Assorted gems of retro gaming nostalgia
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Written by Reiko The last game I played through for the blog was Dune (let’s pretend Rome never happened), which was more or less based on the famous science fiction novel, and before that was Gateway. Up next, I have the opportunity to present another game based on a famous […]
By Ilmari I’ve had enough of this! What I predicted in the previous post has come to pass – the space flight is really beyond my skills. I do have five lives to try, but if I use up all of them at the beginning of the game, do I […]
Written by Joe Pranevich Christmas in July August! There comes a time in everyone’s life where they need to put away their toys and provide a numerical rating for a tie-in adventure game written in 1992. More than once, in my case. But before we get into the all-important rating, […]
Written by Torch I ended the previous post on a slightly slow-moving note, if I can call it that. For the umpteenth time, I needed to find 100 yen for a metro ticket. While I didn’t flag that post as a request for assistance, I nevertheless found myself unable to […]
By Ilmari Every family has its weird uncle, and mine was no exception. I’d really like to know, if anyone can guess the relevance of this beginning with the game I am supposed to be playing I was probably ten or eleven, when my parents were forced to visit the […]