With a full-scale war with CyberCedric going on, the Historian has retreated to moderate safety in his laundry room to conduct what might be the last episode of anything ever. That is, until a hero appears! There is, however, still time to interview Tracey McCabe, Dave McCabe and Paul Conway of Spooky Doorway, creators of […]

It’s deceptively calm around the Historian this time. We’ve got your usual input from Serena Nelson, crowdfunding expert of the adventure game heroes (or is that crowdfunding hero of the adventure game experts?), and another trip down memory lane with Jess ‘DecafJedi’ Morrissette about the early days of the Virtual Broomcloset and Space Quest fandom […]

Rumors of the Historian’s death were greatly exaggerated! After a brief unintentional hiatus, the show returns with more great crowdfunding tips from Serena Nelson, more music talk with Ken Allen, Brandon Blume and James Mulvale, and more nonsense from Pete Toleman, who talks about his experiences making talkie CD-ROM’s this time. With a special guest […]

Things come to a head between the Historian and the scourge of his laptop, CyberCedric. But despite Cedric gaining new powers, there’s still time to walk down memory lane with Jess Morrissette, get more crowdfunding tips from Serena Nelson, and listen to how Pete Toleman made it big in Communist Germany. Tonight’s special guest is […]

Join the Historian on a tale of horror and monsters as he interviews Li Boar of Stuck In Attic Games, creators of the hand-animated horror/comedy game Gibbous: A Cthulhu Adventure … and also listens to more of Pete’s toe-cringing memoirs. But it’s not all ghouls and nightmares. There’s also music talk with three heavy-weights of […]

The Space Quest Historian Podcast returns semi-triumphantly after a year of silence with a full third season of 12 episodes. In this first episode, the Historian tests his equipment to see what works (SteveBot and the Intergalactic HAM Radio), which leads to an unforeseen disastrous consequence. Also, Jess Morrissette and the Historian regales us with […]

This episode starts out with an immediate interruption by Chris Pope the SpacePope to bring you good tidings of great joy with how things are going on the SpaceVenture project. And it’s that time of the year —  you all know what I’m talking about — the Space Quest Historian delves head-first into the pool of hard-ass, difficult-as-all-hell […]

The Space Quest Historian’s laptop has gone down in mysterious circumstances. Luckily, Pete Toleman was in the right place at the right time to take the mic and start spewing forth about Troels’ predicament. In amongst well-wishes from Frederik Olsen, Professor Jess and Chris Pope, guest producer Darren managed to keep Pete in check long […]

Step into your careful boots and take a trepidatious trip into one of the most controversial topics of Space Quest fandom: Beatrice vs. Stellar? Which of Roger’s love interests do you prefer? We get to hear the true origins of Stellar’s character from Space Quest 6 designer Josh Mandel, as well as listener emails and […]

The Historian takes on that age-old controversy that has plagued adventure games since time immemorial (or, at least, back to the late 80’s and beyond): Which is better? Parser or point-and-click interfaces? Join us as we delve into the pros and cons of written input versus mouse-driven pointing-and-clicking on things with input from Jason Fyre […]