The Retro Adventurers
@retroadventurers.bsky.social
A podcast about classic text and graphic adventure games.
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A chat with ultra-prolific IF reviewer and author Mathbrush in our latest episode.
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/33/
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/33/
November 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
A chat with ultra-prolific IF reviewer and author Mathbrush in our latest episode.
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/33/
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/33/
New episodes incoming!
Your Retro Adventurers have several episodes recorded. Things got a little busy this autumn and competed for our edit time, including the exciting news that Nick has joined the staff at @tnmoc.bsky.social !
He's pictured here putting the ICL 2966 to its ideal use.
Your Retro Adventurers have several episodes recorded. Things got a little busy this autumn and competed for our edit time, including the exciting news that Nick has joined the staff at @tnmoc.bsky.social !
He's pictured here putting the ICL 2966 to its ideal use.
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
New episodes incoming!
Your Retro Adventurers have several episodes recorded. Things got a little busy this autumn and competed for our edit time, including the exciting news that Nick has joined the staff at @tnmoc.bsky.social !
He's pictured here putting the ICL 2966 to its ideal use.
Your Retro Adventurers have several episodes recorded. Things got a little busy this autumn and competed for our edit time, including the exciting news that Nick has joined the staff at @tnmoc.bsky.social !
He's pictured here putting the ICL 2966 to its ideal use.
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Is the Rasperry Pi 500+ bringing wedgetops back? Did Jordan Mechner clear up Prince of Persia history on our subreddit? Is there such a thing as too much Infocom?
youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g
Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g
Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
October 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Is the Rasperry Pi 500+ bringing wedgetops back? Did Jordan Mechner clear up Prince of Persia history on our subreddit? Is there such a thing as too much Infocom?
youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g
Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
youtu.be/eOPYzQ0we9g
Plus your preferred control schemes on This Week in Retro 238, available now on YouTube and all podcast platforms!
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This has been one of my holy grails. I knew Rob was working on something big, and thought it might be this, but I did not suspect he found the whole playable game. One of the first games in Norwegian and one of the first Tolkien games.
Also an article on a new Adventure variant!
Also an article on a new Adventure variant!
The second article is about the almost mythical Tolkien-inspired text adventure Ringen. It turns out almost everything previously "known" about this game was wrong. We have the full story, and a playable version of the game.
Norway's first adventure games, part 2 - Spillhistorie.no
For years, Ringen was considered lost and not much was known about it. Here's the full story of the game, and how it was saved.
spillhistorie.no
September 11, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This has been one of my holy grails. I knew Rob was working on something big, and thought it might be this, but I did not suspect he found the whole playable game. One of the first games in Norwegian and one of the first Tolkien games.
Also an article on a new Adventure variant!
Also an article on a new Adventure variant!
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On the All the Adventures, we return to Britain's seemingly unique "satirical urban grunge" genre with Urban Upstart for the ZX Spectrum.
#zxspectrum
bluerenga.blog/2025/09/06/u...
#zxspectrum
bluerenga.blog/2025/09/06/u...
Urban Upstart (1983)
Scarthorpe is the sort of town where even the dogs carry flick knives, where there’s only one road in, and it’s a one way streeet!!! This is the second adventure game by Pete Cooke, aft…
bluerenga.blog
September 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
On the All the Adventures, we return to Britain's seemingly unique "satirical urban grunge" genre with Urban Upstart for the ZX Spectrum.
#zxspectrum
bluerenga.blog/2025/09/06/u...
#zxspectrum
bluerenga.blog/2025/09/06/u...
Coming soon: space adventures with Tim Gilberts!
September 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Coming soon: space adventures with Tim Gilberts!
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🎉 The 31st Annual #IFComp is live!
85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!)
Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org
Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot
85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!)
Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org
Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot
September 1, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🎉 The 31st Annual #IFComp is live!
85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!)
Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org
Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot
85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!)
Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org
Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot
Get ready to type out every letter in "dodecahedron" and to remember your math and physics! Two sciencey adventures this time out--
The BBC Micro original L: A Mathemagical Adventure and the TRS-80 BASIC-to-C-to-Inform extradimensional oddity Beyond the Tesseract.
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/32/
The BBC Micro original L: A Mathemagical Adventure and the TRS-80 BASIC-to-C-to-Inform extradimensional oddity Beyond the Tesseract.
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/32/
August 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Get ready to type out every letter in "dodecahedron" and to remember your math and physics! Two sciencey adventures this time out--
The BBC Micro original L: A Mathemagical Adventure and the TRS-80 BASIC-to-C-to-Inform extradimensional oddity Beyond the Tesseract.
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/32/
The BBC Micro original L: A Mathemagical Adventure and the TRS-80 BASIC-to-C-to-Inform extradimensional oddity Beyond the Tesseract.
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/32/
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Hello Horrorble Opinions runners, joggers, commuters, cookers, vacuumers, and whatever else you do when listening to us. Great news! We found out that we gained exactly one subscriber because of the Infocom plays we've been doing, so here you go! Another one! Its "Sorcerer" by Steve Meretzky ½
August 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Hello Horrorble Opinions runners, joggers, commuters, cookers, vacuumers, and whatever else you do when listening to us. Great news! We found out that we gained exactly one subscriber because of the Infocom plays we've been doing, so here you go! Another one! Its "Sorcerer" by Steve Meretzky ½
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#C64 Text Adventure in BASIC Part 2!
This time we add the ability to interact with objects so you can win or lose the game ...
retrogamecoders.com/c64-adventur...
This time we add the ability to interact with objects so you can win or lose the game ...
retrogamecoders.com/c64-adventur...
Commodore 64 Text Adventures: Objects and Actions
Now in our Commodore 64 text adventure it's time to put objects that the player can interact with into our game
retrogamecoders.com
August 17, 2025 at 6:43 PM
#C64 Text Adventure in BASIC Part 2!
This time we add the ability to interact with objects so you can win or lose the game ...
retrogamecoders.com/c64-adventur...
This time we add the ability to interact with objects so you can win or lose the game ...
retrogamecoders.com/c64-adventur...
That's one way to say "our game is highly subject to stack overflow"...
In the text adventure Sherlock, if you frequently talk to Watson and his knowledge grows too much, it may cause the game to crash with an out-of-memory error
www.superchartisland.com/sherlock
www.superchartisland.com/sherlock
August 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
That's one way to say "our game is highly subject to stack overflow"...
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me: gets new laptop
also me: makes sure Infocom games still work on new laptop
also me: makes sure Infocom games still work on new laptop
August 11, 2025 at 7:32 PM
me: gets new laptop
also me: makes sure Infocom games still work on new laptop
also me: makes sure Infocom games still work on new laptop
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An interesting look at Infocom making text adventure games in 1986. If you're into that sort of thing.
#gamedev
#gamedev
BBC Archive 1986: Text Adventure Games
Fred Harris goes behind the scenes at Infocom (makers of Zork and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame) to see how their text adventure games are made.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
An interesting look at Infocom making text adventure games in 1986. If you're into that sort of thing.
#gamedev
#gamedev
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Has anyone ever actually installed this? Was Infocom distributing a broken installer for years, and no CD editor noticed? [2/2]
August 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Has anyone ever actually installed this? Was Infocom distributing a broken installer for years, and no CD editor noticed? [2/2]
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A new country awaits for All the Adventures: New Zealand! I give the history of the country's microcomputing scene in the 80s (more dramatic and twisty than expected) then embark on the first adventure we currently have from the country, Robots on Terminus IV.
bluerenga.blog/2025/08/08/r...
bluerenga.blog/2025/08/08/r...
Robots on Terminus IV (1983)
Today, this blog’s first encounter with New Zealand. It might not seem surprising offhand New Zealand had to wait until 1983 — their population in 1982 was about 3 million, ranking it b…
bluerenga.blog
August 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A new country awaits for All the Adventures: New Zealand! I give the history of the country's microcomputing scene in the 80s (more dramatic and twisty than expected) then embark on the first adventure we currently have from the country, Robots on Terminus IV.
bluerenga.blog/2025/08/08/r...
bluerenga.blog/2025/08/08/r...
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Workday Podcast Entertainment:
@redshirtcinema.bsky.social Dredd
@retroadventurers.bsky.social The Colour of Magic and MST3K: Detective
@dtdiscworld.bsky.social Interesting Times
Thanks 🤠
@redshirtcinema.bsky.social Dredd
@retroadventurers.bsky.social The Colour of Magic and MST3K: Detective
@dtdiscworld.bsky.social Interesting Times
Thanks 🤠
August 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Workday Podcast Entertainment:
@redshirtcinema.bsky.social Dredd
@retroadventurers.bsky.social The Colour of Magic and MST3K: Detective
@dtdiscworld.bsky.social Interesting Times
Thanks 🤠
@redshirtcinema.bsky.social Dredd
@retroadventurers.bsky.social The Colour of Magic and MST3K: Detective
@dtdiscworld.bsky.social Interesting Times
Thanks 🤠
We've got Text-Adventure-Sign and bumble through the (unofficial) MST3Kified Detective, and Delta 4's treatment of Terry Pratchett's Discworld in The Colour of Magic for 64, CPC, and Spectrum. (Waiting simulator, Nick.)
Available now on all podcast platforms!
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/31/
Available now on all podcast platforms!
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/31/
August 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We've got Text-Adventure-Sign and bumble through the (unofficial) MST3Kified Detective, and Delta 4's treatment of Terry Pratchett's Discworld in The Colour of Magic for 64, CPC, and Spectrum. (Waiting simulator, Nick.)
Available now on all podcast platforms!
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/31/
Available now on all podcast platforms!
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/31/
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🎧 Really (really, really, really… 😜) loving the origin stories for guests and stories from our youths. I too was a big Fighting Fantasy lad back in the day.
That this went on to “personals” and “grottos” brought out the grins here.
🎮 #VideoGames ⌨️ #TextAdventures #InteractiveFiction 🗺️ #Podcasts 📻
That this went on to “personals” and “grottos” brought out the grins here.
🎮 #VideoGames ⌨️ #TextAdventures #InteractiveFiction 🗺️ #Podcasts 📻
Ben, Jason & @davevelociraptor.bsky.social of This Week in Retro take on the robots! CPC/Spectrum/C64 Souls of Darkon, then whodunnit tension in Epyx's The Robots of Dawn for Apple and C64, based (ish) on the Asimov novel.
Episode 29 of The Retro Adventurers, on your favorite podcast platform now.
Episode 29 of The Retro Adventurers, on your favorite podcast platform now.
August 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🎧 Really (really, really, really… 😜) loving the origin stories for guests and stories from our youths. I too was a big Fighting Fantasy lad back in the day.
That this went on to “personals” and “grottos” brought out the grins here.
🎮 #VideoGames ⌨️ #TextAdventures #InteractiveFiction 🗺️ #Podcasts 📻
That this went on to “personals” and “grottos” brought out the grins here.
🎮 #VideoGames ⌨️ #TextAdventures #InteractiveFiction 🗺️ #Podcasts 📻
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If someone reissued the entire set with the feelies and everything, I would THROW MONEY AT IT.
#Infocom was a game company from 1979-1989 best known for their 31 Text games from 1980-1987. Starting in 1984 they changed their packaging to a standard box referred to as "Grey box". They also rereleased the 1st twelve games that had been released in packaging known as "Folios". #C64 #Commodore64
July 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
If someone reissued the entire set with the feelies and everything, I would THROW MONEY AT IT.
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In which I embark on the works of Steve Lucas, one of the most prolific adventure authors of the 80s.
We play an alien visiting the dangerous planet known as EARTH.
bluerenga.blog/2025/07/26/j...
We play an alien visiting the dangerous planet known as EARTH.
bluerenga.blog/2025/07/26/j...
Journey of a Space Traveller (1983)
I have been sent on a difficult and rather dangerous mission to a distant planet called EARTH. My mission is to locate ten items of treasure and bring them back to my spaceship. I will, in addition…
bluerenga.blog
July 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
In which I embark on the works of Steve Lucas, one of the most prolific adventure authors of the 80s.
We play an alien visiting the dangerous planet known as EARTH.
bluerenga.blog/2025/07/26/j...
We play an alien visiting the dangerous planet known as EARTH.
bluerenga.blog/2025/07/26/j...
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I’ve come to the realisation that I enjoy retro computer programming because the goal posts don’t move on a weekly basis and because it distracts me from the dark void engulfing the world while idiots cheer. Anyway, I like coding my little c64 games
July 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I’ve come to the realisation that I enjoy retro computer programming because the goal posts don’t move on a weekly basis and because it distracts me from the dark void engulfing the world while idiots cheer. Anyway, I like coding my little c64 games
Deadline and Seastalker Invisiclues, plus The Book of Adventure Games, nice!
software solutions, store, california (1985) archive.org/details/micr...
July 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Deadline and Seastalker Invisiclues, plus The Book of Adventure Games, nice!
Episode 30 features two of the newest games we've covered although you'd hardly know it! Captain Cutter's Treasure (PunyInform), Young Arthur's Quest (VIC-20/C64), and 10 Cave Adventure (Sinclair ZX81) get a look.
Also, Smooches Collier is in effect.
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/30/
Also, Smooches Collier is in effect.
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/30/
July 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Episode 30 features two of the newest games we've covered although you'd hardly know it! Captain Cutter's Treasure (PunyInform), Young Arthur's Quest (VIC-20/C64), and 10 Cave Adventure (Sinclair ZX81) get a look.
Also, Smooches Collier is in effect.
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/30/
Also, Smooches Collier is in effect.
retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/30/
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ICYMI, my post this week was on the text adventure Sherlock.
Read about:
- Ingenious ways of portraying mastery of disguise
- Hobbit-bugs being replaced by "the more advanced, state-of-the-art Sherlock-bugs"
- What its Watson has in common with Blue Prince on PS5
www.superchartisland.com/sherlock
Read about:
- Ingenious ways of portraying mastery of disguise
- Hobbit-bugs being replaced by "the more advanced, state-of-the-art Sherlock-bugs"
- What its Watson has in common with Blue Prince on PS5
www.superchartisland.com/sherlock
Sherlock – “Careful examination shows that the drawer has a false bottom”
When making The Hobbit, Beam Software and Melbourne House apparently knew they were onto a good thing. They decided early that they wanted to make another similar adventure afterwards using what th…
www.superchartisland.com
July 18, 2025 at 12:46 PM
ICYMI, my post this week was on the text adventure Sherlock.
Read about:
- Ingenious ways of portraying mastery of disguise
- Hobbit-bugs being replaced by "the more advanced, state-of-the-art Sherlock-bugs"
- What its Watson has in common with Blue Prince on PS5
www.superchartisland.com/sherlock
Read about:
- Ingenious ways of portraying mastery of disguise
- Hobbit-bugs being replaced by "the more advanced, state-of-the-art Sherlock-bugs"
- What its Watson has in common with Blue Prince on PS5
www.superchartisland.com/sherlock