PDXCUG Special Event: Get Lamp Screening

Portland Event - All Guests Welcome

The Portland Commodore Users Group is proud to present a night with Jason Scott, a digital historian and archivist who specializes in early microcomputer history and dial-up bulletin board systems. He is the webmaster of TextFiles, a collection of BBS-era textfiles that has been open to the public since 1998. In 2001, he began filming a documentary about BBSes called BBS: The Documentary, an 8-episode mini-series about BBSes spanning 25 years and totalling five and a half hours in length.

Now, Jason has a new film about text adventure games (think Zork), called Get Lamp. He interviewed dozens of creators, players, and scholars about the experience and effect of text adventures in this documentary and is willing to share his adventure with you at this very special event, brought to you exclusively by the Portland Commodore Users Group. So pick up the coin, "Go North", then "Go West" (or your applicable directions), because we'll be gathering at Backspace, in Old Town Portland, Oregon.

Please see our Meetings page for more information. See the Get Lamp Trailer in our blog.