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06  février     19h32
Adventure: Broken Sword 1: The Shadow of the Templars (2010 Director’s Cut)
   Thanks to everyone who took time to welcome me back I’m still going through a backlog of comments and sorting out the bitcoin gambling spam from the genuinely meaningful and informative comments the system has been gathering while I’ve been away, but I do hope to write a new post now and...
08  janvier     17h33
Adventure: 4 Mile Island Adventure (1983)
   It’s been a while... quite a while... nearly two years But I had a little free time this week to dive into a nostalgic rabbit hole, and I discovered a few adventure games for the TRS Color Computer that I had seen advertised but never played back in the days when I was an avid CoCo user. ...
10  janvier     23h57
Adventure: Castle of Terror (1984)
   I’ve had a little bit of adventuring time available in recent weeks, and I ended up tackling Beam Software’s Castle of Terror, published in for the Commodore and Spectrum ZX computers. It’s an illustrated text adventure with a parser of sorts , room illustrations that take...
30  décembre     21h21
Adventure: Hugo’s House of Horrors Hugo’s Horrific Adventure (1989)
   I haven’t had much time to sit down and dig into a proper adventure game in a long while,so I was pleased to run across an animated adventure game that only took a few hours to play David P. Gray’s Hugo’s Horrific Adventure its in game credit , a.k.a. Hugo’s House of Horrors in old shareware...
02  avril     01h27
At Random: Karnov (NES, 1987)
   I recently acquired Hyperkin’s Retron multi console it’s essentially an emulator in a console casing, with a generic wireless controller, clean HDMI output, and support for cheats and patches, video filtering options, screenshot captures, and save states for games that never had a save...
14  février     00h49
At Random: Magician Lord (Neo Geo, 1990)
   It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted anything here, and I’m heading into another busy period so this may be my only post for a while to come as well. But I’ve recently found myself drawn back to SNK’s Magician Lord, a launch title for the Neo Geo arcade system console. He’s a Magician...
29  décembre     15h51
Adventures in VR: Dead Secret (2016)
   Hi ho It’s been a long time, more than a year. But while I haven’t been writing much about games of late, I have had time to play a few and to goof around with virtual reality using the HTC Vive platform. This is exciting stuff, actually, and reminds me a lot of the pioneering days of...
13  octobre     21h49
At Random: Quest for Camelot (Gameboy Color, 1998)
   Hi, everyone It’s been several months since I’ve posted here, but my current show is up and running and rehearsals for the next one don’t start for a few weeks aside from a staged reading I’m doing next weekend whew so I have a little time to do some gaming and writing. One of my...
02  juillet     17h57
Adventure: Detective Case and Clown Bot: in Murder in the Hotel Lisbon (2014)
   Ed.: As many have noticed, I’m finding it difficult to keep up with my adventuring and blogging of late. So I’m changing up my approach a little bit feedback is welcome For several years now I’ve been doing comprehensive playthroughs and avoiding more recent games unnecessarily,...
07  mai     18h07
Adventure: Dr. Livingston, In Search Of (Softside, 1980)
   Thanks to all the longtime readers inquiring as to my whereabouts. I assure you I am well, just busy with life elsewhere. I have not written a new post since August of last year, and my old weekly schedule will not be returning any time soon, so I’m going to just start calling these ...
18  août     12h07
Spottiness Ahead
   FYI, my postings here are going to be less frequent for the next several months. I’ve taken on a couple of theatre projects that are going to eat up more than my available free time, and it’s a busy time of year on top of that. But rest assured I will be back, I have some games in the...
04  août     20h00
Quick Impressions: King’s Quest 2015 - Episode 1
   I’ve been remiss in my regular blogging duties this week due to a hectic schedule, but this gives me an opportunity to introduce an occasional look at more recent adventure games. My regular Adventure of the Week posts operate under a self imposed five year embargo yes, I know there are...
28  juillet     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Wizard’s Revenge (1981)
   This week’s subject, Wizard’s Revenge, is another of an informal series of text adventures published by the Atari Program eXchange for Atari’s bit home computers, and the only one I hadn’t yet tackled in my recent posts about these games. Wizard’s Revenge was written by Max Manowski circa...
21  juillet     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Castle (1981)
   Castle is another escape the castle adventure involving a wizard’s curse, written by Robert Zdybel and published by the Atari Program Exchange for the company’s bit computers, circa . All of these games start up with the same COPYRIGHT ATARI notice, and I’m starting to wonder if...
14  juillet     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Chinese Puzzle (1981)
   This week, we’re looking at another Atari Program eXchange adventure game: Chinese Puzzle, written by Dennis Koble later to co found Imagic and published in , using the same engine as most of the other APX adventures for the Atari bit computers. A technical note: we have to RUN ...
07  juillet     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Wizard’s Gold (1981)
   I intended to play something more substantial while I was on vacation, but instead I’ve spent my time with another Atari Program eXchange adventure circa , author uncredited, called Wizard’s Gold. Our goal is to find a hidden bar of gold and return it to its rightful place, presumably...
30  juin     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Sultan’s Palace (1981)
   I’m entering the Sultan’s Palace this week, in another Atari Program eXchange adventure for the Atari bit computers. It was written by Dennis Koble using Atari’s quirky in house text adventure engine and published in ; Koble would go on to co found Imagic the following year. We’ve...
23  juin     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Sleazy Adventure (1981)
   This week, we’re embarking on a Sleazy Adventure from another Atari Program eXchange release for the bit Atari home computers, using the same in house BASIC engine as several other APX games released around the same time. This one was written by Bob Smith, and features an unusual...
16  juin     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Alien Egg (1981)
   This week, I’m playing another Atari text adventure published through APX, the Atari Program Exchange, in . I had heard of Alien Egg back in the day but hadn’t run across it yet, and I found it by chance under the unofficial title SPCSHP on the same disk as Rob Fulop’s Marketing...
09  juin     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Marketing Adventure (1981?)
   While I occasionally cover a well known adventure here, part of the fun of writing this blog is in discovering and exploring more obscure games. This week, I’m very happy to have run across an oddity with genuine historical significance something called Marketing Adventure, written by Rob...
02  juin     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise (1993)
   I was considering tackling another game in one of Humongous Entertainment’s series of Junior Adventures this week, when it occurred to me that I’ve never played Fatty Bear’s Birthday Surprise. This game, directed by the company’s co founder Ron Gilbert The Secret of Monkey Island , was...
26  mai     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Putt-Putt Enters the Race (1998)
   I’ve been working my way through Humongous Entertainment’s Junior Adventure games every now and then, and we’re up to the fifth game starring the company’s mainstay character, Putt Putt the anthropomorphic purple car. In this adventure, Putt Putt Enters the Race, Putt Putt... well, I...
19  mai     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People - Episode 3: Baddest of the Bands (2008)
   It’s been quite a while more than two years since I’ve come back to the Telltale Games library. I’m currently thoroughly enjoying their current series Tales from the Borderlands, and it’s high time I tackled Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People Episode : Baddest of the Bands...
12  mai     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Adventure in Time (1983)
   This week, we’re embarking upon an Adventure in Time, written by Paul Berker for the Atari bit home computers and published by Phoenix Software in . This was the second in an intended series that appears to have stopped after this game’s release. Berker’s style uses a basic two...
05  mai     20h00
Adventure of the Week: Birth of the Phoenix (1982)
   This week called for something fresh but brief, so I’m tackling an obscure adventure for the Atari bit computers... Birth of the Phoenix, a novice level tutorial adventure published in by Phoenix Software, programmed and designed I presume by Paul L. Berker. A version reportedly...