Month: March 2021

2021-03-31 / Sounds /

When the first PC was in our living room in 1997, I was very happy to have actually convinced my parents that I would never be able to study for school again without a computer.

2021-03-27 / Sounds /

Why do some lines ot text etch their way into your memory? The opening of Turtles in Time guarantees adrenaline and pizza.

2021-03-24 / Moments /
2021-03-20 / Places /
2021-03-16 / Moments /

The story of a years-long search for the first PC game the author received on a floppy disk as a four-year-old boy. The story of a years-long search for a frog.

Many games leave it up to the player to decide when it’s over. Return of the Obra Dinn left me no choice. About parting.

2021-03-10 / Places /

Once, when I crawled out of a tent, I bumped my head on an electric fence and got electrocuted. It taught me that tent doors should not necessarily be pointed in the direction of an electric fence. Also, I’m sure I haven’t been able to write decent introductions since.

Although I am the cousin of my cousins, today it shall not be about me, but the cousin of my cousins. Now, before I record my family tree, I’ll just mention that the gentleman I’m talking about was a gigantic show-off.