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2026 23

  1. An Ion Storm!, Part 2: The Return to Ground Level
  2. This Week on The Analog Antiquarian
  3. An Ion Storm!, Part 1: The Ascent to Gamer Paradise
  4. The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings
  5. Porsche Unleashed
  6. A Need for Speed
  7. The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 3: The Sims
  8. Y2K Will Be Quite Okay
  9. The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 2: SimWorld
  10. The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything
  11. The Goldilocks Principle in Fantasy Strategy
  12. Planescape: Torment, Part 2: …to the Desktop
  13. Planescape: Torment, Part 1: From the Tabletop…
  14. The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 5: The Man Behind the Curtain
  15. The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 4: Non-Fiction Meets Fiction
  16. The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 3: A Secret History
  17. The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 2: Secret Codes and Hidden Messages
  18. The Mystery of Rennes-le-Château, Part 1: The Priest’s Treasure
  19. Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
  20. 1998 Ebook!
  21. Ultima IX
  22. Omikron: The Nomad Soul
  23. Homeworld

2025 26

  1. Huge for the Holidays: Epic Interactive Fiction of the Millennial Period
  2. Mr. Roberts Goes to Hollywood, Part 2: The Producer
  3. Mr Roberts Goes to Hollywood, Part 1: A Digital Anvil
  4. The Space Sim’s Last Hurrah
  5. A Looking Glass Half Empty, Part 2: A Series of Unfortunate Events
  6. A Looking Glass Half Empty, Part 1: Just Lookin’ for a Hit
  7. DOS Game Club
  8. Outcast
  9. Choose Your Own Adventure
  10. Bullfrog in the Dungeon
  11. Rollercoaster Tycoon (or, MicroProse’s Last Hurrah)
  12. The Year of Peak Might and Magic
  13. EverQuest
  14. Alpha Centauri
  15. It’s 1999 and I Feel Fine
  16. The Last Adventures of Legend
  17. The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 4: Chainsaw Monday
  18. The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 3: The Dog Days of Oakhurst
  19. The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 2: The Scandal
  20. The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition
  21. The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur’s Gate
  22. The CRPG Renaissance, Part 4: …Long Live Dungeons & Dragons!
  23. The CRPG Renaissance, Part 3: TSR is Dead…
  24. The CRPG Renaissance, Part 2: Might and Magic VI
  25. The CRPG Renaissance, Part 1: Fallout
  26. Railroad Tycoon II

2024 27

  1. Half-Life
  2. A Conversation with Andrew Plotkin
  3. Social Media
  4. Retro No More: Interactive Fiction of the Early Comp Era
  5. Grim Fandango
  6. The Truth Is Out There, Part 4: The Downside of Belief
  7. The Truth Is Out There, Part 3: The Game of Belief
  8. The Truth is Out There, Part 2: The Power of Belief
  9. The Truth Is Out There, Part 1: The Will to Believe
  10. Sanitarium
  11. 1997 Ebooks
  12. Tex Murphy and the Coming of the DVD (A Shaggy-Dog Story)
  13. The Later Years of Douglas Adams
  14. Starcraft (A History in Two Acts)
  15. The Journeyman Project
  16. The Last Days of Zork
  17. 1998 Will Be Great
  18. Riven
  19. Blade Runner
  20. The Curse of Monkey Island
  21. Jedi Knight (Plus, Notes on an Expanded Universe)
  22. Age of Empires (or, How Microsoft Got in on Games)
  23. The Rise of POMG, Part 4: A World for the Taking
  24. The Rise of POMG, Part 3: Competition and Conflict
  25. The Rise of POMG, Part 2: Multima
  26. The Rise of POMG, Part 1: It Takes a Village…
  27. Televising the Revolution

2023 25

  1. Putting the “J” in the RPG, Part 3: Playing Final Fantasy VII (or, Old Man Yells at Cloud)
  2. Putting the “J” in the RPG, Part 2: PlayStation for the Win
  3. Putting the “J” in the RPG, Part 1: Dorakue!
  4. A Digital Pornutopia, Part 2: The Internet is for Porn
  5. A Digital Pornutopia, Part 1: The Seedy-ROM Revolution
  6. The Last Express
  7. Magic and Loss, Part 2: Magic on the Screen
  8. Magic and Loss, Part 1: Magic in the Cards
  9. Another Year Down, Many More to Go
  10. From Mechs to Mopar
  11. Realms of the Haunting
  12. Diablo
  13. Going Rogue
  14. A Dialog in Real Time (Strategy)
  15. Tomb Raider
  16. The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 3: Software Meets Hardware
  17. The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 2: Three Dimensions in Hardware
  18. The Next Generation in Graphics, Part 1: Three Dimensions in Software (or, Quake and Its Discontents)
  19. Wing Commander IV
  20. Spycraft: The Great Game, Part 2
  21. Spycraft: The Great Game, Part 1 (or, Parallel Spies)
  22. Sequels in Strategy Gaming, Part 3: Heroes of Might and Magic II
  23. Sequels in Strategy Gaming, Part 2: Master of Orion II
  24. Sequels in Strategy Gaming, Part 1: Civilization II
  25. Normality

2022 27

  1. Doing Windows, Part 12: David and Goliath
  2. Doing Windows, Part 11: The Internet Tidal Wave
  3. Doing Windows, Part 10: Chicago
  4. Mastodon Feed
  5. The Pandora Directive
  6. Titanic Visions, Part 3: An Adventure Out of Time
  7. Titanic Visions, Part 2: A Night to Remember
  8. Titanic Visions, Part 1: Sifting Through the Wreckage
  9. Byron Preiss’s Games (or, The Promise and Peril of the Electronic Book)
  10. The Case of the Rose Tattoo
  11. Discworld on Page and Screen, Part 2: The First Three Discworld Games
  12. Discworld on Page and Screen, Part 1: Serious Comedy
  13. Transfixed by 1996
  14. Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars
  15. Toonstruck (or, A Case Study in the Death of Adventure Games)
  16. A Web Around the World, Part 11: A Zero-Sum Game
  17. A Web Around the World, Part 10: A Web of Associations
  18. A Web Around the World, Part 9: A Network of Networks
  19. A Web Around the World, Part 8: The Intergalactic Computer Network
  20. A Web Around the World, Part 7: Computers On the Wire
  21. A Web Around the World, Part 6: Routing Calls
  22. A Web Around the World, Part 5: Selling the Telephone
  23. A Web Around the World, Part 4: From Telegraphy to Telephony
  24. A Web Around the World, Part 3: …Try, Try Again
  25. Alexandria and Rhodes
  26. A Web Around the World, Part 2: If At First You Don’t Succeed…
  27. A Web Around the World, Part 1: Signals Down a Wire

2021 26

  1. Heroes of Might and Magic
  2. Might and Magic
  3. Boffo Games
  4. The Dark Eye
  5. I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
  6. Mission Critical
  7. Shannara (or, Bookware Mark 2)
  8. The Neo-Classical Interactive Fiction of 1995
  9. The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery
  10. Making Sierra Pay
  11. The Dig
  12. And Onward to 1995…
  13. Full Throttle
  14. The Best of Voyager
  15. Bob Stein and Voyager
  16. The Ratings Game, Part 4: E3 and Beyond
  17. The Ratings Game, Part 3: Dueling Standards
  18. The Ratings Game, Part 2: The Hearing
  19. The Ratings Game, Part 1: A Likely and an Unlikely Suspect
  20. System Shock
  21. Wing Commander III
  22. Ultima VIII (or, How to Destroy a Gaming Franchise in One Easy Step)
  23. The Second Coming of Star Wars
  24. Microsoft Space Simulator (or, Charles Guy’s Galaxy in a Box)
  25. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  26. The Dream of Flight

2020 26

  1. Lode Runner
  2. Ethics in Strategy Gaming, Part 2: Colonization
  3. Ethics in Strategy Gaming, Part 1: Panzer General
  4. Opening the Gold Box, Part 7: Back to the Roots
  5. The Oracle of Delphi
  6. Master of Magic
  7. Transport Tycoon
  8. X com
  9. Bullfrog after Populous
  10. Death Gate
  11. Superhero League of Hoboken
  12. Beneath a Steel Sky
  13. Ebooks and more as we move into 1994…
  14. Under a Killing Moon
  15. The Shareware Scene, Part 5: Narratives of DOOM
  16. The Shareware Scene, Part 4: DOOM
  17. The Shareware Scene, Part 3: The id Boys
  18. The Shareware Scene, Part 2: The Question of Games
  19. The Shareware Scene, Part 1: The Pioneers
  20. The (7th) Guest’s New Clothes
  21. Lemmings 2: The Tribes
  22. The 68000 Wars, Part 6: The Unraveling
  23. Myst (or, The Drawbacks to Success)
  24. The Deal of the Century (or, The Alliance of Losers)
  25. Master of Orion
  26. Buzz Aldrin’s Race into Space (and Space-Program Games in General)

2019 29

  1. Companions of Xanth (Preceded by the Worrisome Case of Piers Anthony)
  2. Eric the Unready
  3. New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 3: A Renaissance is Nigh
  4. New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 2: Hacking Deeper (or, Follies of Graham Nelson’s Youth)
  5. Summer Daze
  6. The Pyramids of Giza (A Wonders of the World Book)
  7. New Tricks for an Old Z-Machine, Part 1: Digging the Trenches
  8. Betrayal at Krondor
  9. Opening the Gold Box, Part 6: A Troubled Marriage
  10. Origin Sells Out
  11. Rick Loomis Could Use Your Help
  12. Alone in the Dark
  13. Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
  14. Chief Gates Comes to Oakhurst: A Cop Drama
  15. The Mortgaging of Sierra Online
  16. Sam and Max Hit the Road
  17. Day of the Tentacle
  18. The Last Works Before the Renaissance
  19. Out with 1992, In with 1993
  20. Return to Zork
  21. An Unlikely Savior
  22. Interplay Takes on Trek
  23. Darklands
  24. Scientology and the Fellowship
  25. Ultima VII
  26. Life Off the Grid, Part 2: Playing Ultima Underworld
  27. Life Off the Grid, Part 1: Making Ultima Underworld
  28. The Analog Antiquarian
  29. Life on the Grid

2018 49

  1. Star Control II
  2. A Quick Scheduling Update — and Season’s Greetings
  3. Controlling the Spice, Part 3: Westwood’s Dune
  4. Controlling the Spice, Part 2: Cryo’s Dune
  5. Controlling the Spice, Part 1: Dune on Page and Screen
  6. The Designer’s Designer
  7. Ten Great Adventure-Game Puzzles
  8. Quest for Glory III and IV
  9. The Sierra Discovery Adventures
  10. The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes
  11. Whither the Software Artist? (or, How Trip Hawkins Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Consoles)
  12. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (or, Of Movies and Games and Whether the Twain Shall Meet)
  13. The Gateway Games of Legend (Preceded by the Legend of Gateway)
  14. Shades of Gray
  15. Agrippa (A Book of the Dead)
  16. The Games of Windows
  17. Doing Windows, Part 9: Windows Comes Home
  18. Doing Windows, Part 8: The Outsiders
  19. Doing Windows, Part 7: Third Time’s the Charm
  20. Doing Windows, Part 6: Look and Feel
  21. Doing Windows, Part 5: A Second Try
  22. Doing Windows, Part 4: The Rapprochement
  23. Doing Windows, Part 3: A Pair of Strike-Outs
  24. Doing Windows, Part 2: From Interface Manager to Windows
  25. Doing Windows, Part 1: MS-DOS and Its Discontents
  26. Another World
  27. The Incredible Machine
  28. What’s in a Subtitle?
  29. Ebooks and Future Plans
  30. The Dynamic Interactive Narratives of Dynamix
  31. The Game of Everything, Part 10: Civilization and the Limits of Progress
  32. The Game of Everything, Part 9: Civilization and Economics
  33. The Game of Everything, Part 8: Civilization and Government II (Democracy, Communism, and Anarchy)
  34. The Game of Everything, Part 7: Civilization and Government I (Despotism, Monarchy, and the Republic)
  35. The Game of Everything, Part 6: Civilization and Religion
  36. The Game of Everything, Part 5: Civilization and War
  37. The Game of Everything, Part 4: Civilization and Geography
  38. The Game of Everything, Part 3: Civilization and the Narrative of Progress
  39. The Game of Everything, Part 2: Playing Civilization
  40. The Game of Everything, Part 1: Making Civilization
  41. Wing Commander II
  42. The Worlds of Ultima
  43. Adventure-Game Rock Stars Live in Conference
  44. Dr. Brain
  45. The Sierra Network
  46. Sierra at the Cusp of the Multimedia Age
  47. Timequest
  48. King of Space
  49. A Conversation with Judith Pintar

2017 48

  1. The Text Adventures of 1991
  2. Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 3: The Persistent Multiplayer CRPG
  3. Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 2: MUD
  4. Games on the Net Before the Web, Part 1: Strategy and Simulation
  5. A Net Before the Web, Part 5: The Pony
  6. A Net Before the Web, Part 4: The Rogue, the Yuppie, and the Soldier
  7. A Net Before the Web, Part 3: Content and Competition
  8. A Net Before the Web, Part 2: Service to Community
  9. A Net Before the Web, Part 1: The Establishment Man and the Magnificent Rogue
  10. A Full-Motion-Video Consulting Detective
  11. The 68000 Wars, Part 5: The Age of Multimedia
  12. Games on the Mersey, Part 5: The Lemmings Effect
  13. Games on the Mersey, Part 4: The All-Importance of Graphics
  14. Games on the Mersey, Part 3: The Phoenix
  15. Games on the Mersey, Part 2: Last Days in the Bunker
  16. Games on the Mersey, Part 1: Taking Scousers Off the Dole
  17. Living Worlds of Action and Adventure, Part 3: Head Over Heels, Exile, and Dizzy
  18. Living Worlds of Action and Adventure, Part 2: Mercenary, Fairlight, and Spindizzy
  19. Living Worlds of Action and Adventure, Part 1: The Atari Adventure
  20. A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 8: Life After Tetris
  21. A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 7: Winners and Losers
  22. A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 6: Total War
  23. A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 5: The Inflection Point
  24. A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 4: A Different Mirror
  25. A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 3: A Game of Falling Shapes
  26. A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 2: From Mainframes to Micros
  27. A Tale of the Mirror World, Part 1: Calculators and Cybernetics
  28. Memos from Digital Antiquarian Corporate Headquarters, June 2017 Edition
  29. An Independent Interplay Takes on Tolkien
  30. The Many Faces of Middle-earth, 1954-1989
  31. The View from the Trenches (or, Some Deadly Sins of CRPG Design)
  32. From Wingleader to Wing Commander
  33. From Squadron to Wingleader
  34. The 640 K Barrier
  35. Ultima VI
  36. Opening the Gold Box, Part 5: All That Glitters is Not Gold
  37. What’s the Matter with Covert Action?
  38. Railroad Tycoon
  39. Monkey Island (or, How Ron Gilbert Made an Adventure Game That Didn’t Suck)
  40. A Little Status Update
  41. Loom (or, how Brian Moriarty Proved That Less is Sometimes More)
  42. The Eastgate School of “Serious” Hypertext
  43. Tads
  44. The Spellcasting Series (or, How Much Ernie Eaglebeak is Too Much Ernie Eaglebeak?)
  45. Thaumistry: In Charm’s Way
  46. A Time of Beginnings: Legend Entertainment (or, Bob and Mike’s Excellent Adventure-Game Company)
  47. A Time of Endings, Part 4: Magnetic Scrolls
  48. A Time of Endings, Part 3: Mediagenic (or, The Patent from Hell)

2016 53

  1. A Time of Endings, Part 2: Epyx
  2. A Time of Endings, Part 1: Cinemaware
  3. A Working-Class Hero, Part 4: A Hero’s Legacy
  4. A Working-Class Hero, Part 3: Ace and Tactician
  5. A Working-Class Hero, Part 2: Bloody April
  6. Memos from Digital Antiquarian Corporate Headquarters
  7. A Working-Class Hero, Part 1: Proletariat, Prisoner, and Pilot
  8. Turning on, Booting up, and Jacking into Neuromancer
  9. The Prophet of Cyberspace
  10. How Jordan Mechner Made a Different Sort of Interactive Movie (or, The Virtues of Restraint)
  11. Cinemaware’s Year in the Desert
  12. The Manhole
  13. A Slow-Motion Revolution
  14. The Freedom to Associate
  15. Cracking Open the Mac
  16. So You Want to Be a Hero?
  17. Sierra Gets Creative
  18. IBM’s New Flavor
  19. A Conversation with Lane Barrow
  20. Agt
  21. Moving to California
  22. Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur
  23. Journey
  24. Manhole, Anyone?
  25. Shogun
  26. Peter Molyneux’s Kingdom in a Box
  27. Acorn and Amstrad
  28. One is Enough For SimCity
  29. Will Wright’s City in a Box
  30. 1988 Ebook Now Available
  31. The End of the Line for Level 9 as the Market Takes Its Toll on Magnetic Scrolls
  32. Kit Williams’s Golden Hare, Part 2: The Aftermath
  33. Kit Williams’s Golden Hare, Part 1: The Contest
  34. Tales of the Gnome Ranger
  35. Corrupted Fish
  36. Zork Zero
  37. The Bruce Youth
  38. Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels
  39. Generation Nintendo
  40. Opening the Gold Box, Part 4: Pool of Radiance
  41. Opening the Gold Box, Part 3: From Tabletop to Desktop
  42. Opening the Gold Box, Part 2: Ten Odd Years at TSR
  43. Opening the Gold Box, Part 1: Joel Billings and SSI
  44. Wasteland
  45. Friends of the Wasteland: The Legacy of Flying Buffalo
  46. Ultima V
  47. The Road to V
  48. Silicon Hollywood: Cinemaware’s Transitional Period
  49. 1987 Ebook Now Available
  50. Bill Williams: The Story of a Life
  51. A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 3: Case Studies in Copy Protection
  52. Rochester Ho!
  53. A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 2: The Scene

2015 55

  1. A Pirate’s Life for Me, Part 1: Don’t Copy That Floppy!
  2. A Little Christmas Gift
  3. Dungeon Master, Part 2: The Playing of
  4. Dungeon Master, Part 1: The Making of
  5. The Faery Tale Life of MicroIllusions
  6. The 68000 Wars, Part 4: Rock Lobster
  7. Cliff Johnson’s Fool’s Errand
  8. Border Zone
  9. Beyond Zork
  10. Plundered Hearts
  11. Nord and Bert
  12. MIT and GUE (or, The Annotated Lurking Horror)
  13. The Lurking Horror
  14. Lovecraft on the Tabletop
  15. The Campy Cosmic Horror of H.P. Lovecraft
  16. Stationfall
  17. …and Into the Fire
  18. Bureaucracy
  19. Hollywood Dave’s Hijinx
  20. Two Books on Gaming History
  21. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
  22. Splendid Isolation: Sierra at Mid-Decade
  23. The 14 Deadly Sins of Graphic-Adventure Design (or, Why Ron Gilbert Hated Adventure Games)
  24. A New Force in Games, Part 3: SCUMM
  25. A New Force in Games, Part 2: A Habitat in Cyberspace
  26. A New Force in Games, Part 1: Fractal Dreamers
  27. Pirates!
  28. A Digital Antiquarian Hall of Fame
  29. Accolade Gets Distinctive
  30. The Evolution of the (Epyx) Games
  31. Topologika
  32. Kaos
  33. Thieves and Jinxes (or, When Michael Met Anita)
  34. The Pawn’s Second Life (or, When Tony Met Anita)
  35. Fire and Rain
  36. Brian Fargo and Interplay
  37. On S.D.I. (Just a Little) and King of Chicago (Quite a Lot)
  38. Mike Berlyn Could Use a Little Helping Hand
  39. Defender of the Crown
  40. The 68000 Wars, Part 3: We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up
  41. Icbm
  42. The 68000 Wars, Part 2: Jack Is Back!
  43. The 68000 Wars, Part 1: Lorraine
  44. MicroProse’s Simulation-Industrial Complex (or, The Ballad of Sid and Wild Bill)
  45. Moonmist
  46. Leather Goddesses of Phobos (or, Sex Comes to the Micros — Again)
  47. Trinity Postscript: Selling Tragedy
  48. T Plus 6: All Prams Lead to the Kensington Gardens
  49. T Plus 0: The Fulcrum of History
  50. T Plus 1: Bombing Japan
  51. T Plus 2: The Bomb at the Crossroads
  52. T Plus 3: Edward Teller and His Superbomb
  53. T Plus 4: Bombing Nevada
  54. T Plus 5: Bombs in Space
  55. Trinity

2014 47

  1. Out of the Frying Pan…
  2. Ballyhoo
  3. Simon & Schuster’s Treks to Nowhere
  4. Accolade, Artech, and Killed Until Dead
  5. Bookware’s Sunset
  6. Portal
  7. Dorte’s View: Alter Ego
  8. Alter Ego
  9. Jim Levy and Activision
  10. Starflight
  11. Patreon
  12. The Forth Dimension
  13. Send in the Clones
  14. The Fractal Phenomenon
  15. Amnesia
  16. The Magnificent Penguin Hangs Up His Tuxedo
  17. Leader Board
  18. Access Software
  19. Apple, Carmen Sandiego, and the Rise of Edutainment
  20. Project: Space Station, Part 3: The Game
  21. Project: Space Station, Part 2: The Dream
  22. Project: Space Station, Part 1: The Reality
  23. Human Engineered Software (or, The Software Icarus)
  24. Ultima IV
  25. The Road to IV
  26. Of Wizards and Bards
  27. Comprehend
  28. An Alternate Chronicle of Amber
  29. Nine Princes in Amber
  30. Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder
  31. Spellbreaker
  32. A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 3: Through Strange Seas of Thought, Alone
  33. A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 2: Don’t Go Back to Rockvil
  34. A Mind Forever Voyaging, Part 1: Steve Meretzky’s Interiors
  35. Fooblitzky
  36. Wishbringer
  37. Down From the Top
  38. This Tormented Business, Part 3
  39. Essex and Brimstone
  40. Mindwheel (or, The Poet and the Hackers)
  41. Macware
  42. Macintosh
  43. QL Pawn
  44. This Tormented Business, Part 2
  45. The Merry Pranksters of Automata
  46. The Legend of Ultimate Play the Game
  47. Mike Singleton and The Lords of Midnight

2013 52

  1. Elite (or, The Universe on 32 K Per Day)
  2. This Tormented Business, Part 1
  3. Sherlock
  4. Suspect
  5. Hitchhiking the Galaxy Infocom-Style
  6. The Computerized Hitchhiker’s
  7. Douglas Adams
  8. Cutthroats
  9. Masters of the Game
  10. Shadowkeep
  11. Amazon in Pictures
  12. From Congo to Amazon
  13. Michael Crichton
  14. Dragonworld
  15. Fahrenheit 451: The Game
  16. Fahrenheit 451: The Book
  17. Rendezvous with Rama
  18. Bookware
  19. Seastalker
  20. Sorcerer
  21. Seven Cities of Gold
  22. How Things Work: Commodore 64 and Summer Games Edition
  23. From Automated Simulations to Epyx
  24. A Computer for Every Home?
  25. The Unmaking and Remaking of Sierra On-Line
  26. Popcorn and Peanuts
  27. The Quill
  28. Snowball
  29. Peter Killworth’s 1983
  30. 1983 in British Computing
  31. Amiga Magazines Free (Plus Shipping…) for the Asking
  32. The Laser Craze
  33. The Dawn of Multimedia
  34. Ultima III in Pictures
  35. The Legend of Escape from Mt. Drash
  36. Origin Systems
  37. Underway in the USA
  38. Infidel
  39. Enchanter
  40. Planetfall
  41. The Witness
  42. The Top of its Game
  43. Suspended
  44. Free Fall, Part 2: Murder on the Zinderneuf
  45. Free Fall, Part 1: Archon
  46. Dan Bunten and M.U.L.E.
  47. Audio Killed the Blogging Star
  48. The Pinball Wizard
  49. Seeing Farther
  50. Lisa
  51. Xerox PARC
  52. Ring in the New (Blog Initiatives)

2012 78

  1. Shiny and Exciting vs. Dull and Boring
  2. Business is War
  3. The Commodore 64
  4. Summer Camp is Over
  5. The Hobbit Redux
  6. The Hobbit
  7. The Speccy
  8. A Gallery of Unfortunate Events
  9. Phoenix and Acornsoft
  10. The BBC Micro
  11. Level 9
  12. Playing Ultima II, Part 2
  13. Playing Ultima II, Part 1
  14. The Wizardry and Ultima Sequels
  15. Transylvania
  16. The Magnificent Penguin
  17. Starcross
  18. Zork III, Part 2
  19. Zork III, Part 1
  20. The Once and Future SPAG
  21. Saga
  22. The Prisoner 2
  23. Choplifter
  24. Brøderbund
  25. Japanese Adventuring
  26. Japan
  27. The Zork Users Group
  28. Playing Deadline, Part 4
  29. Playing Deadline, Part 3
  30. Playing Deadline, Part 2
  31. Playing Deadline, Part 1
  32. Deadline
  33. The Dennis Wheatley Crime Dossiers
  34. Britain’s Occult Uncle
  35. Hacked!
  36. Ludic Murder
  37. Time Zone: Aftermath
  38. Time Zone: Tackling the Monster
  39. Time Zone
  40. Zork II, Part 2
  41. Zork II, Part 1
  42. Infocom: Going It Alone
  43. The IBM PC, Part 4
  44. The IBM PC, Part 3
  45. The IBM PC, Part 2
  46. The IBM PC, Part 1
  47. Micro Men
  48. Sentient Software
  49. The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
  50. My Eamon Problem
  51. Castle Wolfenstein
  52. This Game Is Over
  53. Computers for the Masses
  54. Of Game Consoles, Home Computers, and Personal Computers
  55. The Wizardry Phenomenon
  56. Playing Wizardry
  57. Making Wizardry
  58. The Roots of Sir-tech
  59. Pascal and the P-Machine
  60. A Tale of Three Languages
  61. Softporn
  62. Sex Comes to the Micros
  63. Summer Camp
  64. Ultima, Part 3
  65. Ultima, Part 2
  66. Ultima, Part 1
  67. Robot War
  68. Silas Warner and Muse Software
  69. Escape!
  70. Exploring Zork, Part 3
  71. Exploring Zork, Part 2
  72. Exploring Zork, Part 1
  73. Parser Games
  74. Selling Zork
  75. ZIL and the Z-Machine
  76. The Birth of Infocom
  77. Zork on the PDP-10
  78. The Roots of Infocom

2011 65

  1. An Apple II Christmas Card
  2. California Pacific
  3. Akalabeth
  4. Lord British
  5. A Word on Akalabeth and Chronology
  6. The Digital Antiquarian Takes a Holiday
  7. The Prisoner, Part 2
  8. The Prisoner, Part 1
  9. Interactive Fantasies
  10. Edu-Ware
  11. DunjonQuest
  12. The Wizard and the Princess, Part 2
  13. The Wizard and the Princess, Part 1
  14. On-Line Systems is Born
  15. Mystery House, Part 2
  16. Mystery House, Part 1
  17. Ken and Roberta
  18. IF History on a Kindle (or other e-reader of your choice)
  19. Eamon, Part 2
  20. A Journey into the Wonderful World of Eamon
  21. Eamon, Part 1
  22. The Apple II
  23. Jobs and Woz
  24. Binning the Trash-80
  25. Robert Lafore’s Interactive Fiction
  26. A Busy 1980
  27. Temple of Apshai
  28. The First CRPGs
  29. From the Tabletop to the Computer
  30. Defining the CRPG
  31. Dungeons and Dragons
  32. The Rise of Experiential Games
  33. Ludic Narrative née Storygame
  34. Microsoft Adventure
  35. Two Adventuring Cultures
  36. The Count
  37. A Busy 1979
  38. A Few Questions for Lance Micklus
  39. Dog Star Adventure
  40. Adventureland, Part 2
  41. Adventureland, Part 1
  42. Eliza, Part 3
  43. Eliza, Part 2
  44. Eliza, Part 1
  45. The Trash-80, Part 3
  46. Emulating the TRS-80
  47. The Trash-80, Part 2
  48. The Trash-80, Part 1
  49. The Completed Adventure, Part 3
  50. The Completed Adventure, Part 2
  51. The Completed Adventure, Part 1
  52. An Oregon Trail Postscript
  53. Will Crowther’s Adventure, Part 2
  54. TOPS-10 in a Box
  55. Will Crowther’s Adventure, Part 1
  56. Hunt the Wumpus, Part 2
  57. Hunt the Wumpus, Part 1
  58. In Defense of BASIC
  59. On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 5
  60. On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 4
  61. On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 3
  62. On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 2
  63. On the Trail of the Oregon Trail, Part 1
  64. The Madness Spreads…
  65. Introducing a new blog…