next on All the Adventures I give a tour of the planet Doomawangara, bane of exogeologists

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/10/countdown-to-doom-exogeologists-baffled/

All the Adventures finally ends 1982 out...

...by playing a 1983 game. What?

Read more at my first post on the game Countdown to Doom, including the history of how an oceanographer got into writing adventure games.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/09/countdown-to-doom-1983/

I mean… why would I need state of the art computers anyway…?

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#interactivefiction #retrogaming

Good read for Tolkien and retro computer gaming fans: Jason Dyer's "All the Adventures" blog plays through "The Hobbit" 1982 text adventure / interactive fiction game from Melbourne House. https://bluerenga.blog/tag/the-hobbit/?order=ASC #interactiveFiction #Tolkien #games #RetroGaming #1980s

my grand finale post to The Hobbit

where I prod at the various systems and why -- despite so many flaws -- the game was an enormous bestseller

including an investigation of the mysterious VIC-20 game that made it to market first

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/08/the-hobbit-hero-of-heroes/

In which I get close to finishing the Hobbit but get stopped by a bug ... maybe? I also exploit the timing of the creature system and bring down a dragon.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/07/the-hobbit-there-and-not-quite-back-again/

The Hobbit continues at All the Adventures, as I investigate missing room exits, get tossed into dungeons, try to decipher goblin behavior, and find the One Ring.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/06/the-hobbit-behind-stars-and-under-hills/

If you don’t listen to it yet, you should:

https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/the-retro-adventurers/id1739948119

The Retro Adventurers is a Podcast about is about interactive fiction text adventures.

In which All the Adventures finally embarks on The Hobbit (1982)

I clear up a great deal of history that has been muddled over the years

and get lost in the game fairly early.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/05/the-hobbit-1982/

It's the closing days for this year's Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction. Lots of fun games and stories to try out. All people are welcome to come and play them. Lots of variety, including short/long, parser/choice, fantasy/scifi/horror and more. Check it out! https://www.springthing.net/2025/ #interactiveFiction #Games #IndieGame

A "La naranja no es mecánica" dels Nikis no puc evitar cantar "la ultraviolencia no es la solución"

I was going to be doing The Hobbit next, but I found a game Melbourne House published before The Hobbit so I needed to do a side-trip.

Includes a trip through the Gates of Hell, and finding out another author filed the serial numbers off to publish their first game.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/04/over-the-spectrum-adventure-1982/

Weeknotes for 2025, week 18: https://denisdefreyne.com/weeknotes/2025-w18/

All the Adventures nears the very end of playing all of 1982 games by returning to the prolific Peter Kirsch. He decided to experiment with graphics for the Atari, along with a unique control system where music substitutes in for reading.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/03/the-curse-of-the-pharaoh/

All the Adventures reaches one of the very earliest German adventure games (the second or third?), Secret Agent XP-05.

Includes some history notes on the German group CLUB-80 as well as many deathtraps; plus your host getting foiled by German-language grammar.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/02/geheimagent-xp-05-1982/

On All the Adventures:

With some help from my commenters I managed to pry open most of Enchanted Forest's secrets and finish the game, although some cryptic messages remain.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/05/01/enchanted-forest-circle-thrice/

“screenwriting” is any kind of writing that involves a screen, right? like computer screens. which are interactive, right?

The Really Bad IF Jam is back!

Making a good game is hard, but what about a terrible one? Come mess around and create the worst game you can think of this month:

https://itch.io/jam/really-bad-if-2

All the Adventures visits the Tandy Color Computer and the game Enchanted Forest, which uses a rare-for-the-time directional-graphics style which only became popular for adventure games after Myst.

https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/30/enchanted-forest-1982/