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Max Almonte

First game I finish this April: #FinalFantasy IV for the #PSP, and what a game! This is already my favorite Final Fantasy game, and one of the best #JRPG I've ever played, which I honestly wasn't expecting after how bad — IMO — Final Fantasy III was. The fact that this story continues in Final Fantasy IV Interlude and Final Fantasy IV The After Years is tempting me to keep playing right away but I don't think I will, I want to get a PS Vita first. Totally recommended.

Cover art for FinalFantasy IV for the PSP.
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Rua

In Foxxhoria's beautiful group commission (chitter.xyz/@Foxxhoria/1143213), I'm cudding our first family PC.

We got this PC second hand in late 1995. It was a generic 486 DX2-66 tower PC, with 4 MB RAM, a 400 MB hard drive, and with DOS 5.0, Windows 3.1 and WordPerfect 5.1 preinstalled. Over time, we upgraded it to 8 MB, and added a SB16 compatible sound card and a CD-ROM drive, which made it quite a nice "multimedia" PC. We also upgraded to DOS 6.22, Windows 3.11, and finally Windows 95.

It was definitely already a bit dated as Pentiums started to become the mainstream, but we still had many years of enjoyment with this PC. I played countless games on it, including Commander Keen, Dune 2, Warcraft 1&2, C&C and RA1, Transport Tycoon and more.

Giving this lovely old machine a hug, I'm cherishing the memories it gave me, and how it set me on a path full of interest and enjoyment of computers over the years!

My fursona, a foxkitty, hugging a 486 DX2-66 "Baby AT" style tower PC. The tower casing is beige, and it contains a CD-ROM drive at the top, a 3.5 inch floppy drive in the middle, with a large round power button next to it. Below that is a black panel, displaying "66" on a 7-segment display, turbo and reset switches, and a keylock. Above them are three lit LEDs: red for hard drive activity, yellow for turbo, and green for power.
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vga256

back in the mid-90s just prior to sierra's downfall into fmv and poorly funded titles (their sale to CUC international), the company started looking for low-risk low-profit income avenues.

in the post-doom FPS feeding frenzy, the bloom was off adventure games. they were expensive to produce, and their audience was shrinking fast.

one solution was recycling old software, and honestly, it was great for a 13 year old kid like me, because it meant that i could buy a "sierra game" for $10 instead of the $60-$80 i would normally have to pay for a flagship title

Crazy Nick's Software Picks were collections of mini-games taken from sierra adventures. there were several of them - LSL, King's Quest - I happened to find this Conquest of the Longbow pack at a pharmacy.

the games were *great* - Archery and Nine Men's Morris kept me absolutely occupied for weeks. I had no idea at the time that they were culled from a full sierra adventure, until I discovered it by accident in my twenties.

today i found my copy of the game, buried in another game box. it still has the greasy kid fingerprint from me eating a bag of Old Dutch (regular) chips while i played

A copy of Crazy Nick's Software Picks: Robin Hood's Games of Skill & Chance. It shows a screenshot of an archery game on the cover. A 3.5-inch diskette with the same label sits beside it.
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