Might have to do some console gaming for a change.

Getting somewhere. This game is such a lot of fun. Yes, the tables are old-fashioned, but so nice to play.

Recently, on the Norwegian videogame site spillhistorie.no, two new discoveries were posted, games that were previously lost. I've written about one already; the other discovery was of a very early Tolkien game, and the first original adventure we have in Norwegian. bluerenga.blog/2025/11/05/r...

Fun little article about the PLATO RPGs, and neat that they used my video from dnd. I didn't play very well, but it's not a super easy game either. :)

Ding! Everyone in my Pool of Radiance party are level 2, and I'm finally beginning to get the hang of the insane currency system. I really love the music that plays when you make camp (playing the Amiga version, obvs).

BTW those protests were deliberately stoked by the publisher. BUT the game also caused a very real diplomatic crisis in #Finland. THAT is what #finlandization was in practice. A thread, to help understand why most Finns are critical of oblivious foreigners pushing the same for, say, #Ukraine.

From the PET to the VIC-20 and C64, Commodore evolved from business machines to home computing powerhouses. Smart marketing, the SID chip, and low prices made the C64 a billion-dollar success of the 8-bit era. ▶ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNzn... #Commodore #PET #VIC20 #C64 #RetroComputing

So much great retrogaming stuff happening locally. Grizzly Games just opened at Sørlandssenteret, they even have some Amiga games. I bought Police Quest 3.

This 1981 Commodore PET 8096-SK displayed at the massive retro computer exhibit at Spillmesse 2025 is so damn cool looking! We need to bring back this kind of product design and wood textures for our hardware! 🕹️❤️ #commodore #pet #commodorePET #retrogames

I wrote about Spillmesse 2025, which was a great experience. Highlights included a complete collection of Commodore machines (including all the Amigas). Talked with @badgerpunch.com among others for the article. It is in Norwegian.

1982 was very early for Japanese adventure games, with only a small number of releases. Takara Building Adventure thus is one of the earliest adventure games in Japanese, but it was not generally available... ...until today. Includes some unexpected history! bluerenga.blog/2025/10/29/t...

And now, beer festival at the fortress.

Some photos from Spillmesse 2025 in Kristiansand. Including @badgerpunch.com , a lovely PET, a terminal from Norsk Data and ... a crowd of people! Great fun.

Was helping a friend set up her stand at Spillmesse in Kristiansand before opening. Heading back there now.

We just published an interview with Frank Gasking from @gamesthatwerent.com about their preservation efforts. Interview by @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social . Games that Weren't are doing a lot of really valuable work preserving video game history.

ASCII art + permadeath: The history of roguelike games -- a perfect Saturday read from 2020. ➡️ arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/...

Fellow preservationist Robert Robichaud got in touch to share that he was recently involved in a game preservation project regarding Norway's first adventure games. A great article worth checking out: spillhistorie.no/2025/09/11/n...

If you're an Amiga veteran, you've probably used X-Copy at some point (it's okay, we all did it). We just published a cool interview with Cachet veteran (and current KryoFlux developer) Christian Bartsch, about X-Copy and some of the weird stuff that happened at X-Copy publisher Cachet.

I reviewed Strange Antiquities from @badvikinggames.bsky.social and @iceberg-int.bsky.social . Review is in Norwegian, but TLDR; I had a very good time with the game. Lots of clever puzzles that made me feel smart for solving them.

I've been watching Kurt J Mac walking towards the Far Lands in Minecraft almost since the beginning (originally followed him because of his Spintires videos). And tonight he is going to get there! Only took 14 years. www.twitch.tv/kurtjmac

A huge surprise today, with a preview recovery of the unreleased The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure on #Amiga. Dlfrsilver got in touch with Games That Weren't to share his recovery of this long lost game, and its hoped more can be found! Check it out at: www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/the-...

I've been playing Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon lately. It's really good. Obviously low budget compared to the better known RPGs released this year, but the writing and acting is surprisingly great, and if you can deal with some Elder Scrolls style jank, you'll probably like it a lot.

It's worth reading this and some of the quotes people have made, to make an informed decision about supporting the SNES RPGs book.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Me and @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social had a chat with Roger Dean a couple of months ago, and today we published our interview. Among many things, we spoke about the cancelled Black Onyx game he was working on with Henk Rogers.

It's almost the end of #sharptember , so I'll finish with some screenshots of my game Minesnake on the MZ-80A. I've learned a lot since I made it, and would have done a lot differently now. But the concept is still good, I think. It's on Itch.io.

Look at this neat thing! Works great, and the stick is really comfortable. Thanks to @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social who made it for me.

#Sharptember If you replace the CG-ROM file in the emulator with the Japanese one you can play Japanese MZ games with the correct graphics showing. Here's a bit of Namco's Galaxian demonstrating the much coveted single pixel graphic character that was not available in the western ROM.

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.

Attention retrogamers: Check out this sneak preview video clip of an upcoming C64 game (available for free members): www.patreon.com/posts/wip-vi... #retrogames #retrogaming #games #c64 #retro #indiegames

Part 4 of @jfroholt.bsky.social 's look at one of the MZ-80A games compilation tapes made by Knights is now available!

Day 264(21) - #sharptember - I thought I'd leave the first MZ to last because it's not really a computer in the traditional sense - but it's so bizarre I couldn't ignore it completely. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Sharp MZ-40K ... 1/3

The Sharp MZ-80A can only use character graphics, but fortunately there are a few characters dedicated to pseudopixels. So I made a picture. #sharptember

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...

Disappointing that there's quite a bit of misinformation in your thread, Frank, so allow this humble "British tabloid" to clear things up a little, if we may:

Another fun interview at @spillhistorie.no . This time @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social spoke with Robert Zalot about his time as a game tester in the nineties. He talks about testing games for the Lynx at Epyx, as well as his time in EA's GOD Squad.

Pool of Radiance (1988) The first of SSI's Gold Box role-playing games based on AD&D – and perhaps the best. Your party of heroes arrives at a town called Phlan, and the goal is simply to restore it to its former glory by clearing its various areas of monsters and bandits. 1/4

We published a small Q&A with Jon Ritman yesterday. Questions by @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social :

Ok, another one for #sharptember . This is the famous 10 print oneliner, but in Uwe Maxim's excellent BASIC 5510 compiler. On my MZ-80A.

Day 256(13) - #sharptember - Of course, there's an MZ-80 I've left out ... the MZ-80B. This beast is the business version and came out, I think, in late 1981 (struggling to find a Japanese source for that). There was possibly a 32K Japanese poverty model, but the UK version is fully loaded ... 1/2

We have two major stories on Spillhistorie.no today, both available in English. The first is about SVHA Adventure, a unique version of Colossal Cave developed on a Norsk Data minicomputer in Norway in 1979. Lost and completely unknown until this year. We have the story & a playable version.

#Sharptember ! And here is a small bit of gameplay from the excellent adventure game Ropoko for the MZ-700, the English language version which will be available later this year. It's a tricky puzzle adventure with some bold big sprites and graphics that will keep you entertained for quite some time!

Ok, I'll stop being silly now. #sharptember

#Sharptember In Japan there were lots of games we didn’t have official ports of over here. Here’s two of them, Galaxian and Pac-Man, both by Namco and on cassette for the MZ-700! Pac-Man will even use the PCG add-on (rare here) for hi-res graphics.

Another #sharptember post. This one features a cute chick.

English: We've published a big interview with Atari designer Howard Scott Warshaw conducted by our friends at Spæll. It is available as a text article and as a podcast.

Okay, so it's #Sharptember :) How about this spooky "screenshot" from my game Minesnake, played on a Sharp MZ-80A in the dark?

The Sharp MZ-2000 is pretty uncommon outside of Japan. A nice looking machine indeed! #Sharptember

Wooo!! So excited to see Cellscape featured on a Norwegian gaming site 😍😍 English version here: spillhistorie.no/2025/08/28/e... #indiegames #unitygames #gamedev