{"id":1050,"date":"2008-10-22T05:24:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T10:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1050"},"modified":"2008-10-22T05:24:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T10:24:40","slug":"the-sand-will-run-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2008\/10\/22\/the-sand-will-run-red\/","title":{"rendered":"And the sand will run red with strawberry kiwi Diet Rite."},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I looked up at the clock and it was after 4am. Actually, almost 5. I think now I remember the other<\/em> reason I uninstalled Dune 2000 at some point. It eats my whole life.<\/strong> Like a big freakin’ sandworm.<\/p>\n

\"MartianNow 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…<\/p>\n

Speaking of games, the picture you’re seeing here is the debut of the new Odyssey2\/Videopac game Martian Threat<\/em>, 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<\/a>. Fun secret: I threw together the artwork more on a lark than anything. I’ve never played the game before, not even in emulation. \ud83d\ude06 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.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> 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<\/em><\/a>. \ud83d\ude06 (Well, okay, maybe Calculator<\/em>…)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}