{"id":1373913,"date":"2025-10-29T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/30-years-later-ive-finally-played-a-simon-the-sorcerer-game-was-it-always-this-naff"},"modified":"2025-10-29T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T09:40:07","slug":"30-years-later-ive-finally-played-a-simon-the-sorcerer-game-was-it-always-this-naff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/30-years-later-ive-finally-played-a-simon-the-sorcerer-game-was-it-always-this-naff\/","title":{"rendered":"30 years later, I&#8217;ve finally played a Simon the Sorcerer game &#8211; was it always this naff?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/30-years-later-ive-finally-played-a-simon-the-sorcerer-game-was-it-always-this-naff.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Permit me to take you on a journey back to 1994. As I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/the-7th-guest-vr-is-a-spooky-puzzle-treat-with-way-more-to-offer-than-nostalgia\">mentioned before<\/a>, 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 <em>of course<\/em> it was never about Encarta. Within days, I&#8217;d developed an insatiable hunger for PC gaming mags, poring back and forth through increasingly dog-eared pages as a hitherto unimagined world of digital wonder presented itself. LucasArts&#8217; Sam &#038; Max: Hit the Road was my inaugural purchase, slowly ballooning to include the likes of Theme Park, The 7th Guest, and Myst. But one game I never quite got around to playing was Simon the Sorcerer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/30-years-later-ive-finally-played-a-simon-the-sorcerer-game-was-it-always-this-naff\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/30-years-later-ive-finally-played-a-simon-the-sorcerer-game-was-it-always-this-naff\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permit me to take you on a journey back to 1994. As I&#8217;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&#8217;d developed an insatiable hunger for PC gaming mags, poring back and forth through increasingly dog-eared pages as a hitherto unimagined world of digital wonder presented itself. LucasArts&#8217; Sam &#038; Max: Hit the Road was my inaugural purchase, slowly ballooning to include the likes of Theme Park, The 7th Guest, and Myst. 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