I've never played Leisure Suit Larry, but I know the guy who wrote the original program.

how odd, i just sold a bunch of old PC games on eBay, including a LSL. so you know Al Lowe? do me a flavor and ask him why he never made a LSL IV. those were fun =)

i also remember the text-based games ~ remember how avant garde they seemed? my dad and i spent hours playing "escape from rungistan" and "mission impossible" (anyone recall either of those?). The *really advanced ones would have ASCII graphics, or even timers (in Escape from Rungistan, towards the end, you found yourself in a pot of boiling water surrounded by cannibals, and had to *quickly type "predict eclipse" {try typing that fast as a 6 year old!) in order to save your skin.)

okay, here's the word part of this post:

i thought you guys might get a kick out of a brochure for "Prodigy" (the fledgling internet) i found in one of the old games boxes this morning. the system requirements:

~ at least one megabyte of RAM
~ Operating System 4.1 or higher
~ at least one 800K disk drive, or hard drive with 750k (that's not a typo) available space
~ 1200 or 2400 bps modem (!)
~ monochrome or color monitor (remember when they were green on black?)

The frightening thing is that this form was printed in 1990

tempus fugit

my, how time flies!