Episode 38 - Aldebaran III and Dog Star Adventure
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Episode 38 - Aldebaran III and Dog Star Adventure
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Hyperspace adventure awaits as Tim Gilberts joins Jason to play two underrated science fiction games from the 1970s. For starters it's Dog Star Adventure, the first type-in text adventure in Softside Magazine. True to its 1979 roots it's steeped in Star Wars lore and vocabulary, and was ported to plenty of classic platforms in its heyday.
The feature game is Aldebaran III, one of the games created by Peter Langston in his Wander system. It, too, leans heavily on genre fiction, in this case the Retief novels by Keith Laumer, covering interstellar espionage, diplomacy, and bureaucracy in equal measure.
Aldebaran III (IFDB)
Wander source code (Github)
Wander game analysis (Renga In Blue)
Aldebaran III (CRPG Adventures)
Dog Star Adventure (IFDB)
Dog Star Adventure in Softside May 1979
Dog Star Adventure (Old School Gamer Magazine)