1992 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Genre Hopping: Ultima VII: The Black Gate (1992)

On June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Delivering Our Report We offer our report to Finnegan, and he asks us various questions about the case. The simple point and click nature makes this quite obvious, there are only so many potential answers to each question, and it should be obvious which is the most appropriate answer each […]

The Year That Was… 1992

On December 2, 2019December 2, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

By The TAG Team Luckily they didn’t convert this movie into an adventure game Licensed adventure games have appeared from time to time, but this year their number was considerable. We had games based on books (Gateway and Dune, which might also be based on a movie), games based on […]

Consulting Detective Vol. II – Hint Book Review & Final Rating

On November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich The time has come to put another game into the cabinet and officially close out 1992! We played a staggering 38 adventure games this year. I’ll leave the year-end commentary to Ilmari, but we are moving on quickly to 1993 which somehow has even more games. […]

Consulting Detective Vol. II – Sleuth Solves Spy Special! Satisfactory Send-off to Second Saga (Won!)

On November 19, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich Welcome back to the final gameplay installment in Consulting Detective Vol II! I know this one has dragged on a bit, especially as we have had some slowdowns in Ween as well, but we arrived at the finish line with the best case of the set. […]

Consulting Detective Vol. II – Murdered Mechanic Made Military Mighty

On November 10, 2019November 10, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich Two cases down and one to go! Thus far in Consulting Detective Vol. II, we’ve solved a pair of murders and it appears that we are going three-for-three. Admittedly, the first case was murder-with-theft and the second was murder-as-a-cover-up, but both involved murder. Some commenters have […]

Consulting Detective Vol. II – Failure! Fiendish Forger Found a Friend to Flame the Folio

On October 29, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich I failed at this case. If you follow our blog to read about masterful play and to see an expert gamer moving from clue to clue with purpose and conviction, you have come to the wrong place. As you will read, I tripped up a number […]

Consulting Detective Vol. II – Pair of Pretty Paintings Pilfered, Perhaps Pawned

On October 6, 2019October 6, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich After a birthday detour back into Infocom-land, I’m back to playing Consulting Detective. Last time around, I solved the first of three cases by finding a lion-murdering thief with a penchant for poisoning his witnesses. That case was pretty fun but not perfect. It did take […]

Ringworld – Final Rating

On September 28, 2019September 28, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko As with some other games based on science fiction novels, I think we’re going to find that Ringworld is an interesting but flawed attempt to bring the deep story of a novel into an interactive adventure game. In some ways, Ringworld is a very traditional adventure game […]

Ringworld – Won!

On September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Quinn’s Journal #4: “Telepath helmets are apparently a bad idea. Good thing I had that neural wave blocker we found. All’s well that ends well, except we still haven’t found Louis Wu and Chmeee. But the Patriarch is neutralized and that’s a good day’s work. I just […]

Consulting Detective Vol. II – The Lions, the Pick, and the Redhead

On September 20, 2019September 20, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich In the words of the world’s greatest detective, “Wowsers!” We have a case with two dead actual lions and one dead guy named “Lions”. It may be contrived, but thus far it’s been a challenging case even if I don’t see how all of the clues […]

Ringworld – Two Boxes and a Repurposed Probe

On September 15, 2019September 15, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Quinn’s Journal #3: “We’re making good progress on collecting these stasis boxes. Hindmost keeps demanding answers we don’t have or don’t want to give. We’d do better if he’d just leave us alone to do what he sent us here for. At least Seeker hasn’t been putting […]

Consulting Detective Vol. II – Between the Lions

On September 11, 2019September 11, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich Welcome back! I hope you got your score guesses in because it is time to dive into the first case. Just as in the previous game, we have three cases to choose from; while we can play them in any order, I’m going to take them […]

Reader’s Choice 1992

On September 5, 2019September 5, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Only two games to go before the end of 1992! We continue with the tradition of letting our readers choose, what is the best game of the year. Choose wisely (and no, we are not saying what you should choose) The list of the games played just keeps on growing. […]

Game 112: Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Vol. II – Introduction (1992)

On August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich The blurb on the back of the box tells us, “What they said about Sherlock I, you’ll say about Sherlock II.” I am fairly certain that there have never been truer words in advertising because that is exactly how I feel opening up Sherlock Holmes: Consulting […]

Inca – Final Rating

On August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

By Ilmari Sometimes we beat games, sometimes games beat us. Inca definitely did that for me. At first it forced me to lose my dignity and rely on cheat codes to get even started. Then, after this irreparable error of dishonest gaming, I didn’t even manage to get to the […]

Ringworld – Five Aliens and a Stasis Box

On August 25, 2019August 25, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Quinn’s Journal #2: “I’ve managed to escape with Chmeee’s son in the prototype ship, but now the Puppeteers want us to go retrieve some ancient technology in stasis boxes on Ringworld. How are we ever going to catch up with the Destroyer? These boxes are not exactly […]

Inca – Demolished

On August 20, 2019August 20, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

By Ilmari Fifteen second later all the space conquistadors passed out from a lack of oxygen Any theories how this contraption flies? In modern terms: romance gives you more energy than booze It finally happened – I faced an action sequence I could not pass, not by crook or by […]

Ringworld – Three Stuns and Five Wires

On August 15, 2019August 15, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Quinn’s Journal #1: “What a strange business this is. First, my old friend Louis Wu disappeared, and managed to see it coming soon enough to alert me, and then I found that his contact Chmeee had also disappeared under unusual circumstances. I had very little time to […]

Nippon Safes Inc. – Final rating

On August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Torch What were my expectations when I started playing this? Well, maybe more safes… Honestly, my familiarity with the game only goes as far as remembering to have seen some screenshots in a magazine some time in 1992. I guess it was a review, but I can’t recall […]

Inca – Devastated

On August 9, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

By Ilmari I wonder how a Shoot’Em’Up Addict could retain the interest of readers through couple of posts? “And then another orc came running from the left. And I shot it! Another one followed it. I shot that one, too! And yet another, blast, good riddance to orc number 45! […]