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Here's an interesting bit of game-historic preservation: someone has posted a browser-playable version of Cliff Johnson's epic (and epically-slow-to-release) 2012 puzzle game, The Fool and his Money. Here's the new web site: www.the-fool-and-his-money.com. I dunno who did this. Cliff Johnson's original web site, www.thefoolandhismoney.com, stopped working a couple of years ago. I have no leads on what happpened to the man himself. I hope he's okay. That's the announcement. I'm about to go into one of my rambles through game history, but I figured you'd want the hot link up front. So, rambling. Way back in my college years, I played a Mac game called The Fool's Errand. It was awesome. Changed my life. (As you know if you played System's Twilight.) Long after that -- but still a long time ago -- Cliff Johnson announced the sequel, to be titled The Fool and his Money. I immediately pre-ordered it. That was December 2002. After Shade but before The Dreamhold, as S. Morgenstern might have…

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