• Episode 1 - The Pawn and Around the World

  • Apr 6 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 43 mins
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Episode 1 - The Pawn and Around the World

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  • Summary

  • The premiere of The Retro Adventurers. Three old-school gamers talk about text adventures they have loved, hated, or are just experiencing for the first time. In this episode, Ben Collier, Jason Compton, and Dave Hawkins take a look at early text adventure Around the World and the first Magnetic Scrolls adventure, The Pawn.

    Includes news, biographical notes, and a dive into both games.

    Links

    Ronin by David Alzofon

    Ghosts Of Blackwood Manor

    PunyInform

    Infocom Z-Machine interpreter source code

    The Classic Adventurer

    Softside adventure archive including Around the World (Apple II emulator image)

    The Pawn at the Magnetic Scrolls Memorial (playable online)
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