S02E04: Inherit the Earth - Quest for the Orb

For now, I spent a couple of days digging through my collection to find something that I wanted to talk about.

I did find some really strange, obscure stuff.

If you follow me on Mastodon, you probably saw me talking about a really strange CD-ROM disc I found called The Lost Island of Alanna.

Brought to you by Cherry Coke.

Yeah, that Coca-Cola company brand.

I found The Lost Island of Alanna in my...

I've got this...

this CD rack over on the corner where basically whenever I buy people's, uh, uh, big box games, usually it comes in a, you know, a huge, um, cardboard box that's been sitting in somebody's basement for the last 30 years.

And it's got, you know, five or 10 games and then always at the bottom, always, it always happens.

There are about five or 10 CD-ROM discs, just bare discs rolling around in the bottom.

You can tell that somebody, you know, didn't either lost the original boxes for them or just didn't care and just tossed them inside.

So they're always these like floating around CD-ROMs at the bottoms of these boxes.

And I always set them aside because I don't throw stuff out.

I can't stand throwing stuff out.

And also...

More often than not, usually it'll take 5 to 20 years.

I'll actually find an empty box to go with that disc eventually.

It just randomly happens.

I'll find an empty box and I'll go through my CD collection and sure enough, I can match them together.

And that's always a really, really cool moment.

But anyway, I was looking for episodes to do today and...

in my CD-ROM pile, I found this Lost Island of Alanna.

It is the strangest thing I have ever found.

And I own a lot of strange games.

Um, This is a advergame, is probably the right word for it, created by Coca-Cola in the late 90s to promote literally the Cherry Coke brand through a pre-rendered Myst game or Myst clone.