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
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/
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 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/
All the Adventures is starting to wind down on 1982. Sherwood Forest is the last Apple II graphical game left!
Dale Johnson of the extremely difficult Madventure and Palace in Thunderland returns with something that seems to be a little bit easier ... so far.
At All the Adventures, the conclusion to the Very British game Time Adventure, involving Merlin in a high-tech laboratory, the boat Queen Elizabeth 2, and warding off a fantasy creature with Terry Wogan's smelly socks.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/31/time-adventure-queen-elizabeths-revenge/
Peter Smith, who previously borrowed heavily from Supersoft's version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to make his own "Hitch-Hiker", returns in this time-travel game which seems to be mostly (?) original and includes a mechanic very rarely seen in this period.
Recently on All the Adventures I featured a game (Hitch-hiker) which adapted some of the locations and puzzles from a totally different commercial game. Danger Island (for Dragon 32) does the same thing (adapting an obscure game for the Acorn Atom).
Next on All the Adventures, I play the first three "Misadventures", naughty games by the "Softcore Software Co." via Bob Krotts of Dayton, Ohio.
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/27/misadventures-1-2-and-3-1982/
Next on All the Adventures:
Kirsch continues his wild exploration of different genres as the protagonist squares off against the brothers of the Dalton Gang.
Includes location-and-condition-based event triggers, unannounced softlocks and Dirty Harry.
A new quest begins! This one's vaguely Dr. Who shaped, as we play a Time Warden looking for the Key of Time before the universe implodes.
The game itself is unpublished -- found by the author in an old pile of tapes years later -- and hence extremely obscure.
in my 1337th post on Renga in Blue, I give the finale of Dan Kitchen's early game Crystal Caverns
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/03/16/crystal-caverns-estate-landlord/
