Forget the mindless garbage you’ve seen on television. A police officer’s job consists of more than high speed chases and “Dirty Harry” shootouts. Drug traffic, homicide and violence provide the backdrop for their everyday existence. It’s a grueling, thankless career of unending responsibility and unexpected jeopardy. Now, to salute those “blue knights” who serve and […]
It is no great secret that I am an absolute nut for nostalgia. In this crazy world of 1080p and six-channel surround sound, there's a warm innocence in the games of days gone by–and an even warmer naïvete in the way those games were perceived. Circa 1987, most games had no choice but to serve […]
Police Quest is the only series with exactly one entry in each of Sierra’s four major adventure epochs: the pixelated AGI phase, the MIDI and EGA-driven SCI0 phase, the multimedia-awakening VGA SCI1 phase, and the awkward post-Golden Age “What do we do now?” phase. The first, third, and fourth entries of the series do not […]
I have to be honest about writing the review for Sierra’s Police Quest 3: The Kindred – I’ve been putting it off for a long time. I suppose I could successfully excuse it as an attempt to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the game’s 1991 release, but in reality, this is not a review I’ve […]
