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The Retro Adventurers is a podcast for everyone who has battled fading lanterns, unmappable mazes, and verb selection.

Join us to celebrate text adventures from the peak years of the 1970s and 1980s as well as throwbacks from the modern age. Explore classic text adventure games from legendary publishers and authors including Magnetic Scrolls, Level 9, Infocom, Scott Adams, and Interplay. A podcast for fans of GET LAMP, Eaten By a Grue, The Classic Adventurer, Renga In Blue, and Quest For Clues.

12/07/2025

Jason and Dave V. keep the Episode 29 conversation going with a lot of eXoIF analysis.

08/07/2025

Ben, Jason, and This Week in Retro's Dave V. take on a double-dose of robot-themed games. We begin with the genre soup of CPC/Spectrum/C64 Souls of Darkon. Then it's the whodunnit, the political tension, and the curious relationship conventions of Epyx's The Robots of Dawn for Apple and Commodore, based (more or less) on the Isaac Asimov novel.

Ben solves a decades-long gaming mystery, plus there's a cat and a mouse and only one of them survives to the end of the episode!

Episode 29 of The Retro Adventurers, on your favorite podcast platform now.

22/06/2025

Andrew Plotkin, winner of the first-ever Interactive Fiction Competition (IFComp), legendary backer of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, and tastemaker for the past 30 years of IF development is also the author of the Infidel spoof Inhumane. He talks about that Infocom sendup and many more projects over a 40-year span with Jason and Nick.

On all major podcast platforms now or available from
https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/28/

15/06/2025

All the way back in Episode 1 we promised to play Level 9's Knight Orc. Ben and Jason chip away at that obligation by playing... the first of three independent-load sections of the game. (We're working on it!) They do their best to navigate the aptly-named "KAOS" engine and assemble rope. (So much rope.)

But first, a clearout of news and listener mail, and a visit to the wry parody of Infidel, Andrew Plotkin's Inhumane. The game is loaded with death traps and unlicensed appearances by famous characters, including a cameo from the villain of Episode 20's Mask of the Sun.

On all major podcast platforms now or visit retroadventurers.com .

10/06/2025

L: A Mathemagical Adventure, a BBC Micro game written by 3,000 maths teachers and zero proofreaders.

Coming soon!

03/06/2025

Ben and Jason take a psychedelic trip into lots and lots of Beatles song concepts and name-checking with Number 9 Software's Beatle Quest before exploring a peak moment in "The Absolute Worst People You Know Are in Space" culture in shareware highlight Jacaranda Jim by modern-day InfoSec celebrity Graham Cluley. It's one of Ben's all-time games, but can he convert his American collaborator?

retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/26

Cover photo CC-BY 2.0 khakidoggy

27/05/2025

Magazine Roundup #2 is out! Tim Gilberts joins Jason & Dave to explore text adventure coverage and more in Personal Computer Games, Computer Gaming World, Softline (Tron cover story!) and the Trillium newsletter. Available now on all major podcast platforms.

https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/25

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