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Zebra-Taur in a Rainbow Wig?
Sep. 26th, 2008 03:43 pmI had some idle time this afternoon, so I set up DOSbox on the Aspire One (henceforth known by its proper name, "Portable Mousehold"), and downloaded Ultima VI. This is a game I've not played since 1991, when it replaced The Magic Candle as my number #1 computer fantasy game / time-burglar.
Oh, but what fun I'd have! Poisoning Lord British, stealing barrels of gunpowder and blowing up bee hives, or spending days on my quest to eat every stick of butter in the kingdom!
There was also a quest of some kind. Something to do with saving the world. I don't know. I certainly ate a lot of butter, anyway.
It's running smoothly on the Portable Mousehold. If anything, the compact 8.9" screen makes it look better than it did on my old 17" Hyundai CRT. While watching the opening graphics, I did a bit of a double-take. The hero - the character that you are controlling - starts the game in the real world, watching cable. Hanging on the wall is a painting of a half-naked "Zebrataur" woman in a loose denim jacket, with rainbow hair, leaning on a lamp post.
Frankly, the story behind that painting is probably more interesting than all that blah about Gargoyles taking over the Shrines of Virtue. I demand a video game dedicated to rainbow-haired zebra hookers!
Oh, but what fun I'd have! Poisoning Lord British, stealing barrels of gunpowder and blowing up bee hives, or spending days on my quest to eat every stick of butter in the kingdom!
There was also a quest of some kind. Something to do with saving the world. I don't know. I certainly ate a lot of butter, anyway.
It's running smoothly on the Portable Mousehold. If anything, the compact 8.9" screen makes it look better than it did on my old 17" Hyundai CRT. While watching the opening graphics, I did a bit of a double-take. The hero - the character that you are controlling - starts the game in the real world, watching cable. Hanging on the wall is a painting of a half-naked "Zebrataur" woman in a loose denim jacket, with rainbow hair, leaning on a lamp post.
Frankly, the story behind that painting is probably more interesting than all that blah about Gargoyles taking over the Shrines of Virtue. I demand a video game dedicated to rainbow-haired zebra hookers!
