Tag Archives: Video Games

Daria’s Inferno

August 12, 2016 5:16 pm

This past week I enjoyed a little blast from the past: Daria’s Inferno, a 16-year-old video game based on my favorite TV series ever.

Yes, I really did this.

Daria's Inferno on CD-ROM

Somehow I wound up with, apparently, the game CD and case in original shrinkwrap

For what it’s worth, I found this product delightful. The key, here, is that I am a pretty big fan of the show. I have difficulty imagining many people who don’t fit that description giving any thought to this game, particularly long years after it was released. But just in case, well, I would agree with generally negative online reviews that the game doesn’t have much else going for it.

I didn’t care. This was a Daria video game… probably the only Daria video game that will ever exist… and in that regard I think it was mostly awesome.

In some ways I was reminded of one or more Sherlock Holmes video games I’ve played, in that I found a great deal of fun in merely exploring the character’s world. Finding everything in the Baker Street flat, exactly as it should be. Recruiting the services of the Irregulars, or Toby the sleuth-hound. Etc.

Much of the fun in Daria’s Inferno is like that, I submit, except taken even further. This basically was an interactive episode of the show, as much as probably any video game adaptation has ever been.

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Sherlock Holmes items #45-49

March 27, 2015 12:55 pm

It has been a few months, I see, since I posted any update to my small collection. I’m nearly to 50, at which point perhaps I will attempt some overview of the whole for the first time. I think I’ll get caught up through 49, now, though.

I had good luck last night at the Lakewood Public Library spring book sale. (Membership in Friends of Lakewood Public Library, $2/year, permits entry to the preview sale which is helpful if you’re looking for a specific niche that might otherwise be picked over before the regular sale begins.) For $1.50 I acquired

  • The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls, by John R. King
  • The Brothers of Baker Street, by Michael Robertson
  • Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery, by Larry Millett

This is pretty good. Three novels, all of which I had seen before but none of which I have read; I passed a handful of others that I already own or just didn’t want. King’s novel apparently teams up Holmes with Carnacki (look him up) and seems promising. The Brothers of Baker Street is a modern-day story with only a tangential Holmes connection, and as I realized after getting home this is not the first in the series. But I have wanted to try out this concept, so we’ll see how it is.

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Lost and Found Files of Sherlock Holmes

July 17, 2014 8:46 pm

I have been accumulating comic books for nigh on a quarter-century, at this point. Strangely, though, it occurs to me today that while I generally think of “my comic book collection,” it may be that I’ve never really approached its assembly as collecting, per se. I’ve rarely emphasized completion for its own sake, and I’ve also felt very little instinct to show off my holdings… It was this latter point that really got me thinking about what makes a collection vs not, because I’ve realized that by contrast I do like the idea of showing off my nascent Sherlock Holmes collection a bit.

Sherlock Holmes book and two video games

Items 39-41

I think this could well be a semi-regular topic for this blog, in fact. We’ll see. For now, my three most recent acquisitions.

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