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Retro adventure game enthusiast, programmer/tinkerer, digital preservation projects, he/they
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denzquix @denzquix.bsky.social · Nov 15
I have an ongoing project to translate non-English promotional adventure games into English, like the German ones featured in the "Werbespiel-Archiv": werbespiel.blogspot.com/search/label...
Werbespiel Archiv
Werbespiele, Ad-Games, Adgames, Computerspiele, Retro, Archiv, Download
werbespiel.blogspot.com
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evilbatwitch.cryptoanarchy.network
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
Rude Rude or impolite, including crude language and disrespectful comments, without constructive purpose. Highlighted Off, darkened Warn, and darkened Hide buttons.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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emmfoolery.bsky.social
I made a shorter game (for DOS) with worse graphics (CGA) and I'm NOT KIDDING.

It's free, it's silly, and you can download it here!

(Est. 20-30 minutes for a first playthrough.)
Emmy, Fool of Fen by emmfoolery
A short, silly, swampy adventure for MS-DOS.
emmfoolery.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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jdyer.bsky.social
1982 was very early for Japanese adventure games, with only a small number of releases. Takara Building Adventure thus is one of the earliest adventure games in Japanese, but it was not generally available...

...until today.

Includes some unexpected history!

bluerenga.blog/2025/10/29/t...
Takara Building Adventure Part 1 (1982)
The last time I wrote about a Japanese game was with The Palms, where I mentioned skipping over two games from 1982 because there were no copies available. This was one of them. Brief history recap…
bluerenga.blog
October 30, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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denzquix.bsky.social
I translated "Møt meg i Malaga" ("Meet Me in Malaga"), an MS-DOS game produced in the late 1980s for the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Science, intended to promote safer sex and warn about HIV risk in particular. You take on the role of a teenager backpacking across Europe by train.
Meet Me in Malaga [Unofficial English translation] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Unofficial English translation of the Norwegian MS-DOS game Møt meg i Malaga from the late 1980s.The original game is available...
archive.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
denzquix.bsky.social
Splitting off a secondary thread here for a subcategory: adventure games commissioned by government departments, NGOs, political parties etc. as part of an outreach campaign, raising awareness about a key issue (like the environment, or personal safety) or the work that the organisation does.
denzquix.bsky.social denzquix @denzquix.bsky.social · Nov 15
I have an ongoing project to translate non-English promotional adventure games into English, like the German ones featured in the "Werbespiel-Archiv": werbespiel.blogspot.com/search/label...
Werbespiel Archiv
Werbespiele, Ad-Games, Adgames, Computerspiele, Retro, Archiv, Download
werbespiel.blogspot.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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denzquix.bsky.social
I translated "Bi-Fi: Action in Hollywood" (1994) for MS-DOS, one of the more ambitious and fully-developed promotional games of the era. Huge thanks to @sonneveld.bsky.social for helping me with the technical aspects on this one. archive.org/details/bifi...
The title screen for "Bi-Fi Roll: Action in Hollywood" (1994). The main character, Lukas, stands with his arms folded below the Bi-Fi Roll logo and beside a clapperboard reading "Action in Hollywood". A film reel of scenes from the game runs down the side of the screen. A scene from "Bi-Fi: Action in Hollywood". On a sci-fi set, the main character Lukas is talking to a man whose bottom half is trapped in a small hatch. There is a conversation menu with three options: "What are you doing in there?" "Want me to heave you out of there?" "How can I help?" A scene from "Bi-Fi: Action in Hollywood". Lukas is on the set of a movie featuring dinosaurs. He stands in front of a T-Rex three times his height. The T-Rex is wearing red glasses. A sign by the doo is similar to the design of the Jurassic Park logo, and reads "Dino Zoo". A scene from "Bi-Fi: Action in Hollywood". Lukas is standing in the doorway of the studio cafeteria. A couple of people are seated on the tables. The mouse cursor is hovering over a Bi-Fi Roll in the player's inventory and the action line reads "Eat Bi-Fi Roll".
May 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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emmfoolery.bsky.social
Australians, please raid your Uncle's old PC in his shed, and help me find a copy of this to archive.

#Australia #AFL #DOSGaming #Wolfenstein #RetroGaming #MSDOS #RetroComputing
I HATE COLLINGWOOD Wolfenstein 3D mod on floppy disk. This version doesn't work. :(
October 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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dungeonbuster.bsky.social
Bugs and Drugs (1978) released on the PLATO mainframe by Mark Gorback, Dave Tanaka, and Paul Alfille is an early edutainment RPG. Targeted mainly towards medical students, players explore a hospital "dungeon" fighting diseases with fists or with medicine! (a deadly residency thread)
September 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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ani-obsessive.bsky.social
Pinball No. 4 (1977), dir. Jeff Hale, Imagination Inc.
September 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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moralrecordings.bsky.social
After a year of work I've finally released my adventure game. It's called Maura and Ash, and it's designed for MS-DOS. You can download it or play it in the browser right now!
moralrecordings.itch.io/mauraash
#msdos #pointandclick #adventuregame
Person wearing blue coveralls standing in the cockpit of a spaceship, watching a meteor pass the window. There is a blue inventory bar at the bottom of the screen.
September 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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ani-obsessive.bsky.social
Once, Sesame Street was a lifeline for indie animators. It offered money and incredible freedom to create.

This built an indie animation boom that powered MTV, Nickelodeon and much more. We explore:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-golden...
August 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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mitchyd.bsky.social
This is just what a video game looks like underneath the hood
hjm.bsky.social Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · Aug 4
This is incredible
August 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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robertsundling.bsky.social
Back in 1991, I wrote a fully functional text adventure development system for DOS. I never ended up making any actual games with it, and it's now been untouched for almost 35 years.

Just for fun and historical interest, I've decided to make it and its source code freely available on GitHub. Enjoy!
GitHub - RobertSundling/ADVGEN
Contribute to RobertSundling/ADVGEN development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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hamberry.bsky.social
YOU ARE DEAD! DEAD! DEAD! #totaldistortion #fanart
June 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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michaelklamerus.bsky.social
IMO game devs should reach out to their local library to see if they would be willing to do conventions for locally made games. You get so many people looking at your stuff who will never come across it on social media
June 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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emmfoolery.bsky.social
Me realising I never took a good photo of my Psygnosis owl cosplay, then realising my wings were too big to fit in the frame of my webcam, then having an internal crisis.
Woman dressed in a bizarre, homemade costume, representing the logo of British video game developer Psygnosis. She looks distressed.
May 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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memoriamatters.bsky.social
in two hours, u could watch two thirds of james cameron's epic 2009 scifi adventure AVATAR

or u could watch my video about all the games about that movie

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYV1...
May 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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retrocomps.bsky.social
Your Complete Home Computer Resource (Source.)
Up top, in red rounded sans serif block font, the supertitle: "GET WIRED-LOG ON TO THE WORLD". Below that, in squared sans serif font with rounded corners in gold, the name of the magazine, COMPUTE; the hollow of the O forms a house. The subtitle below reads, "Your complete home computer resource - $2.95 February 1991." Middle cover is a stunning piece of digital art by artist Doug Strothers; made on a Micro Vax II, it depicts a dragonfly spaceship (mottled black and yellow) flying past two fractal gas giants to land on a fractal red planet. Below are the major article callouts: "HOME BUSINESS HELP • PC MONEY MANAGER • SPACE WARS AND GALACTIC CONQUEST • COMPUTER NOMAD • SURE FIRE MAC FIXES"
May 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
denzquix.bsky.social
v1.0 of "King's Quest 1: Rubber Tree Edition" is up! Apply the mod here: denzquix.github.io/agi-patch/ You will need the files from the non-enhanced DOS version. The patched files will run in ScummVM under the "Fan AGI" option, or in DOSBox if you include other files from the original game folder.
denzquix.bsky.social denzquix @denzquix.bsky.social · Nov 14
Current project: a mod for King's Quest 1 (AGI) which adds >UNDO and circumvents softlocks, titled King's Quest: Rubber Tree Edition. A pre-release version was recently featured on stream by the inimitable @emmxyzzy.bsky.social
An edited demo clip of the King's Quest 1 "Rubber Tree Edition" mod, showing Graham falling from a giant beanstalk while climbing it, but the player types "undo" while he plummets, which instantly places him safely back where he fell from. A screenshot of the intro screen for the Rubber Tree Edition mod for King's Quest 1. It reads: Let it be Known that this Rendition of "KING'S QUEST" is an Unsanctioned MODIFICATION, concocted by THE ORDER OF THE RUBBER TREE. Acolytes of this elusive Sect do Conspire from the Shadows, manipulating Events to avert so-called UNWINNABLE SITUATIONS; Furthermore, they claim the right to overrule DEATH ITSELF via the use of the arcane incantation "UNDO". Those who Abide by this Sacrilegious "NERFING" do so at the Risk to their very Souls. Rubber Tree Edition version 1.0 Beta 2.
April 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
denzquix.bsky.social
@tacoadventure.net Hey, thanks for playing some of my translations! There'll be more coming in time
February 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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splendid.land
this is something i actually somehow Didn't get in trouble for. when I was 14 i noticed that there was a "Students All" e-mail address, so i made a crude looping flash cartoon about a frog and sent it to everyone. for some reason, this message was not deletable, and attempting to delete it would -
February 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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moralrecordings.bsky.social
Hello. I've done a technical write up about a silly project; please enjoy "Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years: A study"

moral.net.au/writing/2025...
Can you complete the Oregon Trail if you wait at a river for 14272 years: A study
If you're into retro computing, you probably know about Oregon Trail; a simulation of the hardships faced by a group of colonists in 1848 as they travel by covered wagon from Independence Missouri to ...
moral.net.au
January 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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denzquix.bsky.social
I translated "Croustibat" (1995), made by Coktel Vision - re-using the engine from "Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon" - to promote Findus' line of frozen fish fingers/fish sticks. Many thanks to Fred_PJ for preserving the original Portuguese version. archive.org/details/crou...
November 18, 2024 at 6:02 PM
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cyriak.bsky.social
Looking back on all my achievements this year, I think the one I am most proud of is this toilet factory I made in Doom
December 30, 2024 at 9:01 PM