The Retro Adventurers
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A podcast about classic text and graphic adventure games. retroadventurers.com
A chat with ultra-prolific IF reviewer and author Mathbrush in our latest episode.
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/33/
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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.
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This Week in Retro
about 2 months ago
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!
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Jason Dyer
2 months ago
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!
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Jason Dyer
2 months ago
On the All the Adventures, we return to Britain's seemingly unique "satirical urban grunge" genre with Urban Upstart for the ZX Spectrum.
#zxspectrum
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Urban Upstart (1983)
Scarthorpe is the sort of town where even the dogs carry flick knives, where there’s only one road in, and it’s a one way streeet!!! This is the second adventure game by Pete Cooke, aft…
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/09/06/urban-upstart-1983/
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Coming soon: space adventures with Tim Gilberts!
3 months ago
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The Interactive Fiction Competition
3 months ago
🎉 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
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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/
3 months ago
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Horrorble Opinions Podcast
3 months ago
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
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Chris Garrett
3 months ago
#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 ...
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Commodore 64 Text Adventures: Objects and Actions
Now in our Commodore 64 text adventure it's time to put objects that the player can interact with into our game
https://retrogamecoders.com/c64-adventures-objects/
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That's one way to say "our game is highly subject to stack overflow"...
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3 months ago
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James E Gilbert
3 months ago
me: gets new laptop also me: makes sure Infocom games still work on new laptop
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Matt Farrow - 🔜 AdventureX #Advxconf
3 months ago
An interesting look at Infocom making text adventure games in 1986. If you're into that sort of thing.
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BBC Archive 1986: Text Adventure Games
Fred Harris goes behind the scenes at Infocom (makers of Zork and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame) to see how their text adventure games are made.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/videos/cprrz9pp3ljo
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Kabootie Computie!
3 months ago
Has anyone ever actually installed this? Was Infocom distributing a broken installer for years, and no CD editor noticed? [2/2]
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Jason Dyer
3 months ago
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...
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Robots on Terminus IV (1983)
Today, this blog’s first encounter with New Zealand. It might not seem surprising offhand New Zealand had to wait until 1983 — their population in 1982 was about 3 million, ranking it b…
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/08/08/robots-on-terminus-iv-1983/
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Mike
4 months ago
Workday Podcast Entertainment:
@redshirtcinema.bsky.social
Dredd
@retroadventurers.bsky.social
The Colour of Magic and MST3K: Detective
@dtdiscworld.bsky.social
Interesting Times Thanks 🤠
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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/
4 months ago
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Tufty McTavish
4 months ago
🎧 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
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#TextAdventures
#InteractiveFiction
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#Podcasts
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Susan Arendt
4 months ago
If someone reissued the entire set with the feelies and everything, I would THROW MONEY AT IT.
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Jason Dyer
4 months ago
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...
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Journey of a Space Traveller (1983)
I have been sent on a difficult and rather dangerous mission to a distant planet called EARTH. My mission is to locate ten items of treasure and bring them back to my spaceship. I will, in addition…
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/07/26/journey-of-a-space-traveller/
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Chris Garrett
4 months ago
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
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Deadline and Seastalker Invisiclues, plus The Book of Adventure Games, nice!
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4 months ago
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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/
4 months ago
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Iain Mew
4 months ago
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
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Sherlock – “Careful examination shows that the drawer has a false bottom”
When making The Hobbit, Beam Software and Melbourne House apparently knew they were onto a good thing. They decided early that they wanted to make another similar adventure afterwards using what th…
https://www.superchartisland.com/sherlock
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4 months ago
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
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4 months ago
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Aaron van Dorn
4 months ago
Where other people have useful information, I have joyful memories of Infocom games.
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John Ryan, Cornbread Stuffing Liker
4 months ago
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.
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Chip Stewart
4 months ago
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
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Chris Shadowens
4 months ago
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...
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Playboy Mansion Pool and Grotto Turns 40
Here, we take a closer look at one of the most iconic swimming pools in the country: the pool at the Playboy Mansion.
https://www.aquamagazine.com/builder/article/15119092/playboy-mansion-pool-and-grotto-turns-40
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This Week in Retro
4 months ago
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
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Mike
4 months ago
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 🤠
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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.
5 months ago
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Robb Sherwin
5 months ago
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
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eXoIF - Interactive Fiction
https://www.retro-exo.com/if.html
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Hacker News Companion
5 months ago
The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish View Article | Join the HN Conversation Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇
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You can now play "The Plot of the Phantom," the text adventure game that took me 40 years to finish | Scott Andrew
Gnarled JavaScript warlock, musician, cartoonist, dilettante.
https://scottandrew.com/blog/2025/06/you-can-now-play-plot-of-the-phantom-the-text-adventure-game/
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videogame history
5 months ago
journey, manual, apple II (1979)
www.mobygames.com/game/150345/...
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Konstantinos Dimopoulos
5 months ago
1985's The NeverEnding Story text adventure is getting a remake ❤️
brocantygames.itch.io/the-neverend...
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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/
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Episode 28 - A Conversation with Andrew Plotkin | The Retro Adventurers
Creator of games including Hadean Lands, Spider and Web, and Shade, as well as a long-time maintainer of Inform and participant in Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation (IFTF) leadership, Andrew "...
https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/28/
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PhysicsRunner
5 months ago
@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!)
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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
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This Week in Retro
5 months ago
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
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MacintoshGarden Feed
5 months ago
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]
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Jason Dyer
5 months ago
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...
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Mystery House II: Finished, Again
First off, a brief correction: The PC-6001 version I’ve been playing (at least up to a certain point, for reasons I’ll get into) is on tape, not disk, but everything on one tape. The fi…
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/06/17/mystery-house-ii-finished-again/
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Tufty McTavish
5 months ago
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!
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(no, absolutely not, text adventures were asking the player "What should I do now?" in the 1970s)
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Maytera Marble
5 months ago
Infidel (1982) from INFOCOM has a really great player/protagonist divide
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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
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Breathing Retro
5 months ago
"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
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A Retro Game Made with 21st Century Thinking - Gamedev The Hard Way
YouTube video by NCOT Technology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIxYsg9FedA
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