This was my first article specifically written for Medium in an attempt to find new channels for the results of my research. Since I’ve closed my account there, I’m moving the article to the Vintrospektiv homepage. The British scene The home computer and gaming scene of the 1980s in Great Britain was strikingly different from […]
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Continuing my moving of articles from Medium to the Vintrospektiv homepage, this English version of an article from 2021 first appeared over there in October 2021 (but has since been deleted). Infocom: The end of a genre The history of Infocom has been fully explored: from the founding in 1979 for the distribution of Dungeon, […]
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A while ago I mentioned my “Adventure-Ecke” in the German Spectrum fanzine SUC-SESSION. Now that the second instalment is out, I would like to add that there is an English version of the magazine, which you can order for the same price (€ 4,50 for 3 PDF issues or € 23-29 for 3 printed issues). […]
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This was one of my first articles on Vintrospektiv, originally in German since all of Vintrospektiv used to be in German in the beginning. This English version first appeared on Medium (in August 2021), but since I’m closing my account there I thought it would be a good idea to have everything here on Vintrospektiv. […]
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A moment ago I was thinking that I should probably write a post to give a sign of life as it’s been almost half a year since the last one. Then I realised that one of the activities that take up most of my time at the moment is very well suited for an update […]
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(This is about a German magazine, so it’s in German. Update: but there’s also an English version.) Gerade habe ich erfahren, dass vor ein paar Wochen Ausgabe 234 des Magazins SUC-SESSION herausgekommen ist. In dieser Ausgabe erscheint auch erstmals meine „Adventure-Ecke“, in der ich aktuelle Adventurespiele für den ZX Spectrum bespreche (diesmal: The Quest for […]
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In a few days, I will announce the second instalment of my Retro Disco, so it’s probably a good time to revisit what the first one was like and what you can expect from the next one. I had the idea of the Retro Disco a while ago, and while I was browsing Bandcamp at […]
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On 4 December, Vintrospektiv celebrated its 2nd birthday. While I am happy with the new direction my life has taken, and ultimately with the decision to end Vintrospektiv as my main job, I couldn’t help but wonder (as I sometimes do) what I could have done differently. I still believe that there is simply not […]
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So here’s the final part of this little series. Again, see the first part for more information on its background. For my original promotions covered in the previous 4 parts, I was beginning to struggle to come up with new ideas by the end of February 2021, and since there had been a rather disappointing […]
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A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a game box that was buried in a bookshelf. It turned out to be Emily Short’s City of Secrets, made in a tiny run and sold at the long-defunct feelies.org. I had originally ordered three copies back in 2002, two for friends to save on postage, but one […]
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