Interactive fiction and the All the Adventures project
In 1980, Commodore got their first factory in Germany (in Braunschweig). The CEO Jack Tramiel came to give a speech and was warned don t tell them you re Jewish . He handled it in typical Tramiel fashion: So what did I do? I made a speech to them and told them all I was Jewish and that [ ]
(Continued from my part 1, read that part first.) Before tangling into the gameplay, one bit of bookkeeping and one bit of meta-discussion. For the bookkeeping, one thing I didn t linger on is: what should I be calling this game? On the side of the box, on the front of the tape, and on two [ ]
This is one of the most infamous computer games from Japan ever made. You can mostly blame the 1967 film The Graduate. I ll explain along the way Genma Taisen, the manga, was first serialized in Weekly Shōnen Magazine starting in 1967, with writing by Kazumasa Hirai and art by Shotaro Ishinomori. By then both men [ ]
People are going to buy these things and then after six weeks or so they re going to put them up on a shelf in their closet and ignore them we saw that there was a need for something that helped people to both socialize with other people and get practical life use out of [ ]
Dr. Bongo s plan is to destroy the World, with only hours before his devastating missiles are launched you locate his position. Your mission is to stop him and be the World s No. 1 hero. From Sinclair User, March 1983 Custom Software is another company from the UK that picked such a generic name it s [ ]
As a child I was obsessed with making stuff, it started with cardboard boxes and moved on to wood by the age of 5. By 10 I was constantly visiting rubbish dumps to find broken electrical stuff I could use to build what ever my imagination could imagine. Space ships, cars, satellite dishes to search [ ]
I ve finished the game; this is continued from my previous post. Just to get it out of the way first, we ve got headhunters again, something I ve written about before. Since this is set in India and vaguely Indiana Jones-shaped I checked in case it was making a reference, but Temple of Doom came out in [ ]
It s been a while since we ve played Peter Kirsch, despite this being his 16th game for this blog. (Most recently: The Dalton Gang, Alaskan Adventure, The Curse of the Pharoah). This is the 20th and last game for the SoftSide Adventure of the Month (he didn t write all of them, but he edited all of [ ]
It was remembered as a joke computer, with its 22 by 23 character screen and 3.5Kb of RAM. Revisionists forgot that at the time there was nothing else, and that within the confines of that 3.5Kb of RAM (sometimes more) we made magic happen. Brendan Jones (quoted above) we ve seen before with three VIC-20 games [ ]
(Continued from my previous posts on Catacombs, and in particular my last post which described how the 1981 PET version of the game was recently rescued.) Catacombs was more frustrating to get to the finish than I expected because some aspects got changed, the fact I hadn t put together a full run of the game [ ]