Frederick Pohl's Gateway

[Discoalucard]

www.hardcoregaming101.net/gateway/gateway.htm

Further rounding out the coverage of rad text adventure producer Legend Entertainment is a look at the Gateway duology, based on the sci-fi series by Frederick Pohl.

I swear I remember hearing in the Retronauts adventure game episode that you could keep getting people drunk at a bar until the game crashed, although they may have just been Sharkey being Sharkey.

[Weasel]

it uses Legend's older game engine, also seen in the Spellcasting series and Gateway

Heh, forget which game you were writing about? =P

[Discoalucard]

That was a result of a poorly thought out search and replace when I was formatting. Fixed now!

[jorpho]

Aug 5, 2010 22:29:27 GMT -5 Discoalucard said:

I swear I remember hearing in the Retronauts adventure game episode that you could keep getting people drunk at a bar until the game crashed, although they may have just been Sharkey being Sharkey.

It's not quite exactly like that (the program itself doesn't literally crash), but yes, that happens.

[jorpho]

Looks like Mr. Pohl recently died, so I thought I'd give this a bump.

[Weasel]

Damn, that sucks. I recently bought one of the Gateway books, as it happens, and haven't even opened it yet...

[docmarionum1]

I heard the news too. I also have a few or his books on my shelf that need to be read. He went to the same High School I did (of course decades earlier) and dropped out, but happened to recieve an honorary diploma the same year I graduated.