Best guess on the pongs: https://20thcenturyvideogames.com/index.php?action=vermodelos&submenu=&tipo=2&sistema=Tristar&verletra=T#Tristar Luxor imported one earlier, but that would have been old news by late 1978.…
one bonus question for anyone who knows their Euro-Pong home clones – what would the Pong games be that the…
[…] entered the market directly until later in the 80s (this is in contrast to Denmark, where they did battle…
thanks I moved the link over to his name (it’s German Wikipedia which has a picture of what he looked…
The link to “a German botanist” is broken.
Just a slight heads up, Hummingbird Soft’s “Knight of Wonderland” also casually refers to 油菜 as “RAPE” in-game, as though…
4711 is a very well known number also in Sweden (though not among younger generations), connected to the perfume. It…
A few thoughts: The “rifts” in the barn are just the gaps between planks. “glooming blue” is probably from glimmern/glosen,…
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it’s mixed. British is bonnet and boot, so the author used the US trunk and the British bonnet.
“Bonnet” is British, right? But then the trunk would be a “boot” I think. Maybe another effect of a non-native…
sorry this is taking a while most cryptic part has been you have to open the totally unmentioned “trunk” and…
Oh, the joy of PETSCII and all the issues it brought to humanity. Some gory details can be found here:…
Oh, cool, looking forward to the next post!
Nice catch! I’m fairly sure it’s the same person because of another thing in the game (halfway through my post,…
You’re welcome! I have a very small clue about the author, though I’m not sure how accurate it is: in…
Thanks! I’m not done with the game yet so I’m switching over to PET for the screenshots after.
That worked immediately, my .d64 and .tap did not. Thanks!
If the problem isn’t with the emulator, then it must be with the PRG file you intend to use. You…
That’s what I tried, but I still get the same result: https://i.imgur.com/2rBPnMj.png
On the recent versions of VICE, you have to force it by selecting in PREFERENCES > MACHINE > MODEL a…
Would you mind sharing the exact settings? 2001 with 32K memory is unknown to xpet, and no other version I’ve…
The Citadel Adventure BASIC listing can tell us a lot about the hardware it was designed for, particularly the combination…
Someone probably told you already, but just in case: 4711 is a German perfume brand, the original Eau de Cologne.
Putting cigarettes in inventory instead of dropping has a similar flavour.
Confiming everything the others said about 4711 and 0815 and adding some more details. These are probably more tongue in…
4711, “Genuine Cologne Water”, is the origin of the English generic term “cologne”, that’s how old it is. The other…
I’d worry that there might be other things that get lost in translation, one way or another, since the line…
Searching “4711 perfume,” I found a traditional German perfume called 4711. Never would I have guessed that.
Taking all the cool scenes out of a movie to make a game out of them is normally a solid…
This kinda seems like those IP-cash in games that are Monopoly or Concentration with the characters’ names pasted on, except…
Certainly possible (although having read enough of their other stuff, they’re really tolerant of some janky stuff, so I wasn’t…
Also, for what it’s worth, I got the strong sense that the proprietor of the AVG blog was being wholly…
I’m not sure how you’d even make a good game out of Genma Taisen, considering the source material is trash…
Max. Maximum kusoge.
I’m guessing you didn’t have the PC-8001 crash? I’d say both scenes 2 and 3 felt very different (2 had…
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*shakes fist at WordPress* thanks!
Four broken links: “The Dark Crystal”, “Technopolis December 1983”, “scan by Hubz” and “with anime video in the late 70s”.
If you want to be really thorough, be aware that Scene 3 in the PC-8001 version, specifically, is significantly different…
[…] System, which later launched a music tape business in 1966 and Canyon Records in 1970. Like Xtal Soft they…
hmm, maybe the Nelson password works somewhere totally different to find out where to use the master key password? If…
Okay, I found it. In rot13, Jura lbh trg gb gur terra tnyyrel, FNLZNFGRE XRL naq lbh jvyy or gryrcbegrq…
I tried this game, but did not find much more than you did. Here are two things you missed: When…
“on” for “no” as well, and “decend”… just a lot of errors.
I can see leaving the B off the street or getting the Circus name wrong happening from print Lestrade’s name…
Nothing came from the East End (or West End) Locksmith Co., it looks like? Given the spelling in general, maybe…
My brain clearly was trying to autocorrect that.
Lestrade is called La Strade, not Le Strade, applying the eternal principle of Tea and No Tea.
[…] that might justify a full 30 pages in a LARP session. Exceptions have included The Hobbit, Robin Hood Adventure,…
[…] getting to our author today, I need to revisit one of the prior games from this blog, Max’s Adventure.…
If it gets discovered, I’d still like to play it But it’s not a rush (Note, between the lines, me…
“We don’t have any copies of Salvage” “I still would like to try Salvage sometime (the other Custom Software game)…
btw, if anyone wants to check the author’s next game (it will be quite a while before I get there)…
Be aware that The Temple is incomplete/broken. I sent it to Richard to see if he thinks anything can be…
The Stefan Modin stuff is on my list in not too long – it’s going to be after Genma Taisen,…
that’s a really good example! Lisa’s been on my to-play list for a while, it seems like the sort of…
[…] between the ages of 12 and 14, had his initial publisher contact (Mad Hatter Software) through the Boston Computer…
thanks!
Lisa: The Painful leaves the main character permanently disabled, depending on your choices, and this makes him much worse in…
And if you’re wondering how to get Swedish characters: Grab the Swedish chargen and kernal from here: https://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/firmware/computers/vic20/index.html xvic.exe -memory…
While writing the Swedish Virus comment here, I realized that I’d neglected to mention this, in case anyone’s interested: https://spillhistorie.no/2026/07/09/tidlig-norsk-spillhistorie-reddet/…
I just got news from Richard Smedley of the excellent Vic-20 Listings site that he’s uploaded Virus, a historically interesting…
When I saw the “You didn’t pull hard enough” message my first thought was PULL HARDER. I would bet that…
The El Explorador de RPG link for Super Quest links to The CRPG Addict’s. Here’s El’s link – https://exploradorrpg.wordpress.com/juegos/super-quest/
[…] lost gun (and fact it gets you just killed earlier) puts this as yet another data point in my…
[…] to get it out of the way first, we’ve got headhunters again, something I’ve written about before. Since this…
[…] I’ve finished the game; this is continued from my previous post. […]
Ack, that was supposed to be another in the thread just above this (although I can’t reply directly to the…
“With what? Your bear hands?” …sorry, I’ll show myself out.
I’m actually past this now (you have to LOOK TREE and you see a hornet nest, sigh; none of the…
interesting you bring this up since I just played Thissala on the Data General drive that same drive had a…
Around now I would be trying STRANGLE BEAR and being absolutely shocked if it worked.
So awesome! These are fantastic reads. I checked the “travel table” in the code. As you discovered, WEST always stays…
So awesome! These are fantastic reads. I checked the “travel table” in the code. As you discovered, WEST always stays…
oh wait, you can just CUT ROPE twice and it will let you (never had that happen before, oddly enough)…
It says something about how “I was never good at untying things”
A further thought/question: after cutting the canoe’s rope, does it (the rope) remain as a usable object? What if we…
“I don’t know what STAB BEAR means” THROW KNIFE / AT BEAR causes the bear to wake up and kill…
boar doesn’t wake the bear THROW APPLE / AT BEAR wakes the bear and it kills you (which is promising,…
Without looking at hints, ideas that come to mind are: (1) Might the bear wake up if a boar whizzes…
In case violence is the answer, could you try STAB BEAR? I would also wonder if nounless SHO could be…
I don’t know until I get there. I am assuming it is one of the two. (I guess SWITCH is…
SWIM and SWING can’t be distinct verbs with a three-letter parser, so which is the “real” one?
Good evening, I’ve only recently discovered this old game, and I find it absolutely fascinating. For clues #12, #13, and…
Colin, I’ve just noticed your comment. Thank you for your part in preserving these games. After struggling with a bugged…
Thanks for the heads-up! I remember that Andrew actually popped up both here and on GTW64 last year to mention…
https://www.commodoregames.net/Commodore64/Werewolf-16994.html It also looks like this site has a C64 version of werewolf you can play in your browser.
fyi there is a comment on this Youtube video from the original owner/player of these diskettes (Andrew Hornsby): https://youtube.com/watch?v=EphifnWSHPU Colin.
The 83 date and Crown Castle are from the website/zip file on Jones’s site I will just do a split…
I thought the shovel was needed to bury the body. “BURY BODY” worked because the parser only looked for the…
That’s strange. I just clicked on it and it works for me. Maybe it’s the browser you’re using? You could…
That link just takes me to a blank page.
Here you go: https://www.planetemu.net/rom/commodore-c64-games-adventure-t64/werewolf-1982-dunk-nigel-j-w These should probably be listed as 1982 games, though. Quoting myself from a February, 2025 comment…
The priest says *you* (the PC) aren’t a nice person, so he won’t let you pass. “I see you’re not…
“low memory capacity” – it doesn’t link to anything
Yeah, it’s more the “he’s drunk and says he’s a bad person while drunk, so let’s kill him” part of…
I think the priest is meant to be a drunk slurring his speech. Presumably he’ll drink anything, assuming it to…
[…] at the altar. The cross is made of gold, but the crucifix is made of silver, which is (using…
Renga in Blue 
Thank you for mentioning my Substack! The detail you pointed out in the game does indeed suggest that Hans-Dieter Ihlenfeldt…