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...

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

We've got Text-Adventure-Sign and bumble through the (unofficial) MST3Kified Detective, and Delta 4's treatment of Terry Pratchett's Discworld in The Colour of Magic for 64, CPC, and Spectrum. (Waiting simulator, Nick.) Available now on all podcast platforms! retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/31/

🎧 Really (really, really, really… 😜) loving the origin stories for guests and stories from our youths. I too was a big Fighting Fantasy lad back in the day. That this went on to “personals” and “grottos” brought out the grins here. 🎮 #VideoGames ⌨️ #TextAdventures #InteractiveFiction 🗺️ #Podcasts 📻

If someone reissued the entire set with the feelies and everything, I would THROW MONEY AT IT.

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...

I’ve come to the realisation that I enjoy retro computer programming because the goal posts don’t move on a weekly basis and because it distracts me from the dark void engulfing the world while idiots cheer. Anyway, I like coding my little c64 games

Deadline and Seastalker Invisiclues, plus The Book of Adventure Games, nice!

Episode 30 features two of the newest games we've covered although you'd hardly know it! Captain Cutter's Treasure (PunyInform), Young Arthur's Quest (VIC-20/C64), and 10 Cave Adventure (Sinclair ZX81) get a look. Also, Smooches Collier is in effect. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/30/

ICYMI, my post this week was on the text adventure Sherlock. Read about: - Ingenious ways of portraying mastery of disguise - Hobbit-bugs being replaced by "the more advanced, state-of-the-art Sherlock-bugs" - What its Watson has in common with Blue Prince on PS5 www.superchartisland.com/sherlock

Found in an old tape a Text Adventure I created with my cousin 34 years ago (when I was 13), made using PAWS, that I didn't remember 😀. "Maxima Aventura", it was called. Although simple, it's complete and can be played github.com/chernandezba...

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Where other people have useful information, I have joyful memories of Infocom games.

What video game ignited your passion for gaming? I played games as a Wee John on the Atari 2600, but when I hit the C64 games like these lit up my brain. Reflex gaming gave way to more puzzles, agency, in-depth writing, and obsessive play.

If any of y’all ever played the old Infocom game “Bureaucracy,” where I think the whole goal was to get your address changed at the bank without dying from high blood pressure first - we’re dealing with that trying to get me added to my mom’s safe deposit box at Regions Bank right now

I wonder if the "grotto fascination" came out of programmers now being "of age" and wanting to get rich and famous and have a grotto of their own: www.aquamagazine.com/builder/arti...

Time for TWiR, games and gaming card goodness this week. eXoIF, a new retro gaming collection with hundreds of text adventures, PC upgrade cards making big noises, and a retrospective of the owl game publisher. All this and more in This Week in Retro Episode 226! youtu.be/MUtxKUkJaXk

Workday Podcast Entertainment: @spyhards.bsky.social Valerie Leon Interview @retroadventurers.bsky.social Souls of Darkon and The Robots of Dawn @doomgeneration.bsky.social Innerspace Thanks 🤠

Ben, Jason & @davevelociraptor.bsky.social of This Week in Retro take on the robots! CPC/Spectrum/C64 Souls of Darkon, then whodunnit tension in Epyx's The Robots of Dawn for Apple and C64, based (ish) on the Asimov novel. Episode 29 of The Retro Adventurers, on your favorite podcast platform now.

If you recall #eXoDOS, allow me to point you to the recently released eXoIF - 876 individual interactive fiction titles, with multiple ports for each title. Over 50 platforms are represented! More here at the link. #Infocom #textadventures www.retro-exo.com/if.html

The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish View Article | Join the HN Conversation Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇 #hacker-news

journey, manual, apple II (1979) www.mobygames.com/game/150345/...

1985's The NeverEnding Story text adventure is getting a remake ❤️ brocantygames.itch.io/the-neverend...

Sad that NarraScope is ending or bummed that you missed it? Keep the fun going with an informative chat between Andrew Plotkin (IFTF committee chair and all-around VIP) and Retro Adventurers Jason and Nick. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/28/

@retroadventurers.bsky.social While listening to your interview with Andrew Plotkin, I found this insert in my copy of The Book of Adventure Games II, which I recently obtained on eBay. (Btw, I just joined BlueSky in order to follow your account here!)

A wry take on Infocom's Infidel helped set Andrew Plotkin on the course to become one of the major tastemakers in interactive fiction. We discuss Inhumane, the Inform language, IFTF, and much more on Episode 28 of The Retro Adventurers. Available on all podcast platforms or retroadventurers.com

ChatGPT makes excuses, Wing Commander gets updated and there's an Atari Earthquake, but why has Chris forbidden the term "Fake Australian"? And your top Atari ST memories on this week's show. youtu.be/0erTSO9qR9c

Definitive Infocom Icons https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/definitive-infocom-icons From the author: 37 Infocom icons for the Macintosh, by Christopher Drum. Miniature reproductions of the cover artwork of the Infocom "book" packaging series, redrawn from […] [Original post on bitbang.social]

Mystery House II, the 2nd graphical adventure game from Japan, turned out to have an even more complicated situation with different versions than I originally thought. I have finished the game in one of its alternate forms and I try my best to detangle what happened. bluerenga.blog/2025/06/17/m...

I remember my father coming home with “Acheton” one day, but he really did not like me playing it because it accessed the floppy drive all the time - it was clicking it on/off/on/off and was indeed quite worrisome. So I had to play in secret 🥷 and thus never got far. Difficult game, I’m hearing!

(no, absolutely not, text adventures were asking the player "What should I do now?" in the 1970s)

Infidel (1982) from INFOCOM has a really great player/protagonist divide

The first segment of Level 9's Knight Orc, and the Infidel parody Inhumane by Andrew Plotkin, plus tons of news and correspondence in episode 27 of The Retro Adventurers. On all podcast platforms or visit retroadventurers.com

"I walk you through the process of building a text adventure game from scratch on the Agon Light — a modern retro computer based on the Z80" video by NCOT Technology #retrodev #retrocomputing #retrogaming