Monthly Archives: April 2018

Maze of Madness (2018) — a torment

Posted on April 24, 2018 by Ant

Maze of Madness is a modern game for an ancient computer (namely the 8-bit BBC Micro, which this blog seems to endlessly bang on about). Well, I say “game”, but it’s more of a demo – a demo of a … Continue reading →

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Xanadu Adventure (1982) — shop till you drop

Posted on April 17, 2018 by Ant

Xanadu Adventure is a text adventure game that was written for the BBC Micro by Paul Shave in 1982. Typically for the time, Shave was strongly influenced by Crowther and Woods’s Colossal Cave, and Xanadu therefore featured the requisite stream, … Continue reading →

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Escape From Solaris (1984) by Graham Nelson

Posted on April 12, 2018 by Ant

Previously I wrote about The Discovery, which is the first of two works of interactive fiction (known together as Galaxy’s Edge) that were written for the 8-bit BBC Micro in 1984 by Graham Nelson. The Discovery is, more or less, a conventional … Continue reading →

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