Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 27, 1995
August 26, 1995
August 28, 1995
Transcript:
Alex: "Congratulations. You found the stupid wizard." That's it? That's the whole game? Hey, pop-o-rama! What's this new game on the laptop? Mike: It's called "Wiz-tron", babe. It's our big Christmas CD-ROM release. What do you think? Alex: Well, the interface is a bit pokey, and the O/S does a meltdown every time I multi-task the navigator... Also, the graphics are pre-Mystian - very 1991. And the story action is predictable. I found the wizard in ten minutes. Mike: Ten minutes? Alex: Yeah. It might work for younger kids, though. Like two-or-three-year-olds. Mike: We've got a problem. Voice on phone: How big? We just shipped a million units.
Ah, the nineties, when enough people were still sufficiently unfamiliar with computers that you could get away with word salad like “The O/S does a meltdown every time I multi-task the navigator.”