For no particular reason I stopped in the local "Game Stop". I've been grabbing all the fullsize "Baldur's Gate" and "Icewind Dale" titles (and their add-ons) for $10-20 each lately. 6 down, 2 to go. Anyway, guy behind the counter, couldn't have been more than... 19. I mention something about the fullsize boxes and what a scam the re-release packaging is (no printed docs being the worst). He mentions how he has games from (some number of years ago). I said I had a few from '79. Imagine my surprise when he said his favorite game of all time is "Wasteland". He was talking about wanting to write to Brian Fargo about making a real sequel to that (none of this "Fallout" or even "Fountain of Dreams"). I was quite surprised. He was at best in Kindergarden when Wasteland was released. He grabbed images of it from the Internet and played it on an emulator. Beat it several times. I was jealous (any may be loading it up again in the very near future).
That is rare, and very cool. Even after playing Fallout (haven't tried Fallout 2 yet) and Arcanum (which I'm playing 2 games simultaneously), I think that Wasteland is still my favorite game of all time.
I'm glad he found that and not something like a Scott Adams adventure (ducking debris flung from Chris ;-D
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