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Daily Archives: May 3, 2008
Kid, meet candy store
Necessity is the mother of invention . . . which at Chez Walnut means, if Jake hogs the gaming computer, I have to look for older games to download for this one.
That brought me to Game Downloads, where for nine bucks I can download freeware, shareware, and abandonware for a full month, no limits. I’m downloading Neverhood right now. It’s a claymation game for PC (and that’s unique thing, all by itself) released by Dreamworks back in 1996. Meanwhile, I’m also working my way through GD’s abandonware list, which includes such remarkable finds as all three Discworld games, Frederik Pohl’s Gateway, and the original text-based Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!
Sad thing is, by the time I finish downloading Neverhood, it’ll be time to make dinner. And the whole point of this exercise was to find a game I could play to kill time until it was time to make dinner.
Live blogging tonight . . . unless Neverhood totally rocks.
D.