AND NOW FOR SOMETHING INCOMPLETELY DIFFERENT…
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LIBERTY OR DEATH WERE A 1993 OFFERING FROM KOEI’S INAPPROPRIATELY NAMED AMERICAN DIVISION, KOEI AMERICA CORPORATION. FROM 1988 TO 1995, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF FUTURE DIABLO II DESIGNER STIEG HEDLUND, THIS COMPANY ALSO PRODUCED TITLES WE DON’T CARE ABOUT SUCH AS GEMFIRE AND SAIYUKI: THE JOURNEY WEST.
WHAT DO ANY OF THIS HAVE TO DO WITH BIZARRO WORCESTER???? DID YOU STUMBLE ACROSS THE CRPG ADDICT‘S BLOG BY MISTAKE?!?!? FEAR NOT NOT, CITIZEN!!!!! AFTER THE INSANITY OF PROTESTS, TOY-STEALING AND TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, WE THOUGHT A CHANGE OF PACE MIGHT NOT BE IN ORDER FOR CITIZENS OF WORCESTER. WE HAD INITIALLY CONSIDERED COMMENTARY INTERSPERSED WITH PICTURES OF KITTENS, BUT DECIDED AGAINST IT DUE TO A HUMOR-TO-PIETY RATIO WE FOUND WANTING.
AGAIN, HOWEVER, THAT AM NEITHER THERE NOR HERE.
WE NOW SWITCH TO PLAN A. WE SHALL FIGHT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AS IT WERE MEANT TO BE FOUGHT: WITH AN ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT BUFFET OF NUMERICAL DATA!!!!!!!! TRULY A CITY COUNCILOR’S DREAM COME TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY HAVE WE CHOSEN THE PC VERSION INSTEAD OF THE VISUALLY SUPERIOR SEGA GENESIS OR SUPER NINTENDO VERSIONS????? HA!!!!!! ONE SIMPLE REASON, SIMPLE PEOPLE: WE CAN CHOOSE OUR COMMANDER!!!!!!
WHY AM THIS SIGNIFICANT?????? IN ADDITION TO PROVIDING ME WITH A CHANCE FOR YET ANOTHER RHETORICAL QUESTION TO TWIST AT YOUR EXPENSE, HAD WE STUCK WITH AN INFERIOR CONSOLE VERSION OF LIBERTY OR DEATH, WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DEMONSTRATE HISTORY AS WE IN BIZARRO WORLD KNOW IT…
… WITH ARTEMAS WARD IN CHARGE.
SO STAY TUNED, CITIZENS!!!!! IN THIS HOLIDAY SEASON, BIZARRO WORCESTER SHALL BRING YOU THE GIFT OF PROPAGANDA, WRAPPED IN THE TISSUE PAPER OF A THROWBACK SALUTE TO KOEI’S MILITARY SIMULATION GAMES, BOXED INSIDE A TRIBUTE TO ARTEMAS WARD (WHO LOOKS GREAT FOR 287), AND WRAPPED WITH THE BOW OF A SUBTLE REMINDER THAT A SPECIAL ELECTION SHALL OCCUR IN SHREWSBURY… ALL UNDER A YULETIDE TREE OF EXCESSIVE METAPHORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!