Last month I revisited Disney's The Black Cauldron, a rather misbegotten adaptation of Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain (or at least the first two books) which is not without its merits, but certainly not a success either. It did, however, inspire me to track down the tie-in computer game released by Sierra On-Line in 1986.
I played this relentlessly as a child – not quite as often as King’s Quest, the game series that was a formative and intrinsic part of my childhood – but enough so that it brought on intense feelings of nostalgia. I haven’t played any sort of video game released since the mid-nineties, and I don’t think sophisticated graphics will ever appeal to me in the same way the 2-dimensional pixel art of that period does.
