The clay bust used for the closeup of Brauggi in Sierra's Quest for Glory 1 VGA remake, plus a screenshot (apparently flipped) of the closeup in-game.

From the 1994 children's book Know the Score by Gloria Skurzynski, about how computer games are made.

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Early character design sheet for Robin Hood with descriptive text by Christy Marx, for Sierra's Conquests of the Longbow.

From the 1994 children's book Know the Score by Gloria Skurzynski, about how computer games are made.

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this morning I came across this ad in a July 1989 issue of Compute magazine and it immediately brought me back to the summer of 89.

i was 12, and I worked an entire summer as a grocery store clerk for $3 / hr, cleaning toilets and stocking shelves just so I could buy Space Quest III at my local Radio Shack. i spent an entire month’s earnings on it. my father - a carpenter by trade - was absolutely shocked that anyone would drop that kind of dough on a computer game 😅

it paid off in the long run. SQ3 shaped my sense of humour towards the dark and scatological, and became the game i’d invite friends over to play just so they could watch the hilarious roger wilco death sequences.

i wrote the entire unabridged story of how I blew all of my summer job earnings on SQ3 in my book, Mages & Modems:
https://tomotama.itch.io/mages-modems

thank you to every one of you who took the time to read it. it has been an absolute joy hearing from you, and the memories it evoked in your own lives. i hope we get more memoirs about computing from everyday people.

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