tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823538648689536189.post3034117100744454817..comments2023-09-13T10:05:25.467-07:00Comments on Turn To Page 4: Dragon Warrior Text AdventureRowan Lipkovitshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08691096685515251681noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823538648689536189.post-64199487147137845792012-11-06T21:01:30.666-08:002012-11-06T21:01:30.666-08:00That's, uh, awesome and tragicomic. I don'...That's, uh, awesome and tragicomic. I don't even have your excuse -- the magazine was no part of my nostalgia, though a friend and I did rent Dragon Warrior for one woefully inadequate night. This posting was a species of slumming it for myself -- extending the "gosh, aren't video games based on movies terrible?" truism to a further extension: "yow, gamebooks based onRowan Lipkovitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08691096685515251681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823538648689536189.post-80256440236251561932012-11-06T09:56:52.890-08:002012-11-06T09:56:52.890-08:00Ah jeez, I remember owning this exact issue of Nin...Ah jeez, I remember owning this exact issue of Nintendo Power and reading this as a kid. The image that immediately popped into my mind was that teardrop-shaped Slime with the creepy smile, and nearly getting killed by that fucker even though I got the jump on him...<br /><br />The ending is unintentionally hilarious now. "Congratulations -- You have reached a village where people tell you mwkelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18301085925647308442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4823538648689536189.post-85564548777221511852012-11-06T07:28:14.100-08:002012-11-06T07:28:14.100-08:00Even in 1990 people were casually mixing up CYOA a...Even in 1990 people were casually mixing up CYOA and text adventures, which must have been especially galling to the interactive fiction crowd (hm, I suppose there wasn't one in 1990) which has only in the last two years come to terms with their overlap in domain.Rowan Lipkovitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08691096685515251681noreply@blogger.com