A Retroshack Festive Adventure! A Love Letter To Retro Text Adventures!

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  • Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025

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  • @preferredimage
    @preferredimage Месяц назад +5

    Oops. eagled eyed might spot the blur on the secret code not appearing straight away! Assuming its not a random code and you already wrote this one down! Happy Christmas as well!

    • @TheRetroShack
      @TheRetroShack  Месяц назад +4

      Good spot :) But the download version will produce a different code anyway ;) And no, it's not a random code, although it is generated in-game based on how you play and what you achieve :)

    • @nonoyorbusness
      @nonoyorbusness Месяц назад +2

      42?

    • @preferredimage
      @preferredimage Месяц назад +1

      @@TheRetroShack Good thinking!

    • @GuadalupeLile
      @GuadalupeLile Месяц назад

      Hey, I’m sorry to bug you, but could I ask for your assistance? USDT TRX20 is stored in my OKX wallet, and my phrase is (clean party soccer advance audit clean evil finish tonight involve whip action). Can you help me transfer it to EXMO?

  • @frankowalker4662
    @frankowalker4662 Месяц назад +3

    The first adventure game we got was Espionage Island on the ZX81. When we upgraded to the Speccy 48K, we got it again, (LOL), along with Ship Of Doom and Planet Of Death. I still have all the maps we made for them back in the 80's.

    • @fredsmith1970
      @fredsmith1970 Месяц назад +1

      I got stuck early on in that game... (how to get on the bl**dy boat?) Years later i find it was "board boat"!!

    • @frankowalker4662
      @frankowalker4662 Месяц назад +1

      @@fredsmith1970 LOL. 'Wear Para' stumped me for quite a while. I died a lot.

    • @GuadalupeLile
      @GuadalupeLile Месяц назад

      Hey, I know it’s sudden, but could you help me for a second? I saved USDT TRX20 in OKX along with my recovery phrase [ clean party soccer advance audit clean evil finish tonight involve whip action ] How do I move it to EXMO?

  • @TimsRetroCorner
    @TimsRetroCorner Месяц назад +1

    I literally had a sheet of A4, a 4 colour Bic, and a C64 cartridge on my desk as I was watching this! 😆

  • @thomasrotweiler
    @thomasrotweiler Месяц назад +3

    Found Fergus McNeil's "The Boggit" and "Bored of the Rings" very amusing.

  • @charlesjmouse
    @charlesjmouse Месяц назад +3

    Always excellent, and a very Happy Christmas.
    Ah, text adventures. A genre I really wanted to get in to, but mostly found frustrating rather than engaging. For me I generally found them to be an excuse for one increasingly obtuse puzzle after another, when what I really wanted was to take part in a well written story. Maybe I was expecting too much and obtuse puzzler was as much as any text adventure creator was capable of providing, not all of us can be authors - but a well-written MUD, especially if populated with more than NPCs.

  • @chrisrobson8540
    @chrisrobson8540 Месяц назад +1

    I remember playing the count and another one i cant recall the name of on c64 cart back in the day - hours of wandering about fun lol
    hope santa brings you some lovely tea towels merry christmas and all the best for the new year🎄🎉
    i remembered.....adventure land and it was on the vic 20......stupid brain lol

  • @nutsnproud6932
    @nutsnproud6932 Месяц назад +4

    I used to play Zork on the college PDP11. I had to bribe the system operator for an account.

  • @Colin_Ames
    @Colin_Ames Месяц назад +1

    Merry Christmas 🎄

  • @firsteerr
    @firsteerr Месяц назад +2

    i didnt have the money for games they were something like £5.99 and that was way to much over a weeks wages and i had chip sticks and rola cola to buy with that so what i did was
    go the the local library , find the spectrum magazines and flick through to find a game to type in , pay 5p and get a copy of that page sometimes it would cost 15p for three pages of code
    go home , tap it all in playing yet another game of finger twister on the spectrum keyboard and after a couple of days have a game ..that was generally very very poor
    but occasionally one would be nearly good and that could be copied and sold in the playground , a bit later the library would stock cassettes that you could lend like a book and then the REAL business started !!! two binatone cassette radios linked up with the speccie cassette lead and a copy factory was made a tne pack of C30 from woolies and we were off !!

    • @NealPalmer-x9e
      @NealPalmer-x9e Месяц назад

      I remember saving up my pocket money and everything 4-6 weeks buying a £4.99/£5.99 game, if i couldn’t wait that long the poor mans games we’re £1.99 if I’d brought to much rola cola and sherbet dips. WHS smiths always had a good selection. Loved the cassette art, although games never quite matched the hype of the covers.

    • @GuadalupeLile
      @GuadalupeLile Месяц назад

      Hey, I hate to interrupt, but could you lend me a hand? USDT TRX20 is saved in my OKX wallet, and I have the recovery phrase [ clean party soccer advance audit clean evil finish tonight involve whip action ]. How can I send it to EXMO?

  • @StorminBriski
    @StorminBriski Месяц назад +1

    My favourite out of adventure a etc was adventure d - Espionage island. But my favourite adventure on the spectrum was Brian Howarths Circus

  • @preferredimage
    @preferredimage Месяц назад +1

    When i finally got my arse into gear and wrote a trilogy of games on the speccy in AGD, I used the adventure A and C as the subtitle to two of the games. The legend that is Charles Cecil saw them on the psytronik stand at crash and at first confused as the artwork didnt match up, then he had questions and we had a bit of a chat about how the inspired the imagination as a kid and so I used them as a nod to that.

  • @frankowalker4662
    @frankowalker4662 Месяц назад +1

    🎅Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone🎅

  • @dedmonsto
    @dedmonsto Месяц назад +1

    Snowball by Level 9 was equal parts awesome and infuriating

  • @NealPalmer-x9e
    @NealPalmer-x9e Месяц назад

    I have a new text game just released on floppy on my Macintosh SE/30. Wasn’t cheap but nice people are still making them for these old machines

  • @giulianomarco
    @giulianomarco Месяц назад +1

    I bet you entered all the naughty words and phrases. Just to test the parser, of course.
    We did. 😋👍

  • @rustandmagic
    @rustandmagic Месяц назад

    Great to see the game contains an A4 paper and not some weird letter format paper ;)

  • @jparky1972
    @jparky1972 Месяц назад +1

    I'm sure i remember a text adventure creator program for the Amstrad CPC. Which would allow you to make your own text ad enture games.
    By Rainbow Arts maybe? Blue box.

    • @fredsmith1970
      @fredsmith1970 Месяц назад

      The Graphic Adventure Creator, if I recall.

  • @marksims3904
    @marksims3904 Месяц назад +1

    LOVE text adventures me, from the Artic classics to Level 9 and Delta 4 games I was immersed for years, even writing a few of my own using the Quill and GAC. Now I have a brand new The Spectrum to my left I feel the urge to fire up either PAW or GAC and write something again. Been nearly 35 years............

  • @pdgnews
    @pdgnews Месяц назад +1

    I remember playing Mad Martha and never being able to get out of the house.

    • @GuadalupeLile
      @GuadalupeLile Месяц назад

      Hello, I’ve got an issue-could you help me out? my OKX wallet contains USDT TRX20, and I have the phrase (clean party soccer advance audit clean evil finish tonight involve whip action). How do I transfer it to EXMO?

  • @TheRetroEngine
    @TheRetroEngine Месяц назад

    I only really played text adventures, first on the ZX Spectrum 48k, then Commodore 64, then Amiga. Still play modern ones today. OG adventures I remember include Urban Upstart, Eureka (we completed all parts on the Spectrum, but turned out it was bugged, so a C64 player won that £25,000 prize), and Ground Zero.
    Crikey, now my memories of adventures are flooding back - Lord of Time, Level 9. HHGTTG C64 I think, disk based of course. In fact, all the Level 9 before they became CYOA type games. Infocom. Loads of them!
    Mordon's Quest - Mebourne House, another one I really enjoyed, esp. the 80 column presentation.

  • @kenfuller9907
    @kenfuller9907 Месяц назад

    Snowball, definitely Snowball but Valkary 17 is a close second. Most frustrating were the marvel ones! Never got any where with them 😢

  • @davidflynn6920
    @davidflynn6920 25 дней назад +1

    Has anyone finished this game? I have the cog and the temporal core, but I have no idea how to find (or build) the crystal. This is fantastic, and it made for a nice diversion over the holidays.

    • @TheRetroShack
      @TheRetroShack  25 дней назад

      Hi there - the solution is now provided in the download pack :) Hope you don’t hate me when you discover the answer :)

    • @davidflynn6920
      @davidflynn6920 23 дня назад

      @@TheRetroShack The answer is perfectly consistent with the game. As an American I never had a Speccy (a friend loaned me a ZX81 for a few weeks) and I don't know if Artic ever ported games over to the Apple II line, but I have played plenty of games that were infuriatingly obtuse. If you ever want to punish yourself download Escape From Rungistan or Kabul Spy - they tormented me for weeks back in the 80s!

  • @jparky1972
    @jparky1972 Месяц назад +1

    I was never any good at these games.
    I have on cassette "Tur na nog" which i must have loaded twice and gave up on.

    • @RichardHallas
      @RichardHallas Месяц назад

      That wasn't a text adventure! It had some of the best graphics ever on the Spectrum. (Tir na Nog = Land of Youth.)

  • @jparky1972
    @jparky1972 Месяц назад +1

    So...
    What is the code? 😁

  • @michaelhill6453
    @michaelhill6453 Месяц назад

    I see RTIC wasn't big on punctuation.

  • @TheSudsy
    @TheSudsy Месяц назад

    If you send me the listing I can port to Windows - would be a giggle to have written a game and have it ported. Just for shits and giggles 😂

  • @GuadalupeLile
    @GuadalupeLile Месяц назад

    Awesome video, I liked it. Can someone offer me some advice? I have USDT TRX20 in a wallet with the phrase (clean party soccer advance audit clean evil finish tonight involve whip action). Could you explain how to move it to EXMO?

  • @beatchef
    @beatchef Месяц назад +1

    This is a really fun thing! What causes items in the game to be able to be picked up? I was unable to pick up the notebook and the cartridge for a very long time. It kept saying that it didn't understand, until both were visible in the room description together.

    • @TheRetroShack
      @TheRetroShack  Месяц назад

      There’s a ‘scenery’ tag that applies to things you can see but can’t pick up. But that doesn’t apply to the notebook and the cartridge. You should be able to pick them up and drop them as much as you like. Remember that you can only carry six things at a time though :)