Wil and the Wizard of Wor
Wil Wheaton has a great story about how he discovered and fell in love with the classic arcade game Wizard of Wor as a kid on his site today. It refers to a story he had recently written about Wizard of Wor for an online magazine. I try to swing by Wil’s site at least once every couple weeks. We’ve got both of the books Wil’s written since he beamed down from the bridge of the Enterprise D. Both are fairly entertaining - especially the bit in his last book about how he first met “the Shat” (Wil Shatner).
Wil’s books are essentially collections of short stories - rememberances of his life which collectively might have been called ‘memoirs’ in another time. Wil’s just an ordinary guy who ended up in classic movies and popular TV shows. He wasn’t in a war (we both grew up in peacetime), he didn’t end up in government (movies are generally more lucrative anyway), and he hasn’t ended up in jail like so many other child actors. For that alone he should be praised!
Oh, and Wil’s not only a normal human, survivor of Hollywood - he’s a total geek (in the computer user sense) and a raving lunatic liberal (politically speaking)- poke around his site a bit…
Comment posted on 7-2-2005
I couldn’t help but play some WoW myself this morning - I managed to
get to level 4, but *WIZARD OF WAR ESCAPED*