denzquix
@denzquix.bsky.social
Retro adventure game enthusiast, programmer/tinkerer, digital preservation projects, he/they
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denzquix
@denzquix.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Werbespiel Archiv
Werbespiele, Ad-Games, Adgames, Computerspiele, Retro, Archiv, Download
werbespiel.blogspot.com
I have an ongoing project to translate non-English promotional adventure games into English, like the German ones featured in the "Werbespiel-Archiv": werbespiel.blogspot.com/search/label...
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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I made a shorter game (for DOS) with worse graphics (CGA) and I'm NOT KIDDING.
It's free, it's silly, and you can download it here!
(Est. 20-30 minutes for a first playthrough.)
It's free, it's silly, and you can download it here!
(Est. 20-30 minutes for a first playthrough.)
Emmy, Fool of Fen by emmfoolery
A short, silly, swampy adventure for MS-DOS.
emmfoolery.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I made a shorter game (for DOS) with worse graphics (CGA) and I'm NOT KIDDING.
It's free, it's silly, and you can download it here!
(Est. 20-30 minutes for a first playthrough.)
It's free, it's silly, and you can download it here!
(Est. 20-30 minutes for a first playthrough.)
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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...
...until today.
Includes some unexpected history!
bluerenga.blog/2025/10/29/t...
Takara Building Adventure Part 1 (1982)
The last time I wrote about a Japanese game was with The Palms, where I mentioned skipping over two games from 1982 because there were no copies available. This was one of them. Brief history recap…
bluerenga.blog
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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...
...until today.
Includes some unexpected history!
bluerenga.blog/2025/10/29/t...
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I translated "Møt meg i Malaga" ("Meet Me in Malaga"), an MS-DOS game produced in the late 1980s for the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Science, intended to promote safer sex and warn about HIV risk in particular. You take on the role of a teenager backpacking across Europe by train.
Meet Me in Malaga [Unofficial English translation] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Unofficial English translation of the Norwegian MS-DOS game Møt meg i Malaga from the late 1980s.The original game is available...
archive.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I translated "Møt meg i Malaga" ("Meet Me in Malaga"), an MS-DOS game produced in the late 1980s for the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Science, intended to promote safer sex and warn about HIV risk in particular. You take on the role of a teenager backpacking across Europe by train.
Splitting off a secondary thread here for a subcategory: adventure games commissioned by government departments, NGOs, political parties etc. as part of an outreach campaign, raising awareness about a key issue (like the environment, or personal safety) or the work that the organisation does.
I have an ongoing project to translate non-English promotional adventure games into English, like the German ones featured in the "Werbespiel-Archiv": werbespiel.blogspot.com/search/label...
Werbespiel Archiv
Werbespiele, Ad-Games, Adgames, Computerspiele, Retro, Archiv, Download
werbespiel.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Splitting off a secondary thread here for a subcategory: adventure games commissioned by government departments, NGOs, political parties etc. as part of an outreach campaign, raising awareness about a key issue (like the environment, or personal safety) or the work that the organisation does.
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I translated "Bi-Fi: Action in Hollywood" (1994) for MS-DOS, one of the more ambitious and fully-developed promotional games of the era. Huge thanks to @sonneveld.bsky.social for helping me with the technical aspects on this one. archive.org/details/bifi...
May 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I translated "Bi-Fi: Action in Hollywood" (1994) for MS-DOS, one of the more ambitious and fully-developed promotional games of the era. Huge thanks to @sonneveld.bsky.social for helping me with the technical aspects on this one. archive.org/details/bifi...
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Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.
#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing
#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing
October 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.
#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing
#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing
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Bugs and Drugs (1978) released on the PLATO mainframe by Mark Gorback, Dave Tanaka, and Paul Alfille is an early edutainment RPG. Targeted mainly towards medical students, players explore a hospital "dungeon" fighting diseases with fists or with medicine! (a deadly residency thread)
September 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Bugs and Drugs (1978) released on the PLATO mainframe by Mark Gorback, Dave Tanaka, and Paul Alfille is an early edutainment RPG. Targeted mainly towards medical students, players explore a hospital "dungeon" fighting diseases with fists or with medicine! (a deadly residency thread)
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Pinball No. 4 (1977), dir. Jeff Hale, Imagination Inc.
September 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Pinball No. 4 (1977), dir. Jeff Hale, Imagination Inc.
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After a year of work I've finally released my adventure game. It's called Maura and Ash, and it's designed for MS-DOS. You can download it or play it in the browser right now!
moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash
#msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame
moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash
#msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame
September 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
After a year of work I've finally released my adventure game. It's called Maura and Ash, and it's designed for MS-DOS. You can download it or play it in the browser right now!
moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash
#msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame
moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash
#msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame
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"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
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Once, Sesame Street was a lifeline for indie animators. It offered money and incredible freedom to create.
This built an indie animation boom that powered MTV, Nickelodeon and much more. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...
This built an indie animation boom that powered MTV, Nickelodeon and much more. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...
August 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Once, Sesame Street was a lifeline for indie animators. It offered money and incredible freedom to create.
This built an indie animation boom that powered MTV, Nickelodeon and much more. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...
This built an indie animation boom that powered MTV, Nickelodeon and much more. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...
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This is just what a video game looks like underneath the hood
August 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is just what a video game looks like underneath the hood
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Back in 1991, I wrote a fully functional text adventure development system for DOS. I never ended up making any actual games with it, and it's now been untouched for almost 35 years.
Just for fun and historical interest, I've decided to make it and its source code freely available on GitHub. Enjoy!
Just for fun and historical interest, I've decided to make it and its source code freely available on GitHub. Enjoy!
GitHub - RobertSundling/ADVGEN
Contribute to RobertSundling/ADVGEN development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Back in 1991, I wrote a fully functional text adventure development system for DOS. I never ended up making any actual games with it, and it's now been untouched for almost 35 years.
Just for fun and historical interest, I've decided to make it and its source code freely available on GitHub. Enjoy!
Just for fun and historical interest, I've decided to make it and its source code freely available on GitHub. Enjoy!
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YOU ARE DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! #totaldistortion #fanart
June 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
YOU ARE DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! #totaldistortion #fanart
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IMO game devs should reach out to their local library to see if they would be willing to do conventions for locally made games. You get so many people looking at your stuff who will never come across it on social media
June 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
IMO game devs should reach out to their local library to see if they would be willing to do conventions for locally made games. You get so many people looking at your stuff who will never come across it on social media
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Me realising I never took a good photo of my Psygnosis owl cosplay, then realising my wings were too big to fit in the frame of my webcam, then having an internal crisis.
May 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Me realising I never took a good photo of my Psygnosis owl cosplay, then realising my wings were too big to fit in the frame of my webcam, then having an internal crisis.
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in two hours, u could watch two thirds of james cameron's epic 2009 scifi adventure AVATAR
or u could watch my video about all the games about that movie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYV1...
or u could watch my video about all the games about that movie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYV1...
May 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
in two hours, u could watch two thirds of james cameron's epic 2009 scifi adventure AVATAR
or u could watch my video about all the games about that movie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYV1...
or u could watch my video about all the games about that movie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYV1...
v1.0 of "King's Quest 1: Rubber Tree Edition" is up! Apply the mod here: denzquix.github.io/agi-patch/ You will need the files from the non-enhanced DOS version. The patched files will run in ScummVM under the "Fan AGI" option, or in DOSBox if you include other files from the original game folder.
Current project: a mod for King's Quest 1 (AGI) which adds >UNDO and circumvents softlocks, titled King's Quest: Rubber Tree Edition. A pre-release version was recently featured on stream by the inimitable @emmxyzzy.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
v1.0 of "King's Quest 1: Rubber Tree Edition" is up! Apply the mod here: denzquix.github.io/agi-patch/ You will need the files from the non-enhanced DOS version. The patched files will run in ScummVM under the "Fan AGI" option, or in DOSBox if you include other files from the original game folder.
@tacoadventure.net Hey, thanks for playing some of my translations! There'll be more coming in time
February 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
@tacoadventure.net Hey, thanks for playing some of my translations! There'll be more coming in time
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this is something i actually somehow Didn't get in trouble for. when I was 14 i noticed that there was a "Students All" e-mail address, so i made a crude looping flash cartoon about a frog and sent it to everyone. for some reason, this message was not deletable, and attempting to delete it would -
February 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
this is something i actually somehow Didn't get in trouble for. when I was 14 i noticed that there was a "Students All" e-mail address, so i made a crude looping flash cartoon about a frog and sent it to everyone. for some reason, this message was not deletable, and attempting to delete it would -
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Hello. I've done a technical write up about a silly project; please enjoy "Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years: A study"
moral.net.au/writing/2025...
moral.net.au/writing/2025...
Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years: A study
If you're into retro computing, you probably know about Oregon Trail; a simulation of the hardships faced by a group of colonists in 1848 as they travel by covered wagon from Independence Missouri to ...
moral.net.au
January 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Hello. I've done a technical write up about a silly project; please enjoy "Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years: A study"
moral.net.au/writing/2025...
moral.net.au/writing/2025...
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I translated "Croustibat" (1995), made by Coktel Vision - re-using the engine from "Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon" - to promote Findus' line of frozen fish fingers/fish sticks. Many thanks to Fred_PJ for preserving the original Portuguese version. archive.org/details/crou...
November 18, 2024 at 6:02 PM
I translated "Croustibat" (1995), made by Coktel Vision - re-using the engine from "Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon" - to promote Findus' line of frozen fish fingers/fish sticks. Many thanks to Fred_PJ for preserving the original Portuguese version. archive.org/details/crou...
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Looking back on all my achievements this year, I think the one I am most proud of is this toilet factory I made in Doom
December 30, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Looking back on all my achievements this year, I think the one I am most proud of is this toilet factory I made in Doom