May 25 is the day I started Game Central 19 years ago. As always, I try to publish some new content on the anniversary date. To be honest, I sometimes feel like I am running out of material. On recent anniversaries, I created a new Board Games section, did a major update to the STBL-WEB baseball site, added a Handheld Electronic video games section, and made a page for old gaming Magazine Ads. This year, I decided to fill in a little bit of personal history with a page about OS/2 gaming. IBM's OS/2 was a big part of my computing life in the 1990s. It was great for productivity but I also used it for video gaming as well. Although I played a lot of DOS games and a few Windows game in OS/2, there were some native OS/2 games as well. That is the focus of the new OS/2 page in the Video Games category.

On Sunday I finished The Walking Dead: Season Two, the sequel to The Walking Dead video game. They are part of Telltale Games' series comprising four seasons. Despite a few tweaks to the interface, the gameplay was much the same as its predecessor. That is a good thing. This adventure game series is very character and story driven with a bit of action to keep things interesting. Some of the most memorable moments from both games are when you are presented with a difficult decision in the spur of the moment. You might have to make a tough choice to save a person at the expense of another. The game remembers your action and builds the story around your choices. Thankfully, Season Two found my save game from the first game when I first launched it. Therefore, all of my previous choices were intact and the story progressed smoothly.

After loving the first entry so much, I couldn't wait to play Season Two. I wasn't disappointed. The protagonist in this one was Clementine, a young girl. Despite her age, she is a strong character and has a lot of respect within the group. I want to finish the entire story but I currently don't have seasons three and four. I may wait until The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series goes on sale. That edition contains all of the seasons with updated graphics and some gameplay enhancements.

I never watched The Walking Dead TV series but I have read some of the comics. Despite not being a hardcore fan, I decided to play The Walking Dead video game from the now defunct Telltale Studios. I am definitely a fan of the series now. It was one of the best adventure games I have ever played. It was like being dropped into a TV series. This game was season one (out of four) with five episodes, each of which contained several chapters. It stated, "This game series adapts to the choices you make. The story is tailored by how you play." That was certainly true. I very much enjoyed the story-driven style of play, which focused on multiple characters and their interpersonal relationships. Unlike many point and click adventure games, it didn't have a bunch of overly complicated puzzles to slow down the narrative.

You play as Lee Everett, a convicted criminal who finds himself in the middle of a zombie apocalypse. Early on, Lee encounters an eight-year old girl on her own named Clementine. Lee decides to look after her and he becomes a surrogate father to her. Along the way, they encounter several other survivors who have yet to be zombified. Their group is elastic with members coming and going and even dying. A lot of the game is presented through dialog choices but there are also some action scenes and quicktime events. I felt the interface served the material well and kept the story moving.

The Walking Dead easily makes it onto my list of All-Time Favorites. I am eager to see how the story unfolds in The Walking Dead: Season Two.