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It's a game that suffers too much from sheer frustration, which many of these games from the early days of text adventures do. Puzzles that expect something that the user couldn't possibly know about, dying from lack of food or water after a strict number of moves The post The Adventures of Barsak the Dwarf appeared first on SoundHog .
This is repost from my Revival Records site as it doesn’t quite fit in there, being more of a blog post than a review. Followers of Revival Records over on maston or, over time, various other social media sites will have seen me mention this obscure oddity before. It was found in a box of 7-inch ... Read more The post The LDVs – Video It! appeared first on SoundHog .
As promised at the end of the last adventure post, we’re looking today at the graphics version of Adventureland by Adventure International, which came out some 4 years after the text only game. I’m also going to try a new format which may or may not prevail – influenced somewhat by Sprite Castle, I’m going ... Read more The post Adventureland 1982 appeared first on SoundHog .
“The very desire to find shortcuts makes you eminently unsuited for any kind of mastery.” Robert Greene. I have been messing around with apple shortcuts lately and now have three I’m really quite pleased with – I am sharing them here with the caveat that they may not do what you need or want them ... Read more The post No Shortcuts In Life appeared first on SoundHog .
Sometimes the simplest and best solutions are the ones you already have. I have been thinking about a cyberdeck for a while now, looking to create something out of a raspberry Pi or other single board computer, something to resemble the Free Write or the old Alpha Smart devices. I just wanted to have something ... Read more The post writerdeck appeared first on SoundHog .
Thanks to Gavin and Chris over on mastodon and their recent blog posts about owning your music, and owning it for life, I have decided to have a go myself. Which albums would you choose to accompany you to the grave, albums you just can’t be without and more importantly need to own and touch ... Read more The post Ten Albums To Take To The Grave appeared first on SoundHog .
This May, I’m walking 31 Miles and raising funds to help ensure no family faces dementia alone. I’m taking on the challenge for Dementia UK, the specialist dementia nursing charity, and would be grateful for your support. Your donation, big or small, makes a difference. £33 could fund a new dementia specialist Admiral Nurse to ... Read more The post Dementia UK – 31 Miles Walk in May 2026 appeared…
Adventure Without A Name, a text-based adventure game. Although limited in parsing, it offers a quick, simple quest to retrieve gold from a dragon for a prince, taking around 15 minutes to complete. The post Adventure Without A Name appeared first on SoundHog .
Going to sneak this one in and hope nobody notices. It should have come before Adventure Quest as it is (just about) a published game, albeit little known about. Ray Hoffmeister coded this game (an appropriately beery retro name!) in CBM BASIC and it’s the only one attributed to him on Gamebase 64, but it ... Read more The post Adventure on the Planet of Zeeble appeared first on SoundHog .
Right, where was I? Oh yes, just finished up escaping from Cleopatra’s Pyramid, had a little break (19 months), got myself a brand new Commodore 64 Ultimate, had a nice cup of tea and thought it was about time to get back in the saddle. As it happens we’re on to one of the proper ... Read more The post Adventure Quest by Level 9 appeared first on SoundHog .