I agree with you, Randolf. I've had the pleasure of discussing this game with its creator Jeff McCord as well as the Epyx producer, Bob Citelli. Bob had an interesting anecdote--apparently there was some kind of glitch in the code, and they had to scramble to find Jeff and get it fixed pronto. These were the days before patches, so such things were taken more seriously.

Jeff is a very, very nice guy and has a terrific ability to talk about his projects. Listening to him describe the creation of Fargoal was almost as much fun as playing the game! I really wish he'd get back into game development in a major way; from what I can see, his genius has remained virtually untapped.