Stray Pointers

Text Adventure Author and Paleontologist Mike Taylor Joins the Show

29:35

May 16, 2025

Mike Taylor, author of the VIC-20 text adventures Magic Mirror and Nosferatu as well as the Commodore 64 game The Causes of Chaos joins the show. We talk about those early adventure games, his evolution as a software developer, Perl, paleontology, and his book about the 11th incarnation of Doctor Who.

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