Written by Michael
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So, when we last spent time together, I was doing my best imitation of an angel at Christmas. So, I’m in a tree, with an ax. I try the obvious. CHOP TREE. The game thinks, just maybe, that might not be the best plan while I’m still in it.
Huh. Guess you’re right, game.
Written by Michael
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| This will be a shorter post than you usually get from me. I was too busy hitting on the ladies at a hotel bar. |
Sorry for the absence! I stepped aside to allow a couple of other games to finish up, and some important ones to start. But I haven't forgotten my beatnik hero trying to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marion.
When we last left, I had just picked up my snazzy new suit from the tailors. Will it do the job and get me past the bouncer at the river crossing?
Written by Michael
So, the premise of this game is really quite original. Robin Hood seems to have a little amnesia, forgetting who he is, and everyone seems to have forgotten what Robin Hood looks like in normal street clothes. So, we need to help him convince others (and probably himself) that he is who the game says he is. Then, we need to get his fiancée, Maid Marion, to accept it as well so their wedding can go on as planned.
Last time, we started to explore a little, finding even an owl that looks at him and questions, “Who?”
So let’s explore some more.
Back in the early years of graphic adventure gaming, there were many releases of games that were often no more than a disk and a paper in a plastic baggie on a spinner rack at the local computer shop. There’s so many stories of the varied quality of these games. That’s the history of the predecessor to Ultima and also the first release of Mystery House. It’ll be fun to explore some of the games of that time.
My choice today was packaged a little better than that. As best I can tell, it was a professionally-printed cardboard folder holding the single disk and a double-sided instruction card. The game was Sherwood Forest, a 1982 release from Phoenix Software, Inc., of absolutely no relation to the then-growing Phoenix Technologies, responsible for the BIOS in many early IBM PC clones that helped make MS-DOS a standard and Bill Gates very, very rich.
