Classic adventure titles from Sierra On-Line were my gateway into PC gaming, lo those many years ago. Sierra was so fascinating to me – like the studio system of Old Hollywood, it had its roster of star designers, and they cranked out one iconic franchise after the other. The (in)famous text parser interface used in… Read More »
Ahoy, Rumpusers! It is with some degree of shock that I realize it’s been nearly ten years since I started this domain and I’ve yet to do anything with it, really. Oops! I’m going to try and jumpstart things again here soon, starting with an attempt to tackle my enormous gaming backlog with some game… Read More »
And… we’re back! As part of the effort to get The Rumpus Room started at last, we’ve started uploading old VHS-taped programming blocks to the beloved Internet Archive. Most of the blocks so far are vintage collections of Disney Channel programming; while the featured programs might be of interest to some, the real gold is… Read More »
Welcome to The Rumpus Room! And we’re looking forward to a few rumpuses I’ll tell you, as long as they don’t get out of hand. If you’re here, you probably know me from my years of blogging about theme park history. But I’ve long wanted a venue where I and other like-minded souls can kibbutz… Read More »
Life is strange. And so it was that I found myself, a few months ago, face to face with Joel Hodgson, creator of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I’ve been a rabid fan of the show since I was a kid; MST3k had, in all truth, an inordinate amount of influence on my general sense of… Read More »