Let's Play The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Episode 1
Our little band of adventurers play classic text adventures most Monday evenings, and stream them here for people to enjoy, participate in, and catch up with if they miss a session.
By all means joi...
We're about to kick off a brand new collaborative text adventure play through this evening, and this time we're hitching a ride with the Vogon Constructor Fleet!
Join us at 7pm UK time, on our YouTube channel!
youtube.com/live/9fPDDRm...
#textadventures #interactivefiction #IF #HGttG
01.09.2025 08:28 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Let's Play The Guild of Thieves - Episode 6
Our little band of adventurers play classic text adventures most Monday evenings, and stream them here for people to enjoy, participate in, and catch up with if they miss a session.
By all means joi...
We'll soon be entering hour 6 of our weekly exploration of Magnetic Scrolls' Guild of Thieves!
It's been super fun so far; as full of intrguing clues as it is "aha" moments!!
Join us on YouTube to watch along & by all means drop in your suggestions if you have any!
youtube.com/live/KCtdYhF...
30.06.2025 16:47 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Let's Play The Big Sleaze - Episode 1
YouTube video by Hit it with a Hammer!
So we *finally* completed Counterfeit Monkey earlier this week!
And as we're hankering to dive back into to vintage parser hell, for our next sortie we have chosen.....
THE BIG SLEAZE by Fergus McNeill on the ZX Spectrum!!
Join us on Monday at 7am BST for Episode 1π΅οΈ
youtube.com/live/4cH_5lK...
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We do feel closer from the shared experience, though - and thatβs really what itβs all about!
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Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short (2012) - YouTube
This playlist contains the livestreams of our current playthrough - Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short, from 2012. This is universally regarded as a modern cl...
We *finally* finished Counterfeit Monkey on Monday!!
Our verdict: Epic but not a great game for collab play (which it wasnβt designed for, obvs). A lot of exposition. Samey puzzles. Itβs uniquely replayable, but we feel little compunction to do so.
Watch it all here:
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
26.03.2025 08:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
Let's Play Counterfeit Monkey - Episode 13
YouTube video by Hit it with a Hammer!
Join us for Episode 13 of our Counterfeit Monkey playthrough tomorrow evening from 7pm, GMT!
We're definitely in the end game now - just 17 points left to get, will we finish it in the next hour of playtime??
youtube.com/live/7gdLojj...
#textadventures #interactivefiction #IF
16.03.2025 15:16 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
@stayforever.bsky.social
Hey Kumpels! Are you aware that we play text adventure games every Monday night & stream them to YouTube? We played through Fish! by Magnetic Scrolls last year, which I understand you've just played through yourselves?
A warm Hallo! from one adventuring team to another :)
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(And if the above makes no sense to you, by all means watch the previous ten hours of gameplay we've streamed! π)
03.03.2025 09:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Let's Play Counterfeit Monkey - Episode 11
YouTube video by Hit it with a Hammer!
We're back on Counterfeit Monkey from 7pm GMT this evening! We've beefed up our letter remover and have compiled a veritable arsenal of potential examples of homonym shame - game on!!
youtube.com/live/VmLa66l...
03.03.2025 09:49 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
(And if the above makes no sense to you, by all means watch the previous ten hours of gameplay we've streamed! π)
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Fish! by Magnetic Scrolls (1988) - YouTube
This playlist contains the livestreams of the first games we played together - Fish! by Magnetic Scrolls, from 1988. These sessions were livestreamed at Chri...
We've previously played Fish! by Magnetic Scrolls (which was definitely the best so far):
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
...and Ballyhoo by Infocom (which is flawed but so close to being an absolute classic):
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Do drop by and let us know what you think!
16.02.2025 17:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
(Although it has to be said that our first foray into more recent interactive fiction is proving a tougher experience, as we're still working our way through Counterfeit Monkey - jeez there's a lot of text to read out!!)
16.02.2025 17:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Hit it with a Hammer!
We're a group of friends & family who get together online most Monday evenings between 7 and 8pm UK time to solve vintage text adventures and modern interactive fiction together, and live stream it to...
And for those who aren't already aware, we play text adventure games most Monday evenings and stream them to YouTube in our quest to popularise the games as a great form of collaborative entertainment.
Our current Monday sessions can be found here: www.youtube.com/@Hit_it_with...
16.02.2025 17:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The cover of Issue 27 of Pixel Addict magazine
We're SUPER CHUFFED to announce that we're being featured in this month's edition of @pixeladdict.bsky.social!!
It's a great mag and we're so pleased to get some text adventure content into it, so do please buy a copy, either in physical form or as a pdf.
www.pixel.addict.media/shop/current...
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We're playing Counterfeit Monkey at 7pm UK time this evening, and streaming live to YouTube.
Roll up for Episode 8 at 7pm GMT this evening!
How are we going to get our hands on that homonym paddle??!!
youtube.com/live/4sccjH5...
#textadventures #interactivefiction #IF
03.02.2025 16:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
A flyer promoting our ongoing live playthrough of Counterfeit Monkey!
Our live collaborative playthrough of Counterfeit Monkey continues with Episode 7 at 7pm GMT later today!
Will we finally get properly stuck in this game? I have a sneaking suspicion we're going to come to a grinding halt at some point...
youtube.com/live/2r0bqWv...
27.01.2025 12:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
An advert for our Counterfeit Monkey playthrough, feauring a cartoonishly stylised siamese cat.
Tune in from 7pm GMT this evening for Ep. 5 of our collaborative Counterfeit Monkey playthrough! Will we finally magic up a fully working vehicle to drive past the protesting crowds in???
youtube.com/live/525JPjK...
(Bluesky still doesn't show YouTube thumbnails properly, so here it is attached!)
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Episode 3 of our live Counterfeit Monkey playthrough kicks off tomorrow from 7pm UK time!
youtube.com/live/wfMG9VN...
22.12.2024 16:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
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We're continuing our playthrough of Counterfeit Monkey this evening, from 7pm, UK time!
We were exploring and working through the tutorial last week, and we're looking forward to finding out more about the world and subverting it with our Letter Remover!!
#TextAdventures #InteractiveFiction #IF
16.12.2024 12:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
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New Channel, New era, New game!
Our first livestream of Counterfeit Monkey is now up - we didn't get very far as there's a lot to take in, but its so intriguing!
Join us next Monday at 7pm UK time on the live stream to continue the exploration with us...
#TextAdventures #InteractiveFiction #IF
09.12.2024 20:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A podcast about classic text and graphic adventure games.
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We preserve, curate, engineer and share gaming history at our museums, and by producing new hardware for retro gaming.
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Celebrating the classic ZX Spectrum magazine CRASH, published by Newsfield. (No relation to the relaunched mag from Retro Fusion Books)
Pixel Addict magazine is the digital culture magazine for classic computing and retro gaming enthusiasts; taking you back to the era of dial-up modems, floppy disks and dot matrix printers. Full-colour A4, print and PDF.
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Featuring a trans aro MC, the Tyrant King and his overprotective knight.
Sometimes things are just not quite what they seem...
Indie creators of scifi otome visual novels and character assets <3
Since 1995, the IFComp is an annual celebration of new, text-driven digital games and stories from independent creators.
Part of the IF Tech Foundation.
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