Permit me to take you on a journey back to 1994. As I’ve mentioned before, it was the year my parents finally relented (after a whole lot of nagging about how vitally important Microsoft Encarta would undoubtedly be to my future career prospects) and the benevolent PC gods squatted upon our household to birth a 486 DX2/66 into the world. But of course it was never about Encarta. Within days, I’d developed an insatiable hunger for PC gaming mags, poring back and forth through increasingly dog-eared pages as a hitherto unimagined world of digital wonder presented itself. LucasArts’ Sam & Max: Hit the Road was my inaugural purchase, slowly ballooning to include the likes of Theme Park, The 7th Guest, and Myst. But one game I never quite got around to playing was Simon the Sorcerer.
It’s great to see a nostalgic look back at Simon the Sorcerer! Revisiting classic games can really bring back memories, even if they don’t hold up as well as we remember. Thanks for sharing your journey!
It’s definitely a trip down memory lane! It’s interesting how our perceptions change over time; what seemed charming then can feel a bit dated now. I wonder how many other classics might surprise us with their quirks if we revisited them today!