This was one of my first articles on Vintrospektiv, originally in German since all of Vintrospektiv used to be in German in the beginning. This English version first appeared on Medium, but since I’m closing my account there I thought it would be a good idea to have everything here on Vintrospektiv. A Look at […]
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A moment ago I was thinking that I should probably write a post to give a sign of life as it’s been almost half a year since the last one. Then I realised that one of the activities that take up most of my time at the moment is very well suited for an update […]
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(This is about a German magazine, so it’s in German.) Gerade habe ich erfahren, dass vor ein paar Wochen Ausgabe 234 des Magazins SUC-SESSION herausgekommen ist. In dieser Ausgabe erscheint auch erstmals meine „Adventure-Ecke“, in der ich aktuelle Adventurespiele für den ZX Spectrum bespreche (diesmal: The Quest for the Sacred Flame of Hestia, Island und […]
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In a few days, I will announce the second instalment of my Retro Disco, so it’s probably a good time to revisit what the first one was like and what you can expect from the next one. I had the idea of the Retro Disco a while ago, and while I was browsing Bandcamp at […]
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On 4 December, Vintrospektiv celebrated its 2nd birthday. While I am happy with the new direction my life has taken, and ultimately with the decision to end Vintrospektiv as my main job, I couldn’t help but wonder (as I sometimes do) what I could have done differently. I still believe that there is simply not […]
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So here’s the final part of this little series. Again, see the first part for more information on its background. For my original promotions covered in the previous 4 parts, I was beginning to struggle to come up with new ideas by the end of February 2021, and since there had been a rather disappointing […]
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A few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a game box that was buried in a bookshelf. It turned out to be Emily Short’s City of Secrets, made in a tiny run and sold at the long-defunct feelies.org. I had originally ordered three copies back in 2002, two for friends to save on postage, but one […]
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On to the next promotional texts. As before, see the first part for more information on the background of this series. The Vintrospektiv Social Media Archive, Part 4: Retrogaming Trivia – The Editions (Twitter) While thinking about trivia items to post, I had the idea that it might be nice to have an overarching topic every […]
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And the story continues. See the first part for more information on the background of this series. The Vintrospektiv Social Media Archive, Part 3: Retrogaming Trivia (Twitter) At the same time I started my “curiosities” series on Instagram, in December 2020, I also launched this series, with the same mode: one post per day, except for […]
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Time for the next part. See the previous article for more information on the background of this series. The Vintrospektiv Social Media Archive, Part 2: Curiosities from My Collection – Infocom (Instagram) When I ran out of ideas for general curiosities, I continued with my Infocom collection, which had a surprising wealth of material that could […]
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