The lack of bounce-petrifying is true to what I remember as the original Medusa myth (and also the way it’s…
Ok, thank you. I remember reading “THE CURSE IS DESTROYED BY THE STAFF OF POWER” but I guess I didn’t…
the screenshot has the bit “HE GIVES YOU A GOLD RING AS A REWARD. THE CURSE IS DESTROYED BY THE…
You mention that you needed the mirror in order to fight Medusa. But how does that work, given that you…
thanks!
“Iris nursing Horus” That should be Isis.
Sorry, I replied in the main thread.
Yes, thank you, it is indeed the Catacombs game from the catalog (the disk image has the catalog number for…
Admittedly, the parser is a bit unstable. I tried to PET CAMEL and it gave me back the description for…
[…] the charm and you can walk through. (This incidentally makes the spot quite liable to suffering the Parallel Universes…
fixed, thanks!
I should point out the “live forever” line doesn’t show up in the actual Egyptian Book of the Dead, but…
Well, this is interesting: “Bomb Adventure Programmed by Mikael Elsila Based on the framework by David Lubar” What this means…
I found this TI-99 catalog and started testing the games that could be adventure or role-playing in the gamebase that…
You mean as it gets drawn, there’s something that vanishes by the time the art is finished? I’ll have to…
It’s amazing that you managed to complete the Puzzle Adventure, even though it’s very difficult for native Japanese speakers.The first…
A spectacular Easter Egg find, congratulations. The most amazing thing is that not only you can go to hell, but…
Map and walkthrough have been submitted to CASA, for reference. I suddenly realised that gur bgure fvqr bs gur “punfz…
thought for a moment that might be a joke that’s amazing!
Tour guide sent me to hell. Guess that’s my fault for asking.
the atmosphere seems to be more the point this time around than any kind of mental stumpers. Agreed. Players provide…
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That’s my impression too. Happy to offer hints but I think you’ll be fine. More good news is that the…
not nearly that far but my next update (probably this weekend, busy) will be from stopping rather than from being…
I have now finished the game, with full score: 191 points is the total (certificate 041122HC). There is a Last…
Actually, there were about 15 (I realized I could do a search) not to say there aren’t “outdated” links, but…
Monster Rally has 300 odd locations if memory serves me correctly. Phantom’s Revenge has an intrresting plot revelation and feels…
If you had actually looked at the HTML, you would have noticed that there was no HREF in the A…
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heads up–the link for “The Hermit’s Secret” is nonfunctional (maybe a missing quotation mark in the HTML?).
Oh, wow! I only previously knew of the Crayne’s works through Castle Elsinore (likely due to a turn of the…
>A slender young man with a rather fanatical gleam in his eye runs around a corner, throws an axe at…
Progress report: mapped 157 rooms, stored 15 out of 24 treasures, found two bugs, a mislabeled exit, and no red…
Nice find! However, in light of the ancient Egyptian theme here, I must quote some of the ad copy from…
Okay, I dug up the whole story on Walt Dollard and his games, and it’s pretty interesting: He was from…
I’m on it right now, mapped out a fair chunk already. So far it feels very much in line with…
Excellent news. I stuck Monster Rally up a while ago but I could never find this gane anywhere. I shall…
Yes, sometimes you get shot while trying to escape the jail, proudly noting it takes three bullets to put you…
From what I’ve seen, the mechanics of that game have nothing to do with those of Egyptian or Medieval, which…
Interesting finds. I dug around a bit more, and found that there are a few other Walt Dollard adventures from…
this is still good! and yeah, TI-99 is definitely the one I think missing the most in terms of being…
The truth is, after checking all the game databases, I haven’t found much with the dates they have listed, since…
I think most of the stuff I wrote before should still be accurate. The main thing I’ve learned since is…
forgot about those! I still have that, just I have everything under mutant spiders. Feel free to paste it though!
That should be “noticeable differences”. Android spellcheck rules!
The Temple and Spider Mountain are the early Swedish games we discussed a while back via email. I played through…
yeah, there’s this weird space between adventure and RPG on some of these, doesn’t really fall in either category that…
Tomorrow I’ll try to find more information about Spider Mountain, but I’ve seen Space Hero listed in magazines from March…
Bomb Scare is Bomb Threat, I played here – https://bluerenga.blog/2023/08/28/bomb-threat-hospital-adventure-1982/ Caves of Silver is ADV.CAVES, I played here – https://bluerenga.blog/tag/adv-caves/?order=ASC…
These are the games I’ve found for VIC20 (all from 1982 according to the gamebase): Bomb Scare (Victory Software) Caves…
aha, ROW RAFT works (don’t usually think of rafts as things you “row” exactly but I guess it works with…
btw, out of those in particular, the first two (Caverns, Dungeons) I sorted as RPGs, Dragon Slayer I hadn’t seen…
These are the games I’ve found for Dragon 32 (all from 1982 according to the gamebase): Caverns of Doom (Premier…
ummm is there maybe some object that if you were holding it would allow you to PADDLE or ROW?
I recommend using a GameBase frontend and downloading the gamebases for lesser-known computers. You can search for games by genre,…
thanks to both of you!
I found it: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/349217-ti-994a-gamebase/ It’s in the Games-Disk-mc folder. It must have had some popularity on the platform, because there’s…
also here https://archive.org/details/tibook_ti994a-software-directory/page/n213/mode/2up author Neil Weinstock Charles Ehninger was the person who ran the company https://forums.atariage.com/topic/250074-futura-software/
RIDE RAFT – you can’t do that here ENTER RAFT, BOARD RAFT – you can’t do that here GO RAFT…
I don’t have a copy of that one! I’d love to know if someone knows where to get it. but…
Hi Jason, I was browsing magazines on archive.org and found a mention of the game Ice Caverns of Xen, a…
What verbs have you tried with the raft? Probably LAUNCH, ENTER, GO, BOARD… what about RIDE?
Oh, also I just realized I needed to change my profile name from the random one they gave me (although…
I just finished the game (after having attempted it years ago). I got all but one treasure and was pretty…
Yeah, Takarajima was first published as a type-in in the 9/83 issue of PC Magazine. The first ad I can…
If you want to go directly to Cosmo Cross’s text adventure part, I have done some ELITE HACKING: LOAD”CAS1:” When…
no worries, this is good! Did you see ever mentioned Takarajima? That’s the other game by the Ghost Ship author…
Yeah, but wasn’t Mondrian the main villain in the first Ultima? <quickly slips out the back door>
That should be “I/O, 2/83, p.487”. Not sure what happened there.
Did a bit of research (is that exasperated groaning I hear?), and have an update on Japanese adventures released before…
it’s not just words but phrasesI found I could BUY GAS as a whole term while at the gas station…
Gotta love “words only work in specific rooms”. The predecessor to the equally infuriating “hotspot becomes active later”.
I think the restricted corpus mainly helped me in that there’s some very similar theming throughout (love, unrequited love, flowers,…
That happens to me all the time even in graphical games where you’d think it would be more obvious.
It took me twenty years to find the courthouse in A Mind Forever Voyaging and all you had to do…
Impressed you managed to get all the way through this one. Japanese wordplay puzzles are one of those things that…
oh that’s glorious it’s wild that Zork is rich enough you still feel like playing being stuck aboveground that long!
Absolute worst is when I miss a map exit exists. This can happen to me even on good, sensibly mappable…
@gschmidl That walkthough of Yobai is sadly incomplete, it gives up pretty much right at the finish line. I was…
A walkthrough for Yobai seems to be here: https://w.atwiki.jp/retropcgame/pages/438.html
I might be mixing up games, but if I’m thinking of the right one you have to say the right…
OK, it seems like the stand alone images of Seiko’s Adventure are bad, but the versions on compilation disks like…
if you wanted to be real charitable maybe it’s trying to be something from his Cubist phase like Three Musicians…
Well, this is clearly a Mondrian and not a Picasso.
Mari-chan Kiki Ippatsu I am not considering an adventure. I will mention it when I hit Seiko. (There is a…
Wow, congrats on finishing this! Even knowing the language, I pretty much gave up on this one after a few…
Yes, the “Q” and “+” were 100% indicating dakuten marks.
btw, there _is_ a video walkthrough of this one (from 8 years ago, only a couple hundred views), so at…
I think those were diacriticals? I admit I just avoided them and searched for the strings like they weren’t there.
Do you have an idea of what the references to the + and the Q are?
It’s a pretty brittle parser, it doesn’t surprise me the games in general were the type to require specific responses…
fixed, thanks!
“an alternate translation” should be a link but doesn’t actually link to anything.
There was one adventure, written just a few months after Puzzle Adventure, that has a very similar theme. Iroha Uta…
finished that last puzzle was probably the easiest there is another one after but it’s a contest puzzle you’re supposed…
GNT@8H NAKUT@W0 HLQQ the answer is before your eyes (probably something to do with the computer keyboard? I won’t have…
found it! left-right mirror was correct except the reference I was using had archaic Japanese pronunciation and put “varu” rather…
If you look at my most recent post, there _is_ a difference with sage #5 (the ears are smaller, you…
Looking between those apparently-indistinguishable sages is a headtrip. It’s enough to make you go back and forth on thinking, say,…
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