Jason Dyer

@randob18 @ZXadventurer I put some followup questions if you're up to it! (I realize not everyone likes to talk about their work from more than 40 years ago, so there's no obligation.)

@ZXadventurer Guilty as charged

@randob18 Hi! Apologies for the random tweet. We research the history of computer games and wonder if you wrote either of these text adventures... bluerenga.blog/2024/10/05/ras… or bluerenga.blog/2020/07/10/it-…

I just finished a six-part series on Infocom's Starcross, where I examined the history, did a playthrough, and ruminated on the plot. This link is to the last post, but it starts with a "category" link that lets you read everything in order. bluerenga.blog/2024/09/01/sta…

@SharpworksMZ were you ever able to play Dark Star? someone in my comments was trying but it requires typing in numbers, and the MZ-700 emulator is refusing to do so while in-game #comment-101398" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bluerenga.blog/2024/08/11/hau…

@SharpworksMZ in case you didn't see it, I finished another Sharpsoft game recently: bluerenga.blog/tag/haunted-ho…

@leighalexander thanks so much! love your series too y'all might like Time Zone, I did beat the whole thing without hints it turns out to be more solvable than expected once you catch on to the main vibe (lots of encounters are to be avoided, not "solved") bluerenga.blog/tag/time-zone/…

wherein I embark on Transylvania, one of the most famous of the early Apple II adventure games, using the Penguin graphics tools bluerenga.blog/2024/05/25/tra…

@SharpworksMZ I made it to the end! not long, but I guess neither was a TV show episode bluerenga.blog/2024/05/24/the…

@jdyer A good start. I found the game much easier once my son and I had made our way through the whole DVD boxset :) It sort of gets you into the mindset for working out some of the game puzzles.

@SharpworksMZ in case you haven't seen yet bluerenga.blog/2024/05/10/esc… the Adventure Game one based on the BBC show will be coming up in a couple games

@SharpworksMZ it has begun bluerenga.blog/2024/05/22/the…

@jdyer Have to admit, didn't know what was going on there as those seemed to be my photos from my website above :D Then realised somebody had linked you up with my archive website. Some info on Adventure Game here: mz-archive.co.uk/downloads/cTka… if needed, including walkthrough.

@SharpworksMZ I’m playing Japanese games too so I wanted to cover everything Would love to find copies of original Sharp mystery house (1 and 2)

@jdyer Nice article! Regarding the history of the machines, the MZ-80C, MZ-80K2 and MZ-80K2E weren't available outside of Japan. So over here we just had the 'K', the 'A', the 'B', the 700 and the 800. They had so many more machines in the series in Japan :)

@SharpworksMZ @JAMOGRAD Yes, this is the first printing of Nightmare Park

😮@JAMOGRAD from August 1980 - is this the origins of Nightmare Park!!?

it was _also_ one of the references for the ADVEN-80 system printed in Dr. Dobbs magazine, which was used for the first Japanese adventure bluerenga.blog/tag/omotesando… Omotesando then was referred to for Mystery House (the first graphical Japanese adventure)

this is something I suspected but never had confirmed -- Planet of Death, Inca Curse, etc. from Artic had the same starting point as the Trevor Toms system in a 1980 issue of Practical Computing bluerenga.blog/tag/city-of-al…

@GameResearch_E @GamingHistorian the BBC Micro dominance of the british education market was a lot faster but they had a country-wide government contract

@GameResearch_E @GamingHistorian when I answered an oregon trail question on askhistorians, a bunch of people wanted to pile on about apple the game was popular before apple, and if another computer had "won", MECC surely would have pivoted to that version (they had an atari port in their text years)

Currently collecting images for @GamingHistorian 's upcoming Oregon Trail video and I've been a bit surprised at the variety of computers in early 80s computer labs. While the common narrative is that Apple ALWAYS ruled the education market, that was a gradual process.

includes Hunt the Wumpus! go watch!

@jpdysonplay based on recent research Montague Redgrave's 1871 "pinball" patent seems to comprised entirely of already existing elements from Europe (that is, he didn't "invent" anything) but it remains open ended the earliest each of the elements appeared

I'm curious.... for game studies scholars, what do you think the most interesting questions, debates, or topics are at the moment?

@katewillaert mixed up mother goose youtu.be/2ZSW2kIupck?si…