Random Nostalgia--And A Couple Fannish Items

Over at fanficrants someone posted a rant involving the Oregon Trail game. I used to love that game, and willingly stayed after school back in elementary school, to play it for an hour with probably 6 or 7 other students. (In this thread, someone played it with Doctor Who characters and told all the problems—but just this once, everybody lives!) I remember playing that, and two other games. Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego, and another computer game that involved skiing down a snow covered hill—there was a chance you would be eaten by a Yeti. According to a lot of Googling, that was called SkiFree.

And then, there was another I loved playing, which was more of a trivia game on a CD that I bought from the Sci-Fi Channel a long time ago, when we first got the channel. Hosted by some sort of alien creature. I tried to figure out the name of it for over 10 years.

Should have just Googled the phrase Sci-Fi Channel trivia game CD. I found it a few minutes ago. It’s called…The Sci-Fi Channel Trivia Game, naturally. Made in 1996, so that’s around the time we got the channel. The little alien guy was named Morphix, but I’ve yet to find a picture of him. There’s not even a Wikipedia entry for it—there’s just this page, which tells the name of the creature. I think I stuck to the comic book section of the game.

SFX lists The Greatest Flashbacks. Buffy, Angel, and Firefly all get mentions. whedonesque discusses the list here.

Ten Mistakes That Could Ruin Ghostbusters III.

Random Nostalgia--And A Couple Fannish Items

Over at fanficrants someone posted a rant involving the Oregon Trail game. I used to love that game, and willingly stayed after school back in elementary school, to play it for an hour with probably 6 or 7 other students. (In this thread, someone played it with Doctor Who characters and told all the problems—but just this once, everybody lives!) I remember playing that, and two other games. Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego, and another computer game that involved skiing down a snow covered hill—there was a chance you would be eaten by a Yeti. According to a lot of Googling, that was called SkiFree.

And then, there was another I loved playing, which was more of a trivia game on a CD that I bought from the Sci-Fi Channel a long time ago, when we first got the channel. Hosted by some sort of alien creature. I tried to figure out the name of it for over 10 years.

Should have just Googled the phrase Sci-Fi Channel trivia game CD. I found it a few minutes ago. It’s called…The Sci-Fi Channel Trivia Game, naturally. Made in 1996, so that’s around the time we got the channel. The little alien guy was named Morphix, but I’ve yet to find a picture of him. There’s not even a Wikipedia entry for it—there’s just this page, which tells the name of the creature. I think I stuck to the comic book section of the game.

SFX lists The Greatest Flashbacks. Buffy, Angel, and Firefly all get mentions. whedonesque discusses the list here.

Ten Mistakes That Could Ruin Ghostbusters III.