Comments on: The Gold Left Behind

By: Brett Brewer

Brett Brewer — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:57:36 +0000

Jason, the suspense is killing me. I know you’re working hard, but I’m going crazy knowing this movie is almost done and not being able to see it! In the meantime, anyone that hasn’t seen Jason Scott’s other amazing work, “BBS: The Documentary”, is really missing out.

By: Michael Keeney

Michael Keeney — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 04:51:17 +0000

Wow, a very keen observation. I was 12 in 1984 – the same year I purchased my Apple IIe with paper route money. That was also the same year I purchased Zork I at the local Waldenbooks. (My mother gave me $40 because my sisters had each gotten a perm and she didn’t think it was fair that they got $40 worth of hairdo, and I got nothing….)

Great memories, and his observation is right on.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:08:42 +0000

Heh… it’s so true. My first IF was Zork II in 1982, and I kept playing ‘em, but I didn’t get to my all-time fave Trinity until 1986 – at the age of twelve!

In between the two I tried to wrap my head around Robert Pinsky’s Mindwheel. At age ten. I didn’t get very far.

By: Michel Vuijlsteke

Michel Vuijlsteke — Fri, 28 May 2010 21:43:09 +0000

I was twelve in 1982. My first adventure game was ADVENT. And then I got Zork I, II and III. And then I bought all the Infocom games as they came out.

The one that got to me the most was Stationfall — poor little Floyd!

By: Sean Huxter

Sean Huxter — Thu, 27 May 2010 13:54:14 +0000

Yeah, I was about 19 when I got my first C64 and played “Suspended” which completely confounded me and almost turned me off IF totally, until a week or so later an older friend of mine got “Infidel” and asked if I could help him with it. Well within 15 minutes we had found the pyramid and were well underway to a lifetime of loving IF.

I was a bit older than 12, but the effect is the same for me. Those games that I played through college, (the roster includes almost all of the INFOCOM games) will remain the best for me.

By: Joline Desrosiers

Joline Desrosiers — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:09:42 +0000

That is a brilliant obsevation. (I would expect no less from him, of course!) 12 is a highly impressionable age between child and teen where passions are born easily and the mind holds onto them for a long time.

I’m apparently a late bloomer, though. I was 18 when I discovered Infocom, and as a result a lot of other things that have stuck around to the present.

I really look forward to the full interviews!

By: Paul O'Brian

Paul O'Brian — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:13:15 +0000

YAY Lebling. He is so right. And let’s see, 1982… yep.

Count me as one of those who can’t wait to watch the full interviews.

By: Jon Radoff

Jon Radoff — Thu, 27 May 2010 01:52:07 +0000

Holy Frobozz. He really nailed it.

By: Chris Orcutt

Chris Orcutt — Wed, 26 May 2010 20:01:35 +0000

Yeah, he’s right about 12 being that Golden Age. I remember well the sinuous raptures of Ms. V.–a woman who lived up the stair…