We only had one CD, but that was fine.
Warcraft 2 allowed you to share your copy for the purpose of multiplayer.
Blizzard were a permissive bunch.
Two headed ogres began to argue.
“Are you still touching me?”
The thing that you gotta understand is thatthis never got old.
To this day, “Your sound card works perfectly!”
remains a phrase as popular as it is plainly declarative.
Similar repetitive clicking also made the game’s sheep explode.
That was fine, we thought it was great.
You were both an economist and a strategist.
Fail in one role and you could not succeed in the other.
At the same time, and even in those days, we recognised the ridiculous.
Don’t for a second think that the gamers of the past were a blindly forgiving bunch.
Even then, we recognised that stabbing a castle looked stupid.
Lose a farm or two to a raid and you might lose the ability to expand your forces.
Hitting people where it hurt almost always involved a swift kick to the wallet.
It wasn’t quite a foregone conclusion, mind.
While the execution was refined for Warcraft 3, many of the mechanics remained the same.
Those exploding sheep resurfaced in World of Warcraft.
The bickering, two-headed orge still lives on as a hero inDota 2.
