The history of Infocom has been fully explored: from the founding in 1979 for the distribution of Dungeon, which became the most successful text adventure game of all time under the name Zork Trilogy, to a leadership that really wanted to publish office software and ran down the company through…

My first ever video (German with optional English subtitles) focused on Defender of the Crown, a game by Cinemaware. In the second half of the 80s, after the release of Defender of the Crown, there was no avoiding Cinemaware, but from the 90s on the company was plagued by an…

One of my “shorts” videos focuses on M.U.L.E. by Ozark Softscape on the Atari 8-bit family. The mind behind that game was Danielle Bunten Berry, an outstandingly innovative game designer who pioneered a minimal design with well-constructed game mechanics. Berry, who is often credited as Dani Bunten or Dan Bunten…

The home computer and gaming scene of the 1980s in Great Britain was strikingly different from other countries. It had its own models, companies and trends that were partly virtually unknown in the rest of the world. This article sets out to explain the differences and explore the reasons. Even…