Defeating Games for Charity
Starts Saturday, January 25 at 8 PM EST
This weekend I’ll be participating in Defeating Games for Charity, a weekend of playing classic game series, raising money for the Video Game History Foundation. I’ll be playing two games that are important parts of adventure game history: Mystery House by Roberta Williams and Enchanted Scepters by William C. Appleton. Mystery House was the first adventure game with graphics, and one of the first horror games. Enchanted Scepters was one of the first point-and-click adventure games.
This is a relay stream! It’s currently live on lostlake86’s channel. My segment will be on my own channel, Saturday, January 25 at 8 PM EST. Check out the full schedule here. There will be game giveaways at various milestones!
Until Dawn
Continues Friday, January 31 at 9:30 PM EST
This Friday I’ll continue my playthrough of Until Dawn with unsecretcrush. Let’s all get monked together.
Infocom’s Deadline
Continues Tuesday, January 28 at 9:30 PM EST
“Deadline is one of Infocom’s most difficult games,” according to Emily Short, “and requires a number of playthroughs to win.” The packaging sets up the scenario: “A locked door. A dead man. And 12 hours to solve the murder.” This was Infocom’s third game, after Zork I and Zork II, and their first foray into feelies—physical items included in the game package that recreate objects from the game world.
I’m playing Deadline as part of DOSember, a month-long celebration of DOS games, so I’ll be playing the DOS version. I’ve always appreciated the white-on-black look of DOS text adventures, so it’ll be fun to finally play one that way. I have little hope of finishing this game in one month, so we’re getting started a bit early.
