insaneladybug (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
insaneladybug) wrote2018-01-12 06:40 pm
insaneladybug) wrote2018-01-12 06:40 pm
Entry tags:
Ahh, wonderful nostalgia.
So, no comments for the mask fic on FF.net yet, although people are Favoriting and Following. And giving Kudos on AO3. And someone actually did comment there! Interesting. Not sure how long I'll wait before putting up the other half.
Then I've been playing some computer games to unwind again. My favorite is Capture the Flag. Just one of the Shareware versions, but I love that one map that comes with it so much that it's provided hours of entertainment for years. Someday I'd still like to get the full version, if I can, but I've wondered if it has so many features I won't know what to do with them all. LOL. I think it has 100 different playing field maps! Woooow.
Then I got the urge to once again try to find Last Knight at Camelot. I haven't seen my Shareware disc of that since before we moved, and I've searched and searched. I haven't had any luck finding it online, either. Or at least, I hadn't ... until this morning. And the copy I downloaded is the full version, not the Shareware one! Squeeee. (Long out of print, so it should be okay.) I played for a long time in the morning and I still haven't got through all the levels yet. They're short, of course, since it's a game for young kids, but some of them are pretty challenging anyway. One of the recent ones had an obstacle course with snowballs rolling up and down steps and I haven't been able to figure out how to get all the treasures out of that room yet. I moved on because I wanted to see other levels, but I know I'll be replaying the game. I played the heck out of my Shareware copy with 12 levels, and it's just as fun now years later, or moreso, with all levels intact.
All a Dollar (which Dollar Tree bought out some years ago, and hasn't always improved on it) used to sell Shareware computer games, as I've mentioned before. I bought several of them over that time period. Last Knight at Camelot was the last one I got. I can't remember precisely when I got it, but I definitely remember playing it on Christmas Eve 1998, when I was 12. There was the magical anticipation of Christmas, the fun of a game I loved, and my brother playing Aqua's first album down the hall. (Darn thing had such catchy songs, although I think he stopped playing it when he really thought about what some of the songs were saying....)
Christmas that year was really awesome; it was one of my favorites. Coming down sick over New Year's, on the other hand, was one of my least favorite experiences ever. Ugh. That was a really bad flu that left me nauseous for hours. But, not thinking on that, Christmas was great and I remember that was when I got my Golden Retriever plush, among other awesome things. I think that was also the year I got a Salem the Cat plush, unless that was next year.... And that was when G2 My Little Ponies were out and I got several of those for Christmas and one for New Year's. (We occasionally got New Year's presents back then.) I was so happy!
Playing the game brings back a lot of those happy memories and feelings. I'm so glad I finally found it again!
And speaking of Ponies ... ohmygosh, a company called The Bridge Direct has released, under license from Hasbro, the first six My Little Ponies from the 1980s for the 35th anniversary! Squeeee. Some people are disappointed since they were re-released ten years ago by Hasbro itself, but the prior re-releases weren't very well-made. These are excellently done, according to those lucky enough to get them so far, and I want at least one really badly. I don't have any of those characters, so it's perfect for me! I wanted them years ago and didn't get to have them. I'm guessing if I can only get one, I'd pick Bluebelle, if she really looks blue as some pictures depict. (Sometimes she looks lavender, which is also gorgeous, of course, but with a name like Bluebelle, I want a blue Pony!) But I was also quite taken with Blossom and Butterscotch, and Minty. Snuzzle and Cotton Candy are cute too, but if I get to pick, I'd choose one of the others first. (Of course, if the latter two are the only ones available when I get to go, I wouldn't pass one of them up! I'd probably choose Snuzzle, since she's such a unique color for a My Little Pony.) Unfortunately, they only seem to be at Target and we rarely get to go there. Hopefully soon....
Then I've been playing some computer games to unwind again. My favorite is Capture the Flag. Just one of the Shareware versions, but I love that one map that comes with it so much that it's provided hours of entertainment for years. Someday I'd still like to get the full version, if I can, but I've wondered if it has so many features I won't know what to do with them all. LOL. I think it has 100 different playing field maps! Woooow.
Then I got the urge to once again try to find Last Knight at Camelot. I haven't seen my Shareware disc of that since before we moved, and I've searched and searched. I haven't had any luck finding it online, either. Or at least, I hadn't ... until this morning. And the copy I downloaded is the full version, not the Shareware one! Squeeee. (Long out of print, so it should be okay.) I played for a long time in the morning and I still haven't got through all the levels yet. They're short, of course, since it's a game for young kids, but some of them are pretty challenging anyway. One of the recent ones had an obstacle course with snowballs rolling up and down steps and I haven't been able to figure out how to get all the treasures out of that room yet. I moved on because I wanted to see other levels, but I know I'll be replaying the game. I played the heck out of my Shareware copy with 12 levels, and it's just as fun now years later, or moreso, with all levels intact.
All a Dollar (which Dollar Tree bought out some years ago, and hasn't always improved on it) used to sell Shareware computer games, as I've mentioned before. I bought several of them over that time period. Last Knight at Camelot was the last one I got. I can't remember precisely when I got it, but I definitely remember playing it on Christmas Eve 1998, when I was 12. There was the magical anticipation of Christmas, the fun of a game I loved, and my brother playing Aqua's first album down the hall. (Darn thing had such catchy songs, although I think he stopped playing it when he really thought about what some of the songs were saying....)
Christmas that year was really awesome; it was one of my favorites. Coming down sick over New Year's, on the other hand, was one of my least favorite experiences ever. Ugh. That was a really bad flu that left me nauseous for hours. But, not thinking on that, Christmas was great and I remember that was when I got my Golden Retriever plush, among other awesome things. I think that was also the year I got a Salem the Cat plush, unless that was next year.... And that was when G2 My Little Ponies were out and I got several of those for Christmas and one for New Year's. (We occasionally got New Year's presents back then.) I was so happy!
Playing the game brings back a lot of those happy memories and feelings. I'm so glad I finally found it again!
And speaking of Ponies ... ohmygosh, a company called The Bridge Direct has released, under license from Hasbro, the first six My Little Ponies from the 1980s for the 35th anniversary! Squeeee. Some people are disappointed since they were re-released ten years ago by Hasbro itself, but the prior re-releases weren't very well-made. These are excellently done, according to those lucky enough to get them so far, and I want at least one really badly. I don't have any of those characters, so it's perfect for me! I wanted them years ago and didn't get to have them. I'm guessing if I can only get one, I'd pick Bluebelle, if she really looks blue as some pictures depict. (Sometimes she looks lavender, which is also gorgeous, of course, but with a name like Bluebelle, I want a blue Pony!) But I was also quite taken with Blossom and Butterscotch, and Minty. Snuzzle and Cotton Candy are cute too, but if I get to pick, I'd choose one of the others first. (Of course, if the latter two are the only ones available when I get to go, I wouldn't pass one of them up! I'd probably choose Snuzzle, since she's such a unique color for a My Little Pony.) Unfortunately, they only seem to be at Target and we rarely get to go there. Hopefully soon....