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Games I grew up with
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I'm not sure I got to the end of any video games until I was like 15.
I had mostly lower end or behind-the-times PCs growing up.
I tasted a bunch of DOS stuff in large part thanks to my childhood friend Anthony Turner, who shared his Game Empire shareware disc with me. This is also where he discovered ZZT.
- Rise of the Dragon (Dynamix, 1990)
- Chip's Challenge (Chuck Sommerville, 1989)
- ZZT (Epic MegaGames, 1991)
- Myst (Cyan, Inc., 1993)
- MegaZeux (Software Visions, 1994)
The legendary Home of the Underdogs is probably where I learned of these:
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Oolite (Giles Williams, Jens Ayton & contributors, 2003–2021)
As a teenager my bedroom was painted a vivid blue, like a dark afternoon sky. At night I would play Oolite with a Saitek Cyborg Evo, pretending (by default) that I was a space trader, and the room would glow. It was an even smaller game than it is now.
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Out of this World (Éric Chahi, 1991)
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The Typing of the Dead (Sega, 2000)
I learned how to type on this game.
Noctis (Alessandro Ghignola, 2000)
For exploring a galaxy I don't think this game has been quite matched. I'm uneasy about the chaotic retrofuture maximalism attitude in No Man's Sky, where new lands are candy-colored canvases for base-building. The hope-starved slide-rule non-mystique of Elite makes my freeform adventuring in it feel like a highly sanctioned, monitored, and redundant sinecure. As video games, they're both on their own admirable missions.
But Noctis is the simulator of [...] continue reading
Stores I like
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They put different cute little comics about stationery on the packing lists.
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Clothes, home goods, stationery. Fair prices, clean lines, and neutral colors!!! I have a baseball cap from them I thrifted and the quality is great.
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Skin and hair care products that smell nice, feel nice, and look nice.
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They have Dinkle here.