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Put a Zork in It

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Nathan

I remember seeing magazine ads for Zork and other text-based adventure games when I was a kid, and thought they seemed pretty fascinating. I never actually got to play any of them at the time, though. I don’t think they … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Douglas Adams, Games, Greek Mythology, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, bats, cassius, colossal cave adventure, cyclops, dante alighieri, divine comedy, don woods, dungeons, dungeons and dragons, flatheads, glinda of oz, great underground empire, grues, hades, hell, hunt the wumpus, inferno, infocom, jack vance, julius caesar, lucien kaine, odysseus, odyssey, polyphemus, swords, the dying earth, the zork anthology, weapons, will crowther, wizards, zork, zork i, zork ii | Leave a comment

Roland in the Deep

Posted on January 24, 2023 by Nathan

I think I first heard of Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso in a blurb about C.S. Lewis comparing J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to it. Well, they do both have a magic ring that makes people invisible, and a monster … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, C.S. Lewis, Characters, Christianity, French, Greek Mythology, Islam, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Poetry, Relationships, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged amazons, andromeda, arimaspoi, astolfo, atlante, avalon, basil of caesarea, battle of roncevaux pass, beowulf, chanson de roland, charlemagne, childe roland to the dark tower came, cortana, durendal, elijah, fairies, faleero, falerina, ferragut, giants, griffins, halo, hector, hell, hippogriffs, holga danske, horses, hugh capet of france, huon of bordeaux, jesus, john the apostle, king lear, lethe river, lord of the rings, ludovico ariosto, matteo maria boiardo, merlin, moon, morgan le fay, ogier the dane, orcas, orcs, orlando furioso, orlando innamorato, paladin, penthesileia, pliny the elder, prester john, rinaldo, robert browning, roland, roland the headless thompson gunner, ruggiero, st. denis, st. peter, stephen king, swords, tristan and isolde, virgin mary, warren zevon, water of oblivion, weapons | Leave a comment

Magic Junction, What’s Your Function?

Posted on December 17, 2022 by Nathan

Final Fantasy VIII – I started playing this recently, and I’m not entirely sure why, other than that it’s the only one of the first nine games in the series that I hadn’t played at all. I’ve played 3, 5, … Continue reading →

Posted in Final Fantasy, Magic, Monsters, Relationships, Technology, Video Games | Tagged cyan garamonde, dogs, edea kramer, final fantasy ii, final fantasy ix, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, final fantasy viii, grandmaster cid kramer, guardian forces, gunblade, irvine kinneas, quistis trepe, rinoa heartilly, sant' angelo di roma, seifer almasy, sephie tilmitt, squall leonhart, summoned monsters, trains, weapons, zell dincht | 1 Comment

I Don’t Think It’s Good to Work Too Hard

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Nathan

I’ve gotten into the habit of writing about a video game when I start playing it, then again when I finish, assuming I ever do. I do tend to post occasional updates to Twitter, however, thanks to the screen capture … Continue reading →

Posted in Chrono Trigger, Dreams, Etymology, Families, Greek Mythology, Humor, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Relationships, Sims, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aliens, casey bat, cosmic star heroine, dalaam, earthbound, earthbound beginnings, giygas, jeff andonuts, magicant, master belch, mother 3, mr. saturn, nintendo switch, pokey minch, prince poo, robots, sword of kings, the sims 4, time travel, twitter, weapons | Leave a comment

Radical Dreamer, Wake Unto Me

Posted on June 11, 2022 by Nathan

Since the version of Chrono Cross for the Switch is the Radical Dreamers edition, and I’d played through the main game, I figured the obvious thing to do was to check out Radical Dreamers itself. It’s a quite interesting novelty, … Continue reading →

Posted in Chrono Trigger, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Names, Relationships, Technology, Video Games | Tagged aliens, another eden, chrono break, chrono cross, chronopolis, dalton, demons, general viper, goblins, griffins, guardia, guile, heckran, kingdom of zeal, lady riddel, lavos, lucca ashtear, lynx, magil, magus, masamune, masato kato, porre, radical dreamers, radius, satellaview, schala, serge, skeletons, weapons, xenogears, zero wing | Leave a comment

The Tigers Come at Night

Posted on March 24, 2022 by Nathan

Tiger Honor, by Yoon Ha Lee – Considering how quickly some of these Rick Riordan Presents books come out, it’s a little weird, but understandable, that it took so long for Dragon Pearl to get a sequel. This one focuses … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Authors, Book Reviews, Chinese, Families, Korean, Magic, Maps, Mythology, Names, october daye, Rick Riordan, seanan mcguire | Tagged bull demon king, demons, dragon pearl, dreams and slumbers, fairies, jade emperor, katie zhao, luidaeg, meng po, once broken faith, rick riordan presents, ruyi jingu bang, sun wukong, the dragon warrior, the fallen hero, thousand worlds, tiger honor, tigers, weapons, yoon ha lee | 1 Comment

Winners and Choosers

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Nathan

After looking at the notion of people chosen by the gods, I became curious as to how the concept of a specific person being the Chosen One originated. It’s a pretty common trope in fantasy, someone being prophesied to save the world … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, Babylonian, British, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Characters, Christianity, Discworld, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Futurama, Greek Mythology, Harry Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Mario, Mythology, Oz, Philosophy, Religion, Semitic, Star Wars, Television, Terry Pratchett, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged anakin skywalker, andrew heller, aragorn, armor, bender's big score, brain spawn, carrot ironfoundersson, chosen ones, chosen people, dark king, darth plagueis, darth vader, donald abbott, dorothy gale, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest v, emperor palpatine, epic of gilgamesh, erdrick, fate, final fantasy mystic quest, flood, gilgamesh, glinda, gondor, hammurabi, how the wizard came to oz, hyrule, jedi, jesus, king arthur, king david, kylo ren, link, lord of the rings, middle-earth, nibblonians, oedipus, oz: the great and powerful, philip j. fry, professor hubert farnsworth, prophecy, return of the jedi, sith, swords, time travel, utnapishtim, voldemort, weapons, witches, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Theft of the Magi

Posted on February 10, 2021 by Nathan

I purchased the SaGa: Final Fantasy Legend Collection for the Switch, and I’ve mostly concentrated on Final Fantasy Legend II. I tried out the first one, but died pretty much immediately. I actually did in FFL2 as well, but that one … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Drugs, Egyptian, Final Fantasy, Food, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Religion, Roman, Semitic, Technology, Video Games | Tagged apollo, asherah, ashur, ashura, asuras, bananas, espers, final fantasy legend, final fantasy legend ii, final fantasy legend iii, game boy, giants, isis, mutants, nintendo power, nintendo switch, odin, opium, robots, saga, saga final fantasy legend collection, the magician's nephew, venus, weapons | Leave a comment

Yikes, Spikes!

Posted on May 20, 2020 by Nathan

I thought it might be worth looking at the Mario enemies known as Spikes, since they seem to be rather prominent nowadays. I’ve even seen them as stuffed animals at the Nintendo store in Manhattan, although I don’t have one … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Donkey Kong, Fairy Tales, Focus on the Foes, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, Russian, Toys, Video Games | Tagged clubbas, don bongo, donkey kong country, flails, gabon, giants, glitz pit, grubba, hammer brothers, klubbas, koschei the deathless, lakilester, lakitu, luigi mario, mace penguins, maces, magikoopas, mario mario, morning stars, new super mario bros., nintendo power, paper mario, paper mario: the thousand-year door, penguins, ptooies, snow spikes, spikes, stone spikes, super mario 3d world, super mario bros., super mario bros. 3, the blubbening, the giant who had no heart in his body, tubba blubba, turtles, weapons, yoshi's island, yoshi's story | Leave a comment

The Reptite Room

Posted on February 26, 2014 by Nathan

Environmentalism is not an uncommon theme in video games, particularly role-playing ones, although admittedly it isn’t always explored in a realistic manner. For instance, in the early Final Fantasy games, restoring the environment is usually accomplished by restoring power to … Continue reading →

Posted in Chrono Trigger, Environmentalism, Final Fantasy, Video Games | Tagged azala, chrono cross, chronopolis, dinopolis, dinosaurs, dragon god, final fantasy vii, green ambler, jenova, lavos, reptites, robo, weapons | 4 Comments

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Put a Zork in It

Roland in the Deep

Magic Junction, What’s Your Function?

I Don’t Think It’s Good to Work Too Hard

Radical Dreamer, Wake Unto Me

The Tigers Come at Night

Winners and Choosers

Theft of the Magi

Yikes, Spikes!

The Reptite Room

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