Ultima II: The Revenge of the Enchantress Retrospective | Spacetime & Sierra

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  @safebox36 · 2 years ago

  I gotta respect how enamoured Roberta was with Colossal Cave Adventure.<br>Their company remade it in 3D last year and released it on Steam.<br>She did a playthrough with a few channels, and you can hear how excited she is to just be talking about it.

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• CA

  @cabokenw · 2 years ago

  Great work! I can&apos;t believe how you were able to put all this together. You must be a heck of a researcher! - Ken Williams

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  @spicebaliset · 2 years ago

  I really love the documentarian approach mixed with a more traditional game retrospective. Makes it really re-watchable.

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• HE

  @heckinharvey · 2 years ago

  Time to watch this 4 nights in a row as I fall asleep in 15-20 minute chunks and then rewatch it in one sitting on a weekend

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  @shakes5847 · 1 year ago

  I bet 50 bucks Roberta and Ken attempted courting of Garriott included the phrases &quot;Snort this&quot; and &quot;we noticed your vibe from the end of the bar&quot;

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• VE

  @versebuchanan512 · 2 years ago

  Second comment, but needs to be said: Garriott was so ahead of his time he was behind it. Specifically with packaging. As a kid, there was nothing better than the car ride home from the store, opening the box of a game to read through a games manual and get extra story and lore and art and... now, everything&apos;s a download. You get a physical copy? Cool, here&apos;s a single fold insert with EULA terms if you&apos;re lucky.<br><br>Feelies, and even just extra text related to the game itself, is so sorely missed.

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  @TommyOtheNorth · 2 years ago

  I love these 90&apos;s histories that involve married people getting into adventure games or any game development. Sounds like a nice way to live

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  @thespartanmk1 · 2 years ago (edited)

  It&apos;s funny, because I&apos;ve taken piss tests in the old Sierra building. I live in Coarsegold, next door to Oakhurst. The Sierra building is now a Doctor&apos;s Office and a Quest Diagnostics.<br><br>Richard Kiel was also a resident of Coarsegold too. So, he didn&apos;t have far to go to visit Sierra.

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  @SwammyCDN · 2 years ago

  This is before you could upload pictures to the internet so the freebiees act as possibly the most immersive anti piracy measure

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• AR

  @ardryn253 · 2 years ago

  My maternal grandfather, Paul Kircher, taught at UCLA for most of his adult life first as assistant and then as full professor, he wrote the first report by the comptroller general on the use of electronic computers by the federal government. He was a consultant to the state controller during the first installation of electronic computers for California. Through ties to IBM, he was considered instrumental in bringing computers to the business side of UCLA and introduced many of his colleagues to word processing and personal computers. Even after retirement in 1984, his course on life-long learning was so popular that it was always full and had students lining up to apply whenever it had an opening. He loved learning almost as much as he loved teaching, and was a wonderful grandfather, even though I barely got to know him as a person. Many junior colleagues described him as someone who was always available to help and consult on issues ranging from emotional support to research and publication. It&apos;s strange, but in a fascinating way, to think he may have had some small part in influencing Ken, in the pursuit of video games and founding Sierra.<br> <br>He passed away in 1999 at the age of 84.

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• LE

  @LegalPhantom · 2 years ago

  Nothing better to beat a cold and massive fever than to lie down in bed with a Majuular video to cheer you up

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• PO

  @Poco64 · 2 years ago

  how the hell do you crank out content that is so good? Having a real retrospective for the Ultima series is awesome.

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