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More Kings, More Quests

Posted on March 18, 2026 by Nathan

In the mid-nineties, Sierra officially licensed a series of King’s Quest novels based on the adventure games. From what I’ve seen, neither Roberta Williams nor anyone else who worked on the games had any involvement in these. And really, for … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Book Reviews, Fairy Tales, king's quest, Magic, Monsters, Names, Sierra, Video Games | Tagged craig mills, daventry, fairies, farquhar, frogs, giants, gnomes, ifrit, imps, keynon moore, king graham, king's quest ii, king's quest iii, kingdom of sorrow, kuzgu, laburnum, lizards, marella sands, mark sumner, prince alexander, princess rosella, see no weevil, slizard, spiders, telgrin, the floating castle, the pied piper of hamelin, three-toed sloks | 1 Comment

Shoot to Krill

Posted on February 19, 2026 by Nathan

Zork III: The Dungeon Master – I played a fair amount of the first two Zork games, although I never finished either of them. I don’t think I’d really looked at the third one, though, so I figured I should. … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Food, Humor, infocom, Magic, Maps, Video Games, zork | Tagged dying earth, enchanter, frogs, jack vance, planetfall, the dungeon master, time travel, turtles, warlocks, wizards, zork grand inquisitor, zork i, zork ii, zork iii, zork zero | 2 Comments

Too Many Books

Posted on November 26, 2025 by Nathan

I seem to be finishing a lot of books as of late, which means this post is going to be pretty long, even if the individual reviews aren’t. Bear with me, I guess. The Way Home, by Peter S. Beagle … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Art, Authors, barsoom, Book Reviews, Brentford Trilogy, Comics, Crusades, edgar rice burroughs, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, History, Humor, Judaism, Magic, Mario, Middle East, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Names, Percy Jackson, Relationships, Religion, Rick Riordan, Robert Rankin, Roman, Video Games | Tagged a fate worse than dragons, abraham, adam and eve, alexander the great, amazons, animal crossing new horizons, babylon, barry the time sprout, bible, blathers, boos, caleb cook, camp jupiter, cats, daniel, dejah thoris, demons, deserted island diary, dionysus, django wexler, dogs, dragons, esther, fairies, frogs, genesis, geoffrey de bouillon, gertrude landa, ghosts, giants, griffins, gulliver, how to become the dark lord and die trying, idols, jerusalem, jewish fairy tales and legends, john carter, john moore, king alexander's adventures, king david, king for three days, king hiram of tyre, kokonasu rumba, laverna, manga, mark oshiro, mars, minotaur, moses, nico di angelo, nimrod, noah, noah's ark, normanghast, og of bashan, orcs, paradise, peter s. beagle, phobos, pirithous, queen mary tudor, rape, rashi, sambation river, schmendrick, semele, sinbad of the talmud, sinbad the sailor, sol aronson, sooz, super mario adventures, swords of mars, talmud, tantalus, the court of the dead, the fairy frog, the giant of the flood, the higgedly-piggedly palace, the last unicorn, the paradise in the sea, the princess bride, the quarrel of the cat and dog, the sleep of one hundred years, the star-child, the story of bostanai, the water-babe, the way home, theseus, time loops, timmy and tommy nookling, tom nook, two hearts, underworld, will solace, wisp, ziz | 1 Comment

I’m Tired of These Jokes About My Giant Hand

Posted on August 9, 2025 by Nathan

The Legend of Kyrandia: Book Two – Hand of Fate – This is very similar to the first game in the series, but I think it’s an improvement. Controls are basically the same, but you get a larger inventory, perhaps … Continue reading →

Posted in Alchemy, Animals, Art, Dragon Quest, Humor, infocom, Magic, Monsters, Ultima, Video Games | Tagged alefgard, alone in the dark, baramos, bats, boos myller, brandon of kyrandia, crocodiles, cugel's saga, dinosaurs, dragon quest ii, dragon quest iii, dragons, frogs, grandia, grandia ii, hand of fate, jack vance, kyrandia, octopuses, potions, quest for glory, quest for glory ii, return to zork, squirrels, the dying earth, the legend of kyrandia, the legend of kyrandia book one, the legend of kyrandia book two, trees, volcania, vultures, worms, zanthia, zork | 2 Comments

Crazy Do-Good Freaks Are Here

Posted on August 9, 2025 by Nathan

WARNING! SPOILERS for all media herein! The Toxic Avenger Part II – I guess it’s been almost eight years since I saw the first movie, and I know I was a bit put off by how Melvin was a gross … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Cartoons, Comics, Corporations, Environmentalism, Halloween, Holidays, Humor, Monsters, Music, Names, Politics, Relationships, Technology, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a fistful of yen, birds, bluebirds, boravia, christopher lloyd, david zucker, dc comics, dogs, feel-a-round, frogs, james gunn, jarhanpur, jerry zucker, jim abrahams, jimmy olsen, john cleese, john landis, jor-el, krypto the superdog, kung fu, lex luthor, lois lane, metamorpho, mister terrific, over the garden wall, pollution, puns, satire, skeletons, sketch comedy, superheroes, superman, superman the movie, the kentucky fried movie, the toxic avenger, the toxic avenger part ii, tim curry, tony dow, troma | 1 Comment

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

There’s Glory for You

Posted on May 7, 2025 by Nathan

Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero – Another Sierra adventure series, started in 1989, retains a lot of the same qualities as the King’s and Space Quest games, but with some added role-playing elements. Primarily, this … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Comics, Fairy Tales, Food, Greek Mythology, Humor, lucasarts, Magic, Monsters, Music, Mythology, Russian, Sierra, Video Games, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged abdulla doo, alligators, antwerp, baba yaga, baron stefan von spielburg, bigfoot, chickens, conroy bumpus, cupid, dwarves, fairies, frog rock, frogs, genesta, ghosts, graeae, king graham, king's quest, king's quest iv, lolotte, pan, pandora, princess rosella, purple saurus, quest for glory, sam and max, sam and max freelance police, sam and max hit the road, sasquatch, saurus, snow white, so you want to be a hero, space quest, spielburg, steve purcell, stuckey's, the frog prince, the perils of rosella, trolls, two guys from andromeda, unicorns, whales, witches, wizards | 6 Comments

Stuck a Feather in Glooscap

Posted on November 19, 2023 by Nathan

One name that came up on two different occasions while looking up other mythical topics was Glooscap, a cultural hero from the legends of the Wabanaki, in northern New England and southeastern Canada. The stories about him vary quite a bit, … Continue reading →

Posted in algonquin, Animals, Drugs, Magic, Medicine, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Native American | Tagged beavers, birds, creation, frogs, giants, glooscap, grasshoppers, loons, malsum, mikchich, odziozo, squirrels, tabaldak, tobacco, trees, turtles, wabanaki, whales | Leave a comment

Heka Heka Egyptian Magic

Posted on October 4, 2023 by Nathan

The main villain in Lin Carter’s Kesrick is a wizard named Zazamanc, who’s been around for quite a while, although not much is known about him. He originates in a story from what’s known as the Westcar Papyrus, named after … Continue reading →

Posted in African, Animals, Arabian, Cartoons, Christianity, Comics, Egyptian, History, Islam, Judaism, Language, Magic, Middle East, Mythology, Names, Religion | Tagged abanazar, aladdin, aladdin and his wonderful lamp, arabian nights, balaam, bible, black panther, book of thoth, caliph harun al-rashid, crocodiles, djadjaemankh, djedi, egyptian tales, exodus, flinders petrie, frogs, genie, georges posener, golems, hathor, henry westcar, heqet, imaginary lives, isis, jafar, jafar ibn yahya barmaki, jannes and jambres, jinn, kesrick, khaemwaset, khnum, khufu, king solomon, lin carter, magicians, marcel schwob, marvel comics, mehusekhe, merire, meskhenet, moghrabi sufrah, nebka, neferkaptah, nephthys, pantomime, papyrus vandier, parzifal, ptah, quran, rededjet, setne, si-osire, sisobek, sneferu, tabubu, tales of the magicians, thief of bagdad, thoth, ubaoner, westcar papyrus, wizards, wolfram von eschenbach, zazamanc | Leave a comment

Some Say It’s True, and Some Say It’s a Fable

Posted on June 17, 2023 by Nathan

Breverton’s Phantasmagoria: A Compendium of Monsters, Myths and Legends, by Terry Breverton – This is a collection of myths and legends, some ancient and others pretty recent. They include people, places, artifacts, and both mythical animals and weird beliefs about … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Comics, Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Greek Mythology, Hellenistic Greece, Historical Personages, History, Humor, Jonathan Swift, Language, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Philosophy, Roman, Sesame Street, Television, William Shakespeare | Tagged a link to the past, aesop, ants, bible, breverton's phantasmagoria, cats, chip zdarsky, cranes, demetrius of phalerum, dogs, donkeys, flash thompson, foxes, frogs, gods of pegana, gulliver's travels, hera, hermes, herodotus, in the land of time, in the land of time and other fantasy tales, iron man, jack of hearts, jen again, jeremiah, jorkens, juno, jupiter, lilliput, lions, lord dunsany, luca maresca, mark bagley, mars, mercury, mice, momus, monkeys, peter parker, pliny the elder, poseidon, rainbow rowell, roge antonio, she-hulk, sheep, spider-man, spider-man life story, superheroes, terry breverton, the complete fables, the farmer and the cranes, the frogs asking for a king, the mountain in labor, the tortoise and the hare, the wolf and the lamb, vietnam war, wolves, zeus | 1 Comment

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More Kings, More Quests

Shoot to Krill

Too Many Books

I’m Tired of These Jokes About My Giant Hand

Crazy Do-Good Freaks Are Here

Owlementary, My Dear Graham

There’s Glory for You

Stuck a Feather in Glooscap

Heka Heka Egyptian Magic

Some Say It’s True, and Some Say It’s a Fable

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