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Renga in Blue

My name is Jason Dyer. I live in Arizona. I have played interactive fiction since I can first remember.I keep up the All the Adventures project where I endeavour to play and write about every adventure game ever made.

The Phantom Ship / Yuureisen: Mounds of Verbs

The Phantom Ship (1982)

Epic Hero #2, Dungeon of Derojhen: Final Judgement

Skull Cave: The Mystery of the Mazes

Epic Hero #2, Dungeon of Derojhen: Experiments in Death

Epic Hero #2, Dungeon of Derojhen (1982)

Seiko’s Adventure (1983)

The Missing People: Violence Is the Answer to This One

The Missing People (1982)

The Lazurite Factor: The Repaired Version

Mystery House, the French version (1980)

Intercept: Excessive Difficulty

Intercept (1981)

Misadventure 6 (1982)

Misadventure 5 (1982)

Death Star: The View From Outer Space Is Breathless

Death Star (1983)

ZENO: Program Your Way Out of Trouble

ZENO: Powerful and Potentially Dangerous Devices

The Picture You Probably Saw of the “First Videogame” Is Wrong

Epic Hero #1, Ocean Hunt: Welcome to Winsville

Epic Hero #1, Ocean Hunt: Welcome to Killedsville

Epic Hero #1, Ocean Hunt (1982/1983)

Cosmo Cross: The Thing’s Hollow—It Goes on Forever—

Cosmo Cross: Don’t Look Behind You

Cosmo Cross (1982)

University Adventure (1983)

House Adventure (1983)

PRISM: The Atari Version

PRISM: The Clinging

PRISM: How to Hide Something So Almost Nobody Finds It

PRISM: Unspeakable Forms

PRISM: Colorless as a Tear

The Colonel’s House: Interview with the Author

Sword of Raschkil: Supermoon Logic

Sword of Raschkil (1981 / 1983)

Haunted House: Pray Hard with a Vengeance

Haunted House: Pray Harder

Haunted House (Lucas, 1983)

Adventure 751: Into the Sunset

Adventure 751: A Section of the Castle In Which You Have No Business

Adventure 751: Ersatz Materials

Adventure 751: The Footsteps of a Thousand Fairies

Adventure 751: All Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Here

Adventure 751 (1980)

All the Adventures, All of 2025

Secret Mission: Misdirection

Secret Mission (1983)

Old Father Time (1983)

Valley of the Kings: Dazzling of Face Like the Aten When It Shines

Valley of the Kings: Live Forever

Valley of the Kings: Lion of the Sun, Hear My Prayer

Valley of the Kings (1983)

Pillage Village: Finished!

Pillage Village: Do Not Touch Power

Pillage Village: Desperate Times

Pillage Village (1982)

Puzzle Adventure: Hapax Legomenon

Puzzle Adventure: To One Whose Heart Openeth Not

Puzzle Adventure: Love Unknown and Unrequited

Puzzle Adventure (1983)

The Gingerbread Caper, Treasure Trove, Wonderland (1983)

Diamond Trail (1983)

Time-Line: The Clock Which Is Really a Time Machine

Time-Line (1983)

Terror From the Deep: Scuttle the Ship

Terror From the Deep (1983)

Madhouse: You Could Be Happy Here

Madhouse: Trolls

Madhouse: Little Red Nothing Looking Very Sad

Madhouse (1981?)

Ringen: Under the Low Morning Sun

Ringen: He Must Be a Wizard

Ringen: And in the Darkness Bind Them

Ringen: Return of the

Polynesian Adventure: Virtual Vacation

Search for the Ruby Chalice (1983)

Polynesian Adventure (1983)

Takara Building Adventure Part 1 (1982)

Fairytale: Bane of Giants

Fairytale: Over the Moon

Fairytale (1982)

Deliver the Cake (1981)

Crypt of Medea: False Grave of the Worthy

Crypt of Medea: Seas of Blood

Crypt of Medea (1983)

The Golden Apples of Zeus (1983)

Land of Odysseys: Last Stand of Medusa

Herrick Venture #2: Land of Odysseys

Leopard Lord (1983)

Suspended: Farewell, Sweet Prince

Suspended: Thinking Like a Robot

Suspended: One With the Cosmos

Suspended (1983)

Engine Failure (1983)

Adventure in 1K (1983)

SVHA Adventure: Memorium

SVHA Adventure: The Underhalls

SVHA Adventure (1979)

Urban Upstart: Escape

Urban Upstart: Grime Street, Where All Things Are Possible

Urban Upstart (1983)

Ring Quest: The Fiery Ruin of Hill and Sky

Ring Quest: Last Battle of the Oathbreakers

Ring Quest: All Shall Love Me and Despair

Ring Quest: A Rage of Loss and Suspicion Was in His Heart

Ring Quest: Whispering Inside the Tree

Ring Quest (1983)

HOBBIT (1975, 1979)

Castle Dracula (1983)

Skatte Jagt: i en labyrint

Skatte Jagt (1982)

Robots on Terminus IV: Somehow, Humanity Survived

Robots on Terminus IV: Victory of the Machines

Robots on Terminus IV (1983)

The Palms: Mark of the Hummingbird

The Palms: Underwater

The Palms (1983)

Journey of a Space Traveller: You Were Only Waiting for This Moment to Arise

Journey of a Space Traveller: The Words of a Sermon That No One Will Hear

Journey of a Space Traveller (1983)

Invincible Island: The Bones of Our Ancestors

Invincible Island: 七星聚会

Invincible Island (1983)

On the Way to the Interview (1983)

Marooned: Diamonds to Dust

Marooned: Into the Glitchiverse

Marooned: Playable (For the First Time)

Herrick Venture #1: Escape (1983)

The Dark Crystal: A Thousand Years of Solitude

The Dark Crystal: Evil Triumphs Over All

The Dark Crystal: They Lit the Fires of Prophecy and Took Counsel From the Flames

The Dark Crystal (1983)

Mystery House II: The Fixed NEC Version and GAME END

Mystery House II: Finished, Again

Mystery House II: Alternate Realities

Tiny Adventure (1981)

Caveman Adventure (1983)

Nosferatu: TREES ARE RESERVED FOR COFFINS

Nosferatu (1982/1983)

Cauchemard-House (1982/1983?)

Cauchemard-House: VOUS AVEZ GAGNE

The Final Countdown (1982/1983)

S. S. Poseidon (1982/1983)

The Maze: Return to Third Grade

The Maze: Unsafe for Walking

The Maze: Without Class or Breeding

The Maze: One Word

The Maze (1981)

All The Adventures Up to 1982 in Review

Countdown to Doom: Tempus Fugit Retro

Countdown to Doom: Skyward

Countdown to Doom: Exogeologists Baffled

Countdown to Doom: This Artefact Will Self-Destruct

Countdown to Doom (1983)

The Hobbit: Hero of Heroes

The Hobbit: Behind Stars and Under Hills

The Hobbit: There and Not Quite Back Again

The Hobbit (1982)

Over the Spectrum Adventure (1982)

Geheimagent XP-05 (1982)

The Curse of the Pharaoh

Enchanted Forest (1982)

Enchanted Forest: Circle Thrice

Mexican Adventure: That Age-Old Problem

Mexican Adventure: I DO NOT THINK THERE IS A RICK

Mexican Adventure (1982)

Zodiac Castle: Most Magic Is Merely Illusion

Zodiac Castle: As in the Fairy Tale

Bedlam: Corrected With Time and Shock Treatment

Zodiac Castle (1982)

Grave Robbers (1982)

The Mysterious Mansion Adventure: Fixed Version, Plus True Ending

The Mysterious Mansion Adventure: A Time to Gather Stones Together

The Mysterious Mansion Adventure: A Time to Cast Away Stones

The Mysterious Mansion Adventure (1982)

Haunted House: Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Alaskan Adventure (1982)

Haunted House (Anderson, 1982)

Stone Age (1982)

Fun House: Science With Mr. Morgan

Fun House (Morgan, 1982)

The Troll Hole Adventure: The One Who Knows English

The Troll Hole Adventure (1980)

Sherwood Forest: Let’s Go Make Some Beautiful Music Together

Sherwood Forest (1982)

Time Adventure: Queen Elizabeth’s Revenge

Time Adventure (1982)

Danger Island (1982)

Misadventures 1, 2, and 3 (1982)

The Dalton Gang (1982)

Time Warden: You Have Saved the Universe

Time Warden (1982)

Crystal Caverns: Estate Landlord

Crystal Caverns: The Worst Spot in the Game

Crystal Caverns: Samson-Like Effort

Crystal Caverns (1982)

The Colonel’s House (1982)

Keys of the Wizard: Maximum Difficulty

Keys of the Wizard: Gaps

Keys of the Wizard: Total Exhaustion

Keys of the Wizard (1982)

Magic Mountain: Ferocity Unknown to Man

Magic Mountain (1982)

Pharoah’s Tomb (1982)

Hitch-Hiker (1982)

Hitch-Hiker: Petunias in Space

Kim-Venture: File of the Self

Kim-Venture (1979)

Windmere Estate Adventure: That Great Swiss Cheese in the Sky

Windmere Estate Adventure: The Annuls of Adventurers Everywhere

Windmere Estate Adventure (1982)

In Search of the Four Vedas: You Masters of Artifice

Drive-In (1982)

In Search of the Four Vedas (1982)

Arkenstone (1982)

Adventure (Sato, 1982)

The Desecration: The Fall of Dunmark Pykro

The Desecration (1982)

Dark Star: I Saw That I Was Alone

Dark Star: Borrowed Time

Dark Star (1982)

Derelict 2147 (1982)

Cornucopia: Demigod

Cornucopia: A Great Antipathy

Cornucopia: The Multiverse

Corncucopia: Satan’s Game

Cornucopia: Smashing Success

Cornucopia: The Long Departed

Cornucopia (1982)

Arsène Larcin: VOS REFLEXES DE CHAT

Arsène Larcin: The Banality of Tomorrow

Arsène Larcin (1982)

Mad Martha (1982)

2024 Retrospective

Espionage Island (1982)

Espionage Island: Finished!

Rainbow Adventure (1982)

Goblin Towers: Death by Grammar

Goblin Towers (1981, 1983, 1986)

The Deadly Game (1982)

Bawdy Adventure (1981)

Schatzoeken (1982)

Adventure 375: No Higher Rating

Adventure (Software Toolworks version, 1982)

Crowther’s Adventure and Mirkwood Tales

Circus: Orthography Ultimate Final Boss

Circus: Doomed by Evil but Maybe Only a Little Evil

Island Adventure: Man vs. Source Code

Island Adventure (Apex Trading, 1982)

Xenos: hit the head / and not the chest / headshots are / the very best

1982: The Final Stretch

Castle Adventure: IT WAS A FIERCE FIGHT / BUT YOU FINALLY WON

Castle Adventure (1982)

Ultimate Adventure (1982)

Firienwood: For the Rest of Your Days

Firienwood (1982)

Das Geheimnisvolle Haus (1981)

Critical Mass: You and Your Flimsy Keyboard Won’t Stop Me

Critical Mass: Where in the World is Carmen Stupertino

Critical Mass (1982)

Adventures (1974-1982): Lost Media and Otherwise Unplayable Games (Part 2)

Ship Adventure (1982)

Menagerie: Death and Taxes

Menagerie (1982)

Whembly Castle: HUNG TILL HE DIED

Whembly Castle: Last Will of Silas Frump

Whembly Castle (1982)

Raspion Adventure: The Secret Treasures of Syl

Raspion Adventure (1981)

Derelict: The Thief of Immortality

Derelict: The Known Universe

Derelict: Blasted Into Eternity

Derelict (1982)

Survival (1981/1982)

Dungeon Adventure: You Seem to Have Survived

Dungeon Adventure: Our Doom Is to Remain Here Whilst He Lives

Dungeon Adventure: Traps

Dungeon Adventure: Not Authorised

Dungeon Adventure: Trips

Dungeon Adventure: I’ll Strengthen the Flames of Your Soul

Dungeon Adventure (1982)

Killer Mansion (1982)

Des Cavernes dans le poquette: Objects énigmatiques

Uncle Harry’s Will: The End of the Search

Uncle Harry’s Will: What’s Behind Me Is Not Important

Uncle Harry’s Will (1981)

IFComp 2024 Has Started

Adventures (1974-1982): Lost Media and Otherwise Unplayable Games

Starcross: Death and Transfiguration

Starcross: No Matter How Hard You Try

Starcross: This Area Will Be Marked

Starcross: Centripetal Force

Starcross: They Would Be Disappointed if They Knew

Starcross (1982)

Haunted House (Apex Trading, 1982)

Star Trek Adventure: Won!

Cracks of Doom: Update on “First Commercial Tolkien Game” Status

Star Trek Adventure (1982)

Cracks of Doom: The Baleful Eye

Cracks of Doom (1982)

The Caves of Olympus: Fear the Hordes of Garbesh

The Caves of Olympus: [YOU ARE IN] PANIC

The Caves of Olympus (1982)

The Mouse That Ate Chicago: Won!

The Mouse That Ate Chicago (1982)

Haunted House: The Secret of the Skeleton

Haunted House: This Tape Will Self Destruct in 5 Seconds

Haunted House (Sharpsoft, 1982)

The Werewolf Howls at Dawn, The Case of the Pig-Headed Diamond, The Labyrinth of the Minotaur (1982)

Escape from Pulsar 7: Won!

Escape from Pulsar 7: Pinpricks

Escape from Pulsar 7 (1982)

El Diablero: Enfrentamiento Final

El Diablero: Revenge Medicine

El Diablero: An Underlying Reality Beneath Common Perception

El Diablero: The Mirror World

El Diablero (1982)

Dragon’s Keep (1982)

Valley of Cesis: sPeaKE yETT aFoRE me

Valley of Cesis: Beware the Elmralat

Valley of Cesis (1982)

Ship of Doom: Won!

Ship of Doom (1982)

Bally’s Alley (1980)

Treasures of Cathy (1982)

Temple of Disrondu: The Dagger of Truth

Temple of Disrondu (1982)

La maison du professeur Folibus: Kind of Bleu

Pharoah’s Curse (1982)

La maison du professeur Folibus (1982)

Eldorado Gold (1982)

Probe One: The Transmitter: Won!

Probe One: The Transmitter (1982)

Adventure-65 and Adventure

Mansion of Doom (1982)

Medieval Castle: Cool Guys Don’t Look at Treasure

Medieval Castle (1982)

The Sands of Egypt: All Others Are Cursed

The Sands of Egypt: Adventure as Word Puzzle

The Sands of Egypt: The Correct Command to Use in Certain Situations