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Two Kickstarters (Stereotypical, Andromeda Acolytes)
Sorry for the delay in my next post! Trying to bring Quest to some sort of satisfactory landing so we can get into all sorts of other shenanigans. In the meantime, I have two Kickstarters to mention:...
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Klondike Adventure (1982)
While ICL Quest remains a serious nightmare, I thought I’d pull something out that’d be a little easier: the next installment in the Softside Adventure of the Month series. The cover is for the action...
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Explore (1979)
Amawalk, New York, is just a bit north of Manhattan (an hour’s drive, according to Google) and comes close to the Connecticut border. It was also the home of Basics & Beyond, Inc, incorporation...
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Quest: Infinite Legs
I took a heavy swing at the ICL version of Quest over the weekend, but I whiffed entirely. Still a good rough impression of playing Quest. (Source.) I can at least get into what’s distressing me. I...
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Adventures in Videoland (1981/1982)
The first, and easiest task, was watching the movie. This not only helped pass the time, but gave me a glimpse of scenes that could be used in the adventure. Rollercoaster, for those of you who missed...
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Colossal Adventure (1982)
Well the name Level 9 was designed to indicate a level of quality, it was the highest level that you get with a one digit number. — Pete Austin, in a 1988 interview This is, for some of my European...
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Colossal Adventure: Lenslok
So I was chipperly plowing through all the usual parts of the game and taking screenshots (other than the aboveground being different and the inventory limit being reduced to four the game’s been...
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Colossal Adventure: A Bizarre Chaos of Tortured Rock Which Seems To Have Been...
(This post won’t make much sense without my prior ones leading up to it. Also, I’m assuming some familiarity with original Crowther/Woods adventure, which you can read up on here if you’ve missed out.)...
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Colossal Adventure: Finale
(You should make sure you’ve read the three prior posts in this series before this one.) From the Internet Archive. I want to emphasize how big a game this was for Europe. For people without mainframe...
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