{"id":442,"date":"2010-02-27T23:11:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T06:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2010-02-28T12:07:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T19:07:24","slug":"lords-of-the-realm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Lords of the Realm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, Vegetation day.<\/p>\n

Silly me… working hard all week.\u00a0 I should have known better than to not be born to parents who are filthy fucking rich.<\/p>\n

I spent today doing laundry and playing around with my Amiga emulator again.\u00a0 Not so much actually playing, as still making “configuration files” that allow me to load the games I do have with all the right settings already made.<\/p>\n

I got to the “L”s today, and spent a bit of time playing a game called “Lords of the Realm”.<\/p>\n

Here are some screenshots:<\/p>\n

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\nI haven’t played this original version much, but I do play the sequel a lot.<\/p>\n

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\nThat’s actually a scan I made myself of the CD cover.\u00a0 It was uploaded by yours truly to Wikipedia back when I was a regular editor there.\u00a0 Then it was deleted because it was a copyright violation.\u00a0 Then it was re-uploaded in a smaller version, which isn’t a copyright violation.\u00a0 Wikipedia is a weird place.<\/p>\n

I play that sequel quite regularly… it usually takes up an entire day when I do.\u00a0 Vegetation day of course.\u00a0 Here are some screenshots of the sequel.\u00a0 I didn’t make these myself, I just grabbed em off the net:<\/p>\n

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Makes me want to play that game tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The music in the original is horrible and repetitive.\u00a0 The music in LOTR2 is actually very good.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I even have the high-quality audio file from the CD edited together into a really nice song on my iPod.\u00a0 It’s an acoustic guitar, flute and synth diddy.\u00a0 Very medieval sounding, and one of the most relaxing pieces of music I know actually.\u00a0 Funny how some video game music can be so damn good.<\/p>\n

Check out the music in this YouTube video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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