🚨Actual Atari 2600 text adventure submitted to this year's IFComp🚨: ifcomp.org/ballot/#entr...

One of the more subtle "nothing's changed in 42 years" aspects of A Mind Forever Voyaging: now, as then, you still need to give that "in Celsius" disclaimer to an American player: “Here are tomorrow’s high temperatures, in Celsius, for the major metros: [...]"

Tonight on WORT FM Radio Literature, Christian Neuhaus and April Brown on-air with me as we delve into the non-fiction prose of Edgar Allen Poe. (The guy had a lot of strong takes about interior decorating, macroeconomics, and notes-to-self.) 7:30 PM on 89.9 FM in Madison, wortfm.org worldwide.

So much text adventure news! So much reverb! The >OPEN MAILBOX team gets you caught up on the latest contests, preservation efforts, international reviews, and much more in our September installment. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/48/

OPEN MAILBOX September 2026 | The Retro Adventurers

Contest deadlines, international reviews, and some Ramsberg groveling lead our news coverage for text adventure enthusiasts this month. Tim, Jason, and Nick bring you the latest for one of the oldest ...

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As CeX offers to take retro tech trading into the mainstream, there's going to be profit margins and taxes to consider, and the middle-aged men of This Week in Retro are all over these details for your weekend enjoyment.

Finally escaping from Summer 2025! Pack your phrasebook & defend democracy: Infocom legend Brian Moriarty's early Adventure In the Fifth Dimension, then Invincible Island by Pete Cooke... inviting a little Derek & Clive discourse that avoids an Explicit flag. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/47

Invincible Island and Adventure in the Fifth Dimension | The Retro Adventurers

Pack your phrasebook and get ready to defend democracy as Ben and Jason take on a pair of quirky early 1980s adventures. For an appetizer, we order Infocom legend Brian Moriarty's early effort, a type...

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Amiga CEO Mike Battilana is our guest for questions about an AmigaOS settlement with Hyperion and licensing deals with Commodore. We also tackle two-player, split-screen Elite, a rich archive Atari ST software, 1970s computer records, new chapters for Worms and Quake, and more. youtu.be/R8Hq68k3gdc

Follow proper parliamentary procedure as original Xbox games come to Windows 11 (w/caveats), learn about the Bit 79, a souped-up Nintendo Famicom clone, and watch Chris dutifully delve into the world of pay-to-unlock content in an Artworx classic. youtu.be/14HUHNWZs1Y

Some very tight deadlines for a very old genre in this month's edition of >OPEN MAILBOX, where you GET TEXT ADVENTURE NEWS AND LISTEN TO IT. Contest voting, (scary) Visible Zorker updates, lost games and a lost development environment, and much more. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/46/

OPEN MAILBOX August 2026 | The Retro Adventurers

No rest for retro adventuring news this summer as Tim and Jason bring you lots of news: contest developments (don't delay, some deadlines are very very very soon!), Visible Zorker updates which aren't...

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After nearly 25 years, we forgot some of the quirks of the original Microsoft Xbox, like that it wouldn't actually play a DVD movie out of the box. Xbox makes a return for modern gamers and other special features are unlocked after additional purchase in This Week in Retro 279, arriving Saturday!

🎧 The one that emphasises human written, human researched, human everything! 🚫🤖 😆 Meanwhile, @jasoncompton.bsky.social waits patiently for his new Speccy 😈😁 and learns about sleeping policeman in the 🇬🇧 corner of the 🌍😊 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻

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The Washington Post named Doom the top cultural event of its decade. With retro blogger @stonetoolsblog.bsky.social we ask: was the television game show just as important to culture as Doom? Is buying arcade cabs ever sensible? And what happened to the Web and the browser? youtu.be/vOceobwqx3s

The Washington Post named Doom the top cultural event of its decade. With retro blogger @stonetoolsblog.bsky.social we ask: was the television game show just as important to culture as Doom? Is buying arcade cabs ever sensible? And what happened to the Web and the browser? youtu.be/vOceobwqx3s

High noon. Light guns at the chemist. Draw! Jason and Chris discuss a hotly contested story about NES nostalgia in the UK. Special guest Christopher Drum of Stone Tools watches politely (check out that to-do list, though) and will have more to say when the full episode hits on Saturday!

Bonus Dudley! The lovely @retroadventurers.bsky.social asked me to complete 2 random 1980s adventure games... In conversation with Jason Compton also of This Week in Retro, here's what happened. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vygo...

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"I don't want to suggest this is a more obviously American game than some others, but I will say you do solve one problem by shooting a tree." @yesterzine.bsky.social joins for Sirius Software's Gruds In Space and Spectrum exclusive Steve Silver #1. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/45/

Gigawatts of retro power: Get immersed in a Rave virtual arcade, Learn the daily grind of an RBMK nuclear reactor operator, And the hosts' check Retro Games Ltd.'s unusual video FAQ for followers of THEA1200. Plus everything from the IBM System/360 to Jaguar and PlayStation. youtu.be/eNj8a-8oOko

THEA1200 sparks THEDiscussion of THEFilesystem challenges! Retro Games Ltd. put out a helpful Q&A video recently. But does it raise more questions than it answers? Chris and Jason grapple with decades-old Fast File System limitations and more this Saturday!

New episode of 260 Weeks Ago in Retro out now for our supporters, a look back at Episode 42 of the show from June 2021! www.patreon.com/thisweekinre...

Sony's pushed the physical media doomsday clock closer to midnight! Also: the life and career of Psion PLC founder and innovator David Potter, the many hazards of the modern online auction scene, a short-lived 3DO reboot, new uses for old RAM, and much more. youtu.be/7vcEHNCiemw

With Sony apparently accelerating the death of physical game media, what will the future of throwback-media nostalgia look like? Jason has one idea, involving a (hypothetical) very successful second date with (checks notes) Marguerite. Subscribe now and don't miss This Week in Retro 276 on Saturday!

Sega's mission: make history easier to play, also publish more Sonic 1 and 2 carts?! Also: Pentium-friendly KolibriOS and an Amiga 1200 upgraded beyond belief. Plus the best real-world locations to simulate in-game, more Commodore Callback chat, and a special 40th birthday! youtu.be/KoFj-4bluaQ

Is the pace of operating system upgrades increasing? Or are we just too old to conform? (You already know the answer.) Sega and Amiga features plus more operating system discourse, and more, when This Week in Retro 275 arrives Saturday!

Plenty of contest results, a new Inform library (or is it?) and news so late-breaking we have to interrupt our news to bring other news! retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/44/

"What now lies ahead in the ULTIMA saga can only be pure speculation!" Can Lord British reclaim Ultima? Can Chris tell the difference between reality and sims? Will new IDEs for C64 Ultimate, ST, Amiga, Mac, and DOS uncork new apps and games? Plus Commodore phone takes and more! youtu.be/zEiSTyUyLaI

A look at the planned C64 Ultimate Game Engine (a dev system for the enhanced FPGA model of the Commodore 64) prompts the questions: will users accept C64 Ultimate-only titles? And how's that been going for the Spectrum Next (assuming that yours has shipped, that is)? All this and more Saturday!

At least they're polite about it.

🎧 The extra long one that talks retro history, including the Computer Literacy Project which “was so great, you’re still explaining computer buying 15 years later.” A spicy @jasoncompton.bsky.social at a terrible hour this week! 👏😆 🎮 #VideoGames 🕹️ #RetroGaming #RetroComputing ⌨️ #Podcasts 📻

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World-first reveal! Tony Smales (ex-Melbourne House) gives a tour of never-released pinball Arcade Wizzard for Commodore 64! Plus: definitive overview of the Sega Dreamcast, and home PC shopping in 1998. youtu.be/ThWzhOzD8BI and be sure to check @gamesthatwerent.com for more on Tony's attic disks!

Laugh while you can, monkey-boy! Telarium/Trillium's sequel to Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 and Adventure International's sequel to Buckaroo Banzai in the latest game episode of The Retro Adventurers. retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/43/

World-first reveal! Tony Smales (ex-Melbourne House) gives a tour of never-released pinball Arcade Wizzard for Commodore 64! Plus: definitive overview of the Sega Dreamcast, and home PC shopping in 1998. youtu.be/ThWzhOzD8BI and be sure to check @gamesthatwerent.com for more on Tony's attic disks!

To accommodate Melbourne (House) guest Tony Smales and the usual international crew, one of us got up extra-early. It may have impacted his patience with a condescending BBC computer buying guide. All this, an exclusive game reveal after decades in an attic, and more crabbiness coming Saturday!