I know this is going to date me, but I couldn’t care less.
One of the pleasures of being a parent (and in my case, a step-parent) is that you can easily influence your children. In my case, one of the things I’ve opted to impress upon Kia is the value of fantasy/adventure novels…specifically, the series that I read in high school.
As such, she’s devoured all of David Eddings’ work (Belgariad, Mallorean, etc.), and is working her way through Raymond Feist’s Riftwar Saga. Feist’s stuff is super solid, and she’s totally into it – so we talk about the books fairly often. Tonight’s conversation somehow led to my mentioning the classic RPG Betrayal at Krondor.
BAK was released back in 1993, and I was the coolest geek on the block (as a freshman in HS), as I had a copy. We loved this game, and I was telling Kia how cool it was. A quick Google showed that BAK is now freeware, so we installed it…
..and spent the last three hours playing it.
The graphics are terrible by today’s standards, but the story still rocks. It reminds me of the old Sierra games (Quest For Glory, Police Quest, Kings’ Quest, etc.), and makes me nostalgic. Do any of you guys want to admit that you retain an infatuation with old school games?
Remember when games were all about the story/gameplay, because the graphics were just lame?
*sigh*
