Your old PBS friend and mine Stewart Cheifet talks to the designers of some of the hottest computer games from the early 90s, including Brian Moriarty from LucasArts (in quite a dapper sweater), talking about Loom, and Gilman Louie from Spectrum Holobyte talking about WordTris.

For those Sierra Online fans in the audient, Stuart Moulder(?) talks about the CD-ROM version of King’s Quest 5 along with the Web 1.0 version of The Sierra Network.

How does Earl Weaver Baseball 2 improve upon on its predesessor?  256 color graphics!



Special bonus video:  Earl Weaver cussing up a storm and getting thrown out of a game

I’m too tired to write a full post about this, but you should definitely check out this series of posts on The Artful Gamer regarding the unearthing of a ton of old artifacts from the once great game company Origin Systems, makers of the Ultima and Wing Commander series, to name a few.  Long are the hours and high are the dollar amounts I poured into Origin games, back in the day.