adventure games

13 10, 2021

The 7th Guest: an all-time creepy classic

By |2021-10-14T02:08:25+01:00October 13th, 2021|Retro Consoles|Comments Off on The 7th Guest: an all-time creepy classic

Trilobyte’s The 7th Guest, originally released in 1993, has always had a rather curious, mixed perception, both from a critical and a popular perspective. On the one hand, it was regarded as a “killer app” for the then-new CD-ROM technology that home computers were just starting to get at the time. On the other, longstanding [...]

11 10, 2021

Dracula: The Undead – handheld horror for your Atari Lynx

By |2021-10-12T01:48:02+01:00October 11th, 2021|Retro Consoles|Comments Off on Dracula: The Undead – handheld horror for your Atari Lynx

Old-school handhelds may not be the first place you’d think to look for either horror games or adventure games — but there are occasional examples of both. On the Game Boy, for example, we have “modern retro” title Deadeus, which is great. And on the Atari Lynx, we have Dracula: The Undead. I would not [...]

29 09, 2021

Police Quest: Open Season – the end of an era

By |2021-09-29T23:48:36+01:00September 29th, 2021|Retro Consoles|Comments Off on Police Quest: Open Season – the end of an era

The fourth Police Quest game, which dropped the numerical suffix and is instead referred to simply as Police Quest: Open Season, is an interesting and controversial game for a number of reasons. Perhaps most notably, it marks the end of a few distinct eras for the series: most notably the end of the Sonny Bonds [...]

21 09, 2021

10 of the best LucasArts adventures

By |2021-09-21T22:31:36+01:00September 21st, 2021|Retro Consoles|Comments Off on 10 of the best LucasArts adventures

We all love a list, so every Tuesday we’re posting one, on a variety of retro-themed topics! Feel free to share your own favourites down below — and let us know what other lists you’d like to see on future Tuesdays! We couldn’t possibly leave that hanging, could we? After covering 10 of the best [...]

13 09, 2021

Police Quest III: a thoroughly compelling mess

By |2021-09-13T21:15:54+01:00September 13th, 2021|Retro Consoles|Comments Off on Police Quest III: a thoroughly compelling mess

After an embarrassingly large number of years being too intimidated to play them, I finally played through Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel (or its 1992 VGA remake, anyway) and its sequel Police Quest II: The Vengeance. I had a thoroughly lovely time with both of them, so I was excited to explore [...]

8 09, 2021

Police Quest II: investigation is its own reward

By |2021-09-08T20:29:28+01:00September 8th, 2021|Retro Consoles|Comments Off on Police Quest II: investigation is its own reward

Ah, Police Quest II. I’ve been looking forward to this. You may recall recently, dear reader, that I wrote about how after thirty years of being too intimidated to play it, I finally sat down and played through Sierra’s Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel — or, more accurately, its 1992 VGA remake, [...]

7 09, 2021

10 of the best Sierra adventures

By |2021-09-07T20:19:36+01:00September 7th, 2021|Retro Consoles|Comments Off on 10 of the best Sierra adventures

We all love a list, so every Tuesday we’re posting one, on a variety of retro-themed topics! Feel free to share your own favourites down below — and let us know what other lists you’d like to see on future Tuesdays! It’s Tuesday, and that means it’s time for another 10 of the Best Tuesdays! [...]

3 09, 2021

Police Quest and the art of procedural puzzling

By |2021-09-03T19:41:01+01:00September 3rd, 2021|Retro Consoles|Comments Off on Police Quest and the art of procedural puzzling

I have a confession to make, dear reader: there are a few retro games that, for many years, I’ve been too scared to play. In some cases, like The Software Toolworks’ Life and Death, it’s due to the fact that the subject matter simultaneously squicks me out and fascinates me in a morbid sort of [...]

1 09, 2021

Why does no-one know what “adventure games” are any more?

By |2021-09-01T19:21:30+01:00September 1st, 2021|Retro Consoles|Comments Off on Why does no-one know what “adventure games” are any more?

Last night I found myself with a bit of a hankering to play a classic adventure game of some description — be it a point-and-click affair or even something with a text parser. So I did what any self-respecting retro gaming enthusiast would do in 2021: I popped on over to GOG.com. Their original remit [...]

11 08, 2021

Indie Heroes: playing good cop, bad cop with Quest Arrest

By |2021-08-11T16:01:58+01:00August 11th, 2021|Retro Consoles|Comments Off on Indie Heroes: playing good cop, bad cop with Quest Arrest

The Evercade’s “Indie Heroes” cartridge plays host to a variety of brand new games for classic platforms — and even if you don’t have an Evercade, you can try most of these for yourself in one way or another! Let’s explore them in detail! It’s fair to say that one of the games on the [...]