Thank you, and I should say that “You are precisely the target demo!”
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Along with the discussions of these two explorations of British cultural phenomena, there’s an assertion of a “flaw” in the IFDB review sorting algorithm…
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Yesterday was my birthday. I saw a new episode dropped that day, but didn’t get a chance to listen until this morning. Imagine my surprise and delight to hear my own name dropped in the beginning of the episode re: Portable Executable Zork w/Cosmopolitan.
I thought you did a mighty fine job representing the unique properties that Cosmopolitan brings to the project, as well as my own sporadic contributions to the community. What a lovely birthday present! Thank you.
As an aside, I was surprised you didn’t have Japan listed as a country that has listened to all episodes, but I realized then that I had missed one and only half-completed another. I’m getting Japan onto next year’s list 
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My nations stats game/amusement was unfortunately more confusing than it was enlightening, and I don’t think I ever actually listed out those nations with at least 19 total downloads (finding out which truly had “at least one DL per episode” would be possible but harder), and the other hosts were confused about what I was asking them, and sometimes things just sound better in my head.
For what it’s worth, Japan did qualify fairly comfortably, but by all means keep listening!
I can’t easily pull up the stats through March 28 (the recording date) but these are as of March 31. Here’s the list in descending order of downloads, why not:
|United Kingdom
|United States
|Australia
|Germany
|Canada
|Sweden
|New Zealand
|Finland
|Denmark
|France
|Spain
|Ireland
|Netherlands
|Portugal
|Japan
|Norway
|Singapore
|South Africa
|Poland
|Philippines
|Iceland
|Austria
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Some misguided fool has ported Beatle Quest to the BBC Micro, Master 128 and Electron. Link here. It’s text only.
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“Finally!” times two on the games in Episode 27, as we play the first segment of Level 9’s Knight Orc, and the Infidel parody Inhumane by Andrew Plotkin, plus go through tons of news and correspondence.
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I’m in the middle of episode 25 now. I may even be listening to new episodes as they come out if this continues.
I have some anecdotal observations about ep 25. Or at least a few seconds of it. I refer to when you came across the teen-male-pleasing ad for SSI’s Galactic Adventures, and observed that it was the front view of the woman, where the preceding game, Galactic Gladiators, had been the rear view.
I have my copy of Galactic Gladiators from back in the day, and loudly discussed the same observation you just made when I encountered a photocopied manual of Galactic Adventures at Australian Apple II event WOzFest a few years ago.
You speculated on SSI knowing their raciness (e.g. Curse of the Azure Bonds artwork et al later). That artwork was by Clyde Caldwell, who also did Dark Queen of Krynn and probably others for the Dragonlance / D&D games. Caldwell specialised in what wikipedia calls ‘strong, sexy female characters’ and others call Babes. I watched a documentary about that generation of D+D artists called ‘Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons & Dragons’ which I can recommend.
-Wade
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…and in Episode 28 @zarf gamely comes on to the program to discuss Inhumane, the early days of Inform development, and the traps success can create.
Available now on all major podcast platforms.
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Puh! Nice hearing that @zarf doesn’t mind the change requests on Inform6, as I feel like I am contributing a lot of them.
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Episode 29 out now!
The Robots of Dawn is probably one of the more interesting game-of-the-books even though it almost entirely manages to ignore Asimov’s plot (and sexual politics), and I have a lot of questions for author Jon Leupp if he’d only answer my messages. (also the Apple II version seems to be significantly bugged?)
Souls of Darkon has sincerity in droves, which is good, even if the rest of it isn’t particularly.
Featuring a guest player in Dave V. of This Week in Retro
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Special appearance by a Velociraptor’s cat!
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Episode 30 out now with 10 Cave Adventure, Young Arthur’s Quest, and Captain Cutter’s Treasure–on average, a shockingly recent slate of games!
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Episode 30 was very entertaining.
Thanks for all the nice things you said about Captain Cutter’s Treasure. It was my first PunyInform game and was written in just three weeks. The three main puzzles in the warehouse (the crate, the Oriental box and the pebbles) were extremely hard to implement, so I’m glad they didn’t present any major issues. However, I did note your problems envisioning the size and position of the crate in the Sokoban puzzle, so I need to address that somehow. There are also a couple of minor bugs and an unwinnable situation that I’ve fixed, so I need to address your comments and other review comments and get a post-comp release done. I’d also been meaning to write a post-mortem.
Captain Cutter’s Treasure is probably not my “best” game, but I still have a soft spot for it, possibly because of the story and the characters. Regarding the closing comments about a sequel, I had contemplated that based on exactly the same premise that you guys suggested. In essence, Captain Cutter discovers that he’s been hoodwinked so returns to take revenge. If anyone has any ideas for a storyline, I’m all ears.
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I pledge my sword to Captain Brenda!
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We’ve got Text-Adventure-Sign!! and bumble through MST3K: Detective (which confused Ben, who is English and hasn’t discovered searching for videos), and Delta 4’s waiting-simulator treatment of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld in The Colour of Magic, which confused all three of us.
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Get ready to type out every letter in “dodecahedron” and to remember your high school math and physics! Two sciencey adventures this time out–The BBC Micro original L: A Mathemagical Adventure and the TRS-80 BASIC-to-C-to-Inform extradimensional oddity Beyond the Tesseract. https://retroadventurers.podbean.com/e/32/
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