Category Archives: PC Gaming

I hopped on the Doom bandwagon a couple of years late. When Doom was originally released, I didn’t have a machine at home capable of running it – I had a pieced-together 80286 box that had about enough marbles to … Continue reading →

After I finished off the spider-infested temple, and incidentally I will be sending Chris Taylor a bill for the therapy I’m going to need, it was time to tackle the next fantasy standby: The dwarven mine overrun by nasties because … Continue reading →

OK, so I don’t really think there are any such things as “Necessary” spiders, at least as far as video game enemies go, but these are particularly bad, not least so because of unfortunate timing. I have been trying Dungeon … Continue reading →

So yeah, Sony sucked me back into Everquest; I should change the about page to remove the “recovering addict” part. In fairness, they did a good job of coming back from a very bad situation. From an outsider’s point of … Continue reading →

So, I’ve been looking for Planescape: Torment for a while now. This is the Infinity Engine RPG that always seems to come up when people start talking about Really Good RPGs.  It’s got enough of a Reputation that I’m willing … Continue reading →

Lemmings, which I’ve been ranting about lately, is not the OLDEST game on my backlog, even if it does date back to 1991. Put this way: I have memories of playing Pong at OMSI in Portland. Obviously Pong doesn’t really … Continue reading →

I’m not going to claim outright that Hard Boiled is the best action movie of all time. There are an awful lot of movies I’ve never seen, after all, so that would be unfair. I think it’s likely, though, that … Continue reading →

Scored at Goodwill tonight: Baldur’s Gate, Baldur’s Gate : Tales of the Sword Coast, Baldur’s Gate II, all for a massive $10. Boxes trashed all to heck and back, so not pictured, but discs in reasonable shape. No manuals for … Continue reading →

Or, in other words, I finished Half-life today. I was actually kind of surprised that there WAS a Big Boss Fight to wrap up the game.   I’d gotten quite used to the idea that Big Stompy Aliens weren’t for … Continue reading →