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(She was featured partially nude on the cover of Softporn Adventure, after all.) I thought it would be interesting to create a shrine to her – I instructed my graphic designer to make it classy without being too creepy. It was sort of based on a joke from (I think) a Retronauts podcast, where they admitted that they thought Roberta Williams was pretty attractive. The back cover is a shrine to Roberta Williams, one of the founders of Sierra and creator of King’s Quest. and Electronics Boutique were stocked to the brim with these things.

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It gave me good opportunity to show off some of my collection (which is much larger, but I couldn’t fit all of it) and was designed to elicit feelings of nostalgia from the days when Babbages’, Egghead Software, Software Etc.

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Initially I had just wanted to feature these goods, but decided to frame them in a photograph of an old PC monitor, surrounded by boxed copies of various classic games. These include a stuffed doll of Max from Sam & Max, the Schattenjaegar talisman from Gabriel Knight, King Graham’s hat from King’s Quest, a rubber-chicken-with-a-pulley-in-the-middle from The Secret of Monkey Island, and a cross stitch of Purple Tentacle from Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle. While the concept of feelies had died out around the time Sierra and LucasArts had taken over the market, I thought it would be cool to feature some homemade replications of various in-game items. The cover was inspired by the “feelies” included in Infocom game packaging, which were nifty little physical goods based off something in the game. Josh Mandel (Writer/Designer/Voice Actor for Sierra) Strongbad’s Cool Game for Attractive Peopleīen There, Dan That!/Time Gentlemen, Please!īob Bates (Founder of Legend Entertainment) KULT: The Temple of Flying Saucers / Chamber of the Sci-Mutant PriestessĬall of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet / Prisoner of Ice Indiana Jones – Last Crusade / Fate of Atlantis The Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble Titles not linked are currently exclusive to the book. For example, the Tex Murpy article includes reviews from Mean Streets, Martian Memorandum, Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive, and Overseer. Please note that when a title is listed, it includes all games in that series. Kindle Edition – $9.99 US, converted automatically to local currency including VAT: