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(Read part 1 on Happy Bushman here.) It turns out I was stuck on what was the only hard part; there are pieces where you can lose, but for the most part it’s cases where it is clear what you …

Recently I played Genma Taisen, published by Pony Canyon in Japan in March 1983 to coincide with the accompanying film. It was an official conversion of an animated film to a game; the “first…

In questa intervista esclusiva, Bert Reiner, uno dei protagonisti della storia di Coleco Industries, ripercorre il cammino dell’azienda dagli anni pionieristici del Telstar, al successo internazionale...

Posts about adventure-751 written by Jason Dyer

Most soap operas take a while to work their way up to murder, but EastEnders kicks off with it from the very first scene, airing February 1985 on BBC One. A door gets kicked in; the characters Arth…

I’ve finished the game; I was nearly at the end. My previous posts are needed for context. I had left off on an apparent combination lock with four symbols, where you had to enter an “i…

(Continued from my last post.) Eye of Min, as I previously mentioned, was part of a trilogy, the second and third games being The Sabre of Sultar and The Temple of Azragor respectively. They were o…

Posts about terror-from-the-deep written by Jason Dyer

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In the 1960s, Qantas wanted to improve their flight reservation system. At the time, reservation clerks would get tickertapes from travel agents and enter flights manually; every single sales offic…

As promised over in the Atari 7800 forum, here are the internal sales figures for the Atari 2600 games from 86 through 90... Note the sales of just Pole Position alone... pretty impressive. 2600_sales...

I owned an Acorn Electron as a kid. It wasn’t the greatest games machine in the playground, but it did have the best game of all-time, Braben and Bell’s Elite, and one of the finest adventure games…

(Continued from my previous posts.) Last time I left off on a narrow fissure leading to Watersmeet, and a cave nearby that’s a maze. Also, just for the record, I had a brass key (from the ver…

(Continued from my previous posts.) I have the first two underground sections (the one from the locked grate, and the one from the cave at the trail) mostly mapped out and connected, so now seems l…

MIDSAC Pool Simulator To play the MIDSAC Pool Simulator (MIPS), click on the "Cue direction" dial in the uppe...

(Continued from my previous post, read that post first before this one.) As is usual for one of these massive games of this era, the best place to start is outside. I’ll be showing it off in …

It’s not your world. You arrive there and you’re a person, a creature, just like all the others. You see something shiny and think maybe you could go get it, so off you wander. You’re not controlli…