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Adventure of the Week: King's Ransom (1986) 21 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
This was one of those busy weeks when I needed something very straightforward to play -- I'm working on a couple of larger games, and I tried tackling one adventure that I thought would be a short exp...
Adventure of the Week: Escape from Trash Island (1981/2012) 14 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
I hate to stop in the middle of a story, so this week we're going to continue with the second part of Roger M. Wilcox's Trash Island series (formerly the third part of the Trash Island trilogy) -- Esc...
Brian Howarth Interview at CASA 9 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
The good folks at the Classic Adventures Solution Archive have posted a fine new interview with Mysterious Adventures series author Brian Howarth -- it even clears up some long-standing confusion abou...
Adventure of the Week: Trash Island (1981/2012) 7 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
Returning to the Roger M. Wilcox oeuvre, this week we're tackling Trash Island (full title: Trash Island - The Hidden City of Trash Island), originally the author's sixteenth and seventeenth text adve...
Adventure of the Week: Behold Atlantis (1991) 31 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
This week, we're returning to the fertile adventuring grounds of the Sinclair Spectrum ZX, with Laurence Creighton's Behold Atlantis, published by Zenobi Software in 1991. The UK-based Speccy was a g...
What I'm Playing - 07/29/2013 30 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
I'm going to try to do this once a month, anyway -- I haven't had any major obligations outside of work, so I've been doing quite a bit of gaming in July. Here are some impressions and notes: My wif...
Adventure of the Week: CIA Adventure (1980) 24 Jul 2013 | 01:00 am
This week, we're returning to the venerable TRS-80, with Hugh Lampert's CIA Adventure, published by the cassette-based CLOAD software magazine in 1980, and also featured in Bob Liddil's classic Captai...
Adventure of the Week: King of the Jungle (1981/2012) 17 Jul 2013 | 01:41 am
This post is going up slightly late due to your editor's advancing age -- I thought I had finished editing this entry, but I hadn't! This week, we're tackling Roger M. Wilcox's adventure number fifte...
Lowering the Bar(cadia) 10 Jul 2013 | 02:17 am
I've been away for some vacation time, so there will be a brief delay while I catch up with life before I resume my usual adventure gaming shenanigans. But I visited my brother and his wife in Fort ....
Adventure of the Week: Medieval Space Warrior (1981/2012) 3 Jul 2013 | 07:19 am
This week, another foray into the Roger M. Wilcox archives comes up with his fourteenth TRS-80-to-Windows text adventure, Medieval Space Warrior, originally written in 1981 and ported to modern PCs in...
