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An Ollie Forever Voyaging
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goldmund wrote that she'd downloaded DOSBox and was now playing classic sci-fi Dos games on her computer. One in particular which she mentioned, A Mind Forever Voyaging, caught my attention because I'd never heard of it before, and because she highly praised it as a game more interested in exploration as well as carrying some political themes resonant with today. I got all nostalgic for the games I used to play as a kid - from text-based adventures like Oregon Trail to the graphic-based ones from Sierra and LucasArt - so I decided to download a few of them.
A Mind Forever Voyaging is indeed a great game - in fact, it's more of a science fiction novel disguised as a game, your role being the adventurer that needs to unravel its story. When you download it, you get a PDF document of an 80s magazine that came with the game, with articles set in the future (Princess Diana is in her 70s and is the Queen of Britain, for example). Very reminiscent of Watchmen, actually, and that eerie feeling of the future seen through a parallel universe mirror.
Apart from the fun of playing again a game that relies on my own imagination, I'm really enjoying the sci-fi elements that have come true - the main one being the world being interconnected through an online system!
I've created a folder in my iTunes with ambient music given to me bydesayuno_ingles (Loscil, Tim Hecker, Vidna Obmana) as well as albums from a Finnish friend currently staying with us (Grizzly Bear, Clark, Here We Go Magic) and it's become my soundtrack as I explore this world superimposed over my desktop image of planet Earth.
goldmund wrote that she'd downloaded DOSBox and was now playing classic sci-fi Dos games on her computer. One in particular which she mentioned, A Mind Forever Voyaging, caught my attention because I'd never heard of it before, and because she highly praised it as a game more interested in exploration as well as carrying some political themes resonant with today. I got all nostalgic for the games I used to play as a kid - from text-based adventures like Oregon Trail to the graphic-based ones from Sierra and LucasArt - so I decided to download a few of them. A Mind Forever Voyaging is indeed a great game - in fact, it's more of a science fiction novel disguised as a game, your role being the adventurer that needs to unravel its story. When you download it, you get a PDF document of an 80s magazine that came with the game, with articles set in the future (Princess Diana is in her 70s and is the Queen of Britain, for example). Very reminiscent of Watchmen, actually, and that eerie feeling of the future seen through a parallel universe mirror.
Apart from the fun of playing again a game that relies on my own imagination, I'm really enjoying the sci-fi elements that have come true - the main one being the world being interconnected through an online system!
I've created a folder in my iTunes with ambient music given to me by
desayuno_ingles (Loscil, Tim Hecker, Vidna Obmana) as well as albums from a Finnish friend currently staying with us (Grizzly Bear, Clark, Here We Go Magic) and it's become my soundtrack as I explore this world superimposed over my desktop image of planet Earth.