, too. Maybe if we'd been playing really violent games the whole time we wouldn't have been so sensitive. It's a good thing, in my opinion.

[spikedog]

Yeah, I still can't play really violent games. Or really scary games. I don't really see the point, haha. I guess on occasion I hear about some games that sound like they have a really interesting plotline, but then I'm scared to try it because what if it's scary/bloody!

But Adventure games used to be my favorite kind--now they're a dying genre cause no one can figure out the puzzles. Like Myst.. Couldn't they just have made those games so that people could figure them out without buying the book?

I remember you used to have this game on your old Performa... Where you'd take a scene, and put little pictures all over it? Kind of like a stickerbook. What was that called?

[hallucinas]

I think you mean the commodore 64! It was a Grover game, like sesame street. Grover was a farmer or astronaut or hiker or whatever and you could put the animals and stuff on the picture. Old school!

There was also paperboy on that computer. I loved me some paperboy!

[spikedog]

Oops it's been awhile but I meant to respond to this comment...

Anyway, it was a game on the performa I thought, and all I remember was we were setting up this scene with a wizard, and some test tubes, and other science equipment, and it had this bar along the bottom of the screen where you could choose what objects to put in the scene, and... I remember it had a unicorn in it somewhere too. It was awesome!

I can't remember the Grover one, but maybe I could be wrong and they're the same. Was the commodore 64 in your parents' room? I remember playing SimAnt and Lemmings on that computer with you for hourssss, so much fun, hehe