Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
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.
So, how was Neverhood? I find I don’t have much time to play games these days.
We also missed liveblogging last night. I don’t know how it happened, although Chris had a nasty cold yesterday and was in bed for a good part of the day, and I was hauling GlamourGrrrl to and from a birthday-party-in-the-sticks as well as doing a bunch of other stuff. I don’t think I even realized that it was Saturday until this morning.
Couldn’t get it to install. And so I have to give the Game Downloads site a resounding C-. Rogue installed for me, so maybe my $9 wasn’t a complete waste; but I’ve lost track of how many I’ve tried to install and couldn’t. Three? Four? Grrr.
Man, I loved that game. We played it together.
But I could never get it to reinstall on newer computers. Some kind of DiVX problem I think. Never did figure out the solution.
Which game — Rogue or Neverhood?
I’m playing Rogue right now . . . gotta figure out some way to make saves.
I played a couple of the discworld point and clicks – I think they were fun although at the time I’d never read the books. Must check out the site now…