Insulting to the players, insulting to the IP, insulting to the medium, the developers. And the craft itself. Fuck you executives who pushed this garbage. frvr.com/blog/call-of...

I was on a podcast! I had a great time talking to Ron and being absolutely incapable of staying on topic for any length of time... as all good conversations go! Dude does great interviews. Check out his back catalogue. Some great stuff in there.

My first impressions of Greta Sees Ghosts, a cutesy little cartoon game about capturing ghosts while carrying a very loud clanking lantern. youtu.be/rTTPzvOUQGw #adventuregames

Rednex's publisher has decided that me playing their game, which included 10 seconds of their music in-game, was not "fair use." Even though it quite clearly is. Another case of YouTube's copyright system being absolutely broken as fuck. I have no choice but to relinquish monetization of that video.

Hey, Monkey Island hivemind! One more crowdsourcing request for anyone inclined to help. I’m trying to remember as many instances as I can of specific times — game and scene — when Guybrush identified himself in conversation as somebody he was not. (e.g. I’m Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother?)

As part of my site's 30th anniversary celebration, I've revamped the Space Quest 7 section. The page now offers a detailed look at Sierra's cancelled Space Quest VII project (1997-1999) and Escape Factory's unfinished 2002 reboot. Concept art! Leaked footage! Never-before-revealed plot details!

Come watch me spend an hour trying to figure out if I've been suckered into playing an AI slop adventure game. youtu.be/aIH8xOophvc

Happy 30th birthday, Windows Task Manager! You've saved my butt on countless occasions. Here are some tips and tricks and little easter eggs from the guy who actually wrote the damn thing: youtu.be/yQykvrAR_po

🤘😍😍😍🤘

Justice for Space Quest II. A pox on the naysayers. You know who you are...

Another satisfied customer! Look, mate, you don't know how much Cotton Eye Joe I had to sit through making this video. About a dozen live performances, remixes, and of course the game itself. You do your worst. I'm already dead inside.

Chatting with Future Class inductees for my latest at @theguardian.com. They paint a pretty clear picture of the perils of performative allyship. Thanks to all who spoke with me, and always, to Keza for the chance to do important work!

I've started playing the many games I have gotten unsolicited since my last Wolves video (about 11 so far). First one is Cantaloupe Chronicle, which I played for two hours today and found phenomenally boring... but sometimes unintentionally hilarious. youtu.be/HkTNcQYzbQY #adventuregames

Are we absolutely sure this song is about dentistry?

Surprise! New video! Before the chicken nugget meme, there was a band of Swedish dumbasses and a guy named Joe who had cotton for eyes. And for some reason they made an adventure game in the mid 90s. Yes, this is real. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U_T... #adventuregames

Remember, Santa is not allowed within 500 feet of schools and daycare institutions. If you see him watching and making lists, please report him to the appropriate authorities. Let's all have a safe Christmas.

Hot fucking damn. Less than 24 hours and I've reached my goal. I can go out and buy a new computer TODAY. THANK YOU!!! I'm going to leave it up for a little longer, though, 'cos if it gets an additional 869 DKK (~$135 USD), I can throw in a 2TB hard drive. www.gofundme.com/f/sqhcomputer

My computer is going on 15 years (thereabouts) and it's on its last legs. Therefore I have chosen the worst months of the year to ask for support in getting new components to build myself a new computer that will hopefully last for another decade. Details & sharesies: www.gofundme.com/f/sqhcomputer

My Space Quest site, Roger Wilco's Virtual Broomcloset, launched 30 years ago this month. That makes it one of the oldest video game fan sites on the web. To celebrate the milestone, I've updated the site for the first time in ages with tons of new content. Check it out! wiw.org/~jess/roger.html

The music panel I moderated at Portland Retro Game Expo (feat. Al Lowe, Ken Allen, Mark Seibert, George "The Fat Man" Sanger, and Neal Grandstaff) is here in its entirety: youtu.be/F-m9h0fHjwU Lots of cool stories about the music of #adventuregames and the technology of yore in this one.

A very fair review of SpaceVenture by @fridaynightarcade.bsky.social: youtu.be/BM_Fq2plHQQ

Different fun costumes for the paperdoll website. Need to update the code, but it's hard to find time to get sucked into coding. I swear time moves 5 times as fast those days.

MAN-BRUTE!

My friend @brakywaki.bsky.social's panel about FMV games at this years Portland Retro Game Expo is now up on their YouTube channel. They interviewed Victoria Morsell and Paul Morgan Stetler of Phantasmagoria 1+2 fame and Fogtown creator @seanthedandy.bsky.social. youtu.be/Ydmns1qXe9k

Thank you to everyone for coming to the Universe premiere! The video is also available on #PeerTube now: spectra.video/w/mJ3xUBVCNH...

Universe video premiere in 45 minutes... youtu.be/5TG7nYPMd_8

How to make crunchy 90s style FMV in Unreal... if you were so inclined. (Please be so inclined.) youtu.be/nBifVoPA2y8

My video on Universe, the most epic sci-fi game of all time about crabs, premieres today (Monday) at 9 PM CET (12 PM PST / 3 PM EST). Come watch it live and hang out in the chat with us! youtu.be/5TG7nYPMd_8 #adventuregames

I've now got no less than 9 games for my next To The Wolves video to play. Sigh. Why do developers keep doing this to themselves? 9 seems like a bad number, though. Who will be no. 10? Next game in my inbox will be the last one before the Gates of Indie Misery close.

My video on Core Design's second (and last) adventure game, the sci-fi "epic" (?) Universe, is up now for Early Access Patrons. It's one of my longest ones at almost 44 minutes, and I barely take a breath throughout it. Buckle up. The video will premiere publicly in a couple of days.

#Invidious is an open-source, ad-free alternative frontend to YouTube. Worth looking into if you're sick of YouTube's shit. (And, no, I don't care if it hurts my "revenue.") invidious.io There are public instances here that you can use right now: docs.invidious.io/instances/ #opensource #youtube

This Day of the Tentacle intro remake is really spectacular! youtu.be/2LYPfMBie9Y #adventuregames

Most of us in one loooooong shot. Just need to get a graphic design wizard to superimpose @spacequesthistorian.com 's disembodied head somewhere

Man, Microsoft are really experts at ruining everything, aren't they? I don't know how well Minecraft's login worked in the past, but it can't possibly have been worse than this Xbox/Microsoft login bullshit that only lets you sign in 50% of the time.

My latest addition to the adventure game vinyl collection is a 4xLP box set of the Monkey Island 2 soundtrack, released under somewhat shady circumstances by German vinyl rebels DNB Records. Look at the fancy colors! Photos from Discogs. www.discogs.com/release/3433...

What the fuck. Doom running on... E coli bacteria? youtu.be/8DnoOOgYxck

The full Error 47 concert is now on PeerTube as well: spectra.video/w/soooXekD5M... Also, both YouTube and PeerTube versions have chapter select now so you can get to the Putt-Putt song easier.

Legends of #SierraOnline — a music and composer panel at the @retrogamingexpo.bsky.social hosted by @spacequesthistorian.com! A very rare event. #retrogames #adventuregames #Sierra

That is an amazing photo. Thank you so much.

My band played a gig this evening. People showed up. It was surreal and wild. We played with The Fat Man, Ken Allen, Neil Grandstaff, and our host was Josh Mandel who made lewd balloon animals. Wtf is life right now. youtube.com/live/mH9fbAB...

On the plane to the Portland Retro Game Expo. Wish us luck... #prge #nerds

Come watch me make a fool of myself and try to beat the World Record speedrun in Space Quest I — and, also, wish Scott Murphy a happy birthday. Premiering in a few minutes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RB8X...

Underrated comment by @delbertgseasons.bsky.social.

Casual shoutout to this mutant girl losing her shit over Jones in the Fast Lane on the cover of the 1990 Sierra fall catalogue.

Whoa! Experimental Win95/98 support? This is going to be a gamechanger for finally cracking the shell around "the Dark Ages" of PC gaming.

Yesterday was a big milestone for me and my son. We played our first *real* Minecraft game. Previously, we've fucked around in Creative mode and dipped out toes into Survival mode on Peaceful difficulty. But yesterday, we played Survival mode on Easy and suddenly it was a whole new ball game!

Monday is Scott Murphy's birthday! For a variety of dumb reasons, we won't be doing a Space Quest Olympics livestream as usual. Instead, I'll be humiliating myself by trying to beat the SQ1 speedrunning World Record: youtu.be/RB8X64D1P1g Premieres live Oct. 13 @ 9 PM CEST.

From the desk of @oneshorteye.bsky.social: An almost 4 hour long dissertation about why Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra is such a beautiful clusterfuck of an adventure game? Inject that shit into my veins. youtu.be/nSODB1CRez0

Well, this isn't chilling at all. youtu.be/f9HwA5IR-sg #AI

Last part of my Universe playthrough (the Amiga CD32 version): www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSg1... Sorry, haven't got anything pithy to say. It's... the same game... again... but with direct controls. Always good to see the Man-Brute again, though. 😍 #adventuregames