A software exhibit that allows you to explore Zork and also Zork's source code at the same time.

Planetfall was yesterday's public release, but of course I've spent the past few weeks concentrating on Infidel. A couple of days I came across the most egregious bug I've yet seen in an Infocom game....

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…

It's Infocom and Iron Curtain classic text adventures from the final years of the Cold War! With special guest Ana Meisel (ana.help), Nick and Jason take on two entertaining political-statement classi...

Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games

A software exhibit that allows you to explore The Witness and also The Witness's source code at the same time.

Share a journey with me playing the old text/graphic adventures from the early 8bit era, through the 16 bit era and todays offerings. Best described as playing an interactive book, you decide your nex...

Contest deadlines, international reviews, and some Ramsberg groveling lead our news coverage for text adventure enthusiasts this month. Tim, Jason, and Nick bring you the latest for one of the oldest ...

Pack your phrasebook and get ready to defend democracy as Ben and Jason take on a pair of quirky early 1980s adventures. For an appetizer, we order Infocom legend Brian Moriarty's early effort, a type...

Unofficially official text adventure sequels to beloved media properties both published in 1984. That's what these two have in common. Laugh While You Can, Monkey Boy! because this John Lithgow Apprec...

People are going to buy these things and then after six weeks or so they’re going to put them up on a shelf in their closet and ignore them … we saw that there was a need for something …

No rest for retro adventuring news this summer as Tim and Jason bring you lots of news: contest developments (don't delay, some deadlines are very very very soon!), Visible Zorker updates which aren't...

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It was remembered as a “joke” computer, with its 22 by 23 character screen and 3.5Kb of RAM. Revisionists forgot that at the time there was nothing else, and that within the confines of…

Infocom's packaging for Planetfall for Apple 2.Original folio edition.(The Patrol ID card is signed on the back by me, age 13 or so!)

(Continued from my previous posts on Catacombs, and in particular my last post which described how the 1981 PET version of the game was recently rescued.) Catacombs was more frustrating to get to t…

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A software exhibit that allows you to explore Zork and also Zork's source code at the same time.

Cancelled & Unreleased Video Games

As promised, the latest from the Visible Zorker project: Visible Starcross! "The challenge was issued eons ago, from light-years away." As usual, the source code repository is also live, licensed with...