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Topic: Question about Faldon for Zer

Is Faldon named after the Ultraman monster?  Just realized an obvious connection to ‘illusory’.  I also know you were way into Japanese culture at the time.  I always thought it was a town from Odyssey online

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Re: Question about Faldon for Zer

Interesting.

When I was very young (6th grade), there was a game I liked a lot named Xenith Classic, by David Ikeda. It had a town in it named Falden. Being very young and creative, well, there you go.

That said, *that* game was very Final Fantasy inspired. Was it named after the monster you mention? I don't know.

"Illusory Studios" comes from John and I realizing that game companies are/were called "studios", and ours had a monitor that would overheat and turn off if we didn't keep the fan duct taped on top of it running at full blast, and wooden sticks where buttons were supposed to be because the real buttons had broken and fallen out, and we didn't have any money whatever to replace it. It was very much a joke.

(As an aside, we were surprised how washed out all the art looked when we did get a new monitor. I think the old one had a nonstandard gamma curve.)

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Re: Question about Faldon for Zer

That's funny.  When I was a teenager, I thought you guys were rich because you had cable internet  lol

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Re: Question about Faldon for Zer

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James wrote:

Interesting.

When I was very young (6th grade), there was a game I liked a lot named Xenith Classic, by David Ikeda. It had a town in it named Falden. Being very young and creative, well, there you go.

That said, *that* game was very Final Fantasy inspired. Was it named after the monster you mention? I don't know.

"Illusory Studios" comes from John and I realizing that game companies are/were called "studios", and ours had a monitor that would overheat and turn off if we didn't keep the fan duct taped on top of it running at full blast, and wooden sticks where buttons were supposed to be because the real buttons had broken and fallen out, and we didn't have any money whatever to replace it. It was very much a joke.

(As an aside, we were surprised how washed out all the art looked when we did get a new monitor. I think the old one had a nonstandard gamma curve.)


That's interesting