in which I discover a lost Apple II game (probably) by finding a TRS-80 game instead (it's complicated)

Ferret is an adventure game that started life on a Data General Eclipse in 1982 and was only finished in 2022. It took six months to beat. This is the last post in the complete chronicle.

Renga in Blue: The Breckenridge Caper of 1798 (1982) ift.tt/3jqYs6t

Renga in Blue: Zork III: Beyond the Guardians of Zork ift.tt/YBL4AKW

Renga in Blue: Asylum II: The Lair of the Master Mystic ift.tt/CYOd4F9

Renga in Blue: Fantasyland (1982) ift.tt/O8PvNSW

I have been going through a “puzzle contest game” (with $20,000 as a prize) from 41 years ago where nobody won the contest Some puzzles are still open, and audience participation is encouraged!

Renga in Blue: Murdac: The Land of Heroes ift.tt/dDSKQw3

This mystery game has a nice premise: someone‘s dead, and you pick one of six people of the Stuart household to be your character. You don’t play as an investigator; your abilities differ based on your pick (the maid, for instance, differs from the one-armed war hero gardener).

just a heads up for anyone who uses Planet IF to follow my blog posting I do update myself by hand on the elephant site (I'm jdyer at mastodon.gamedev.place)

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This one was fun! Another way to think of it is: How does a "normal" person in the 1950s or 60s who doesn't have access to a giant expensive mainframe get a computer?

includes Hunt the Wumpus! go watch!

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wherein I embark on Transylvania, one of the most famous of the early Apple II adventure games, using the Penguin graphics tools bluerenga.blog/2024/05/25/tra…

I just finished a six-part series on Infocom's Starcross, where I examined the history, did a playthrough, and ruminated on the plot. This link is to the last post, but it starts with a "category" link that lets you read everything in order. bluerenga.blog/2024/09/01/sta…