Before I get into writing about the Goblins series, let me first thank my girlfriend, Liz, for her patience with the journey it took to actually get a copy of the newest installment, Gobliiins 4.

In early March, while conducting my usual search for upcoming adventure games, I stumbled upon a sparse listing of its impending release.  After scouring the internet for release information, I eventually found the game’s official website, but unfortunately, it was in French.  After having Google translate it, my heart sank:  The game was being released in Europe in March 2009, but there was no scheduled release date in the U.S.

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My grandparents gave me the game, King’s Quest 5, as a present during a visit the summer when I was 13 years old. They are a funny pair. At the time they were almost bigger gamers than I was. They loved games like King’s Quest and would play together, the whole time arguing about what to do next and how to solve the game’s puzzles. These are the same people who to this day refuse to buy a microwave or a DVD player.

It was my grandparents’ gift that introduced me to the type of games I came to enjoy the most. My first adventure games were the Commodore 64’s X-Men: Madness in Murderworld and Maniac Mansion on the NES (which I played obsessively), but it wasn’t until I played King’s Quest 5 on our PC that I truly saw my video game future.

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