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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 8h

the x-files doom II: the hunt for the truth, planned total conversion of doom II, web art (1998) web.archive.org/web/19981203...

a burning green torch with a pyramid of skulls at the bottom of its stand on either side, in the middle a stretched image of mulder and scully, overlaid over a doom II title font. above in green: the x-files. below in green: the hunt for the truth. mulder and scully are standing in mist and on a swirling circle that the mist is coming up from.

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ascalaphid @ascalaphid.com · 01/10/2026

truculence ball

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy October Eve! For Hallozeen this year, I made a 16-page walkthrough for a 36 year-old shareware classic. Primarily out of trash. I have no idea who the target audience is for this, besides me, but here you go! emmfoolery.itch.io/a-hallozeen-... #dosgaming #retrogaming

The opening game screen of Hugo's House of Horrors, by David P. Gray, for MS-DOS. A game released like, two weeks before I was born. Hugo's outside a haunted house! Spooky.

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Sonneveld @sonneveld.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I just finished a patch for Tlon: A Misty Story: sonneveld.dev/tlon/ It's a 1999 point and click adventure game that's notorious for being incompletable due to a bug. There are save game hacks but this is a proper fix with correct exits and everything. Try it out and let me know how you go!

sonneveld.dev

TLÖN: A Misty Story Fix

A fix for the 1999 point and click adventure game TLÖN: A Misty Story.

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denzquix @denzquix.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I translated "Jeff Jet: Abenteuer InfoHighway" as "Jeff Jet: Adventure on the InfoHighway" archive.org/details/jeff... - a German promotional adventure game for Hewlett Packard from 1995.

Title screen for "Jeff Jet: Adventure on the InfoHighway".

Screenshot from "Jeff Jet: Adventure on the InfoHighway". In front of a green room that seems to be built out of giant circuit board pieces, there are close-up pictures of Jeff Jet and an NPC wearing glasses and a red sweater. A line of dialog is visible between them: "Good day to you!".

Screenshot from "Jeff Jet: Adventure on the InfoHighway". The two main characters, Jeff and Donna, are standing near a road tunnel with a closed barrier gate in front of it and a guard standing by. There is a large truck loaded with gigantic ones and zeroes. The mouse cursor is hovering over these ones and zeroes, and the word "Bits" appears next to it.

Screenshot from "Jeff Jet: Adventure on the InfoHighway". One of the main characters, Donna, stands in the middle of a large desert tent with visible patches and holes. A small office area has been set up behind her, with a woman sitting at a desk with a computer on it. There is an empty chair with a green coat lying on it in the foreground facing the desk. At the bottom of the screen, there is a row of inventory items. The mouse cursor is over one of them, a red and green magnet, with the word "Magnet" shown next to it.

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denzquix @denzquix.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I translated "Backstage" (1993) presented by "LIVECLUB", a mail-order subscription service for CDs and VHS tapes. The in-game goal is to win a radio contest, but the game also invites you to enter a real-life competition that closed in 1994. archive.org/details/back...

Screenshot of "Backstage": Pixel art. The inside of a house in cross section, with two rooms fully visible - the living room on the top floor and the kitchen on the bottom floor - and other rooms leading off from them, partially seen at the edges. The hero character is walking down a staircase that connects the two floors.

Screenshot of "Backstage": Pixel art. The hero character is standing at the entrance to a building with large open double doors, facing into it. The sign above says "LIVECLUB". There are promotional displays of what look like books or magazines.

Screenshot of "Backstage": Pixel art. A cross section of a subway train carriage with darkness surrounding it, except for a light passing by overhead. There are several passengers standing or sitting on the train. The hero character is sat opposite one of them. Speech bubble: "LIVECLUB! They have the latest amazing CDs at incredible prices. Why not become a member yourself?"

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 26/08/2026

To tell if a maze is solvable, just hang it by its corners If it tears into pieces, you’ve found a solution

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hi! I just launched a new three month DOS jam! Don't have enough free time to contribute to a standard game jam? This one's E X T E N D E D. Please feel free to join in, even (especially!) if you have no experience! It's a very casual vibe, and there are even a few assets to help start you off!

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MS-TRES

A game jam from 2026-08-31 to 2026-12-01 hosted by Emmfoolery. It's time for another three month DOS jam! This is a casual, lighthearted jam, to encourage skill-building, community links, and the crea...

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LGR @lgr-yt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Wednesday Blerb! youtu.be/_1N1hLiOOIo This Windows 3.1 Gumby disk wasn't archived... now it is

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This Windows 3.1 Gumby disk wasn't archived... now it is

YouTube video by LGR Blerbs

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

frenzy, manual, excerpt, colecovision (1983) archive.org/details/fren...

lofi sprites: commando, robot (round top part on a base), skeleton, evil otto (smiling ball).

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gloriouscow.bsky.social @gloriouscow.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

New features for GlyphBlaster's Neko mode. - Cat will sleep after idle for so long - Cat can be 'tossed' by hitting tab - Cat now pounces the cursor at the end of a chase #retrocomputing #glyphblaster

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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I DID NOT KNOW HE WAS A BUSINESSMAN

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I FOUND A COPY! (Also the missing Wizard of Words manual!) Unfortunately this is the older version, and I don't currently have a way to retrieve this off a 5.25". If any Melburnian pals wanna help a gal out, hmu, otherwise I'll post it to one of my interstate connections. 😊

I GOT A PHYSICAL COPY OF WORD FUN ONE, WHEEEEEEEEEE.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

FUCK IT, MISSING DOS WEDNESDAY Trying to locate an Australian DOS game from ≈ 1988, 𝐋𝐞𝐱, 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐧 𝟏. The game was part of a series of four Edutainment games by Reckon Software/John Grimley. Here's the box cover art, a text ad, and screenshots of 2 other games in the series! Help a gal out!?

Lex, Word Fun One cover art. Wizard with helicopters. Incredible concept.
The game allows you to become a wordy pilot of the Semantic Squadron, I've read!

Word Fun 1

Based on a helicopter theme, this package provides learners with plenty of hands on action as they take control of their various aircraft. Its interesting graphics reinforce the fantasy aspect of a skill building word rescue assignment.
Oppocopter uses words taken from a large pool of carefully selected exact opposite pairs, that have beeen graded into four levels of difficulty. The learner manoeuvres a helicopter to shoot down the correct opposite from a multiple selection. A scorebar counts correct answers, but if an error is made, the correct answer is highlighted. At each level, one of four speeds can be chosen to place a time limit on answering each question.
Synocopter asks the learner to effect a rescue by helicopter, by matching a word with its exact synonym to correctly locate the target. There are three levels of difficulty and three speeds to choose from.
Alphacopter provides a unique way to practise alphabetical skills as well as strategic problem solving skills. Using a helicopter to lift the top word block off one of three piles and then to move it to another pile, the learner is able to transform a randomly ordered pile of words into an alphabetically ordered array. Six levels grade this activity from a simple task to a most demanding one.
The exciting action in all three games gives this package a particularly strong computer games appeal which is well balanced by its sound educational content. Walk across instructions and the very simple, clear, and consistent use of the arrow keys for all user controls, make it very easy to use for all age levels.
Ages five - fifteen.

Spelling Fun 1 menu screen. In fetching CGA!

Lex, Wizard of Words commencement screen. Yet more lovely CGA!

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The VGHF is wonderful humans doing wonderful, important work. If you have the spare cash for a games hobbyist purchase, please consider throwing some their way. …Otherwise they're gonna hafta commission a Phil Funko Pop or something…

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

skull, screenshot, commodore 64 (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/19288/s...

first person rpg style view of a passageway. a large floating skull is peaking around the corner. top of screen is score, level, lives and direction. on the right is the amounts of keys and treasure/gems that you have.

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🦇Evilbatwitch🦇 @evilbatwitch.cryptoanarchy.network · 05/11/2025

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.

Rude
Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose.
Highlighted Off, darkened Warn, and darkened Hide buttons.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

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.)

emmfoolery.itch.io

Emmy, Fool of Fen by emmfoolery

A short, silly, swampy adventure for MS-DOS.

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Jason Dyer @jdyer.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

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...

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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…

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denzquix @denzquix.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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.

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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...

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denzquix @denzquix.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

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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denzquix @denzquix.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

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...

A scene from "Bi-Fi: Action in Hollywood". On a sci-fi set, the main character Lukas is talking to a man whose bottom half is trapped in a small hatch. There is a conversation menu with three options: "What are you doing in there?" "Want me to heave you out of there?" "How can I help?"

A scene from "Bi-Fi: Action in Hollywood". Lukas is standing in the doorway of the studio cafeteria. A couple of people are seated on the tables. The mouse cursor is hovering over a Bi-Fi Roll in the player's inventory and the action line reads "Eat Bi-Fi Roll".

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

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

I HATE COLLINGWOOD Wolfenstein 3D mod on floppy disk. This version doesn't work. :(

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Dungeonbuster @dungeonbuster.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Pinball No. 4 (1977), dir. Jeff Hale, Imagination Inc.

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moralrecordings @moralrecordings.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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

Person wearing blue coveralls standing in the cockpit of a spaceship, watching a meteor pass the window. There is a blue inventory bar at the bottom of the screen.

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"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.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

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...

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Mitch Dyer @mitchyd.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

This is just what a video game looks like underneath the hood

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Robert Sundling @robertsundling.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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!

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GitHub - RobertSundling/ADVGEN

Contribute to RobertSundling/ADVGEN development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

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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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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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Memoria @memoriamatters.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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...

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Your Complete Home Computer Resource (Source.)

$Up top, in red rounded sans serif block font, the supertitle: "GET WIRED-LOG ON TO THE WORLD". Below that, in squared sans serif font with rounded corners in gold, the name of the magazine, COMPUTE; the hollow of the O forms a house. The subtitle below reads, "Your complete home computer resource - $2.95 February 1991." Middle cover is a stunning piece of digital art by artist Doug Strothers; made on a Micro Vax II, it depicts a dragonfly spaceship (mottled black and yellow) flying past two fractal gas giants to land on a fractal red planet. Below are the major article callouts: "HOME BUSINESS HELP • PC MONEY MANAGER • SPACE WARS AND GALACTIC CONQUEST • COMPUTER NOMAD • SURE FIRE MAC FIXES"$

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denzquix @denzquix.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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.

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denzquix @denzquix.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

@tacoadventure.net Hey, thanks for playing some of my translations! There'll be more coming in time

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splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 14/02/2025

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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denzquix @denzquix.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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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Cyriak @cyriak.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

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

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Oro ✨Pixel Artist @oropixel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I love making foods sprite! Here is my first Vietnamese foods collection! #pixel #pixelart #イラスト #pixelartist #gamedev #art #food

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Damiano Gerli @damiano.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Live now with some DOS advergames as well translated by the good @denzquix.bsky.social

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Tawejea @tawejea.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Working with restrictive palettes is a lot of fun! Finished this lil CGA piece just in time for DOSember.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This is unironically the best website I have ever made.

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Jeff Abraham @jeffabraham.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

New Orleans out here innovating in bread shapes. Say hello to the challigator.

A loaf of challah bread with spikes and legs that resembles an alligator.

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Emmy @emmfoolery.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Okay, Dax and I have taken inventory – and as long as you all line up in an orderly fashion – we should have one floppy disk for each new follower.

A large, brown cat looking content amongst a pile of floppy disks strewn on a hardwood floor (don't worry, they've all been archived.)

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John Calhoun @engineersneedart.com · 25/11/2024

Writing a B&W bitmap library on top of Adafruit's GFX lib. This little Sharp Memory display is keeping me busy and out of trouble. I spent today drawing and coding a little walking guy. 1-bit is best-bit. #adafruit #pixelart

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