(Melbourne House Sherlock was also a very heavy adverb game, Episode 23 for details) retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/23/

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for the record bigboxcollection.com exists as well and is fantastic, probably the biggest centralized collection of this stuff

Well well well. Turn one page past the Dog Star Adventure listing in the May 1979 issue of Softside, and who do we find?

Guest player Tim Gilberts joins for interstellar exploration of two oft-overlooked sci-fi titles of the 1970s: Aldebaran III by Peter Langston, and Dog Star Adventure by Lance Micklus. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/38/

There are also games which are sequels to source books! Below the Root and Fahrenheit 451, for two examples.

Crin's Castle

listening to implementer Steve Meretzky and head of marketing Michael Dornbrook discuss Infocom packaging back at GDC 1999 archive.org/details/gdc-...

Cutthroats (Coin/Mary Margaret/The São Vera longplay) for the TI-99/4A youtu.be/MbvLrp3O_0Q?... #Cutthroats #TI-99/4A #Adventure #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction #MaryMargaret #TheSãoVera #SãoVera #Longplay #Infocom

Cutthroats (Dinner Plate/Night Wind/The Leviathan longplay) for the TI-99/4A youtu.be/L8pW9f3wkjU?... #Cutthroats #TI-99/4A #Adventure #TextAdventure #InteractiveFiction #Longplay #DinnerPlate #NightWind #TheLeviathan #Leviathan #Infocom

In the latest Video Game History Hour podcast, MIT Museum's Dr. Flori Pierri joins us to explore their unexpected journey into the world of video game preservation: https://gamehistory.org/episode-151-games-preservation-at-mit-museum/ (Pictured: Michael Dornbrook, Infocom.)

Remember I was talking about the 1989 context of Infocom documentation? The Video Game History Foundation has just posted some audio recordings from that GDC! Or “CGDC 1989", as it was called then. archive.gamehistory.org/folder/ccdbd...

This weekend, Nick connected a group of permacomputing enthusiasts with Adventure (440 point edition) on the ICL 2966 at @tnmoc.bsky.social. Just about anything can be a platform for retro adventuring if you want it badly enough!

>TAKE PITY AND EXAMINE IT. Nobody's angry with Chris for self-destructive adventure game choices, just worried about him. 1984's hottest adventure titles, up-to-date coding environments for out-of-date platforms, a full 3D FPS in just 64k, and more when This Week in Retro 258 arrives this Saturday!

Zarf is being a good sport about his Patreon targets so we'll spell it out: if you care about old text adventures AT ALL, GIVE HIM YOUR MONEY patreon.com/VisibleZorker

I got a couple of very lovely Atari ST adventure games in the post this morning. I always wanted to own a copy of Wonderland. *drools*

Infocom books still findable in the wild!

More on Zork bugs. (I may be blogging a lot of these…) blog.zarfhome.com/2026/02/when...

🔊 This episode features a really informative chat re. more modern IF creations/history & details on IF competitions I was unfamiliar with. There’s a bit of an experience difference in the chat, perhaps divided on pre/post-Plotkin 🤓 🎮 #VideoGames ⌨️ #TextAdventures #InteractiveFiction 🗺️ #Podcasts 📻

Amstrad CPC community: Unknown text adventures have surfaced and more information about them is needed. Were they commercially released? Who was the author Steve Ralph? Any info appreciated: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2026/02/info...

Ron Martinez (Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy, Hidden Agenda, Trek: TNG - The Transinium Challenge, Make Your Own Murder Party, etc.) returns for everything from Vladimir Nabokov to generative AI with Jason, Nick, and Dave V from @thisweekinretro.bsky.social . retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/37

in fairness, I did find my 3.5" copy of TEST DRIVE III: THE PASSION in a ticking duffle bag at the bus tetminal

Here we go... Announcing the Visible Zorker Project and Patreon! Remember how I did Visible Zork 1 and 2? I'm going to do Zork 3, and then continue through Infocom's entire canon -- in chronological order, one per month. blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-...

Gotta get my #zork on, now!

I played The Colonel's House, a VIC-20 adventure game, about a year ago. The author contacted me not long ago and I did an interview, so I am able to give the history of how the game was made for the first time. bluerenga.blog/2026/01/20/t... original post here: bluerenga.blog/2025/03/10/t...

I was already feeling hella old while playing this 40 year old PC game, so I 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 didn’t need 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀.

Check the thread, someone out there should be able to figure this out. (Perhaps a Softside Adventure or similar?)

post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers Demoniak - a 1991 interactive fiction game, written by Alan Grant (Judge Dredd etc) Notably, I do not believe anyone ever completed this game. There are no complete walkthroughs online, while there are for _every_ other IF game of the era

If you like maps you’ll love this hand drawn view of Hardscrabble Island from the #Infocom game Cutthroats. #RetroGames

Huge for the Holidays: Epic Interactive Fiction of the Millennial Period, de The Digital Antiquarian. www.filfre.net/2025/12/huge...

Not my house, but I know my way around

https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/imsrc/ssv22.2 ← Thanks to @larsbrinkhoff for pointing out some material containing some good 70s MIT nonsense variable names: `ZROCK` `SMULCH` `WHAMZ` `TWONG` `TWONK` `TWITCH` `UHNUH`

We play the oldest and the newest-surviving variants of the original text adventure known simply as Zork. The 1977 edition Zork-285 and the 1990 (!) release of Mini-Zork are the featured games in Episode 36 of The Retro Adventurers. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/36/

#scottadams, the founder of #adventureinternational, is alive and well and living in Wisconsin. #interactivefiction

in which I tell the story of how a company called Silverlind got formed due to the shenanigans of the mighty International Computers Limited (a combination of 9 distinct companies) and one of the three adventure games that they published bluerenga.blog/2026/01/12/h...

>TURN KEY. PUSH CLUTCH WITH FOOT.

Adventure 751 (the game from CompuServe only recently rescued) continues, as I near the threshold of finishing all 501 content, with only the cursed leprechaun standing in the way of major progress. bluerenga.blog/2026/01/07/a...

Check out my funtime project from the holiday break! blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/the-... Will I continue on to Zork 3? Watch this space!

NarraScope call for proposals is open! We're at the University at Albany, June 12-14. Now accepting: - Talks - The Showcase (games) - The Experience (new this year!) blog.zarfhome.com/2026/01/narr... narrascope.org

GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES closes out the month, and the year, with a discussion of another documentary--this time following the twisty passages of history and medium with 2010's text adventure doc GET LAMP. rangedtouch.com/2025/12/31/8...

My All the Adventures recap for 2025, which included far more surprises than I imagined possible, on top of some recovered "lost games": bluerenga.blog/2025/12/31/a...

Since 2012, Arthur O'Dwyer has had an updating web page called The Search for LONG0751 about a lost version of Adventure that was playable on Compuserve. It has long been one of the top early "missing" games. It is now found and playable: quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2025/12...

31 Days of Comics - Video Game Edition Day 29 Questprobe: Featuring Human Torch and The Thing on the C64 (1985) An old school style text adventure starring two of the Fantastic scour characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1961. Very tricky puzzles make this one for Marvel junkies only.

Last Christmas I told my family that I'd been commissioned to write an article on Infocom and I needed to play through all their games. I did play them all and even wrote a blog post about it. But this year I have no excuse and need to pay attention to my family. Very scary.

if you zoom in you can almost see the leather goddesses

Fact: Episodes with “Andrew Plotkin” in the title are our most popular at launch. So: don’t miss “Andrew Plotkin & some others Chatisode” at the link below, and subscribe so you’re the first to get our upcoming Infidel episode, with Andrew Plotkin (& others) retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/35/

Utterly delightful episode. Retro podcast heaven! Thank you! In terms of IF merch, @aaronareed.bsky.social has some great offerings. www.redbubble.com/people/aaron...

Lots of guests! Some hosts! Visible Zorker news! How Sierra / Lucasarts lulz were defeated in the marketplace! And more! Jason and Nick, joined by guests Robin Raymond, Tim Gilberts, Scott Adams, Andrew Plotkin, Dave "Velociraptor", Christian Neuhaus, and Iain Lee. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/35/

Infocom on Gameboy was impressive, this is next-level. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcTQ...