I fondly recall spending the evening of my 14th birthday playing this game with a few relatives, engaged in a feverish competition of spastic joystick thrusts. The game adequately simulated several olympic events, each involving a ridiculously dextrous and repetitive workout surely planting the seeds for future carpal tunnel syndrome.
		Sid Meir's classic swashbuckling tale of scoundrels and pirates adrift on the high seas. The game was a mixture of strategy, action, and role playing that allowed you to determine the course of your life, including marriage and career after the loots been divied up. Came complete with a faux treasure map of the Spanish Main. This game appeared later on various systems through the later years, although it never quite captured the magic of my original c64 version.
		Incredibly cinematic action / strategy / role-playing game that set you in England during that romanticized era of fame / land / love grabbing. The Robin Hood era. Cinemaware always dazzled and excited the imagination with their celluloid worthy tales, with this being their magnum opus. Also, an incredible music score and and jousting graphics that still impress today.
		First off, the screenshot is from the pc dos version. as soon as I grab a c64 one, it will be remedied. Now, as for this game, it was one of the first adventure games I've ever played. My friend and I played this game over the course of a summer, diligently transcribing notes and often times banging our heads against the wall, but it was well worth it. Mean Streets chronicled the adventures of hapless gumshoe Tex Murphy, in a storyline worthy of a classic Silk Stalking's episode. It's that good.
		For some reason, as a budding young nerd I truly loved this rather abysmal port of the arcade classic. Although the music was stellar, the difficulty was so incredibly high that I remember several time vowing never to play it again. I guess the allure of graveyards and floating slabs of ham passing as ghosts was just too powerful. And why was it so damn hard to jump vertically??? I can feel my blood starting to simmer....
		A truly frightening game for its time. I remember playing this game in a darkened room, watching the twisted eponymous tree reveal itself through flashes of lightning and distant thunder. The first truly gory game I can recall, your brave archer was subjected to several innovative embowelings by a horrific cast of cronies. The only drawback was its difficulty level, I remember severely sweaty joysticks after extended sessions with this game.
		Although some might argue the original is better, my nostalgia lies with this version. A truly innovative series that pitted you against your 'bizzaro world' spy doppleganger in a race to find and construct the pieces of a bomb. Aside from the relevant sociological and humanistic overtones, the tie in with Mad magazine made this all the more attractive.
		The game that introduced me to the Commodore 64. I saw this running at a friend's house on a small tv, and later that day spent the next several weeks begging my parents for my own c64. Although one day I found the c64 sprawled out on my bed with F15 strike eagle (an error I soon forgave my parents for), I later tracked down a copy of the arcade like classic.

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mark is reading...

wind up bird chronicle
by haruki murakami
cryptonomicon
by neal stephenson

listening to...

bedlam in goliath
by the mars volta

marina is reading...

linchpin: are you indispensable?
by seth godin

listening to...

holy smoke
by gin whigmore

watching...

californication

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