Haunted And Hunted By The Wumpus; Or, My Emulated Christmas Memory

January 3, 2008

The Wumpus

The first computer I ever used hooked up to what was then — around 1986 or so — a 20-year-old TV that we kept in my brother’s room. It was a TI99 my mother bought on clearance at Zayre in Worcester. And it was awesome.

It came with a bunch of games that I really loved and over Christmas, in a fit of auld lang syne, I decided that I just had to play them again. Of course, by now, the ancient hardware was lost to antiquity (read: “parents’ attic”).

Hope was lost. Until, that is, I discovered what is quite possibly my new favorite software. Read the rest of this entry »