Tag: Text Adventure
Adventure is often considered to be the very first text adventure. It was written in 1975-76 by Will Crowther. Don Woods found it at his university, asked Will Crowter for the source code, expanded it greatly, and released his own version, which we now know as 350p Adventure. Adventure was sometimes called Colossal Cave Adventure. Sometimes it was just called…
The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor is an award-winning interactive horror from Stefan Vogt, the acclaimed author of Hibernated and The Curse of Rabenstein. Take on the role of novelist Thomas King and his wife Cora as they move into a remote Scottish manor house, just days before Christmas 1986. Seeking inspiration for his next book, Thomas begins to explore the…
Stefan Vogt aka @8bit_era on Twitter recently announced a new horror text adventure is coming to various vintage home computers. Bookmark his itch page here, we’ll keep you updated with more News. My brand new #Infocom style Horror #adventure "The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor" is due to be released soon for all major home computers of the #80s. Here are…
Area 51: Roswell Incident” A noir, sci-fi detective survival adventure for your ZX Spectrum 48k.Made with a customized version of the MuCho engine by Jari Komppa. Music created with Beepola by Shiru. Area 51 contains homages to the sci-fi series and movies of the 80’s: V television series, The Greatest American Hero, X Files, E.T. the extra-terrestrial, Close Encounters of the…
Stefan Vogt (@8bit_era on Twitter) has two text-adventure games (with nice graphics!) available for a while for the C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS. The games are Hibernated 1 and Eight Feet Under (an add-on for the former). If all that wasn’t enough, Stefan has announced yesterday that he ported the game for yet another…
Pond Software has released a brand new text adventure game, written by Stefan Vogt, titled Hibernated 1: This Place is Death. Hibernated 1 is a classic text adventure game for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum that takes place in a science-fiction setting and is the first interactive story in a triology centered around interplanetary explorer, Olivia Lund. Setting out…
Stefan Bylund has released a limited demo of the text adventure game “The Pawn” for the ZX Spectrum Next! The Pawn first appeared on the Sinclair QL in 1985. Amiga and Atari ST versions were later released in 1986. There was also a text only version for the ZX Spectrum 128 and later the ZX Spectrum +3. I have never…
So, I have taken it upon myself to do the unthinkable, I am writing a 1000 room text adventure in qbasic64, it’s a modern version of qbasic that runs on modern computers. So within it, you play a reporter who’s plane goes down during a storm and you crash land on a small island off the east coast of the…
Kevin Savetz (of Antic – The Atari 8-bit Podcast) and Carrington Vanston (of the Retro Computing Roundtable) have launched a brand new, fabulous podcast about text adventure games. In this new podcast, Carrington and Kevin will chose a classic text adventure game, play it for a month, and then talk about it together for our listening pleasure. They reminisce about…
Good Afternoon Retro Gamers, today we have a treat for you, Genesis Project have recently released a cracked version of Goblin Towers for the Commodore 64. Goblin Towers is a text based adventure. An ancient castle stands within a large forest. It is rumoured that within the castle live goblins who guard a vast treasure. The player starts their quest…
