Joachim Froholt

I reviewed Strange Antiquities from @badvikinggames.bsky.social and @iceberg-int.bsky.social . Review is in Norwegian, but TLDR; I had a very good time with the game. Lots of clever puzzles that made me feel smart for solving them.

Far Lands!

I was there!

I've been watching Kurt J Mac walking towards the Far Lands in Minecraft almost since the beginning (originally followed him because of his Spintires videos). And tonight he is going to get there! Only took 14 years. www.twitch.tv/kurtjmac

A huge surprise today, with a preview recovery of the unreleased The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure on #Amiga. Dlfrsilver got in touch with Games That Weren't to share his recovery of this long lost game, and its hoped more can be found! Check it out at:

www.gamesthatwerent.com/2025/10/the-...

Save 20% on Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon on Steam Step into a dark reimagination of Arthurian legends in this first person, open world RPG. Explore a world stuck in everlasting autumn, witness falling legends and make meaningful choices woven into a ...

I've been playing Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon lately. It's really good. Obviously low budget compared to the better known RPGs released this year, but the writing and acting is surprisingly great, and if you can deal with some Elder Scrolls style jank, you'll probably like it a lot.

It's worth reading this and some of the quotes people have made, to make an informed decision about supporting the SNES RPGs book.

Huh, that's disappointing.

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Legends of the games industry: Roger Dean - Spillhistorie.no We spoke with the man behind the Psygnosis logo – and so much more!

Me and @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social had a chat with Roger Dean a couple of months ago, and today we published our interview. Among many things, we spoke about the cancelled Black Onyx game he was working on with Henk Rogers.

I see what you mean, though I agree with them that keeping these games running on modern hardware should be *their* main focus. Maybe they should simply have named it something else.

But mostly, I just wish they'd release more old games. We've gone from a couple a week to a couple every 6 months...

Minesnake on the PC.

Minesnake on the PC.

Minesnake on the PC.

Minesnake on the PC.

And for fun, a slightly more colourful PC version that I'm working on. #gamemaker

Minesnake on the Sharp MZ-80A.

Minesnake on the Sharp MZ-80A.

Minesnake on the Sharp MZ-80A.

Minesnake on the Sharp MZ-80A.

It's almost the end of #sharptember , so I'll finish with some screenshots of my game Minesnake on the MZ-80A. I've learned a lot since I made it, and would have done a lot differently now. But the concept is still good, I think. It's on Itch.io.

My new arcade stick.

Look at this neat thing! Works great, and the stick is really comfortable. Thanks to @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social who made it for me.

#Sharptember If you replace the CG-ROM file in the emulator with the Japanese one you can play Japanese MZ games with the correct graphics showing. Here's a bit of Namco's Galaxian demonstrating the much coveted single pixel graphic character that was not available in the western ROM.

YouTube video by わくわくゲームズ | Waku Waku Games ロポコ for Nintendo Switch

This is awesome, Ropoko is coming to the Switch (and Steam) on the 9th October. It will include the English translation which I helped the author with :) As for the MZ-700 English release, this should be around or just before Christmas time.

WIP Video Clip: TWIN TIGERS Sequel (C64) | A. R. Yngve Get more from A. R. Yngve on Patreon

Attention retrogamers:

Check out this sneak preview video clip of an upcoming C64 game (available for free members):
www.patreon.com/posts/wip-vi...

#retrogames #retrogaming #games #c64 #retro #indiegames

Part 4 of @jfroholt.bsky.social 's look at one of the MZ-80A games compilation tapes made by Knights is now available!

Day 264(21) - #sharptember - I thought I'd leave the first MZ to last because it's not really a computer in the traditional sense - but it's so bizarre I couldn't ignore it completely. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Sharp MZ-40K ... 1/3

I honestly think this is a very weird take. Games that weren't? Shut down, because you were never supposed to have that stuff.

The Sharp MZ-80A can only use character graphics, but fortunately there are a few characters dedicated to pseudopixels. So I made a picture. #sharptember

I absolutely love these games. Though I play them purely using text input, the UI is ... well, it's there. :)

Wow, that looks pretty striking!

Oh, that's interesting. Looks like it does some neat things too.

SVHA Adventure (1979) This post assumes some familiarity with the original Adventure; if you haven’t yet seen, my series on the Software Toolworks version (the only one that paid the authors Crowther and Woods) is…

in which I start on a game that was announced as rescued from oblivion only a few days ago, SVHA Adventure

it is the first known adventure game from Norway, and I go how it relates to the history of Norsk Data

bluerenga.blog/2025/09/15/s...

Disappointing that there's quite a bit of misinformation in your thread, Frank, so allow this humble "British tabloid" to clear things up a little, if we may:

Cool! I look forward to seeing more! :)

Very cool!

Is this a game project?

How they tested video games in the nineties - Spillhistorie.no We interviewed old school game tester Robert Zalot about his time at Epyx and in EA's GOD Squad.

Another fun interview at @spillhistorie.no . This time @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social spoke with Robert Zalot about his time as a game tester in the nineties. He talks about testing games for the Lynx at Epyx, as well as his time in EA's GOD Squad.

The gang from a certain other game finds themselves in Pool of Radiance on the Commodore 64.

Pool of Radiance (1988)

The first of SSI's Gold Box role-playing games based on AD&D – and perhaps the best. Your party of heroes arrives at a town called Phlan, and the goal is simply to restore it to its former glory by clearing its various areas of monsters and bandits. 1/4

Q&A with: Classic game designer Jon Ritman - Spillhistorie.no Ritman created classics like Head over Heels, Batman and the Match Day games.

We published a small Q&A with Jon Ritman yesterday. Questions by @retrogamingpappa.bsky.social :