Two new Quests: Time Quest and Chrono Quest II Most games are about questing, I get that, but having the actual word "quest" in the title of your game seems rather cliché. So it isn't as big as a coincidence that two unrelated games turn up at the same day with that specific word in the title:…

My map-making skills are not the greatest I wanted to start this post by questioning why I even like playing text-adventures. I get lost in my own maps and I suck at solving puzzles. That was after being stuck in Tristam Island. Previously I had managed to gain entrance to the White House, but…

Clandestiny: YouTube made me get another game I don't have many Myst-like games. I enjoyed Myst, I have a copy, and I also have Riven and Exile, and although I've been meaning to, I've never actually played those. The only other such games I have are The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour. I only have…

New blue Amiga 500 case makes a colorful threesome After eight years my new Amiga 500 case has arrived. It's a gorgeous blue one. It sits between my green Commodore 64 and my red Amiga 1200. Now it no longer has to feel like it's left behind. Next I'll buy a nice badge for it.

Has it really been 8 already?

Who’s using the C64 DTV in 2026? It's no Commodore 64 Ultimate, but it's still fun to play C64 games on the DTV. It's permanently hooked up to my Sony CRT and every once in a while I play some games on it. It powers on instantly and has a nice collection of games. One of those being Impossible…

Playing Tristam Island, Pjusk and Waffles Early Days I wanted more Waffles and now I got more with Inspector Waffles - Early Days being Game of the Month on the Evercade. It's been a while since I last played on the Evercade. But I was busy doing other things, like playing Tristam Island on my…

But I only wanted to watch a few X-files episodes…! I was reading some articles about the X-files and that brought back memories. My friends and I were totally hooked on the series and we would try to figure out what it all meant. We were disappointed when the weekly episode didn't advance the…

Legend of the Sword. What about the Shield? I've got yet another game to add to the collection. It's a game about a legend, like so many others (Legend of Zelda, of Faerghail, Falconia, of the Birdmen, of the Fortress, of Kyrandia, of Skullkeep, of the Beholder). Many games deal with legends. This…

Finally sitting down for Tristam Island I've pulled Tristam Island from the shelf a couple of times now, but never got around to actually playing it. Not this time! I've booted it up and all. Nice hassle free floppy fun. So fae I've managed to do get to the village. I'm intrigued and looking…

Brassino Isles Tropical Cruise Bought a CD full with Tropical Tunes played on lots of brass instruments from games I played like Banjo-Kazooie, Earthbound, The Wind Waker, Out Run and The Secret of Monkey Island! And from games I hope to someday play like Octopath Traveler and Final Fantasy X. And…

Getting strong Out Run vibes at the Enzo Ferrari Museum My son and I visited the Ferrari museums today. Both museums are small but offer a wide selection of Ferrari models as well as insight into the history of the company and its founder. A lovely day away from computers and screens, but also…

Mortville Manor: A Lankhor game for the collection Mortville Manor is an adventure game from Lankhor from 1988. I never played this one, but I remember playing one of their other games in the early nineties: Maupity Island. Well, "played" is a really big word here, because I only booted it up a…

Unfocussed gaming fun. Who says I need to complete a game? I’ve been struggling to focus on just one game lately. While I usually juggle a couple of titles at once, I normally have a clear main game - typically a big RPG - paired with a more casual side game like a racing or adventure title.…

Mordack wins! Okay, King's Quest V, you win. I give up. After trying to finish the game for hours now, I give up. First I had to look up a hint that explained to me that I had to wait forever and ever in the library to wait for Mordack to go to sleep. Then I hadn't thought about making the blue…

Corruption: The Magnetic Scrolls collection is nearing completion I recently picked up a copy of Corruption. Another game from Magnetic Scrolls for my collection. I'll put it next to The Pawn, The guild of Thieves, Jinxter and Fish! It's the Atari ST version and comes with a cassette tape with a…

Couldn’t resist picking up an individual Wizardry. And RAMA Back in the early days of my current games collection (in 2019), I picked up the Ultimate Wizardy Archives. I was never much into Wizardy and I thought it would be nice to have that in the collection instead of hunting down individual…

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It’s a Video Mystery, and it’s Interactive, and it’s Sherlock Holmes Picked up a big box copy of Interactive Video Mystery: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective - Volume III, developed by ICOM and published by Mindscape in 1993. Never played it. It's supposed to be not too bad.

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Mapping out the desert in King’s Quest V After I did everything I thought I could de in King's Quest V - which wasn't very much - I consulted the hint guide. That didn't prove very useful, but I did learn that I had to throw a boot from the desert at a cat chasing a mouse or rat. I already learned…

Updates to my retro PC/MiSTer setup I made some changes to my retro computer setup and I think it worked out really well. It certainly made me want to play more old PC games. I put my MiSTer in an Amiga 1200 case with the MiSTress 1200 I/O board and I changed my LCD for a CRT VGA monitor. I had to…

Complete Wheel of Time series! With the arrival of A New Spring, the Wheel of Time series is now complete. I started with The Eye of the World in January 2025 and 15 months later all 15 books are accounted for. I'm itching to start another re-read of the whole series, even though I've re-read them…

Back to Pillars of Eternity Back in August last year I started with Pillars of Eternity. I enjoyed it for a couple of weeks, but never finished it because I started with Mario Odyssey and played Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom after that. Then I played Foolish Mortals and after that Oblivion…

Time for King’s Quest V It's been a while since I last played a King's Quest game. So the time is right for another adventure, the fifth installment in the series. I started by copying all the files from the floppies to a MisterFS shared folder on the ao486 core on the MiSTer. Sadly, I cannot dir…

No more half a mask for the phantom I've had the cd-rom version of Return of the Phantom in my collection for a while now. And while it's probably preferable to the floppy version because it adds voices, it it's nice to have them both because the front cover is mirrored and with both of them you…

Also finished (for now): Oblivion Remastered After doing the main quest of The Shivering Isles, Albertus the mage has retired from adventuring. He didn't feel like helping (or killing) more residents of The Realm of Madness and couldn't wait to get out of there and go back to Cyrodill. Once there,…

Finished Space Quest I: Hero of Xenon I did it! I finished Space Quest I without having to go back to the beginning to pick something up again. After the last session where I had to go back and pick up the knife to open the grate, I progressed through the enemy spaceship until the end. I loved…

More random addition: big box Shannara, Wacky Wheels cd-rom, Towers of Midnight & Witches Abroad Shannara is a fantasy book series that I've never read. I've also never played the point-and-click-adventure game they made about it. But it's a Legend game and seeing as I have a couple of other games…

Moved my MiSTer from Mini-ITX to Amiga 1200 I keep changing my mind about what to do with my Amiga 1200 case. Now I've gone and put my MiSTer in. After I bought an Atlantis board to put it in a Mini-ITX case, I tried to make a clean solution to put a Raspberry Pi in the case. But even with the…

Space Quest frustrations: “I forgot to pick it up” In my second session playing Space Quest 1 I was a lot less enthusiastic about the game than when I started out. Even though the constant deaths makes me feel like I'm playing Dragon's Lair, or better yet Space Ace (although I've never played that…

Random additions: Commandos, Windows 98, The Stand on VHS and Cd’s Some random additions. Amongst them Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty. I see this game being offered every so often and I knew that I would buy it someday, and now was the time. I loved the original Commandos game and I've never…

Playing Pjusk on the Amiga 500 The awesome IndieRetroNews posted about a game that's right up my alley: Pjusk, a puzzle game from Zooperdan for the Amiga. I quickly bought it to have an excuse to power up my Amiga 500. It reminds me a bit of Worthy, a game that together with Shadow Switcher for…

Starting out with Space Quest I Wandering around The Shivering Isles got a bit boring and also the living room tv with the PS5 wasn't available, so I decided to start an entirely different game: Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter. A game first released 40 years ago in 1986 and thus twice as old…

Reached the Horizon Just a short message to remind my future self that my son and I finished the World Tour of Horizon Chase 2. We've only completed 40% of the game, but I don't think we'll do much more. We found the first game more enjoyable. We both agreed that the game felt a bit unfair. The…

A flat Oblivion to accompany the small Oblivion because there’s no big box Oblivion The Elder Scrolls is a nice series to collect for. There are all sorts of different variants of the games. Arena has a regular and a Deluxe Edition, Daggerfall has at least 10 editions (see them at…

Wel, it’s Groundhog Day… again So for this year I bought the VHS tape to watch it properly on my new old VHS player on the Sony Trinitron. Groundhog Day is one of the greatest movies ever. Everyday for the last ten years or so I wake up with the same song that Phil wakes up with. Unlike in the…

Oblivion Remastered bugging me out is driving me insane Continuing on from my last adventures in Oblivion Remastered led me through a number of quests for the mages guild, a Daedric quest and the main quest. One of the mages guild quests nicely tied in with advancing through the ranks because it…

Adding a little bit of horror to the big box games collection with Amber: Journeys Beyond Amber: Journeys Beyond is a game from 1996, the era where big box pc games were largely empty and Amber is no exception. There's only the jewel case with the little square manual that fits inside that. The…

Where's the Manual? From the July 1996 issue of PC GAMES.

Chasing the horizon again Two years ago, I played Horizon Chase Turbo together with my son. Over the past two years, he has continued to play it periodically with his friend. The sequel Horizon Chase II has been out for a while now. And while I read the reviews stating that it's not the better…

Reading those in-game Oblivion books on actual paper Playing video games is great and it's my favorite hobby. I cannot spend enough time playing games.* But it does involve an awful lot of time staring at a screen and that's not something my ageing eyes can always appreciate. It's good to take…

Oblivion might be Remastered but it’s still delightfully weird I'm having fun in Oblivion Remastered and haven't noticed many bugs or glitches so far. Only one person who was sleeping in mid air three meters from has bed and halfway through his door. And falling leaves that leave weird graphical…

Chip’s Challenge Although I already have a loose copy of Chip's Challenge for the Atari Lynx, as well as the game in the Atari Lynx Collection for Evercade, I also bought a complete in box copy. Because it's one of the few Atari Lynx games that I enjoy playing, albeit more on the Evercade than on…

Comfort food with Oblivion Remastered Oblivion Remastered sure does look beautiful at times. Seeing the Imperial City through the trees remains exciting. Just wandering around and listening to the sublime music makes me feel at ease. Almost everything looks so much better and the gameplay…

Finished Foolish Mortals! With fireworks of course After my last post about playing Foolish Mortals it took two more sessions to finish the game. I wanted to write about my progress in between, but I rather continued playing than write about it. I needed to do two major things to complete the…

A lot of re-reading for 2026 A few books I intent to re-read the coming months: The Gathering Storm, which almost completes the Wheel of Time series. Three more hardcover Discworld novels and the third book in the Dune series. That's a lot of reading still to do. I'll start with Children of Dune.…

Doing fun stuff in Foolish Mortals, like belowsing a chicken Sixteen hours into Foolish Mortals and I'm thoroughly enjoying myself. I've progressed to the point where I need to discover the fate of the Bellmore Brothers and the game opens up more and more rooms and spaces. What makes me enjoy the…

Less was more in 2025 Another year has almost gone. In 2025, my games collection grew less than in the previous years and that's a good thing because space is getting really tight in the gamesroom. And looking back at them, I haven't even played maybe a quarter of them. Also there were a lot of…