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jmac

Wrote a tour through "The Book of Apshai", a most unusual and personally formative computer game manual from 1985.

fogknife.com/2023-05-31-the-bo

#Videogames #TechWriting #Retrocomputing #RPGs

3 comments
Andrew Plotkin

@jmac Jeez, “V for Volte-face” suddenly comes right back to me.

Jim Stormdancer

@jmac I'm still thinking about this weeks later. Not about the game itself -- I've played it and watched videos and meh, nowadays there are tons of better dungeon crawlers out there. But I'm obsessed maybe with the abstract promise of the dungeon crawl plus novel-length manual/flavor bible.

What's especially silly is that I'm currently playing Tears of the Kingdom which hits all the notes I want from a dungeon crawler, and does so really well. I'm living the dream but I'm still dreaming.

jmac

@mogwai_poet Heyyy that's real cool, I'm glad it struck a chord.

Games can give us dragons we've never dreamed of, beautiful, soaring, heartbreaking dragons, and yet we'll never stop chasing our own, will we.

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