by Will Moczarski We’ve finished the second year of our Med Systems marathon now, and there are only four adventure games left. The co...

by Will Moczarski The Institute is the first game in my Med Systems marathon that I will actually replay as I’ve played (and solved...

by Will Moczarski Last time I was severely stuck. Not even the first room in Asylum had given me such a headache. I was unable to v...

by Will Moczarski The fourth and final game by Jyym and Robyn Pearson that was – albeit only sometimes – marketed as an “OtherVentur...

by Will Moczarski The 1906 San Francisco earthquake hit the famous Northern Californian town 113 years ago on April 18 with a magnitude...

by Will Moczarski Last time we left off after about an hour of gameplay, with a reasonably small gameworld and some items we haven’t fo...

by Will Moczarski Special thanks to the Museum of Computer Adventure Game History! (mocagh.org) It’s time for the third OtherVenture...

by Will Moczarski This is an astonishing game. I know that it might seem as if I was easily satisfied by a few extra descriptions...

by Will Moczarski Who was Jyym Pearson? The sixth adventure game in our Med Systems marathon is the last one released in 1981, an...

by Will Moczarski Med Systems Marathon Overview : (a) 1980 Summary (b) Reality Ends (1980) (c) Rat’s Revenge / Deathmaze 5000 (1980)...

by Will Moczarski Med Systems Marathon Overview: (a) 1980 Summary (b) Reality Ends (1980) (c) Rat’s Revenge / Deathmaze 5000 (1980) (d) La...

by Will Moczarski Med Systems Marathon Overview: (a) 1980 Summary (b) Reality Ends (1980) (c) Rat’s Revenge / Deathmaze 5000 (1980) ...

by Will Moczarski Med Systems Marathon Overview: (a)   1980 Summary (b)  Reality Ends (1980) (c)  Rat‘s Revenge / Deathmaze 5000 (198...

by Will Moczarski Med Systems Marathon Overview – Catch up here!: (a) 1980 Summary (b) Reality Ends (1980) (c) Rat‘s Revenge / Deathmaze 50...

Written by Joe Pranevich In the mid-1980s, Douglas Adams’s career was firing on all cylinders. A comic writer since college, best...

Written by Voltgloss We left off last time having reached the bridge of the spaceship we’ve been blundering around all this time, having red...

Written by Voltgloss Apologies to all for the delay in continuing our Cyborgian adventures. Rather than dwell on the issues driving those...

Written by Voltgloss Time to return to the worlds created by Michael Berlyn! As discussed back when we explored Oo-Topos , Mr. Berl...

Written by Joe Pranevich Last week, I explored most of Zork II and ended my session with suicide-by-dragon thanks to the Wizard of ...

Written by Joe Pranevich More familiar box art. Last month, I conquered the first real game in our marathon, Zork I . It was a go...