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What is the Historia Challenge?

These challenge courses are guided gameplay-focused tours the history of a certain topic. The goal is to get you set up to play interesting games including:

• Which games to play
• Historical context
• How to play (Instructions, controls, and emulator)

Each game also has three tiered objectives, so you have an attainable objective even if you don’t want to play through all of Wizardry 1.

• A Sapphire objective for exploring the game.
• An Emerald objective for completing a challenge.
• A Ruby objective for completing the game or a difficult challenge

The Historia Challenge posts are a roadmap for players interested in historic video games. Many books will tell you Beneath Apple Manor is an important video game. Few will tell you how to actually play it and fewer players will find and read the entire game manual to find out.

The idea was born from an archive.org page hosting that very Apple II game, but the game is so arcane that I imagine the majority of casually interested players simply bounced off the page lacking instructions or controls telling you how to play. You might notice my review adding some!

It’s what I wish Retro Achievements or 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die were, guided lists of meaningful goals rather than big dumps of stuff for you to sort out yourself.