RPG QUEST

IT’S ONE THING TO ATTEMPT TO SET OUT TO PLAY EVERY SINGLE GAME IN AN ENTIRE GENRE. BUT TO FINISH EACH ONE IN THE ORDER THEY WERE RELEASED AND THEN TO BLOG DETAILED ACCOUNTS OF THEM IS A QUEST BEYOND.

THAT’S WHAT CHESTER BOLINGBROKE, AUTHOR OF CRPG ADDICT, SET OUT TO DO IN FEBRUARY 15, 2010, WHEN HE WROTE THE BLOG’S FIRST POST. OVER TEN YEARS LATER, HE’S STILL GOING.

So far, Chester has ventured through the very first mainframe-based computer role-playing games, charted the rise of Ultima, and battled through generations of computers. He’s faced adversity, balancing the thousands of hours his adventure demands against the needs of his personal life. He’s worked on it from his home in Maine, grappling with emulators and translations, and from hotels across the US while travelling for his job. He gave up on the whole endeavour once. But he’s just as active now as he was when he started, and that’s despite knowing that the whole