It's time to go back to the streets I spent my childhood on. To answer that question, "can you go back again?"

But which are the streets of my childhood? Are they suburban Surrey, or are they the EGA rendition of Lytton from the first Police Quest game as viewed through a vintage Amstrad? Yes, it's one of those inscrutably highconcept video ideas where I yet again avoid just showing a game for a bit and making some simple observations about it, all wrapped up in a thinlydisguised excuse for making a 30mile journey just to get some chips.

Case files:

0:00 I think I'm going back
0:55 My life, 19871991 (and also 2013)
2:40 What intrigued me with Lytton
3:50 Philosophical storm
5:15 Freedom and the art of car maintenance
6:18 My love of mundanity
8:15 Police Quest is sort of fair, though
10:00 Filling in the gaps
10:35 No, really, I did plan the trip around this
11:12 Chemicalinduced damage
12:34 Shattering my childhood roadblock
14:37 A pub story
15:28 Good Cops, Bad Criminals
16:47 A bit about Sierra
17:38 A clumsy story
18:29 Bridge and poker
21:16 The inevitable VGA remake
22:34 Near 23 minute TTN
23:25 Some sort of conclusion. Also chips.

Acorn Electron, ZX Spectrum and Chevrolet Caprice images from Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

Additional video stock footage from Pexels.

Some CC0 sounds used from Freesound.

Ken Williams image by Cade Peterson, CCBYSA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... the section of video where this image is shown may be adapted under the same licence.

Jim Walls image from the Sierra News Magazine.

Hop Hip by Kwon from the YouTube audio library.

Bonus fact: The cameo appearance and occasional use of an asset or two from Leisure Suit Larry may partly be down to Al Lowe handling programming duties on Police Quest.