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Owlementary, My Dear Graham

Posted on May 22, 2025 by Nathan

Here’s a look at some more old adventure games, although they were new to me. Planetfall – This is part of the Zork collection that I bought on Steam, even though I don’t know that it’s part of the Zork … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Art, Fairy Tales, Food, Humor, infocom, Language, Magic, Music, Names, Oz, Sierra, Technology, Video Games, Winnie-the-Pooh, Zelda | Tagged absence makes the heart go yonder, ali baba and the forty thieves, ants, arabian nights, bedistor, bees, blathers, cats, cedric the owl, daventry, floyd the robot, frogs, fromitz board, hagatha, harlin, homer b. hunter, kaepora gaebora, king graham, king's quest, king's quest collection, king's quest ii, king's quest iii, king's quest v, lions, mordack, ocarina of time, owls, parrots, planetfall, prince alexander, princess priscilla, rats, robots, serenia, snakes, stellar patrol, the sword in the stone, valanice, wiser the owl, wizard and the princess, wizards, zork | 2 Comments

Scullery, Skulls, and Skulduggery

Posted on May 1, 2025 by Nathan

Grim Fandango – This was originally released in 1998 by LucasArts, one of the last of their point-and-click adventure games, but I played the 2014 remastered version. It takes place in the world of the dead, with many of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Dragon Quest, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, lucasarts, Magic, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged angels, baramos, beavers, bees, circle of twelve, day of the dead, death, deja vu, demons, department of death, dragon quest iii, dragon's lair, dragons, dread pumpkin, druids, glottis, goblins, grim fandango, grim reaper, hector lemans, it's the great pumpkin charlie brown, lakmar, manuel calavera, mercedes colomar, nintendo entertainment system, nintendo switch, peanuts, rubacava, shadowgate, skeletons, skulls, snoopy, talimar, underworld, willy wonka, wizards, wyverns, yorick | 2 Comments

Going on a Bear Hunt

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Nathan

There’s a game Beth had for the Atari 2600 called Crystal Castles, and I looked it up recently. Like many such games, it was originally an arcade cabinet, with the isometric graphics being a major part of its appeal. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Music, Television, Video Games | Tagged atari, bears, bees, bentley bear, berthilda the witch, crystal castles, crystal quest, devil world, franz liszt, gem eaters, ghosts, nutcracker suite, piotr ilyich tchaikovsky, she-ra, skeletons, witches, wreck-it ralph | 1 Comment

Coping with Immortality

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Nathan

We’re up to the 1978 Oziana, with a cover by Bill Eubank that appears to be partially based on a John R. Neill illustration from Kabumpo in Oz. Then there’s an Oz-E-Gag by Eubank, comparing The Wizard of Oz to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Comics, Games, History, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged atlantis, bears, bees, beyond the rainbow, bill eubank, bronson pinchot, clara jean curzon, daniel k. cox, dave billman, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, ereol, espa, fairies, forest of burzee, george lucas, george van buren, gili bar-hillel, glinda, glinda of oz, great detective, harry mongold, how ducky!, hugo ball, immigration, immortality, in other lands than oz, jay delkin, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, johanna buchner, joseph campbell, julius caesar, kabumpo in oz, latin, lau shiu fan, luke skywalker, lurline, magic belt, magic picture, menankypoo, number nine, ojo, orks, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, paul ritz, pillars of hercules, pin-up, pixies, plato, princess leia, queen coo-ee-oh, queen zixi of ix, red jinn, sawhorse, scraps' ditty, shaggy man, sherlock holmes, talking heads, the adventure of the missing belt, the green dolphin of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's sticky end, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tippetarius in oz, tollydiggle, toto, transformation, vincent ward, water of oblivion, wizards, woozy, zim greenleaf, zimbo and the magic amulet, zimboobo | 4 Comments

Intergalactic, Planetary, Planetary, Intergalactic

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Nathan

Next on my list of video games I haven’t played but watched playthroughs of to see what went on in them, it’s the Super Mario Galaxy games. They definitely look good, like how the Lumas resemble cuddly stuffed animals. Mario in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Comics, Donkey Kong, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Technology, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged aliens, bees, comet observatory, galaxies, gearmos, goombas, honey queen, king bowser koopa, lubba, lumas, mario kart, mario kart 7, mario kart 8, nintendo comics system, octopuses, octoroks, orbulon, piantas, power stars, princess peach toadstool, quirks, rabbits, rainbow exploration agency, rainbow road, robots, Rosalina, shroobs, sky station galaxy, star bunnies, star festival, stars, starship mario, super mario 64, super mario galaxy, super mario galaxy 2, super mario land 2, super mario odyssey, super mario sunshine, tatanga, throwback galaxy, toads, yoshi | Leave a comment

Talking Time

Posted on December 11, 2021 by Nathan

I can’t say I’m really that keen on the song “Do You Hear What I Hear?”, but I’m not entirely sure why. I think it might just be how the versions they play on the radio tend to take it really seriously, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Beatles, Christianity, Christmas, Holidays, Judaism, Magic, Music, Mythology, New Year's Day, Religion, Songs I Don't Care For | Tagged bees, bob geldof, cuban missile crisis, gloria shayne, jesus, john lennon, nativity, noel regney, peace on earth, sheep, stevie wonder, war | Leave a comment

Wiggler Wednesday

Posted on August 26, 2021 by Nathan

I’ve discussed many enemies from the Super Mario franchise over the years, but I don’t think I’ve said that much about Wigglers, the giant caterpillars introduced in Super Mario World. Their thing is basically that they’re normally cute, yellow, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Mario, Monsters, Television, Video Games | Tagged bees, butterflies, cataquacks, caterpillars, centipede, flutters, fly guys, fuzzies, fuzzlers, insects, king bowser koopa, lost kingdom, luigi mario, mario and luigi paper jam, mario and luigi: bowser's inside story, mario and luigi: dream team, mario kart: double dash, mario mario, mario party 9, mechawiggler, metro kingdom, new donk city, new super mario bros., paper mario: sticker star, piranha plants, plungelos, squigglers, super mario 3d world, super mario galaxy, super mario odyssey, super mario sunshine, super mario world, tropical wigglers, wiggler wagons, wigglers, worms, yoshi, yoshi's island | 3 Comments

Myriapod Mania

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Nathan

I played a little bit of Centipede at the Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park this past weekend, and I remembered seeing something online about the manual for the Atari 2600 version having a crazy back story. The game, introduced in … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Biology, Comics, Donkey Kong, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Science, Video Games | Tagged atari, bees, beetles, centipede, dragonflies, earwigs, elves, fleas, hypnosis, inchworms, insects, kamek, lord motley bugnut, millipede, mosquitoes, mushrooms, myriapoda, paper mario: sticker star, scorpions, shigeru miyamoto, space invaders, spiders, super mario land, super mario land 2, wigglers, wizards | 5 Comments

Ostriches and Old Ones and Vampires, Oh My!

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Nathan

I’ve read a few new-to-me Oz books recently, and I’d like to share my thoughts on them. There are potential SPOILERS for all of them. The Rubber Ostriches of Oz, by Marin Xiques and Chris Dulabone – Greg Hunter’s “Unc … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Comics, Eric Shanower, History, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Marin Elizabeth Xiques, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Prejudice | Tagged and justice for oz, bees, candy country, china princess, cowardly lion, cthulhu, cthulhu invades oz, dorothy gale, dorothy of oz, dorothy of oz prequel, fighting trees, flutterbudgets, frogman, fuddles, greg hunter, h.p. lovecraft, jester, john dough and the cherub, lark vandergrace, legends of oz: dorothy's return, lollipop guild, marshall mallow, nikki kay richardson, ostriches, ozga, oziana, phyllis ann karr, r.k. lionel, rigmarole town, robots, roger baum, sam milazzo, scarecrow, shaggy man, the braided man of oz, the eldritch horror of oz, the rubber ostriches of oz, tin woodman, travis gibb, two terrific tales of oz, unc nunkie and the white king of oz, vampires, wiser the owl | 2 Comments

Wonder Boy on Adventure Island

Posted on May 7, 2020 by Nathan

In my latest installment of video games I don’t know much about but have some interesting trivia regarding, I remember seeing an arcade game called Wonder Boy at a diner on a family trip before my parents split up. Those … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Ethnicity, Food, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Relationships, Television, Video Games | Tagged adventure island, adventure island ii, adventure island iii, angels, bees, bock lee temjin, boy, bug-tte honey, camptosaurus, dinosaurs, eggplant, elasmosaurus, fairies, honey bee in toycomland, honey girl, hudson soft, jeannie jungle, king drancon, master higgins, master wigins, monster boy and the cursed kingdom, monster world iv, nintendo, nintendo power, pina, princess leilani, pteranodon, sega, sega master system, takahashi meijin, tanya, tina, tom-tom, toshiyuki takahashi, triceratops, wonder boy, wonder boy in monster land | 3 Comments

Tag Archives: bees

Owlementary, My Dear Graham

Scullery, Skulls, and Skulduggery

Going on a Bear Hunt

Coping with Immortality

Intergalactic, Planetary, Planetary, Intergalactic

Talking Time

Wiggler Wednesday

Myriapod Mania

Ostriches and Old Ones and Vampires, Oh My!

Wonder Boy on Adventure Island

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