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Mordack wins!

Okay, King's Quest V, you win. I give up. After trying to finish the game for hours now, I give up. First I had to look up a hint that explained to me that I had to wait forever and ever in the library to wait for Mordack to go to sleep. Then I hadn't thought about making the blue…
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Corruption: The Magnetic Scrolls collection is nearing completion

I recently picked up a copy of Corruption. Another game from Magnetic Scrolls for my collection. I'll put it next to The Pawn, The guild of Thieves, Jinxter and Fish! It's the Atari ST version and comes with a cassette tape with a…
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Couldn’t resist picking up an individual Wizardry. And RAMA

Back in the early days of my current games collection (in 2019), I picked up the Ultimate Wizardy Archives. I was never much into Wizardy and I thought it would be nice to have that in the collection instead of hunting down individual…
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I just backed Less Miserables: A point-and-click parody of Les Miserables on @Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/collegefungames/less-misearbles-a-point-and-click-parody-of-les-miserables?ref=android_thanks_share
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It’s a Video Mystery, and it’s Interactive, and it’s Sherlock Holmes

Picked up a big box copy of Interactive Video Mystery: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective - Volume III, developed by ICOM and published by Mindscape in 1993. Never played it. It's supposed to be not too bad.
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Oh, new games from polyplay.xyz/ ! Pre-ordered
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Mapping out the desert in King’s Quest V

After I did everything I thought I could de in King's Quest V - which wasn't very much - I consulted the hint guide. That didn't prove very useful, but I did learn that I had to throw a boot from the desert at a cat chasing a mouse or rat. I already learned…
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Updates to my retro PC/MiSTer setup

I made some changes to my retro computer setup and I think it worked out really well. It certainly made me want to play more old PC games. I put my MiSTer in an Amiga 1200 case with the MiSTress 1200 I/O board and I changed my LCD for a CRT VGA monitor. I had to…
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😀! I never got the pc game because i read it was bad. Maybe i should try it out
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Complete Wheel of Time series!

With the arrival of A New Spring, the Wheel of Time series is now complete. I started with The Eye of the World in January 2025 and 15 months later all 15 books are accounted for. I'm itching to start another re-read of the whole series, even though I've re-read them…
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Back to Pillars of Eternity

Back in August last year I started with Pillars of Eternity. I enjoyed it for a couple of weeks, but never finished it because I started with Mario Odyssey and played Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom after that. Then I played Foolish Mortals and after that Oblivion…
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Time for King’s Quest V

It's been a while since I last played a King's Quest game. So the time is right for another adventure, the fifth installment in the series. I started by copying all the files from the floppies to a MisterFS shared folder on the ao486 core on the MiSTer. Sadly, I cannot dir…
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No more half a mask for the phantom

I've had the cd-rom version of Return of the Phantom in my collection for a while now. And while it's probably preferable to the floppy version because it adds voices, it it's nice to have them both because the front cover is mirrored and with both of them you…
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Also finished (for now): Oblivion Remastered

After doing the main quest of The Shivering Isles, Albertus the mage has retired from adventuring. He didn't feel like helping (or killing) more residents of The Realm of Madness and couldn't wait to get out of there and go back to Cyrodill. Once there,…
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Finished Space Quest I: Hero of Xenon

I did it! I finished Space Quest I without having to go back to the beginning to pick something up again. After the last session where I had to go back and pick up the knife to open the grate, I progressed through the enemy spaceship until the end. I loved…
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More random addition: big box Shannara, Wacky Wheels cd-rom, Towers of Midnight & Witches Abroad

Shannara is a fantasy book series that I've never read. I've also never played the point-and-click-adventure game they made about it. But it's a Legend game and seeing as I have a couple of other games…
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Moved my MiSTer from Mini-ITX to Amiga 1200

I keep changing my mind about what to do with my Amiga 1200 case. Now I've gone and put my MiSTer in. After I bought an Atlantis board to put it in a Mini-ITX case, I tried to make a clean solution to put a Raspberry Pi in the case. But even with the…
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Space Quest frustrations: “I forgot to pick it up”

In my second session playing Space Quest 1 I was a lot less enthusiastic about the game than when I started out. Even though the constant deaths makes me feel like I'm playing Dragon's Lair, or better yet Space Ace (although I've never played that…
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Random additions: Commandos, Windows 98, The Stand on VHS and Cd’s

Some random additions. Amongst them Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty. I see this game being offered every so often and I knew that I would buy it someday, and now was the time. I loved the original Commandos game and I've never…
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Playing Pjusk on the Amiga 500

The awesome IndieRetroNews posted about a game that's right up my alley: Pjusk, a puzzle game from Zooperdan for the Amiga. I quickly bought it to have an excuse to power up my Amiga 500. It reminds me a bit of Worthy, a game that together with Shadow Switcher for…
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Starting out with Space Quest I

Wandering around The Shivering Isles got a bit boring and also the living room tv with the PS5 wasn't available, so I decided to start an entirely different game: Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter. A game first released 40 years ago in 1986 and thus twice as old…
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Reached the Horizon

Just a short message to remind my future self that my son and I finished the World Tour of Horizon Chase 2. We've only completed 40% of the game, but I don't think we'll do much more. We found the first game more enjoyable. We both agreed that the game felt a bit unfair. The…
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A flat Oblivion to accompany the small Oblivion because there’s no big box Oblivion

The Elder Scrolls is a nice series to collect for. There are all sorts of different variants of the games. Arena has a regular and a Deluxe Edition, Daggerfall has at least 10 editions (see them at…
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Wel, it’s Groundhog Day… again

So for this year I bought the VHS tape to watch it properly on my new old VHS player on the Sony Trinitron. Groundhog Day is one of the greatest movies ever. Everyday for the last ten years or so I wake up with the same song that Phil wakes up with. Unlike in the…
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Oblivion Remastered bugging me out is driving me insane

Continuing on from my last adventures in Oblivion Remastered led me through a number of quests for the mages guild, a Daedric quest and the main quest. One of the mages guild quests nicely tied in with advancing through the ranks because it…
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Adding a little bit of horror to the big box games collection with Amber: Journeys Beyond

Amber: Journeys Beyond is a game from 1996, the era where big box pc games were largely empty and Amber is no exception. There's only the jewel case with the little square manual that fits inside that. The…
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Where's the Manual? From the July 1996 issue of PC GAMES.
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Chasing the horizon again

Two years ago, I played Horizon Chase Turbo together with my son. Over the past two years, he has continued to play it periodically with his friend. The sequel Horizon Chase II has been out for a while now. And while I read the reviews stating that it's not the better…
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Reading those in-game Oblivion books on actual paper

Playing video games is great and it's my favorite hobby. I cannot spend enough time playing games.* But it does involve an awful lot of time staring at a screen and that's not something my ageing eyes can always appreciate. It's good to take…
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Oblivion might be Remastered but it’s still delightfully weird

I'm having fun in Oblivion Remastered and haven't noticed many bugs or glitches so far. Only one person who was sleeping in mid air three meters from has bed and halfway through his door. And falling leaves that leave weird graphical…
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