Ron's Computer Videos is a retrocomputing repair and exploration channel with a focus on Apple II, early Macintosh, and MS-DOS era PCs.
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LucasArts... Telltale Games... If you've played it, it's possible Chuck Jordan wrote it! Join me for an interesting chat with one of the most prolific story writers in adventure gaming history.
Watch our interview:
https://youtu.be/jRCf5EbwdWw
Read more about Chuck Jordan's career:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Jordan_(game_designer)
https://www.mobygames.com/person/2923/charles-jordan/credits/
Reminding you this Friday the 13th to never give up, choose the fastest councilors, get the knife, prioritize saving campers, in cabins, stand in the middle, hold down, then left or right to dodge and only attack after Jason's second attack. Good luck!
Winamp was absolutely a strange place for plugins and addons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJkSu4JTROw
When someone asks me to explain my taste in music…
@kalleboo @RonsCompVids successfully tested all three of my printers yesterday! (Got a little buffalo wing grease on one of them...)
Oh, I forgot to post this yesterday:
Thank you, @RonsCompVids, for the first #GlobalTalk printout in 2026 on my printer in the zone BabCom!
@paulrickards I made sure to upload "Tha Owl!" to as many open shares as I could find yesterday :)
So you may have received it via alternative means ;)
I just randomly noticed there was a sheet of paper sticking out of my ImageWriter… weird, had I torn off a sheet and left the extra feed there?
Nope, it was a Superb Owl greeting from @RonsCompVids !! How long has this been sitting there??!! Thanks for the #GlobalTalk surprise!
@kalleboo I just sent them out yesterday in celebration of the yearly arrival of the Superb Owl!
“The greatest coup in Apple’s history” - Steve Jobs Winning Bet on the NFL's Biggest Game!
https://youtu.be/FzXnAZsVdH4
This Sunday (February 8th, 2026) marks the 15th anniversary of the game... so what better time to play through the introductory levels?
I heard there's some kind of foosball game happening that day, but let's play STACKING instead!
When you've worked in Hollywood as long as Hal Barwood, your reputation precedes you. That's why when the opportunity to write an Indiana Jones adventure presented itself, Hal didn't hold back - and delivered one of the greatest adventure stories in gaming history! #lucasarts
@hohokam yeeeeeaaaah.
I stopped watching quite a long time ago, but the countless stories that have come out of that soulless content factory should have you considering your time as well.
The team is back to bring the experience to Macintosh, PC and Linux users once again with a remastering of "Return to Dark Castle"! Bring a dark castle back into the light!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4054940/Return_to_Dark_Castle/
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And the theme for KansasFest 2026 is...
https://www.kansasfest.org/2026/01/apple-iigs-theme/
Many thanks to Adventure Game Hotspot for talking about the rebirth of adventure games, big box collecting, and meeting your game development heroes!
Watch it here:
https://youtu.be/_PY47BKWJNc
"Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should."
