Friday, May 7, 2010

New Manuals and A Letter From the President

Gather around the fire kids and let me tell you about the days that gamers played games in black and white and a newfangled technology called the Sound Card was first introduced....

Actually, I'll let Ken Williams tell you all about it.  It's amazing that a president of game development company wrote a to introduce the sound card.  He definitely deserves props for two things:

1.  Actually writing a letter to his clients (Where is that type of customer service now?  I am looking at you Apple).
2.  For being dead-on in embracing the technology... and being right.

Plus, I LOVE that he offered to mail a CASSETTE of sound card audio. Of course, the story about playing songs with the kiddos...too much.

On another note, I've finished the uploads of the King Quest 2 and Police Quest manuals.  The Police Quest manual is especially fun, as it reads like a mini-police training guide.  I am simply amazed that so much time and effort went into the creation of a game manual; now a days they seem like an after-thought in the game development process.

Finally, with a little bit of meat and potatoes, I feel good about outreach to promote the blog.  I  really would love fan feedback and interaction.  So if you got drawn here by a post I wrote on another site or blog - thanks for the visit!  Please know this is a dedicated blog from a real fan, and I hope you will come back and share this blog with your friends.

Cheers!