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That IS sad...it's like "Find a Grave" but for your childhood memories...

Anyone else remember this Bards Tale clone? It was my first real Desktop PC rpg. And I will always remember it for the way the story is told. You would walk to a statue, or some other place, and it would say something like "Page 23, Paragraph 8", and you'd look up that passage, sometimes it was some immersive story element, sometimes it was telling you what you needed to do next. You really needed that book to get the most out of the game! http://www.mobygames.com/game/dragon-wars To this day I remember how the title screen music for the Dos version goes!

When I was a kid I would go to Springfield Missouri, with my grandmother. Well the town had two malls back then. The older "North Town Mall" on one side of town, and the newer "Battlefield Mall" on the south side. Even when I was a kid the North Town mall was waning but it had always kept at least a few stores up and running, and always had an arcade. Well a few months back I went to Springfield to not only find the arcade is out of commission, but the entire MALL as well. Such a shame...but it's kind of poetic that the arcade was one of the very last things to go. It even outlasted the mall's theater. The only Mall arcade that is left in Springfield was this dinky thing in the Battlefield Mall. Unless that one folded too...what is the point of a Mall without an arcade? It's a crying shame!

Tandy Computers, now there's a subject that's near and dear to my heart. My first three computers were Tandys! A Coco2, Endless fun with Basic! A Tandy 1000, The 16 colors only worked in select games, but man it had one SWEET sound processor. A Tandy 2100, my first fully PC compatible desktop. I had the most fun with the 1000, it was my first real gaming rig. a 3.5 drive and a 5 1/2 My friend next door had a VGA that had only a high capacity 5 1/2 drive, so any time we'd halfsies on a game, I'd take the 3.5 disks, and he'd take the 5 1/2s. His PC only had the PC speaker for sound, so when we'd play something like Prince of Persia, his would look prettier, but mine would sound worlds better!

I don't know what you all thought of it, but I found Ghost Squad to be greater then the sum of it's parts. It's short, but you are compelled to play it over and over again! It was that "What a RUSH! Well I'm down for another play through!" feeling I haven't had since the eighties!

Loads of fun, and great for the kids. I just wish they had kept the space fighting system from the first one. The one they use for this is OK, but feels less exciting.