Assorted gems of retro gaming nostalgia
Written by TBD. Rex Nebular’s Log: Stardate – 13th b’ak’tun.1: I finally found my way off this planet, but it quickly became clear that it wasn’t exactly how I wanted to go out – can I try again?… I’m hopelessly stuck. Last time I reported in, I’d done some exploring […]
Written by TBD Rex Nebular’s Log: Stardate – 27th of Last Seed.7: I’ve explored the abandoned underground land of men. I have a few more items, but none of them are getting me closer to getting the vase that I’d almost forgotten about or escaping the planet. I’ve found some […]
Written by Reiko Hector’s Journal #1: “Someone’s going to want to know eventually how a simple slave managed to get so far. I am hardly a simple slave, at least now, but I’d like to think that I was never ordinary. Yet you could say that I just got lucky, […]
Written by Reiko Rome: Pathway to Power is a bit of an odd duck. It’s a historical adventure set in Rome, of course, in AD 92, which was also its other sub-title. But its main screen uses an isometric perspective, and at least one level involves controlling whole armies rather […]
Rex Nebular’s Log: Stardate – Later That Afternoon.3: I’ve been captured by a group of women. One of the woman keeps referring to me as scum – which is strange because usually people spend at least a few minutes with me before realising I’m scum. It seems the women want to […]
Written by Reiko Island of Dr. Brain was quite the puzzle-fest, and of course, for a puzzle-lover like me, it was fun to play. However, I suspect that the parts don’t add up quite the same way they did for its predecessor. Let’s see how the categories compare. Puzzles and […]
Written by TBD Rex is regretting his third wish, which seemed like such a fun idea in theory. Much like a previous game I’ve played, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, the title of this game has me forming an opinion on the type of experience I’ll be having before I even […]
Written by Reiko Easy if you can read a treble clef. In the far corner of the room, I find a piano, which launches the music puzzle. This has three stages. “Lesson 1” is Sight Reading: clicking the correct note on the piano that matches each note on the staff. […]
By Deimar We come to the end of HorrorSoft. And it is a pity that it seems so rushed and a bit unfinished because I really liked both Elviras. The good things in them easily overcome their flaws, at least if you are interested in an horror themed adventure. However, […]
By Ilmari In 1937, a young person, known only as a Junior, got into a fight with his mother over his future career choice. Like all mothers, she wanted him to get a proper education, grow up into a respectable citizen and follow in his father’s footsteps. But pleasures of […]
By Deimar Bernard Rinaldi’s Journal: So my recent career success has come to a stop. My supervisor is sending me to this remote mine in the middle of nowhere so I can make a safety report. Yeah, sure. A safety report about an abandoned mine that no one cares about. […]
Written by Reiko I just completed various language puzzles (synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms) to collect three items to place on the counterweight to a bridge in order to access the interesting hut in the corner of a robot village. Inside the hut we have a very eclectic collection of decorations, […]
Written by Reiko Last time we went through the first two “rooms” of puzzles, essentially, since the beach just has the polyomino door puzzle, and the jigsaw puzzle is the door puzzle for the second room. The third room presents us with a wooden bridge with several planks missing. A […]
By Deimar Diggie McGravery’s Journal “Oh man, I love this new job!. The town is already very quiet, but in the week I have been working as a gravedigger here, nobody has come to the cemetery. Well, only the priest, but he mostly keeps to himself. It was a bit […]
Written by Reiko We are on the hunt for Dr. Brain’s special battery for his latest secret project. His pilot has dropped us off (using a parachute!) onto Dr. Brain’s private island, and we must now tackle the piles of puzzles between us and our goal. The copy protection requires […]