Well, here it is, episode 76 featuring Roberta Williams' monumental adventure game, King's Quest. This is the game that inspired the genre of point-and-click adventures that is still producing games today. Enjoy!

This seems to be the "cursed episode!" First off, the Vegas crashes were the worst ever. I had the video finished around 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, and tried to render it (usually about an hour long process). However, Vegas Platinum Pro wouldn't cooperate, and crashed repeatedly (about two dozen times during the rendering). I broke up the video into tiny pieces, but it was even crashing doing one minute of video! Somehow, I *finally* got past that first couple of minutes and was able to render the rest. Then I uploaded it--only to discover that Vegas had bugged again, and part of the video was inexplicably a blank screen! What the heck? So, I had to take it down from YouTube and re-render it again (sigh). I went to bed (this was about midnight), and when I woke up this morning, it had finally rendered correctly. I uploaded it.

Now, this was my first "GOG" video, meaning that I am now an affiliate with GOG (Good Old Games.com) who I have purchased games from and really admire. I was supposed to send people to the site, using my special code, so they could buy King's Quest (and whatever other games they wanted), all 100% legal and 100% DRM-free (I can't tell you how much I applaud that!). I was to get a modest cut of the sales, which would have directly supported Matt Chat. Yet, shortly after the video went live, GOG went down! Yes, totally down, with no explanation other than a message about how they can't provide the service anymore...It's not clear at this time if it's a joke, a hack, or the result of some kind of legal action from publishers (apparently they have a lot of struggles with publishers over the DRM-free thing. Good Lord, how could publishers still be SO STUPID after all this time???)

Anyway, I hope you enjoy the video. It took a helluva lot out of me.