Amusingly, as I continue to set everything up, I’m watching Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure on TV.
This series seems to be an interesting retelling of the many images I saw and the stories I worked through playing old Windows RPGs. I’m on episode 6 right now, and I’ve seen dozens if not hundreds of images, characters and stories pulled directly from the Windows 3.1 Exile series, the Avernum series, and the old Might and Magic series, and at least a few ancient shareware games I played through on the family IBM machines back in the day.
It’s a fun walk down memory lane, and a good series to boot. It might be better than the movie, and the movie was pretty damn good. Even the visual style of the show screams “90’s Shareware” to me, and I’m sure that that is intentional.
There’s a certain poetry to all of this that is really quite incredible.