Return to Pirate's Isle for TI-99/4A - Full 100% Playthrough

This is a full playthrough of Return to Pirate's Isle for the TI-99/4A by Scott Adams (1983). Played on an F18A-modded TI-99/4A.
#ti994a #retrocomputing #texasinstruments #textadventure

[@MatthewSemones]

my mom worked at texas instruments and bought me this computer one year for my birthday... (which blew me away, we didn't get expensive gifts) and this was one of the games. loved it back then, a lot... can't stomach it now but the video takes me back. lol

[@Threxx]

Thanks for this trip down memory lane. My mom and I played this together quite a bit in around 1988-89 when I was a young kid, and never did manage to make it all that far. Now I finally can see how the whole thing was supposed to play out. It really is amazing how much unapologetically harder games were back then... funny to see no offer here to pay $10 for a character upgrade or 20 hours of grinding required to level up and advance further in the game.
Then again, considering that games back then cost the equivalent of over $200 of today's money, adjusted for inflation, I can see why they needed to really make completion a lofty and lengthy goal.

[@guitarnguinness]

Thanks for doing this. Never could figure this one out. Loved all the Scott Adams adventures, had to have the adventure cartridge then load them with cassettes if i remember right. This was the only one that was a stand alone adventure cartridge and with images.

[@eebuckeye]

Finally I see the ending! Pretty tough game without a guide for sure! Thanks!

[@PixelPedant]

Yeah, I can't imagine finding everything by trial and error. But at the same time, the "treasure hunt" format actually makes the difficult exercise of trying to find all its secrets feel right for the game, rather than making it feel like a cumbersome morass of puzzles.

[@rog2224]

I spent hours playing the Scott Adams adventures with the Adventure Cart. When I went off to uni, my mother played the games until the lounge was decorated, when the system was relegated to the attic. From then, until 2012 or so, it was in my parent's attic. It all still works.

[@YayAkiba]

I never got anywhere in this game. There's some parts of the game that there's no way you would have known what to do, where the room descriptions never give a hint.

[@gendai3513]

thank you we could never beat this 35 years ago

[@CatsInVR]

My intro into gaming, my Mom brought home an IBM computer when they first came out, I confiscated it played this and taught myself DOS

[@mikemc17]

Ah, this takes me back!

[@Scrapla1]

Yoho

[@glenbartram5362]

Umm... can someone explain to me using the snail to open the oyster? I could understand using the screwdriver (though likely bad for the oyster) But not the snail.

[@cootmaster]

i remember this

[@randomgamer-st1ie]

Saw this on cartridge. Do you need the cassette recorder to play or save this game?

[@jmr5125]

This game only requires a cassette (or floppy drive) to save the game.
Note, however, there is an altogether separate cartridge that loads game data files from cassettes. These games also lack graphics altogether.

[@jennawells8900]

I'm dead

[@howardoberg5847]

the events are not that obvious. they could done better

[@PixelPedant]

Yeah, these games are pretty brutal. Definitely a lot of trial and error required.