State of the Saints
Ice Cream Jonsey I’ll make you a deal! You please, please, please read even the football posts and I will try to keep them funny even if you hate football! All right! When…
Ice Cream Jonsey
Diamond Mind Baseball Fun
I play in a Diamond Mind baseball league with seven other fellas. Around the house, it has gained no small amount of notoriety as “text baseball.” The links on how…
Thomas M. Disch, R.I.P.
Thomas M. Disch, author of the 1986 text adventure Amnesia (published by Electronic Arts) passed away on July 4th. He took his own life. Every May my friend Greg returns…
There’s no sports games on the PC anymore
I’m on vacation this week, but I am trying to write stuff in advance and set it to publish in the future. Here is a post I wrote on Caltrops…
Music collaboration!!
A few years ago I did the vocal, bass and drum tracks to a few new songs, in what would have been the third Beaver compact disc. It never materialized…
Introducing my 48-in-1 cabinet
The 48-in-1 is a Chinese-made, copyright-violating circuit board that plays 48 games, an embarrasingly lot of which I already had in dedicated form. I’m adding pages for all my arcade…
Beaver: A-K-Q
Sorry, sorry, lots of articles in the hopper, none are done right now. Allow me to link an MP3. I was in a band called Beaver when I was at…
Tomb of the Hardcore Casual Gamer
In this, a new ongoing feature, we introduce the Forgotten Tomb of the Hardcore Casual Gamer. Seeing how last night I installed a high score kit into my Asteroids (hardcore!)…
Actors in Text Games, Part One
When IÂ made A Crimson Spring, I was learning a new IF programming language, drawing comic book-style art after a lengthy layoff, getting music integrated, and displaying graphics. I didn’t…
2008 U.S. Open Playoff Round Analysis
(OK, this is ICJ taking over at this point, as I think what happened made Pinback’s heart go out.) My first job was as a clerk at a driving range.…