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The first of these is a concise 1 page introduction to Origin circa 1988.
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They aren’t the pick of the crop but getting them on here does mean I can finally tidy the folder away. Today I have the last couple of items in a folder of press releases I’ve been slowly working through. That isn’t going to leave much time for this site but I’ll fit in some posts and the occasional Origin game somewhere. When I get that finished, I have near enough the entire catalog of Legend sat on a shelf unplayed which I intend to make a start on. I’m a sucker for point and clicks and this is a about as traditional as it gets, with the sort of involving storyline I would expect from Jensen.
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Having offered far too much money for her Kickstarter, I’ve been playing Jane Jensen’s Gray Matter most of the last week which I’m seriously enjoying. The main distractions are work and a huge backlog of games crying out for my attention. I had thought about taking a complete hiatus but I’ll just reduce posting to as and when I feel the urge instead. I tend to be all or nothing with most things and my enthusiasm for blogging has been waning recently. Updates have been thin on the ground here recently which is likely to continue for a while. Were there any others that I’ve missed? Please let me know if so. The actual UK release looked near enough the same as the USA one but I reckon I actually would have preferred this as the cover art. Saving my favourite for last, I also found this awesome ad for Auto Duel:. In this case, it was also used on the UK release of the game shown on the right below:. It’s a whole lot better than the Times Of Lore cover and certainly more action packed than the original artwork. I didn’t find many but there was this advert for Moebius:. Microprose only had a few years working with Origin but it got me wondering if there were any others with alternative artwork. This advert was apparently created by Microprose while they were the UK publisher for Origin games and was used in all of their UK magazine advertising at the time. That and the understandably surprised looking monster… While the background looks a whole lot like the actual cover art, it has in fact all been redrawn when you compare it to the real thing. It’s main claim to fame is the hero being so jacked that he’s invented some of his own muscle groups around that loin cloth. I recently stumbled across an advert for Chris Roberts’ Times Of Lore which apparently has a certain notoriety for being terrible but I’d never run into it before.