the conclusion to the TRS-80 adventure Bedlam, where I go into the different endings, which characters are useful, and why the randomization led the game to being bigger in people's imaginations
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/20/bedlam-corrected-with-time-and-shock-treatment/
Next for All the Adventures, come for a tale of computer generated swordfights, chess, and frontal lobotomies as I play the wildly ambitious Bedlam (1982).
Includes characters with randomized motivations and multiple endings!
All the Adventures have seen several high-flying stunts of impossible programming. But how about an adventure with graphics, sound, and animation on an unmodified VIC-20?
Using BASIC, a grand total of 3,500 bytes are available.
It is astonishing this exists.
At All the Adventures, one more bonus post on Mysterious Mansion for the mysterious Interact computer as I
1. give a mostly proper "fixed" version appropriate for people wanting to play the game normally
2. give the true ending
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/17/the-mysterious-mansion-adventure-fixed-version-plus-true-ending/
All the Adventures reaches the astonishing conclusion to Mysterious Mansion
where I need to hack the save file due to a bug
get an item which changes the entire game
and identify (I think) the mysterious author
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/16/the-mysterious-mansion-adventure-a-time-to-gather-stones-together/
At All the Adventures, Mysterious Mansion continues, where the THERE IS A SEASON hint comes into play and I find the One Ring, sort of
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/15/the-mysterious-mansion-adventure-a-time-to-cast-away-stones/
All the Adventures returns to the rare Interact computer from Michigan to play a second game, The Mysterious Mansion from 1982.
Includes a Corvette modified to use an Interact computer
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/14/the-mysterious-mansion-adventure-1982/
the conclusion of Aardvark's game "for children" Haunted House, with a highly unusual verb near the end, and a ghastly bug which I'm amazed got through even given Aardvark's lax standards
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/13/haunted-house-alfred-hitchcock-presents/
In the last Haunted House for 1982, we return to Aardvark and their only-the-first-two-letters-of-each word parser in a game allegedly for children.
I also discuss how games for children can cause innovation (but not here).
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/12/haunted-house-anderson-1982/
in which I play the last of the Softside Adventures of the Month for 1982, and find one of the most amoral main characters of the entire span of early adventure games
All the Adventures reaches the last of the ASD&D TIVenture games, which somehow rips off a Roberta Williams puzzle while improving it at the same time
also, nitpicking about the Eocene era and an encounter with PROFESSOR HIGGINS
An image for my game from a photo shoot at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo. It was a huge room, with a lovely staircase. The game required stairs into a room flooded with water. That part used Adobe Photoshop's AI compositing feature. If I wasn't a one man band, AI would be gone. But, so it is. The image was finished using Dithertron with a Commodore X16 filter. @commodore64 @retrogaming #gamedev #textadventure #pointandclickadventure #interactivefiction
Es soll ja Menschen geben, die, obwohl sie früher einen #C64 hatten, das Hobby heute nur aus nostalgischen Gründen verfolgen. Das ist ja auch echt ok, aber Leute, ihr verpasst echt was - denn auch heute kommen noch immer ziemlich coole Programme für euren Brotkasten raus und ich wollte mal kurz von Hibernated berichten, das wir hier gleich mal anspielen wollen 
Edit: Problem beim Ansehen? Nutze den Link: https://tube.moep.tv/w/wHDaXvdjikVSMjorbf6udu
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/
Another animation from Escape From Briarwood Hospital...combination of found ASCII animation (author unknown), stock image of clouds converted into ascii text art, and much compositing in premiere to remove some cheesy elements from the original boat animation. #gamedev #pointandclickadventure #pointandclick #textadventure #interactivefiction
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 best thing about Vampire's Castle is that you need a bucket to collect the water, but once you *have* the water you won't need the bucket anymore and can free up space in your inventory by dropping it. (You will still have the water)
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/
