I think that is the one valuable lesson for all modern software, not just videogames. Johnny Castaway is always full of things happening, some of them rarely make sense, but that’s the beauty of it, a program that also managed to inject a lot of fun in your daily routine. This is a Zen-like experience that many people back then experienced: launching King’s Quest or waiting for the screensaver to run? Terry Pratchett in Feet of Clay, described police inspector Sam Vimes as someone who thought that “life was so full of things happening erratically in all directions that the chances of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme“. It was all pretty silly, but entertaining and I remember actually launching the screensaver and staring at it for minutes on end, waiting for something to happen.
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