Fox Cunning

Stop Killing Games youtu.be/PYcZnJJcEQ4

02.07.2025 15:43 — 👍 16    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

It is! I love the little details like this LCD display for the battery, speaker volume and disk activity.

20.01.2025 19:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A Zenith Data Systems laptop from the early 1990s with a trackball attachment, seen booting to MS-DOS.

A Zenith Data Systems laptop from the early 1990s with a trackball attachment, showing a customised Windows 3.1 Program Manager.

Well, you don't get to see one of these very often nowadays. Especially not in fully working condition.

20.01.2025 13:12 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Petition: Prohibit publishers irrevocably disabling video games they have already sold The government should update consumer law to prohibit publishers from disabling video games (and related game assets / features) they have already sold without recourse for customers to retain or repa...

Petition to "stop killing games" - signed. I'd like to own the games I buy.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

14.01.2025 21:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Nice!

11.01.2025 14:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cover art: a muscular warrior is descending a stone staircase, holding a sword and a bloodied shield. At the bottom of the staircase, a menacing horned figure stares at him from the dark.

A manual written in French, open on a page containing a list of magic spells and runic inscriptions.

I'll stop one moment to contemplate once again the exquisite art on the cover of Ultima Underworld, courtesy of Denis Loubet (and the four-language manuals included in the European release by Mindscape).

11.01.2025 12:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I played both a lot! It's weird to see them listed together, but if you think about it they were made only 7 years apart. Feels like video games (and home computers) had evolved massively in that short time.

10.01.2025 08:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

About time! 🥳

09.01.2025 16:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah... No idea what that's meant to be, except possibly a typo? 🤷
Also, Ultima V uses the roman numeral, so why not Ultima VI?

04.01.2025 21:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"Have you tried any of our other games?"

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