Okay, finally got it outta my system. Played a complete game of Dune 2000 without the machine crashing – well, okay, not quite true. I got better about game saves and finished a complete game despite the crashes. Obviously there’s a conflict somewhere – it probably explains why I had to reinstall and re-patch Dune 2000 from scratch.
Anyway, I looked up at the clock and it was after 4am. Actually, almost 5. I think now I remember the other reason I uninstalled Dune 2000 at some point. It eats my whole life. Like a big freakin’ sandworm.
Now that I’ve conquered the world, I think it’s time to tuck the disk away again and get back to a life where I’m occasionally able to be productive. Or at least look like it. Maybe it’s for the best that Dune 2000 online play isn’t supported anymore…
Speaking of games, the picture you’re seeing here is the debut of the new Odyssey2/Videopac game Martian Threat, with cover artwork by yours truly, at Eurocon ’08 last weekend in Karlsruhe. If you’ve got an O2 (or a Videopac), get it from Dieter Koenig at Classic Consoles Center. Fun secret: I threw together the artwork more on a lark than anything. I’ve never played the game before, not even in emulation. 😆 But hey, it gets me a complimentary copy of the game, which I probably couldn’t have cobbled together than money for otherwise, so hopefully everyone’s happy with it.
I still find it incredibly amusing that, after spending my childhood being so attached to the cover art on the Odyssey2 games, I seem to have almost become the de facto Odyssey2 cover artist myself – and yet for all that adoration of the original style they used in the ’70s and ’80s, my stuff looks nothing like that. 😆 (Well, okay, maybe Calculator…)
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