At one point there was discussion of who, should it ever happen, would direct a Magician movie. Feist was a regular contributor to this email list, and replied to absolutely everything. I joined the Raymond E Feist mailing list in 1998, having read Magician. Still, gives me an excuse for a quick boastful aside: I then tried reading Silverthorn and realised that boy oh boy did Feist need to rewrite all his books ten years after he'd written them. Feist, but I think as a result of the game I picked up Magician and really loved it. I played it all before I'd read any of Raymond E. Those huge, bold character icons, the round buttons, the strange blue polygons. I find even the UI remarkably evocative today. I remember my weary father attempting to explain, for the dozenth time, how the turn-based combat worked, positioning his characters on a grid like a game of chess, while I imagined how much better it would have been in the Doom engine. But mostly I watched, enchanted by the enormousness of this RPG, seemingly going on forever in all directions, and open like nothing outside of the Elder Scrolls. Mostly I helped with the riddle-locked chests. Also in that list comes Betrayal At Krondor. I've never played a game of Civilisation or UFO: Enemy Unknown, but I watched my dad play them for hours. And there are games I sat next to my dad and watched him play. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations.
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