Mar 02 2025 113 mins 20
Jason, Nick, and the returning Tim Gilberts of Gilsoft dig into the magazines of the 1970s and 1980s that chronicled the rise of text adventures!
We look at two of the most significant Stateside issues of the early commercial period, the November 1979 issue of Creative Computing with a full (and unusual) implementation of Colossal Cave Adventure, and the December 1980 BYTE with articles by Dave Lebling, Jon Freeman, and of course one of the most significant events of the year in personal computer games: Scott Adams' release of the Pirate Adventure source code.
New Zork Times #3.1, early 1984
Micro Adventurer #1, November 1983
Creative Computing, November 1979
Be an Interplanetary Spy (Ron Martinez) discussion on IntFic
Mike Dornbrook (Infocom) oral history
