According to a retrospective review by Richard Cobbett of Eurogamer in 2012, "even now, it offers a unique RPG world and experience ... a whole fallen civilisation full of puzzles and characters and things to twiddle with, all magically crammed into less than a megabyte of space." [11] In another retrospective article that same year, IGN's Kristan Reed wrote that "time has not been kind to Wasteland, but its core concepts stand firm." [9] Legacy [ edit ] Sequels and spiritual successor [ edit ] I felt an affinity with them, remembering my old love of that garbage dump though unlike me, these people, including children, have no choice but to climb these massive mountains of shifting garbage in search of reusables. It is dangerous work but it's how many survive. dead link] as of April 2023: ) Bedient, Calvin (1986). He Do the Police in Different Voices. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-04141-7.

But added to the usual wartime disruptions, I think, WWI was the first war which had massive long-distance killing, not the more honorable warrior to warrior battle. Fighting sword to sword probably feels different emotionally than being killed by invisible shrapnel or powerful percussions that come out of nowhere without pause, from hearing the sound for hours of constant shelling, or dying from a gas which suffocates you invisibly. I can only imagine it. Lesse, Hartley; Lesse, Patricia (March 1987). "The Programmer's Tale". MicroTimes. Vol.4, no.2. BAM Publications Inc. p.200. Card, Orson Scott (June 1989). "Light-years and Lasers / Science Fiction Inside Your Computer". Compute!. p.29. Archived from the original on March 10, 2016 . Retrieved November 11, 2013.The complete text of the Buddha’s Fire Sermon (which corresponds in importance to the Sermon on the Mount) from which these words are taken, will be found translated in the late Henry Clarke Warren’s Buddhism in Translation (Harvard Oriental Series). Mr. Warren was one of the great pioneers of Buddhist studies in the occident. Buy Wastelands, read it: sunlight is said to be the best disinfectant. Give a copy to your neice who is thinking about law school, or to your uncle who gives money to Save the Whales, maybe to a political candidate. a b Nutt, Christian (February 26, 2016). "Wasteland: Developing an open-world RPG in 1988". Archived from the original on February 7, 2018 . Retrieved February 6, 2018. It would be like reading Shakespeare’s The Tempest and coming to the conclusion that it is a play about the follies of revenge. This is true, but it is also about many other things that combine to form a piece of artistic brilliance. When I read The Waste Land I feel stupid. I feel like I’m reading something that I cannot quite understand, and this annoys me. I feel like at times T.S Elliot is being pretentious, inserting references just do demonstrate his intellect rather than contribute something meaningful to the poem at large. And I don’t like it. I don't want to find out what they mean. This is an incredible journey into the world of rubbish, full of fascinating characters and mind-bending facts. My relationship with garbage is never going to be the same’

In 2000, Wasteland was ranked as the 24th-best PC game of all time by the staff of IGN for its innovations. [12]

Weidmann, Dirk (2009). "And I Tiresias have foresuffered all: More Than Allusions to Ovid in T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land?" (PDF). Literatura. 51 (3): 98–108.

Ellmann notes: "Pound warned Eliot that since Pope had done the couplets better, and Joyce the defecation, there was no point in another round." Wasteland was followed in 1990 by a less-successful intended sequel, Fountain of Dreams, set in post-war Florida. The game neither contained any of the code from Wasteland nor involved any of the staff that worked on it. Electronic Arts eventually decided to downplay its connection to Wasteland, and said it was not a sequel in 2003. Interplay worked on Meantime, which was advertised as a spiritual successor to Wasteland and did not take place in the same universe. Coding of Meantime was nearly finished and a beta version was produced, but the game was canceled as the Apple II market declined. [32] [33] Kritzen, William (May 1988). "Wasted in the Wasteland". Computer Gaming World. pp.28–29. Archived from the original on April 5, 2016. So, for those of you struggling to get through the wordy, allusion-tastic, multiple-language maze that is The Waste Land, I can only tell you this: Relax and just enjoy the ride. You have nothing to fear. T.S. Eliot loves you. According to Valerie Eliot, the character Marie in "The Burial of the Dead" is based on Marie Larisch, whom Eliot met at an indeterminate time and place. [35] Parodies [ edit ]

For once I myself saw with my own eyes the Sibyl of Cumae hanging in a cage, and when the boys said, "Sibyl, what do you want?" she replied "I want to die." Rainey, Lawrence (2005). Revisiting The Waste Land. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-10707-2. Americans, the world's most wasteful people, generate an average of 4.4 pounds (2 kg) of waste every day. Commodore 64/128 Wasteland Reference Card" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on September 26, 2014. The book comes alive in its descriptions of people and places ... Franklin-Wallis writes stylishly about ugly things ... interesting and sobering ... His book should prompt serious discussion in boardrooms and parliaments’

Se non che, Coppola inquadra nell’antro di Kurtz un libro di Eliot insieme ad altri, e The Waste Land è intriso del famoso romanzo di Conrad che viene sempre tirato in ballo a proposito del film di Coppola: la connessione sembra piuttosto diretta, e una cosa tira l’altra, ho voluto leggere anche La terra desolata.Cowan, Danny (November 14, 2013). "Classic post-apocalyptic RPG Wasteland out now on Steam, GOG". Engadget . Retrieved June 12, 2020. Claes, Paul, A Commentary on T.S. Eliot's Poem The Waste Land: The Infertility Theme and the Poet's Unhappy Marriage, Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.