http://www.brittlefish.com Games of all sorts Wed, 02 Sep 2009 03:05:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/04/15/zork-dungeon-maps-and-more/ http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/04/15/zork-dungeon-maps-and-more/#comments Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:26:09 +0000 bill http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/04/15/zork-dungeon-maps-and-more/ Zork and Imagination Back when we occasionally had to use our brains to create the images within games, a.k.a. in the 1980s and earlier, a text-based adventure game called Zork was incredibly popular. Since most games back then were either played on a board or in the backyard, our imaginations regularly got a workout. Besides, Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and other books (stories written on piles of flat sheets called "paper" and bound together) were popular back then too, so the imagery came easily. If you were born after 1980, brace yourself; the image you see below may shock you.]]> http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/04/15/zork-dungeon-maps-and-more/feed/ 4 http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/01/19/command-conquer-flashback/ http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/01/19/command-conquer-flashback/#comments Fri, 19 Jan 2007 05:32:23 +0000 bill http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/01/19/command-conquer-flashback/ Flashback to August of 1995. Westwood Studios released Command & Conquer, a real-time strategy game (RTS) pitting the UN-backed GDI forces against the Brotherhood of Nod. The Brotherhood was supposed to be evil, but GDI was the UN, so it was a tough call to pick your poison. C&C was a fun game. So much so that several sequels and expansion packs were released, including Covert Operations, Sole Survivor, Tiberian Sun, TS Firestorm, and Renegade. An alternate universe series, Red Alert, was also released. It included C&C: Red Alert (1996), Counterstrike and The Aftermath (1997), Red Alert 2 (2000), and Yuri's Revenge (2001). Another related game is C&C: Generals and its expansion pack, Zero Hour.]]> http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/01/19/command-conquer-flashback/feed/ 0 http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/01/02/openarena/ http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/01/02/openarena/#comments Wed, 03 Jan 2007 02:16:54 +0000 bill http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/01/02/openarena/ ]]> http://www.brittlefish.com/2007/01/02/openarena/feed/ 1