#stumbling through

Stumbling Tours! Epic MegaGames, Part 1: ZZT

I'm opening up a new video project (and the thing that I really came up with the Stumbling Tours rebranding for) - it's the history of Epic MegaGames! This will be an occasional video series, because I don't get nearly the amount of time that I used to to work on these things - but I'll take it from their very beginning to the release of Unreal Tournament in 1999. This first video covers ZZT and its successors. Originally I'd meant to do more, but I talked about them for twenty minutes and felt that that was long enough for a first part already.

Phoebe chews on the eraser of her pencil a bit, staring off into space. Her mind a million miles from here, lost in a situation that hasn’t happened, but her mind is playing through the same what-if scenario for only the millionth time about it.

Snapping out of her thoughts when she hears someone speak, she blinks and looks up, smiling at the girl. “Oh, sorry, I... my mind wasn’t here. Did you say something? Love your hair, by the way.”

Stumbling Tours: Epic Megagames, Part 5: An Epic Year 3

Stumbling Tours: Epic Megagames part 3 - An Epic Year, part 1!

Stumbling Tours: Epic Megagames Part 2 - Ventures in VGA!

Continuing my look through the back catalogue of the great Epic Megagames, covering their history from ZZT to Unreal Tournament! This episode is about the first four graphical games that Epic released in 1992 - it's called Ventures in VGA even though one of them isn't.

Stumbling Tours! - Le Fetiche Maya

I’m opening up a new video series that’s a lot like my old video series - the Stumbling Through name had meant to be for blind playthroughs of games, but I’d drifted into using the same title for more documentary-type videos as well. So from now on, the videos where I talk in-depth about games, compare ports, and so on will be under the new name, Stumbling Tours!

This one came into being because I was trying to look up a playthrough video for Le Fetiche Maya, a Silmarils DOS game from 1989 that I could never work out at all. Finding there wasn’t one, I decided to make one myself, with the aid of a guide from Abandonia.

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/800/Le+Fetiche+Maya.html

Two years after investigating the first game, here's my look at all the versions of Prince of Persia 2! This time there are only five ports and a lot of them are much more similar than the original Prince, but each of them has their own personality that brings a little more (or less) to the game.