the conclusion to the short and surreal Fun House by published ASD&D of Minnesota
which started with shaving a clown and ends with the most surreal science puzzle I've seen in a while
includes an analysis of BASIC source code
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/08/fun-house-science-with-mr-morgan/
Next on All the Adventures:
Fun House (Scott Morgan, 1982) starts with a clown shoving the player in a pit and the player giving them a shave.
It keeps getting weirder from there.
The conclusion to my history of the Interact Computer and Troll Hole Adventure. Includes a picture of a prototype, very bad marketing skills, and why the French version of the game ended up having much more prominence than the English one.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/05/the-troll-hole-adventure-the-one-who-knows-english/
The obscure Interact computer made in Michigan only sold in the thousands, but made an impact in France. I tell the story behind the computer (and how France got involved), and how the tech influenced the game I'm still only partway through (The Troll Hole Adventure).
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/03/the-troll-hole-adventure-1980/
The conclusion of the Apple II game Sherwood Forest, involving some antics to entertain the Merry Men, impress Maid Marion, and completely bypass the Sheriff who is a bit of a jerk anyway
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/02/sherwood-forest-lets-go-make-some-beautiful-music-together/
All the Adventures is starting to wind down on 1982. Sherwood Forest is the last Apple II graphical game left!
Dale Johnson of the extremely difficult Madventure and Palace in Thunderland returns with something that seems to be a little bit easier ... so far.
At All the Adventures, the conclusion to the Very British game Time Adventure, involving Merlin in a high-tech laboratory, the boat Queen Elizabeth 2, and warding off a fantasy creature with Terry Wogan's smelly socks.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/31/time-adventure-queen-elizabeths-revenge/
Peter Smith, who previously borrowed heavily from Supersoft's version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to make his own "Hitch-Hiker", returns in this time-travel game which seems to be mostly (?) original and includes a mechanic very rarely seen in this period.
Recently on All the Adventures I featured a game (Hitch-hiker) which adapted some of the locations and puzzles from a totally different commercial game. Danger Island (for Dragon 32) does the same thing (adapting an obscure game for the Acorn Atom).
Next on All the Adventures, I play the first three "Misadventures", naughty games by the "Softcore Software Co." via Bob Krotts of Dayton, Ohio.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/27/misadventures-1-2-and-3-1982/
Next on All the Adventures:
Kirsch continues his wild exploration of different genres as the protagonist squares off against the brothers of the Dalton Gang.
Includes location-and-condition-based event triggers, unannounced softlocks and Dirty Harry.
A new quest begins! This one's vaguely Dr. Who shaped, as we play a Time Warden looking for the Key of Time before the universe implodes.
The game itself is unpublished -- found by the author in an old pile of tapes years later -- and hence extremely obscure.
in my 1337th post on Renga in Blue, I give the finale of Dan Kitchen's early game Crystal Caverns
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/16/crystal-caverns-estate-landlord/
This is my third post about Crystal Caverns, the text adventure from Dan Kitchen (of Activision fame).
The game now lurches close to the end, but I wanted to write a post about a particularly horrendous moment of parser confusion.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/14/crystal-caverns-the-worst-spot-in-the-game/
in which Crystal Caverns continues and I give the general map, which rather than being an intricate maze is more like a series of long tunnels holding secrets
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/13/crystal-caverns-samson-like-effort/
in which I embark on an atmospheric text adventure from Dan Kitchen's early days, Crystal Caverns
(Dan Kitchen went on to be one of the original Activision programmers with games like Ghostbusters and River Raid II)
includes some early history of electronic LCD games
Next on All the Adventures, come for the tale of ill-fated Rabbit Software and the equally ill-fated "Knives of Eternity" series
includes dumping a van full of faulty tapes on a London street
my conclusion to Keys of the Wizard
where I experience bugs, maybe, except it's hard to tell what's really a bug
and where I theorize a solution to the adventure-roguelike problem
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/08/keys-of-the-wizard-maximum-difficulty/
Coming Soon:
"Der Geist in der Tür"
Das erste Computerspiel im Setting Genius Loci!
Wer will im Rollenspiel keine Haustiere haben? Hier kann man reiten!
Die meisten Tiere sind Segramen, schlanke rotschwarze Renner mit kleinem Geweih, die auch die großen Raganaj tragen können.
Außerdem gibt es eine Anzahl treuherzig dreinblickender , deren flauschiges gelbgrünes Gefieder eifrig geraschelt wird, als sie dienstbar versuchen, dich anzulocken.
