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So Legends of Zork just opened out of closed beta yesterday. It’s a browser-based adventure game based on the old Zork series.

For you young folks who don’t know, Infocom’s Zork games were a series of text-based adventure games from back in the day of DOS boxes with no graphics or “windows.” The screen would print out a description of your environment, and then you would type in what you wanted to do. (Here’s a modern example with a political slant.)

Anyway, Legends of Zork is fun so far, but I feel like 30 AP/day is so slow and I’m too cheap to buy coconuts to get more AP. You should check it out! Takes maybe 10 minutes a day to play.

The nostalgia is making me want to play through the original games again. Time to hit up the abandonware sites!

My board gaming group has started meeting up semi-regularly again. It’s nice and early in the quarter, so people aren’t stressing about classes yet.

We tried Power Grid recently, and it was a blast. Went much smoother than my first time trying it in Minnesota, mostly because I had a pretty good grasp of the rules now that I had done more research online.

I’m thinking of picking up some expansions for it. New maps actually play differently based on geopolitics. There’s also an expansion pack of new power plants. And I want to get the Mr. Fusion card, but don’t know where to get my hands on it.

Fallout is one of my favorite game series of all time. It just has an amazing blend of action, story, and humor. I love that the game is so open – yes, there is an overarching plotline, but how you get to the end is entirely up to you. You can be good or evil, you can kill or talk your way through problems. And when you do kill, it’s astoundingly gruesome.

The new one came out yesterday, but I just got my copy today. Damn you, UPS!

Anyway, I like Fallout so much that I was going to be a Vault Dweller for Halloween. It would have been pretty simple, too, but the only downside is that I don’t think a lot of people would have understood. By the way, if you want to earn my eternal love, you will get this for me for Christmas.