Table of Contents

Posts

• Introducing a new blog… March 4, 2011
• The Madness Spreads… March 11, 2011
• On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 1 March 27, 2011
• On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 2 March 28, 2011
• On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 3 April 3, 2011
• On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 4 April 21, 2011
• On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 5 April 22, 2011
• In Defense of BASIC May 2, 2011
• Hunt the Wumpus, Part 1 May 13, 2011
• Hunt the Wumpus, Part 2 May 16, 2011
• Will Crowther’s Adventure, Part 1 May 18, 2011
• TOPS-10 in a Box May 20, 2011
• Will Crowther’s Adventure, Part 2 May 24, 2011
• An Oregon Trail Postscript June 1, 2011
• The Completed Adventure, Part 1 June 2, 2011
• The Completed Adventure, Part 2 June 3, 2011
• The Completed Adventure, Part 3 June 4, 2011
• The Trash-80, Part 1 June 6, 2011
• The Trash-80, Part 2 June 10, 2011
• Emulating the TRS-80 June 13, 2011
• The Trash-80, Part 3 June 14, 2011
• Eliza, Part 1 June 15, 2011
• Eliza, Part 2 June 16, 2011
• Eliza, Part 3 June 21, 2011
• Adventureland, Part 1 June 22, 2011
• Adventureland, Part 2 June 24, 2011
• Dog Star Adventure June 28, 2011
• A Few Questions for Lance Micklus July 1, 2011
• A Busy 1979 July 5, 2011
• The Count July 7, 2011
• Two Adventuring Cultures July 12, 2011
• Microsoft Adventure July 14, 2011
• Ludic Narrative née Storygame July 20, 2011
• The Rise of Experiential Games July 22, 2011
• Dungeons and Dragons July 28, 2011
• Defining the CRPG August 14, 2011
• From the Tabletop to the Computer August 16, 2011
• The First CRPGs August 18, 2011
• Temple of Apshai August 24, 2011
• A Busy 1980 August 26, 2011
• Robert Lafore’s Interactive Fiction September 1, 2011
• Binning the Trash-80 September 6, 2011
• Jobs and Woz September 9, 2011
• The Apple II September 12, 2011
• Eamon, Part 1 September 18, 2011
• A Journey into the Wonderful World of Eamon September 24, 2011
• Eamon, Part 2 September 25, 2011
• IF History on a Kindle (or other e-reader of your choice) September 26, 2011
• Ken and Roberta October 2, 2011
• Mystery House, Part 1 October 8, 2011
• Mystery House, Part 2 October 9, 2011
• On-Line Systems is Born October 17, 2011
• The Wizard and the Princess, Part 1 October 20, 2011
• The Wizard and the Princess, Part 2 October 21, 2011
• DunjonQuest October 28, 2011
• Edu-Ware November 5, 2011
• Interactive Fantasies November 7, 2011
• The Prisoner, Part 1 November 9, 2011
• The Prisoner, Part 2 November 14, 2011
• The Digital Antiquarian Takes a Holiday November 19, 2011
• A Word on Akalabeth and Chronology December 2, 2011
• Lord British December 12, 2011
• Akalabeth December 18, 2011
• California Pacific December 20, 2011
• An Apple II Christmas Card December 22, 2011
• The Roots of Infocom January 1, 2012
• Zork on the PDP-10 January 3, 2012
• The Birth of Infocom January 5, 2012
• ZIL and the Z-Machine January 7, 2012
• Selling Zork January 11, 2012
• Parser Games January 16, 2012
• Exploring Zork, Part 1 January 18, 2012
• Exploring Zork, Part 2 January 20, 2012
• Exploring Zork, Part 3 January 22, 2012
• Escape! January 23, 2012
• Silas Warner and Muse Software January 25, 2012
• Robot War January 30, 2012
• Ultima, Part 1 February 10, 2012
• Ultima, Part 2 February 13, 2012
• Ultima, Part 3 February 15, 2012
• Summer Camp February 19, 2012
• Sex Comes to the Micros February 27, 2012
• Softporn February 29, 2012
• A Tale of Three Languages March 13, 2012
• Pascal and the P-Machine March 15, 2012
• The Roots of Sir-tech March 18, 2012
• Making Wizardry March 20, 2012
• Playing Wizardry March 23, 2012
• The Wizardry Phenomenon March 26, 2012
• Of Game Consoles, Home Computers, and Personal Computers March 30, 2012
• Computers for the Masses April 1, 2012
• This Game Is Over April 8, 2012
• Castle Wolfenstein April 11, 2012
• My Eamon Problem April 15, 2012
• The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga April 23, 2012
• Sentient Software April 26, 2012
• Micro Men May 2, 2012
• The IBM PC, Part 1 May 7, 2012
• The IBM PC, Part 2 May 10, 2012
• The IBM PC, Part 3 May 16, 2012
• The IBM PC, Part 4 May 18, 2012
• Infocom: Going It Alone May 21, 2012
• Zork II, Part 1 May 25, 2012
• Zork II, Part 2 May 28, 2012
• Time Zone June 5, 2012
• Time Zone: Tackling the Monster June 7, 2012
• Time Zone: Aftermath June 9, 2012
• Ludic Murder June 20, 2012
• Hacked! June 20, 2012
• Britain’s Occult Uncle July 3, 2012
• The Dennis Wheatley Crime Dossiers July 8, 2012
• Deadline July 11, 2012
• Playing Deadline, Part 1 July 13, 2012
• Playing Deadline, Part 2 July 16, 2012
• Playing Deadline, Part 3 July 18, 2012
• Playing Deadline, Part 4 July 20, 2012
• The Zork Users Group July 23, 2012
• Japan July 26, 2012
• Japanese Adventuring July 28, 2012
• Brøderbund August 3, 2012
• Choplifter August 15, 2012
• The Prisoner 2 August 23, 2012
• SAGA August 28, 2012
• The Once and Future SPAG August 31, 2012
• Zork III, Part 1 September 14, 2012
• Zork III, Part 2 September 17, 2012
• Starcross September 19, 2012
• The Magnificent Penguin September 28, 2012
• Transylvania October 3, 2012
• The Wizardry and Ultima Sequels October 11, 2012
• Playing Ultima II, Part 1 October 15, 2012
• Playing Ultima II, Part 2 October 17, 2012
• Level 9 October 22, 2012
• The BBC Micro October 29, 2012
• Phoenix and Acornsoft November 7, 2012
• A Gallery of Unfortunate Events November 9, 2012
• The Speccy November 12, 2012
• The Hobbit November 16, 2012
• The Hobbit Redux November 22, 2012
• Summer Camp is Over December 12, 2012
• The Commodore 64 December 17, 2012
• Business is War December 20, 2012
• Shiny and Exciting vs. Dull and Boring December 30, 2012
• Ring in the New (Blog Initiatives) January 2, 2013
• Xerox PARC January 9, 2013
• Lisa January 16, 2013
• Seeing Farther January 23, 2013
• The Pinball Wizard February 1, 2013
• Audio Killed the Blogging Star February 8, 2013
• Dan Bunten and M.U.L.E. February 12, 2013
• Free Fall, Part 1: Archon February 20, 2013
• Free Fall, Part 2: Murder on the Zinderneuf February 26, 2013
• Suspended March 5, 2013
• The Top of its Game March 20, 2013
• The Witness March 22, 2013
• Planetfall March 26, 2013
• Enchanter April 2, 2013
• Infidel April 7, 2013
• Underway in the USA April 16, 2013
• Origin Systems May 13, 2013
• The Legend of Escape from Mt. Drash May 16, 2013
• Ultima III in Pictures May 21, 2013
• The Dawn of Multimedia May 28, 2013
• The Laser Craze June 9, 2013
• Amiga Magazines Free (Plus Shipping…) for the Asking June 16, 2013
• 1983 in British Computing June 18, 2013
• Peter Killworth’s 1983 June 27, 2013
• Snowball June 30, 2013
• The Quill July 5, 2013
• Popcorn and Peanuts July 12, 2013
• The Unmaking and Remaking of Sierra On-Line July 18, 2013
• A Computer for Every Home? July 28, 2013
• From Automated Simulations to Epyx August 4, 2013
• How Things Work: Commodore 64 and Summer Games Edition August 9, 2013
• Seven Cities of Gold August 13, 2013
• Sorcerer August 26, 2013
• Seastalker September 3, 2013
• Bookware September 10, 2013
• Rendezvous with Rama September 15, 2013
• Fahrenheit 451: The Book September 23, 2013
• Fahrenheit 451: The Game September 27, 2013
• Dragonworld October 1, 2013
• Michael Crichton October 8, 2013
• From Congo to Amazon October 11, 2013
• Amazon in Pictures October 14, 2013
• Shadowkeep October 18, 2013
• Masters of the Game October 23, 2013
• Cutthroats November 1, 2013
• Douglas Adams November 11, 2013
• The Computerized Hitchhiker’s November 14, 2013
• Hitchhiking the Galaxy Infocom-Style November 19, 2013
• Suspect November 22, 2013
• Sherlock December 12, 2013
• This Tormented Business, Part 1 December 17, 2013
• Elite (or, The Universe on 32 K Per Day) December 26, 2013
• Mike Singleton and The Lords of Midnight January 7, 2014
• The Legend of Ultimate Play the Game January 14, 2014
• The Merry Pranksters of Automata January 21, 2014
• This Tormented Business, Part 2 February 4, 2014
• QL Pawn February 11, 2014
• Macintosh February 20, 2014
• Macware February 28, 2014
• Mindwheel (or, The Poet and the Hackers) March 10, 2014
• Essex and Brimstone March 17, 2014
• This Tormented Business, Part 3 March 28, 2014
• Down From the Top April 3, 2014
• Wishbringer April 10, 2014
• Fooblitzky April 23, 2014
• A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 1: Steve Meretzky’s Interiors April 27, 2014
• A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 2: Don’t Go Back to Rockvil April 29, 2014
• A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 3: Through Strange Seas of Thought, Alone May 8, 2014
• Spellbreaker May 16, 2014
• Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder June 5, 2014
• Nine Princes in Amber June 13, 2014
• An Alternate Chronicle of Amber June 16, 2014
• Comprehend June 20, 2014
• Of Wizards and Bards June 25, 2014
• The Road to IV July 7, 2014
• Ultima IV July 11, 2014
• Human Engineered Software (or, The Software Icarus) July 15, 2014
• Project: Space Station, Part 1: The Reality July 24, 2014
• Project: Space Station, Part 2: The Dream July 28, 2014
• Project: Space Station, Part 3: The Game July 30, 2014
• Apple, Carmen Sandiego, and the Rise of Edutainment August 7, 2014
• Access Software August 15, 2014
• Leader Board August 19, 2014
• The Magnificent Penguin Hangs Up His Tuxedo September 12, 2014
• Amnesia September 29, 2014
• The Fractal Phenomenon October 3, 2014
• Send in the Clones October 10, 2014
• The Forth Dimension October 17, 2014
• Patreon October 22, 2014
• Starflight October 28, 2014
• Jim Levy and Activision November 5, 2014
• Alter Ego November 14, 2014
• Dorte’s View: Alter Ego November 24, 2014
• Portal November 27, 2014
• Bookware’s Sunset December 4, 2014
• Accolade, Artech, and Killed Until Dead December 4, 2014
• Simon & Schuster’s Treks to Nowhere December 17, 2014
• Ballyhoo December 22, 2014
• Out of the Frying Pan… December 29, 2014
• Trinity January 7, 2015
• T Plus 5: Bombs in Space January 16, 2015
• T Plus 4: Bombing Nevada January 23, 2015
• T Plus 3: Edward Teller and His Superbomb January 30, 2015
• T Plus 2: The Bomb at the Crossroads February 5, 2015
• T Plus 1: Bombing Japan February 13, 2015
• T Plus 0: The Fulcrum of History February 19, 2015
• T Plus 6: All Prams Lead to the Kensington Gardens February 26, 2015
• Trinity Postscript: Selling Tragedy February 26, 2015
• Leather Goddesses of Phobos (or, Sex Comes to the Micros — Again) March 5, 2015
• Moonmist March 12, 2015
• MicroProse’s Simulation-Industrial Complex (or, The Ballad of Sid and Wild Bill) March 19, 2015
• The 68000 Wars, Part 1: Lorraine March 27, 2015
• The 68000 Wars, Part 2: Jack Is Back! April 2, 2015
• ICBM April 9, 2015
• The 68000 Wars, Part 3: We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up April 10, 2015
• Defender of the Crown April 16, 2015
• Mike Berlyn Could Use a Little Helping Hand April 24, 2015
• On S.D.I. (Just a Little) and King of Chicago (Quite a Lot) April 24, 2015
• Brian Fargo and Interplay May 1, 2015
• Fire and Rain May 15, 2015
• The Pawn’s Second Life (or, When Tony Met Anita) May 21, 2015
• Thieves and Jinxes (or, When Michael Met Anita) May 31, 2015
• KAOS June 5, 2015
• Topologika June 12, 2015
• The Evolution of the (Epyx) Games June 19, 2015
• Accolade Gets Distinctive June 25, 2015
• A Digital Antiquarian Hall of Fame June 28, 2015
• Pirates! July 2, 2015
• A New Force in Games, Part 1: Fractal Dreamers July 10, 2015
• A New Force in Games, Part 2: A Habitat in Cyberspace July 17, 2015
• A New Force in Games, Part 3: SCUMM July 24, 2015
• The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design (or, Why Ron Gilbert Hated Adventure Games) July 31, 2015
• Splendid Isolation: Sierra at Mid-Decade August 7, 2015
• Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards August 15, 2015
• Two Books on Gaming History August 17, 2015
• Hollywood Dave’s Hijinx August 21, 2015
• Bureaucracy August 27, 2015
• …and Into the Fire September 5, 2015
• Stationfall September 10, 2015
• The Campy Cosmic Horror of H.P. Lovecraft September 18, 2015
• Lovecraft on the Tabletop September 25, 2015
• The Lurking Horror October 2, 2015
• MIT and GUE (or, The Annotated Lurking Horror) October 7, 2015
• Nord and Bert October 16, 2015
• Plundered Hearts October 23, 2015
• Beyond Zork November 6, 2015
• Border Zone November 13, 2015
• Cliff Johnson’s Fool’s Errand November 20, 2015
• The 68000 Wars, Part 4: Rock Lobster November 27, 2015
• The Faery Tale Life of MicroIllusions December 4, 2015
• Dungeon Master, Part 1: The Making of December 11, 2015
• Dungeon Master, Part 2: The Playing of December 18, 2015
• A Little Christmas Gift December 23, 2015
• A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 1: Don’t Copy That Floppy! December 25, 2015
• A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 2: The Scene January 1, 2016
• Rochester Ho! January 8, 2016
• A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 3: Case Studies in Copy Protection January 15, 2016
• Bill Williams: The Story of a Life January 22, 2016
• 1987 Ebook Now Available January 25, 2016
• Silicon Hollywood: Cinemaware’s Transitional Period January 29, 2016
• The Road to V February 5, 2016
• Ultima V February 12, 2016
• Friends of the Wasteland: The Legacy of Flying Buffalo February 19, 2016
• Wasteland February 26, 2016
• Opening the Gold Box, Part 1: Joel Billings and SSI March 4, 2016
• Opening the Gold Box, Part 2: Ten Odd Years at TSR March 12, 2016
• Opening the Gold Box, Part 3: From Tabletop to Desktop March 18, 2016
• Opening the Gold Box, Part 4: Pool of Radiance March 25, 2016
• Generation Nintendo April 1, 2016
• Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels April 15, 2016
• The Bruce Youth April 22, 2016
• Zork Zero April 29, 2016
• Corrupted Fish May 6, 2016
• Tales of the Gnome Ranger May 13, 2016
• Kit Williams’s Golden Hare, Part 1: The Contest May 20, 2016
• Kit Williams’s Golden Hare, Part 2: The Aftermath May 27, 2016
• The End of the Line for Level 9 as the Market Takes Its Toll on Magnetic Scrolls June 3, 2016
• 1988 Ebook Now Available June 8, 2016
• Will Wright’s City in a Box June 10, 2016
• One is Enough For SimCity June 16, 2016
• Acorn and Amstrad June 23, 2016
• Peter Molyneux’s Kingdom in a Box June 30, 2016
• Shogun July 7, 2016
• Manhole, Anyone? July 12, 2016
• Journey July 15, 2016
• Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur July 22, 2016
• Moving to California July 29, 2016
• AGT August 5, 2016
• A Conversation with Lane Barrow August 12, 2016
• IBM’s New Flavor August 19, 2016
• Sierra Gets Creative August 26, 2016
• So You Want to Be a Hero? September 9, 2016
• Cracking Open the Mac September 16, 2016
• The Freedom to Associate September 23, 2016
• A Slow-Motion Revolution September 30, 2016
• The Manhole October 7, 2016
• Cinemaware’s Year in the Desert October 14, 2016
• How Jordan Mechner Made a Different Sort of Interactive Movie (or, The Virtues of Restraint) October 28, 2016
• The Prophet of Cyberspace November 4, 2016
• Turning on, Booting up, and Jacking into Neuromancer November 11, 2016
• A Working-Class Hero, Part 1: Proletariat, Prisoner, and Pilot November 18, 2016
• Memos from Digital Antiquarian Corporate Headquarters November 21, 2016
• A Working-Class Hero, Part 2: Bloody April November 25, 2016
• A Working-Class Hero, Part 3: Ace and Tactician December 2, 2016
• A Working-Class Hero, Part 4: A Hero’s Legacy December 9, 2016
• A Time of Endings, Part 1: Cinemaware December 16, 2016
• A Time of Endings, Part 2: Epyx December 22, 2016
• A Time of Endings, Part 3: Mediagenic (or, The Patent from Hell) January 6, 2017
• A Time of Endings, Part 4: Magnetic Scrolls January 13, 2017
• A Time of Beginnings: Legend Entertainment (or, Bob and Mike’s Excellent Adventure-Game Company) January 20, 2017
• Thaumistry: In Charm’s Way January 24, 2017
• The Spellcasting Series (or, How Much Ernie Eaglebeak is Too Much Ernie Eaglebeak?) January 27, 2017
• TADS February 3, 2017
• The Eastgate School of “Serious” Hypertext February 10, 2017
• Loom (or, how Brian Moriarty Proved That Less is Sometimes More) February 18, 2017
• A Little Status Update March 3, 2017
• Monkey Island (or, How Ron Gilbert Made an Adventure Game That Didn’t Suck) March 10, 2017
• Railroad Tycoon March 17, 2017
• What’s the Matter with Covert Action? March 24, 2017
• Opening the Gold Box, Part 5: All That Glitters is Not Gold March 31, 2017
• Ultima VI April 7, 2017
• The 640 K Barrier April 14, 2017
• From Squadron to Wingleader April 21, 2017
• From Wingleader to Wing Commander April 28, 2017
• The View from the Trenches (or, Some Deadly Sins of CRPG Design) May 12, 2017
• The Many Faces of Middle-earth, 1954-1989 May 19, 2017
• An Independent Interplay Takes on Tolkien May 26, 2017
• Memos from Digital Antiquarian Corporate Headquarters, June 2017 Edition June 5, 2017
• A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 1: Calculators and Cybernetics June 9, 2017
• A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 2: From Mainframes to Micros June 16, 2017
• A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 3: A Game of Falling Shapes June 30, 2017
• A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 4: A Different Mirror July 7, 2017
• A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 5: The Inflection Point July 14, 2017
• A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 6: Total War July 21, 2017
• A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 7: Winners and Losers July 28, 2017
• A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 8: Life After Tetris August 4, 2017
• Living Worlds of Action and Adventure, Part 1: The Atari Adventure August 11, 2017
• Living Worlds of Action and Adventure, Part 2: Mercenary, Fairlight, and Spindizzy August 18, 2017
• Living Worlds of Action and Adventure, Part 3: Head Over Heels, Exile, and Dizzy August 25, 2017
• Games on the Mersey, Part 1: Taking Scousers Off the Dole September 1, 2017
• Games on the Mersey, Part 2: Last Days in the Bunker September 15, 2017
• Games on the Mersey, Part 3: The Phoenix September 22, 2017
• Games on the Mersey, Part 4: The All-Importance of Graphics September 29, 2017
• Games on the Mersey, Part 5: The Lemmings Effect October 6, 2017
• The 68000 Wars, Part 5: The Age of Multimedia October 13, 2017
• A Full-Motion-Video Consulting Detective October 20, 2017
• A Net Before the Web, Part 1: The Establishment Man and the Magnificent Rogue October 27, 2017
• A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community November 3, 2017
• A Net Before the Web, Part 3: Content and Competition November 10, 2017
• A Net Before the Web, Part 4: The Rogue, the Yuppie, and the Soldier November 17, 2017
• A Net Before the Web, Part 5: The Pony November 24, 2017
• Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 1: Strategy and Simulation December 8, 2017
• Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 2: MUD December 15, 2017
• Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 3: The Persistent Multiplayer CRPG December 22, 2017
• The Text Adventures of 1991 December 29, 2017
• A Conversation with Judith Pintar January 5, 2018
• King of Space January 12, 2018
• Timequest January 19, 2018
• Sierra at the Cusp of the Multimedia Age January 26, 2018
• The Sierra Network February 2, 2018
• Dr. Brain February 9, 2018
• Adventure-Game Rock Stars Live in Conference February 16, 2018
• The Worlds of Ultima February 23, 2018
• Wing Commander II March 2, 2018
• The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization March 16, 2018
• The Game of Everything, Part 2: Playing Civilization March 23, 2018
• The Game of Everything, Part 3: Civilization and the Narrative of Progress March 30, 2018
• The Game of Everything, Part 4: Civilization and Geography April 6, 2018
• The Game of Everything, Part 5: Civilization and War April 13, 2018
• The Game of Everything, Part 6: Civilization and Religion April 20, 2018
• The Game of Everything, Part 7: Civilization and Government I (Despotism, Monarchy, and the Republic) April 27, 2018
• The Game of Everything, Part 8: Civilization and Government II (Democracy, Communism, and Anarchy) May 4, 2018
• The Game of Everything, Part 9: Civilization and Economics May 11, 2018
• The Game of Everything, Part 10: Civilization and the Limits of Progress May 18, 2018
• The Dynamic Interactive Narratives of Dynamix May 25, 2018
• Ebooks and Future Plans June 1, 2018
• What’s in a Subtitle? June 8, 2018
• The Incredible Machine June 8, 2018
• Another World June 15, 2018
• Doing Windows, Part 1: MS-DOS and Its Discontents June 22, 2018
• Doing Windows, Part 2: From Interface Manager to Windows June 29, 2018
• Doing Windows, Part 3: A Pair of Strike-Outs July 6, 2018
• Doing Windows, Part 4: The Rapprochement July 13, 2018
• Doing Windows, Part 5: A Second Try July 20, 2018
• Doing Windows, Part 6: Look and Feel July 27, 2018
• Doing Windows, Part 7: Third Time’s the Charm August 3, 2018
• Doing Windows, Part 8: The Outsiders August 10, 2018
• Doing Windows, Part 9: Windows Comes Home August 17, 2018
• The Games of Windows August 24, 2018
• Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) September 7, 2018
• Shades of Gray September 14, 2018
• The Gateway Games of Legend (Preceded by the Legend of Gateway) September 21, 2018
• Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (or, Of Movies and Games and Whether the Twain Shall Meet) September 28, 2018
• Whither the Software Artist? (or, How Trip Hawkins Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Consoles) October 5, 2018
• The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes October 12, 2018
• The Sierra Discovery Adventures October 19, 2018
• Quest for Glory III and IV October 26, 2018
• Ten Great Adventure-Game Puzzles November 2, 2018
• The Designer’s Designer November 16, 2018
• Controlling the Spice, Part 1: Dune on Page and Screen November 23, 2018
• Controlling the Spice, Part 2: Cryo’s Dune November 30, 2018
• Controlling the Spice, Part 3: Westwood’s Dune December 7, 2018
• A Quick Scheduling Update — and Season’s Greetings December 16, 2018
• Star Control II December 21, 2018
• Life on the Grid January 4, 2019
• The Analog Antiquarian January 11, 2019
• Life Off the Grid, Part 1: Making Ultima Underworld January 18, 2019
• Life Off the Grid, Part 2: Playing Ultima Underworld February 1, 2019
• Ultima VII February 15, 2019
• Scientology and the Fellowship March 1, 2019
• Darklands March 22, 2019
• Interplay Takes on Trek April 5, 2019
• An Unlikely Savior April 19, 2019
• Return to Zork May 3, 2019
• Out with 1992, In with 1993 May 15, 2019
• The Last Works Before the Renaissance May 24, 2019
• Day of the Tentacle June 7, 2019
• Sam and Max Hit the Road June 21, 2019
• The Mortgaging of Sierra Online July 5, 2019
• Chief Gates Comes to Oakhurst: A Cop Drama July 19, 2019
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers August 2, 2019
• Alone in the Dark August 16, 2019
• Rick Loomis Could Use Your Help August 18, 2019
• Origin Sells Out September 6, 2019
• Opening the Gold Box, Part 6: A Troubled Marriage September 20, 2019
• Betrayal at Krondor October 4, 2019
• New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 1: Digging the Trenches October 18, 2019
• The Pyramids of Giza (A Wonders of the World Book) October 21, 2019
• Summer Daze October 30, 2019
• New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 2: Hacking Deeper (or, Follies of Graham Nelson’s Youth) November 8, 2019
• New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 3: A Renaissance is Nigh November 22, 2019
• Eric the Unready December 6, 2019
• Companions of Xanth (Preceded by the Worrisome Case of Piers Anthony) December 20, 2019
• Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space (and Space-Program Games in General) January 3, 2020
• Master of Orion January 24, 2020
• The Deal of the Century (or, The Alliance of Losers) February 7, 2020
• Myst (or, The Drawbacks to Success) February 21, 2020
• The 68000 Wars, Part 6: The Unraveling March 6, 2020
• Lemmings 2: The Tribes March 20, 2020
• The (7th) Guest’s New Clothes April 3, 2020
• The Shareware Scene, Part 1: The Pioneers April 17, 2020
• The Shareware Scene, Part 2: The Question of Games May 1, 2020
• The Shareware Scene, Part 3: The id Boys May 15, 2020
• The Shareware Scene, Part 4: DOOM June 5, 2020
• The Shareware Scene, Part 5: Narratives of DOOM June 19, 2020
• Under a Killing Moon July 3, 2020
• Ebooks and more as we move into 1994… July 16, 2020
• Beneath a Steel Sky July 17, 2020
• Superhero League of Hoboken August 7, 2020
• Death Gate August 21, 2020
• Bullfrog after Populous September 4, 2020
• X-COM September 18, 2020
• Transport Tycoon October 2, 2020
• Master of Magic October 23, 2020
• The Oracle of Delphi October 27, 2020
• Opening the Gold Box, Part 7: Back to the Roots November 6, 2020
• Ethics in Strategy Gaming, Part 1: Panzer General November 20, 2020
• Ethics in Strategy Gaming, Part 2: Colonization December 4, 2020
• Lode Runner December 18, 2020
• The Dream of Flight January 1, 2021
• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon January 12, 2021
• Microsoft Space Simulator (or, Charles Guy’s Galaxy in a Box) January 15, 2021
• The Second Coming of Star Wars February 5, 2021
• Ultima VIII (or, How to Destroy a Gaming Franchise in One Easy Step) February 19, 2021
• Wing Commander III March 5, 2021
• System Shock March 19, 2021
• The Ratings Game, Part 1: A Likely and an Unlikely Suspect April 9, 2021
• The Ratings Game, Part 2: The Hearing April 23, 2021
• The Ratings Game, Part 3: Dueling Standards May 7, 2021
• The Ratings Game, Part 4: E3 and Beyond May 21, 2021
• Bob Stein and Voyager June 4, 2021
• The Best of Voyager June 18, 2021
• Full Throttle July 2, 2021
• And Onward to 1995… July 16, 2021
• The Dig July 23, 2021
• Making Sierra Pay August 6, 2021
• The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery August 20, 2021
• The Neo-Classical Interactive Fiction of 1995 September 3, 2021
• Shannara (or, Bookware Mark 2) September 17, 2021
• Mission Critical October 1, 2021
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream October 22, 2021
• The Dark Eye November 5, 2021
• Boffo Games November 19, 2021
• Might and Magic December 10, 2021
• Heroes of Might and Magic December 24, 2021
• A Web Around the World, Part 1: Signals Down a Wire January 7, 2022
• A Web Around the World, Part 2: If At First You Don’t Succeed… January 21, 2022
• Alexandria and Rhodes January 24, 2022
• A Web Around the World, Part 3: …Try, Try Again February 4, 2022
• A Web Around the World, Part 4: From Telegraphy to Telephony February 18, 2022
• A Web Around the World, Part 5: Selling the Telephone March 4, 2022
• A Web Around the World, Part 6: Routing Calls March 18, 2022
• A Web Around the World, Part 7: Computers On the Wire April 8, 2022
• A Web Around the World, Part 8: The Intergalactic Computer Network April 22, 2022
• A Web Around the World, Part 9: A Network of Networks May 6, 2022
• A Web Around the World, Part 10: A Web of Associations May 20, 2022
• A Web Around the World, Part 11: A Zero-Sum Game June 3, 2022
• Toonstruck (or, A Case Study in the Death of Adventure Games) June 17, 2022
• Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars July 1, 2022
• Transfixed by 1996 July 15, 2022
• Discworld on Page and Screen, Part 1: Serious Comedy July 22, 2022
• Discworld on Page and Screen, Part 2: The First Three Discworld Games August 5, 2022
• The Case of the Rose Tattoo August 19, 2022
• Byron Preiss’s Games (or, The Promise and Peril of the Electronic Book) September 2, 2022
• Titanic Visions, Part 1: Sifting Through the Wreckage September 23, 2022
• Titanic Visions, Part 2: A Night to Remember October 7, 2022
• Titanic Visions, Part 3: An Adventure Out of Time October 21, 2022
• The Pandora Directive November 4, 2022
• Mastodon Feed November 4, 2022
• Doing Windows, Part 10: Chicago November 18, 2022
• Doing Windows, Part 11: The Internet Tidal Wave December 9, 2022
• Doing Windows, Part 12: David and Goliath December 23, 2022
• Normality January 6, 2023
• Sequels in Strategy Gaming, Part 1: Civilization II January 20, 2023
• Sequels in Strategy Gaming, Part 2: Master of Orion II February 3, 2023
• Sequels in Strategy Gaming, Part 3: Heroes of Might and Magic II February 17, 2023
• Spycraft: The Great Game, Part 1 (or, Parallel Spies) March 3, 2023
• Spycraft: The Great Game, Part 2 March 17, 2023
• Wing Commander IV April 7, 2023
• The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 1: Three Dimensions in Software (or, Quake and Its Discontents) April 21, 2023
• The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 2: Three Dimensions in Hardware May 5, 2023
• The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 3: Software Meets Hardware May 19, 2023
• Tomb Raider June 2, 2023
• A Dialog in Real Time (Strategy) June 23, 2023
• Going Rogue July 7, 2023
• Diablo July 21, 2023
• Realms of the Haunting August 4, 2023
• From Mechs to Mopar August 18, 2023
• Another Year Down, Many More to Go September 1, 2023
• Magic and Loss, Part 1: Magic in the Cards September 8, 2023
• Magic and Loss, Part 2: Magic on the Screen September 22, 2023
• The Last Express October 6, 2023
• A Digital Pornutopia, Part 1: The Seedy-ROM Revolution October 20, 2023
• A Digital Pornutopia, Part 2: The Internet is for Porn November 3, 2023
• Putting the “J” in the RPG, Part 1: Dorakue! November 17, 2023
• Putting the “J” in the RPG, Part 2: PlayStation for the Win December 8, 2023
• Putting the “J” in the RPG, Part 3: Playing Final Fantasy VII (or, Old Man Yells at Cloud) December 22, 2023
• Televising the Revolution January 5, 2024
• The Rise of POMG, Part 1: It Takes a Village… January 19, 2024
• The Rise of POMG, Part 2: Multima February 2, 2024
• The Rise of POMG, Part 3: Competition and Conflict February 16, 2024
• The Rise of POMG, Part 4: A World for the Taking March 1, 2024
• Age of Empires (or, How Microsoft Got in on Games) March 15, 2024
• Jedi Knight (Plus, Notes on an Expanded Universe) April 5, 2024
• The Curse of Monkey Island April 19, 2024
• Blade Runner May 3, 2024
• Riven May 17, 2024
• 1998 Will Be Great May 31, 2024
• The Last Days of Zork June 7, 2024
• The Journeyman Project June 21, 2024
• Starcraft (A History in Two Acts) July 5, 2024
• The Later Years of Douglas Adams July 19, 2024
• Tex Murphy and the Coming of the DVD (A Shaggy-Dog Story) August 2, 2024
• 1997 Ebooks August 16, 2024
• Sanitarium August 23, 2024
• The Truth Is Out There, Part 1: The Will to Believe September 6, 2024
• The Truth is Out There, Part 2: The Power of Belief September 20, 2024
• The Truth Is Out There, Part 3: The Game of Belief October 4, 2024
• The Truth Is Out There, Part 4: The Downside of Belief October 18, 2024
• Grim Fandango November 8, 2024
• Retro No More: Interactive Fiction of the Early Comp Era November 22, 2024
• Social Media November 30, 2024
• A Conversation with Andrew Plotkin December 6, 2024
• Half-Life December 20, 2024
• Railroad Tycoon II January 10, 2025
• The CRPG Renaissance, Part 1: Fallout January 24, 2025
• The CRPG Renaissance, Part 2: Might and Magic VI February 7, 2025
• The CRPG Renaissance, Part 3: TSR is Dead… February 21, 2025
• The CRPG Renaissance, Part 4: …Long Live Dungeons & Dragons! March 7, 2025
• The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur’s Gate March 21, 2025
• The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition April 4, 2025
• The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 2: The Scandal April 18, 2025
• The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 3: The Dog Days of Oakhurst May 2, 2025
• The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 4: Chainsaw Monday May 23, 2025
• The Last Adventures of Legend June 6, 2025
• It’s 1999 and I Feel Fine June 19, 2025
• Alpha Centauri June 20, 2025
• EverQuest July 4, 2025
• The Year of Peak Might and Magic July 18, 2025
• Rollercoaster Tycoon (or, MicroProse’s Last Hurrah) August 1, 2025
• Bullfrog in the Dungeon August 15, 2025
• Choose Your Own Adventure September 5, 2025
• Outcast September 19, 2025
• DOS Game Club October 2, 2025
• A Looking Glass Half Empty, Part 1: Just Lookin’ for a Hit October 3, 2025
• A Looking Glass Half Empty, Part 2: A Series of Unfortunate Events October 17, 2025
• The Space Sim’s Last Hurrah November 7, 2025
• Mr Roberts Goes to Hollywood, Part 1: A Digital Anvil November 21, 2025
• Mr. Roberts Goes to Hollywood, Part 2: The Producer December 5, 2025
• Huge for the Holidays: Epic Interactive Fiction of the Millennial Period December 19, 2025
• This Week on The Analog Antiquarian December 26, 2025
• Homeworld January 2, 2026