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denzquix

@denzquix.bsky.social

Retro adventure game enthusiast, programmer/tinkerer, digital preservation projects, he/they

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Emmy@emmfoolery.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I FOUND A COPY! (Also the missing Wizard of Words manual!) Unfortunately this is the older version, and I don't currently have a way to retrieve this off a 5.25". If any Melburnian pals wanna help a gal out, hmu, otherwise I'll post it to one of my interstate connections. 😊

I GOT A PHYSICAL COPY OF WORD FUN ONE, WHEEEEEEEEEE.
Emmy@emmfoolery.bsky.social · 7mo ago

FUCK IT, MISSING DOS WEDNESDAY Trying to locate an Australian DOS game from ≈ 1988, 𝐋𝐞𝐱, 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐧 𝟏. The game was part of a series of four Edutainment games by Reckon Software/John Grimley. Here's the box cover art, a text ad, and screenshots of 2 other games in the series! Help a gal out!?

Lex, Word Fun One cover art. Wizard with helicopters. Incredible concept. The game allows you to become a wordy pilot of the Semantic Squadron, I've read!
Emmy@emmfoolery.bsky.social · 7mo ago

FUCK IT, MISSING DOS WEDNESDAY Trying to locate an Australian DOS game from ≈ 1988, 𝐋𝐞𝐱, 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐅𝐮𝐧 𝟏. The game was part of a series of four Edutainment games by Reckon Software/John Grimley. Here's the box cover art, a text ad, and screenshots of 2 other games in the series! Help a gal out!?

Lex, Word Fun One cover art. Wizard with helicopters. Incredible concept. The game allows you to become a wordy pilot of the Semantic Squadron, I've read!Word Fun 1 Based on a helicopter theme, this package provides learners with plenty of hands on action as they take control of their various aircraft. Its interesting graphics reinforce the fantasy aspect of a skill building word rescue assignment. Oppocopter uses words taken from a large pool of carefully selected exact opposite pairs, that have beeen graded into four levels of difficulty. The learner manoeuvres a helicopter to shoot down the correct opposite from a multiple selection. A scorebar counts correct answers, but if an error is made, the correct answer is highlighted. At each level, one of four speeds can be chosen to place a time limit on answering each question. Synocopter asks the learner to effect a rescue by helicopter, by matching a word with its exact synonym to correctly locate the target. There are three levels of difficulty and three speeds to choose from. Alphacopter provides a unique way to practise alphabetical skills as well as strategic problem solving skills. Using a helicopter to lift the top word block off one of three piles and then to move it to another pile, the learner is able to transform a randomly ordered pile of words into an alphabetically ordered array. Six levels grade this activity from a simple task to a most demanding one. The exciting action in all three games gives this package a particularly strong computer games appeal which is well balanced by its sound educational content. Walk across instructions and the very simple, clear, and consistent use of the arrow keys for all user controls, make it very easy to use for all age levels. Ages five - fifteen.Spelling Fun 1 menu screen. In fetching CGA!Lex, Wizard of Words commencement screen. Yet more lovely CGA!
Emmy@emmfoolery.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The VGHF is wonderful humans doing wonderful, important work. If you have the spare cash for a games hobbyist purchase, please consider throwing some their way. …Otherwise they're gonna hafta commission a Phil Funko Pop or something…

Video Game History Foundation@gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate

Evilbatwitch@evilbatwitch.cryptoanarchy.network · 9mo ago

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Rude Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose. Highlighted Off, darkened Warn, and darkened Hide buttons.
Jason Dyer@jdyer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

1982 was very early for Japanese adventure games, with only a small number of releases. Takara Building Adventure thus is one of the earliest adventure games in Japanese, but it was not generally available... ...until today. Includes some unexpected history! bluerenga.blog/2025/10/29/t...

Takara Building Adventure Part 1 (1982)

The last time I wrote about a Japanese game was with The Palms, where I mentioned skipping over two games from 1982 because there were no copies available. This was one of them. Brief history recap…

bluerenga.blog

denzquix@denzquix.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I translated "Møt meg i Malaga" ("Meet Me in Malaga"), an MS-DOS game produced in the late 1980s for the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Science, intended to promote safer sex and warn about HIV risk in particular. You take on the role of a teenager backpacking across Europe by train.

Meet Me in Malaga [Unofficial English translation] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Unofficial English translation of the Norwegian MS-DOS game Møt meg i Malaga from the late 1980s.The original game is available...

archive.org

denzquix@denzquix.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Splitting off a secondary thread here for a subcategory: adventure games commissioned by government departments, NGOs, political parties etc. as part of an outreach campaign, raising awareness about a key issue (like the environment, or personal safety) or the work that the organisation does.

denzquix@denzquix.bsky.social · 2y ago

I have an ongoing project to translate non-English promotional adventure games into English, like the German ones featured in the "Werbespiel-Archiv": werbespiel.blogspot.com/search/label...

Dungeonbuster@dungeonbuster.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Bugs and Drugs (1978) released on the PLATO mainframe by Mark Gorback, Dave Tanaka, and Paul Alfille is an early edutainment RPG. Targeted mainly towards medical students, players explore a hospital "dungeon" fighting diseases with fists or with medicine! (a deadly residency thread)

Michael@michaelklamerus.bsky.social · last yr.

IMO game devs should reach out to their local library to see if they would be willing to do conventions for locally made games. You get so many people looking at your stuff who will never come across it on social media

Emmy@emmfoolery.bsky.social · last yr.

Me realising I never took a good photo of my Psygnosis owl cosplay, then realising my wings were too big to fit in the frame of my webcam, then having an internal crisis.

Woman dressed in a bizarre, homemade costume, representing the logo of British video game developer Psygnosis. She looks distressed.
denzquix@denzquix.bsky.social · last yr.

v1.0 of "King's Quest 1: Rubber Tree Edition" is up! Apply the mod here: denzquix.github.io/agi-patch/ You will need the files from the non-enhanced DOS version. The patched files will run in ScummVM under the "Fan AGI" option, or in DOSBox if you include other files from the original game folder.

denzquix@denzquix.bsky.social · 2y ago

Current project: a mod for King's Quest 1 (AGI) which adds >UNDO and circumvents softlocks, titled King's Quest: Rubber Tree Edition. A pre-release version was recently featured on stream by the inimitable @emmxyzzy.bsky.social

An edited demo clip of the King's Quest 1 "Rubber Tree Edition" mod, showing Graham falling from a giant beanstalk while climbing it, but the player types "undo" while he plummets, which instantly places him safely back where he fell from.