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...

It was a super-fruitful chatisode weekend! This is only the first half. Finished episode will be with you in just a few days.

@retroadventurers.bsky.social I just started listening to your podcast and wanted to share this image. This is definitely in my top 10 oldest pc games.

Inspired by an exchange in the year-end chatisode: as Don Draper admonished an underling too fixated on puns and wit, sometimes the humor gets in the way of the message.

@retroadventurers.bsky.social And look at what I may soon acquire for my own #retrocomputing homelab, soon!

Dian Gerard was a science fiction author (from the same circles as Harlan Ellison and A. E. van Vogt) who wrote six text adventures. Five had been found; this one until quite recently was considered lost. Includes download link! bluerenga.blog/2025/12/11/v...

Small update to the Visible Zorker: the “Map” tab! Highlights your location (and the room definition in the source) as you move around. Map is full of spoilers, like the rest of the thing. eblong.com/infocom/visi...

"Is Gremlins a Christmas movie?" discourse in this latest episode. (Yes, as its text adventure is a Christmas game!) Save Christmas itself in A Spell Of Christmas Ice, and save our fair village from monster mayhem in Gremlins: The Adventure. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/34/

Diamond Trail continues the story of The Quill, with Tim Gilberts's first game (which has uncanny similarities with Time-Line, yet plays much better). #zxspectrum bluerenga.blog/2025/11/28/d...

WE SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

An eye-opening and horizon-expanding episode. It made me realize how little I know about IF so it motivated me to dip my toes a bit more into the IFDB pool. Mathbrush’s reviews on the site provide a good entry point for a panoramic view of the IF scene, and I’ll try some of his recommendations.

A chat with ultra-prolific IF reviewer and author Mathbrush in our latest episode. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/33/

New episodes incoming! Your Retro Adventurers have several episodes recorded. Things got a little busy this autumn and competed for our edit time, including the exciting news that Nick has joined the staff at @tnmoc.bsky.social ! He's pictured here putting the ICL 2966 to its ideal use.

Is the Rasperry Pi 500+ bringing wedgetops back? Did Jordan Mechner clear up Prince of Persia history on our subreddit? Is there such a thing as too much Infocom? youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!

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!

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...

Coming soon: space adventures with Tim Gilberts!

🎉 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

Get ready to type out every letter in "dodecahedron" and to remember your math and physics! Two sciencey adventures this time out-- The BBC Micro original L: A Mathemagical Adventure and the TRS-80 BASIC-to-C-to-Inform extradimensional oddity Beyond the Tesseract. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/32/

Hello Horrorble Opinions runners, joggers, commuters, cookers, vacuumers, and whatever else you do when listening to us. Great news! We found out that we gained exactly one subscriber because of the Infocom plays we've been doing, so here you go! Another one! Its "Sorcerer" by Steve Meretzky ½

#C64 Text Adventure in BASIC Part 2! This time we add the ability to interact with objects so you can win or lose the game ... retrogamecoders.com/c64-adventur...

That's one way to say "our game is highly subject to stack overflow"...

me: gets new laptop also me: makes sure Infocom games still work on new laptop

An interesting look at Infocom making text adventure games in 1986. If you're into that sort of thing. #gamedev

Has anyone ever actually installed this? Was Infocom distributing a broken installer for years, and no CD editor noticed? [2/2]

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...

It is 1992. I am up when I should be asleep. I get excited when discovering this new BBS has Infocom game doors. It is 2025. I am up when I should be asleep. I get excited when discovering this new BBS has Infocom game doors.

Workday Podcast Entertainment: @redshirtcinema.bsky.social Dredd @retroadventurers.bsky.social The Colour of Magic and MST3K: Detective @dtdiscworld.bsky.social Interesting Times Thanks 🤠