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I was late to the party on this one.  I admit it was a hundred-percent because the title kept putting me off. Despite the fact that each of these games is only supposed to take two hours apiece, and this one came to about 1:45 for me, “The Duel that Spanned the Ages” says to…

Spoiler cut below. In short, no. It’s way too tedious.  I started playing it, wandered around fruitlessly, tried hints. It said, check out the beacon. I followed the beacon forever. Lost my key. Knew that, from wandering around, the crow was at the visitor’s center, so, stumbled back there, trying to coax it to give…

This was all right. When it said it was a “deliberately old school romp,” I was worried I’d get a lot of instant kills and have to save a lot, but it turned out I couldn’t really die or get stuck in this game. I saved a lot anyway, just in case something screwed me,…

I discussed the GameX Conference somewhat, but not very in depth. I did take some photos but I’m kind of bad at post-con reports some times! I guess sometimes it just feels like showing people my vacation slides… though I do enjoy reading other people’s. For a good summary, though, check out Jason Della Rocca’s…

Spoiler space, not much, not assuming RSS feeds, etc I played with this for about 40 minutes and, after fruitlessly wandering around on the planet surface until the gizmo worked for some reason, I ended up at the andriod bazaar. The amount of crap in this area was pretty overwhelming, so I just gave up…

They say never set a movie in a cold place, because the audience doesn’t want to go there.  Is that true for a game, too?  …I don’t know, how well did Siberia do exactly, I didn’t keep track.  Anyway, let’s play Snowquest. So, spoilers abound here. ….I, uh, well, that was interesting.  I finished the…

I took a little holiday this weekend to visit the GameX Conference in Philadelpha, PA.  Great conference and met a ton of interesting people!  That of course is why I haven’t written anything in the blog on this topic in a little while. Instead of telling you about my vacation I’m going to go back…

Okay, I thought to myself, I’ll do one more today. Technically I have two hours, but with this one I stopped after about one. It’s a whole lot of puzzles without too much context, which is not really my thing.  I guess it would be wrong to say no context, since it’s established my protagonist…

A brief note on Trap Cave: I intend to skip it.  I don’t want to install an experimental exe to my computer, and the scuttlebutt is that it has a lot of untranslated German, a language I don’t speak.  So, Did Not Vote, moving on. I wasn’t sure about downloading The Hangover either, since I…

I didn’t get very far in to this one.  It has some typos and some downright confusing bits. I was frustrated by the lack of simple QOL fixes: the game needed automatic door opening in particular. More spoilery things: By not very far, I mean, I managed to make it in to my lab, having…