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Retro adventure game enthusiast, programmer/tinkerer, digital preservation projects, he/they
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I translated "Jeff Jet: Abenteuer InfoHighway" as "Jeff Jet: Adventure on the InfoHighway" archive.org/details/jeff... - a German promotional adventure game for Hewlett Packard from 1995.
Title screen for "Jeff Jet: Adventure on the InfoHighway". Screenshot from "Jeff Jet: Adventure on the InfoHighway". In front of a green room that seems to be built out of giant circuit board pieces, there are close-up pictures of Jeff Jet and an NPC wearing glasses and a red sweater. A line of dialog is visible between them: "Good day to you!". Screenshot from "Jeff Jet: Adventure on the InfoHighway". The two main characters, Jeff and Donna, are standing near a road tunnel with a closed barrier gate in front of it and a guard standing by. There is a large truck loaded with gigantic ones and zeroes. The mouse cursor is hovering over these ones and zeroes, and the word "Bits" appears next to it. Screenshot from "Jeff Jet: Adventure on the InfoHighway". One of the main characters, Donna, stands in the middle of a large desert tent with visible patches and holes. A small office area has been set up behind her, with a woman sitting at a desk with a computer on it. There is an empty chair with a green coat lying on it in the foreground facing the desk. At the bottom of the screen, there is a row of inventory items. The mouse cursor is over one of them, a red and green magnet, with the word "Magnet" shown next to it.
September 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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"Action in Hollywood" is one of several promotional games released in the 1990s for Bi-Fi Rolls, a salami-based snack originating in Germany and sold across Europe.
May 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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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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In retrospect it probably wasn't necessary to anglicize the main character's name. At some point I might release a new version without that. I do put effort into trying to exercise good judgement in these, but I might not always get it right first time.
Scene from the intro to Börnie's Journey: The main character sits on the incline of a lush grassy hill with three (unnamed) friends, surrounded by flowers and beneath a tree. Screenshot from Börnie's Journey: The main character stands on a high-up vine-covered balcony facing out over the rooftops of the city, near the top of a maypole which is adorned with sculptures of animals. Screenshot from "Börnie's Journey": The main character stands next to a small stream which has stepping stones over it. On the other side of a stream are several overflowing dumpsters full of all manner of objects and items of clothing. The dumpsters are each labelled "OUT" and then a year like '91 or '92. There is a small wooden sign that says "GO AWAY!" and a red building that arches over the stream. A pair of eyes are staring out of the darkness in one of the windows of the building. Screenshot from "Börnie's Journey": Closeup of the main character asleep lying on a couchette with a pillow and blanket. He has a bag stashed in the storage net above him.
November 22, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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I translated "Börnie's Journey" (1994), created to promote the Austrian railway network. It has nine chapters - one set in each of Austria's federal states archive.org/details/boer...
November 21, 2024 at 6:51 PM
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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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I translated "Das Haus der Rätsel" (1996) as "The House of Puzzles", featuring bluescreened actors on prerendered 3D backgrounds. This one includes rebus puzzles that I had to "translate" pictorially, which was interesting challenge. archive.org/details/das-...
November 15, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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It's not a difficult game to complete, though how you get the maximum 33 points is not always obvious. There is character selection, although it only changes what you need to do in one chapter of the game (and the colour of your shirt).
November 15, 2024 at 6:34 PM
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I translated "CaWaDo" (1990), a short slice-of-life type-in "safety adventure" for MS-DOS about getting through life as a teenager. Apparently it was a fixture in school computer labs in parts of Germany during the '90s: archive.org/details/cawa...
November 15, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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Oops, that image of Graham on the beanstalk was meant to be animated. Does this work?
November 14, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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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.
November 14, 2024 at 8:01 PM