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297 30 years later, I've finally played a Simon the Sorcerer game - was it always this naff?

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Matt Wales @ Eurogamer.net · today 05:40 EDT

30 years later, I've finally played a Simon the Sorcerer game - was it always this naff?

Permit me to take you on a journey back to 1994. As I've mentioned before, it was the year my parents finally relented (after a whole lot of nagging about how vitally important Microsoft Encarta would undoubtedly be to my future career prospects) and the benevolent PC gods squatted upon our household to birth a 486 DX2/66 into the world. But of course it was never about Encarta. Within days, I'd developed an insatiable hunger for PC gaming mags, poring back and forth through increasingly dog-eared pages as.

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