Jon Ellis It’s a game that suffers too much from sheer frustration, which many of these games from the early days of text adventures do. Puzzles that expect something that the user couldn’t possibly know about, dying from lack of food or water after a strict number of moves
This is repost from my Revival Records site as it doesn’t quite fit in there, being more of a blog post than a review. Followers of Revival Records over on maston or, over time, various other social media sites will have seen me mention this obscure oddity before. It was found in a box of 7-inch … Read more
As promised at the end of the last adventure post, we’re looking today at the graphics version of Adventureland by Adventure International, which came out some 4 years after the text only game. I’m also going to try a new format which may or may not prevail – influenced somewhat by Sprite Castle, I’m going … Read more
“The very desire to find shortcuts makes you eminently unsuited for any kind of mastery.” Robert Greene. I have been messing around with apple shortcuts lately and now have three I’m really quite pleased with – I am sharing them here with the caveat that they may not do what you need or want them … Read more
Sometimes the simplest and best solutions are the ones you already have. I have been thinking about a cyberdeck for a while now, looking to create something out of a raspberry Pi or other single board computer, something to resemble the Free Write or the old Alpha Smart devices. I just wanted to have something … Read more