Zebra-Taur in a Rainbow Wig?
Sep. 26th, 2008 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyatI 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!
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Date: 2008-09-27 05:52 am (UTC)DOSbox is wonderful! Especially for fuddy-duddies like me who like playing old games. Along with ScummVM, another very useful emulator. What was the last thing I played with DOSbox... Death Gate, I think.
Magic Candle? That's a new one on me. (looks it up) Ah, ok. I never delved much into computer RPGs back in the day. I tried Wizardry VI and Ultima Underworld 'cause they'd been left on computers given to me as gifts - I finished them, but more out of stubbornness than actually enjoying them.
When I discovered DOSbox, I tried out UU2 and played through a big chunk of Betrayal at Krondor, cut short by my hard drive crashing. I enjoyed those a lot more! And more recently some of the RPGs at Amaranth Games (http://www.amaranthia.com/), which are ok but involve a lot of grind for leveling up.
May your earnest butter-eating continue! :)