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Explore classic text adventure games from legendary publishers and authors including Magnetic Scrolls, Level 9, Infocom, Scott Adams, and Interplay. A podcast for fans of GET LAMP, Eaten By a Grue, The Classic Adventurer, Renga In Blue, and Quest For Clues. Follow us on your favorite podcast app, and keep the conversations going on Facebook and Bluesky.
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Explore classic text adventure games from legendary publishers and authors including Magnetic Scrolls, Level 9, Infocom, Scott Adams, and Interplay. A podcast for fans of GET LAMP, Eaten By a Grue, The Classic Adventurer, Renga In Blue, and Quest For Clues. Follow us on your favorite podcast app, and keep the conversations going on Facebook and Bluesky.
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1 Episode 15 - Lancelot and G.F.S. Sorceress 1:15:09
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1:15:09Our first three-player episode since the premiere pits Ben, Jason, and Nick against challenges that span millennia! Learn the intricacies of long-lost Earth military law as Joe Justin fights for freedom in Avalon Hill's G.F.S. Sorceress before traveling way back to King Arthur's England in Level 9's Lancelot. Robots, colored objects, and companion knights (so, so many companion knights) stand ready to assist! Lancelot on Level 9 Memorial Lancelot on IFDB Lancelot playable online (BBC Micro) Lancelot documentation Lancelot walkthrough (AppleAdventures) G.F.S. Sorceress documentation G.F.S. Sorceress walkthrough (AppleAdventures) Avalon Hill computer titles (MobyGames) The Visible Zorker SAM Coupé Adventure Club Crown of Arturo for Sharp MZ-700…
Dave and Jason return to the pioneering Artic Adventure series with Ship of Doom (Adventure C) before plunging into a fantasy world on the brink in The Dark Crystal by Sierra, licensed from Henson Associates and representing the very last example of Roberta Williams' parser game design. The Dark Crystal manual and short story The Dark Crystal on SierraGamers The Dark Crystal map and solution in New Atari User Ship of Doom on Spectrum Computing Ship of Doom, reimagined top-down All Sierra On-Line Hi-Res Adventures Roberta Williams full credits (Mobygames) Artic Adventures gallery (MOCAGH)…
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1 Episode 13 - 2024 Year-End Chatisode 2:39:03
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2:39:03Holiday merriment! All the hosts! Return special guests! Minimal editing! Retro Adventurers Dave, Jason, Nick, and founder Ben(!) chat about the year that was, later joined by Scott Adams (Episode 3) and Tim Gilberts (Episode 5)! Hear about Tim Gilberts' Heathkit, Scott Adams' next professional moves, adventures in ADABAS / Natural, and a long-overdue callback to the Clarion Beauty Computer! Ken Reed's Adventure II article in Practical Computing Maze for the MK/14 computer kit PDP-12: HELLORLD! The Beepy handheld computer Adventuron Nick's Cloak of Darkness in AWK Knytt Stories The Book of Adventure Games Tim Gilberts on YouTube Scott Adams Consulting Bubble Bonk Final Pilot Adventureland XL…
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1 Episode 12 - Avon and Macbeth 1:18:30
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1:18:30Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy, Jason and Nick ask for a double-helping of Shakespeare text adventures. The chef heaps a challenging amount of "appetizer" Macbeth (1984, Oxford Digital Enterprises) on their plates, but main course Avon (1982/1988, Topologika) has its day. And that day may be foul, and/or fair, as you like it. Macbeth on MobyGames Macbeth on MOCAGH Avon on MobyGames Avon (Playable online, BBC Micro) Avon mainframe source code Topologika Ltd. overview Topologika on The Digital Antiquarian Macbeth solution (almost) The Tempest (1997)…
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1 Episode 11 - A Conversation with Ron Martinez 1:09:13
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1:09:13In this interview episode we're transfixed by the career of Ron Martinez, whose interactive fiction began as a writer for the Be an Interplanetary Spy book series, the Trillium/Telarium home conversion of Rendezvous With Rama, and the design and implementation of Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy powered by his own TRANS Fiction System parser. Since then Ron has had a widely varied career, and a widely varied career since then including pioneering work in NFTs. Ron and Jason discuss the wild experimental days at Electronic Arts, the nature of "post-linear" storytelling and the trade-offs of writing in the Star Trek universe, and Ron's brush with actual immortality. Invention Arts Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy on archive.org Rendezvous with Rama on archive.org Full GET LAMP documentary interview Ron Martinez MobyGames credits…
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1 Episode 10 - The Lurking Horror and Crypt of Medea 1:31:10
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1:31:10Jason and first-time Retro Adventurer Nick Moffitt sample two courses of text adventure horror, featuring Infocom's "MIT with the serial numbers filed off" The Lurking Horror and Sir-Tech Software's "don't call it a Murder Hospital, call it the" Crypt of Medea. Jason also speaks with Strange Studies of Strange Stories co-host Chad Fifer about how, when, and why the Lovecraftian school of horror became mainstream entertainment fodder. The Lurking Horror Crypt of Medea The Call of Cthulhu (2005 film) The Apple II Mockingboard…
Seemingly from out of nowhere, Kingdom of the Seven Stones, a sprawling text/graphic adventure has just been published for the Commodore 64 by The Future was 8 Bit. Creator (and Retro Adventurers listener!) Robin Raymond joins Jason to talk about how the game took shape, why it's cartridge-only, and what the future might hold for his new C-based 8-bit adventure game engine. Kingdom of the Seven Stones @ TFW8b Martin Piper's technical analysis Dithertron The Coveted Mirror Ulysses and the Golden Fleece…
Dave and Jason make another transatlantic cultural exchange in this episode, beginning with the youth-oriented Windham Classics' Swiss Family Robinson before heading to the deadly grownup world of Norse mythology for Legend's Valhalla. Valhalla playable online (ZX Spectrum) Swiss Family Robinson playable online (Commodore 64) August 1983 ad for Valhalla (Sinclair User Magazine)…
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1 Episode 7 - A Conversation with Roberta and Ken Williams 1:20:36
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1:20:36In this interview episode (cruelly cut short by an impatient harbormaster) we barely scratch the surface of the careers of the legendary power couple of adventure gaming. Jason speaks with Roberta and Ken Williams of On-Line Systems / Sierra On-Line fame. We touch on chapters from the late 1970s to present day, including the first text/graphics adventures on the Apple II to King's Quest and Phantasmagoria, and the new reimagined Colossal Cave published by Cygnus Entertainment. Colossal Cave Farewell to Tara by Roberta Williams Not All Fairy Tales Have Happy Endings by Ken Williams Sierra Gamers Mystery House (Hi-Res Adventure #1) playable online…
Dave and Jason take on a pair of BBC Micro originals from the early 1980s in this episode, with the appetizer course of Acornsoft's first adventure game Sphinx Adventure by Paul Fellows, followed by the main course of Twin Kingdom Valley by Trevor Hall. Twin Kingdom Valley playable online Sphinx Adventure playable online…
Tim Gilberts published legendary text adventure creation systems The Quill and Professional Adventure Writer (PAW) through family publishing house Gilsoft in the 1980s. These products became the basis for hundreds of commercial games, many developed and sold as part of a late direct-to-consumer wave of adventure development in the late 1980s into the 1990s. Dave and Jason discuss with Tim the origins of The Quill and its successors, the reasons for its success and lasting impact, and Tim's connections to gaming today. Gilsoft Tim Gilberts' YouTube channel Zenobi Software Stranded by Dave Hawkins Ghostship Delgado by Tony Kingsmill (2024 Quill game)…
Dave and Jason seek revenge on the dread pirate Skarvench and go on an interplanetary hunt for the mysterious Wing. This episode of The Retro Adventurers explores the neo-retro title Down Among the Dead Men (originally published as a Virtual Reality Adventures gamebook in 1993, converted into ZIL (Zork Implementation Language) and Z-Machine binary format in 2020 by SD Separa) and the oft-overlooked Interplay launch title The Tracer Sanction, originally published by Activision. The Tracer Sanction playable online Down Among the Dead Men (includes play link) Transporter by Andrew Laker (includes play link) Solution and map for Transporter Dead Flesh Retro Terrormolinos Slaine…
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1 Episode 3 - A Conversation With Scott Adams 1:01:30
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1:01:30Scott Adams of Adventure International and Clopas fame joins Dave and Jason for a conversation on this episode of The Retro Adventurers. We discuss the rise and fall of Adventure International, the Marvel Comics relationship behind the Questprobe games featuring The Hulk, Spider-Man, and The Human Torch & The Thing, building international business relationships, and more. >GO WEST You are in an office. Big Tall Jim Shooter is here. Clopas LLC Adventureland XL Stereotypical by Clopas (in development) Adventure International (Mobygames profile) Portland Retro Gaming Expo…
Retro Adventurers Jason Compton and Dave Hawkins explore iconic early text adventure The Hobbit (by Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler, adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien) and Planet of Death (by Richard Turner and Chris Thornton). Includes listener mail, an explanation for postponing the promised Knight Orc , and a dive into both games. Special thanks to Robin Harbron of 8-Bit Show and Tell for final engineering. Links Planet of Death playable ZX81 edition The Hobbit playable Spectrum 128 enhanced edition AppleAdventures on YouTube Renga in Blue's Planet of Death finale (featuring "Dusty Bin") The Tracer Sanction Down Among the Dead Men…
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1 Episode 1 - The Pawn and Around the World 1:43:04
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1:43:04(Please note that Episode 1 has some audio issues which are ironed out in future episodes.) The premiere of The Retro Adventurers. Three old-school gamers talk about text adventures they have loved, hated, or are just experiencing for the first time. In this episode, Ben Collier, Jason Compton, and Dave Hawkins take a look at early text adventure Around the World and the first Magnetic Scrolls adventure, The Pawn. Includes news, biographical notes, and a dive into both games. Links Ronin by David Alzofon Ghosts Of Blackwood Manor PunyInform Infocom Z-Machine interpreter source code The Classic Adventurer Softside adventure archive including Around the World (Apple II emulator image) The Pawn at the Magnetic Scrolls Memorial (playable online)…
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