I hope we get pictures of bumblebees on nickels soon… five bees a for a quarter I’d say.

Frequently you can get discount codes from the creators on there. I think I paid $20 this year.

Nebula. It’s a video streaming service that is ad free and directly supports the creators.

https://nebula.tv/

Atari 2600 because it’s the one I got to play the most and having video games outside of the arcade was mind blowing.

I never had a Vetrex but I would see them and always wanted one. Still do lol.

Not a “console” per se… but in that time frame… Commodore vic 20 or 64 would probably have been my most played games.

Legend of Zelda following Twilight Princess.

TimeSplitters following future perfect.

XIII following… the ending of XIII cliffhanger.

Half Life following HL2 E2 cliffhanger… or L4D3… or Portal 3…

Overwatch following Jeff Kaplan

Cave Story following Cave Story 1

Did they try offering a $10 gift card to the other companies? “hah psyche!”

Oh I didn’t mean it to sound derogatory. I played it back on commodore64 back when it first came out in that same age range… so yeah I get it… it’s obtuse game for sure. Great if you get into it, tons of content, but definitely a lot.

Last time I tried it was on the pc version, which is free fwiw. https://www.gog.com/en/game/ultima_4

I’ve never tried it on apple II so I couldn’t really say for emulation on that one.

Side note, if you want to play something that was heavily inspired by the classic Ultima games check out Moonring. It was made by one of the original devs of Fable and he outright says Ultima inspired it and the game wears that lineage on it’s sleeve. It’s got a lot of nice modern QoL and it was released for free and is still in active development. It’s just a passion project for him.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2373630/Moonring/

I also recommend “suspended” and “wishbringer” if you’re into text adventures.

I feel you, “half asleep” is a far too common affliction I am well acquainted with heh.

“frotz” is the name of the spell from the text adventure game “Enchanter” that makes things glow to light areas as you adventure, which is where the text adventure app gets it’s name.

Unsure if just adding more helpful info, or missed the joke. ;)

Yeah it absolutely does not hold your hand at all. It really helps to have the supplemental stuff that originally came with it like the big cloth map. They’re included digitally with things like gog but not everyone knows that. It definitely doesn’t have some of the quality of life we’ve gotten used to in the years since release. It was also intentionally unique in how it was presenting the story in that just killing things that attack you isn’t always the right answer in combat.

I can totally see how a lot of people would bounce off of it. I am sure some of it for me is nostalgia, though if you get into it there’s a lot there.

If the story of it interests you and you just wanna watch a retrospective about it there’s a great series majuular is doing on youtube. https://youtu.be/hkfBiIyJd7E

I hear glowing reviews of frotz.

Oldest game I’ve actually played this year would probably be a bit of Ultima IV: Quest for the Avatar, 1985.

Mario 64

Legend Of Zelda OOT

Mario Kart 64

Goldeneye 007

Perfect Dark

Diddy Kong Racing

Blast Corps

Starfox 64

Killer Instinct Gold

Tetrisphere

Super Smash Bros

Kirby 64

WaveRace 64

StarWars Shadows of the Empire

https://youtu.be/9hiPFEUoUyI?si=MdzN1vAmt6-PCmcD

Oldest console probably Atari 2600

Oldest PC Commodore VIC20

Oldest electronic handheld Parker Brothers Merlin

Oh man I hope they do it as a gritty live action grim dark retcon origin story that entirely explains Herobrine’s past starring Jared Leto as Herobrine and shows his face and eye color. /s

https://pixelfed.org/

https://www.planetmule.com/

This also exists.

Always check your public library. The ones in m area have these which cost you nothing to use because they are supported as public services.

Always support public libraries.