Today on All the Adventures, an absolute novelty item in more ways than one, intended as a joke but still interesting when positioned historically: bluerenga.blog/2025/10/01/a...

I finish a few things off on SVHA Adventure, the first known adventure game from Norway includes the "sample game" that made its way into becoming a real game by hopping over continents bluerenga.blog/2025/09/30/s...

the historical overview of the rise and fall of this particular magazine is absolutely worth reading, even if you aren't interested in the perusing the pages themselves

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

This is awesome, Ropoko is coming to the Switch (and Steam) on the 9th October. It will include the English translation which I helped the author with :) As for the MZ-700 English release, this should be around or just before Christmas time.

SVHA Adventure, the first adventure game we have from Norway, continues with a vast interconnected network added to classic Adventure, plus elf royalty, orcs pretending to be elves, and a palantir that reveals secrets. bluerenga.blog/2025/09/21/s...

This fantastic answer from @jdyer.bsky.social discusses how disabled veterans were treated in the Soviet Union after #WWII & how that would influence how Russia engaged with the Paralympic Games. Spawning a story that “There are no disabled people in the USSR.” #Skystorians

An unusual drop on Steam today: a traditional text parser adventure game. I haven't seen one land on Steam in a while. store.steampowered.com/app/3694940/...

This passed almost entirely without notice, but the 1978 arcade game Block Fever was preserved for the first time and added to MAME. This was Nintendo's second arcade video game, and as far as I can tell the only Nintendo game that had not previously been preserved www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaWr...

in which I start on a game that was announced as rescued from oblivion only a few days ago, SVHA Adventure it is the first known adventure game from Norway, and I go how it relates to the history of Norsk Data bluerenga.blog/2025/09/15/s...

!!NEW VIDEO!! This time I cover Chunsoft’s Sound Novel franchise, a hugely important series in the history of Japanese video games that served as the progenitor to the visual novel genre and was a source of inspiration for all kinds of developers. WATCH - www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9BT...

In which I escape the decaying 80s British suburbs by plane and ruminate on why the Spectrum ZX as a platform may have contributed to urban satire as a genre bluerenga.blog/2025/09/11/u...

This has been one of my holy grails. I knew Rob was working on something big, and thought it might be this, but I did not suspect he found the whole playable game. One of the first games in Norwegian and one of the first Tolkien games. Also an article on a new Adventure variant!

The ZX Spectrum game Urban Upstart continues with more football hooliganism and weird messages from phone boxes. bluerenga.blog/2025/09/09/u...

On the All the Adventures, we return to Britain's seemingly unique "satirical urban grunge" genre with Urban Upstart for the ZX Spectrum. #zxspectrum bluerenga.blog/2025/09/06/u...

Forget Silksong, this is going to be the most important release tomorrow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRj...

my Ring Quest finale, where I save Middle Earth and ruminate on outsider art, trying to render internal struggle in game form, and absurd external-knowledge puzzles #tolkien bluerenga.blog/2025/09/02/r...

Ring Quest, the oddity from 1983, continues in which the game completely embraces the idea of book-knowledge being fair game for solving puzzles #tolkien bluerenga.blog/2025/09/01/r...

🎉 The 31st Annual #IFComp is live! 85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!) Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot

The adventure game Ring Quest continues with a final (?) reckoning with Gollum, two large scale battles, and the Black Gate. #tolkien bluerenga.blog/2025/08/31/r...

Next on the 1983 adventure game Ring Quest, our Frodo/Bilbo hybrid kills a dragon, fails to kill a Balrog, procures the One Ring, and has the briefest conversation with an Ent ever made. #tolkien bluerenga.blog/2025/08/30/r...

Ring Quest continues as Frodo (?) meets a certain infamous character with yellow boots, mops up Ringwraiths (somehow) and breaks the space-time continuum by meeting Smaug. bluerenga.blog/2025/08/29/r...

continuing the story of HOBBIT... All the Adventures embarks on a massive game meant by the author to be "the ultimate Lord of the Rings" game, written by a student in The Netherlands. Over 1000 rooms! bluerenga.blog/2025/08/28/r...

in which I write the history of a mainframe computer game from 1975, which happens to be one of the earliest we know of by someone who transitioned (Caitlin Bestler) while the original is lost we have a 1979 port which is likely close, and I go through the gameplay bluerenga.blog/2025/08/26/h...

Wargaming Scribe is partway through a series on early gaming in different countries. He has done Spain and Argentina; coming up next is Uruguay.

Next on All the Adventures, Castle Dracula, an adventure that tries for much more driving tension than the haunted house games previously seen in the project; the author calls it an “interactive ghost-train ride”. bluerenga.blog/2025/08/23/c...

Lance Micklus (of Dog Star Adventure, 1979, 1st parser game with source code in a magazine) also wrote Treasure Hunt, an amped-up version of Hunt the Wumpus. The exact layout had been under debate, but he just found the original and dropped it as a comment on my blog. bluerenga.blog/2015/04/07/t...

the conclusion to the first adventure game written in Danish, Skatte Jagt bluerenga.blog/2025/08/21/s...

Next on All the Adventures: the first original adventure game written in Danish. #denmark bluerenga.blog/2025/08/19/s...

One of the best books I have read lately @catacalypto.bsky.social

HUGE MASSIVE Congrats to the @specnext.com team and @olifiers.bsky.social for a successful Kickstarter for the ZX Spectrum Next 3 With over 7500 backers and raising over £2.6Million www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

"This isn’t a war, it’s an extermination." And it all takes place in one of the most complex PlayStation games ever made. kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2022/03/14/s...

Next on All the Adventures, the story of the arrival of Sinclair to Denmark, and the first adventure game (kind of) we have from the country. #denmark bluerenga.blog/2025/08/16/c...

next post probably later today

one last (last) post on Robots on Terminus IV, the first adventure we have from New Zealand, as with some reader assistance I got through the parser issues over to the (legitimately satisfying) ending bluerenga.blog/2025/08/14/r...

The finale to the game Robots on Terminus IV, the first game (that we have) coming from New Zealand. bluerenga.blog/2025/08/11/r...

I have played adventure games for 40 years and the ending makes top 3 weirdest

A new country awaits for All the Adventures: New Zealand! I give the history of the country's microcomputing scene in the 80s (more dramatic and twisty than expected) then embark on the first adventure we currently have from the country, Robots on Terminus IV. bluerenga.blog/2025/08/08/r...

My third and final post on early Japanese adventure game The Palms, which was the first to try to truly reproduce what was seen on the Apple II imports from Sierra On-Line. I reach the ending and also try to decipher the pseudonyms in the credits. bluerenga.blog/2025/08/05/t...

New uses for the Commodore VIC-20 in cutting edge research

The early Japanese adventure game The Palms continues, as I explore underwater, fend off a shark, and fail to fend off an octopus. Also, some discussion of what parts come from Sierra On-Line and what parts come from Micro Cabin. bluerenga.blog/2025/08/03/t...

In which I embark on the third "origin game" of Japanese adventure games, The Palms, with a look at the history and the early part of the game. bluerenga.blog/2025/08/01/t...

Herein lies the finale of the Oric/Amstrad game Journey of a Space Traveller, which ends (of course) with one last gnarly bug. Next on All the Adventures: our first Japanese adventure game of 1983, considered a significant landmark in the history of games. bluerenga.blog/2025/07/30/j...

On All the Adventures, the journey of an alien visiting the planet called EARTH continues with pig-tipping, a random dead body, a retail gnome trap, and a spaceship where we apparently forgot our keys in our other pants. #oric #amstrad bluerenga.blog/2025/07/28/j...

In which I embark on the works of Steve Lucas, one of the most prolific adventure authors of the 80s. We play an alien visiting the dangerous planet known as EARTH. bluerenga.blog/2025/07/26/j...

the conclusion to Invincible Island, involving one deceptive parser message which ranks amongst the worst of all time and one puzzle which seems absurd but I might be getting something befuddled on the logic bluerenga.blog/2025/07/25/i...

Invincible Island continues, as I locate all the parchments and decipher the overall puzzle ... while still not having all the parchments due to the a "death preview" trick the game allows. bluerenga.blog/2025/07/24/i...

In which I start on the first game by Pete Cooke, Invincible Island, which involves a Treasure Hunt except we are collecting cryptic parchments instead. #zxspectrum bluerenga.blog/2025/07/22/i...

Up next on All the Adventures, a truly British and truly bizarre "learning game", an anti-game of sorts with possible bonus social commentary on capitalism and guns? Also, the overall history lands at Nintendo, somehow. bluerenga.blog/2025/07/20/o...

the finale of Marooned, including one of the most absurd puzzles I have ever run across with the asterisk this was an unfinished game, and I get why I think it was left in the state it was bluerenga.blog/2025/07/17/m...