Hmmmm, well a quick glance at my registration date will reveal that I was slightly too late for the old forums, in fact it was only Bryan P sending me a private message on the Sryth forums about audio games that got me into this hole thing. i'd seen the page about the games on the whitestick site before, but quite honestly from the titles there everything seemed to be audio blackjack and other card games, which didn't particularly look fun at the time. i did read the docs for galaxy ranger quite early on in 2004 I think, but I panicked when it said you had to download and pay for the game sinse paying for Pc programs wasn't something I'd really thought of before, apart from obvious stuff like Hal, and anyway my old laptop with windows 95 wasn't exactly compatible.
I did once try the time adventures demo, sinse I'd been playing interactive fiction from about 2003, and liked the idea of something like that in sound, but it totally failed to run on my dinosaur of a laptop, so i forgot the idea.
It was Bryan recommending me Shades as an exploration game, the general goodness of Shades, and my then exhaustive research into what games were available on my ma year out in 2006 that lead me here.
and now look at where I am!
ooopse, what a nostalgia wrant, i can here the slow violine tune of flashbackness playing already, ;D.
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)