{"id":52540,"date":"2021-09-03T12:11:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T19:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=52540"},"modified":"2021-09-03T12:11:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T19:11:59","slug":"forty-years-late-you-may-finally-finish-arctic-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2021\/09\/03\/forty-years-late-you-may-finally-finish-arctic-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty years late, you may finally finish Arctic Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Harry McCracken, an editor at Fast Company, used to write games for the Radio Shack TRS-80 when he was a teen. Back then, the games were sold as text code in a magazine or book that users would have to type into their home machines, essentially manually copying the game into their systems. Arctic Adventure, published in &#8220;The Captain 80 Book of BASIC Adventures&#8221; was Harry&#8217;s first paid published game, but it was a bittersweet victory because, according to the publisher, the game was &#8220;unwinnable&#8221; and 16-year-old Harry never got a copy of the book. After that, the game fell into obscurity, not even garnering enough attention to attract the notice of preservationists that recreated many of these TRS-80 gems on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I know of only a couple of&nbsp;contemporary&nbsp;mentions&nbsp;of it on the internet, and no evidence that anyone has played it since the first Reagan administration. It seems fair to call it a lost game. Or at least I lost it myself until recently.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, 40 years later, Mr. McCracken has fixed the bugs in his game that made it &#8220;unwinnable&#8221; and has posted it to the net in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arctic81.com\/\">playable browser form<\/a> for all to try. Remember to &#8220;GET SHOVEL&#8221; and enjoy the adventure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harry McCracken, an editor at Fast Company, used to write games for the Radio Shack TRS-80 when he was a teen. Back then, the games were sold as text code in a magazine or book that users would have to type into their home machines, essentially manually copying the game into their systems. 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