Assorted gems of retro gaming nostalgia
It wasn’t long ago now that we gave much excitement to the retro community that a game was coming which blended The Secret of Monkey Island and Back to the Future as an adventure game with glorious inspirations. Well there’s incredible news today as after previously announcing a small demo […]
Like I said in another review, today let’s steer clear from action titles and into one of my personal favorite graphic adventures. And since I failed to review a Star Wars themed game this month’s fifth, let’s remedy that with another George Lucas’ former intellectual property. I’m talking about Indiana […]
Some rather interesting news this evening, as we have just learnt General Interactive are working on a Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? Homage, which is going to be called Chinatown Detective Agency. This game inspired by that classic educational 1985 Broderbund title, is instead set in Singapore in the year 2032 […]
Through many months of writing, pretty much as soon as it was announced for the F64GC 2015: Adventure competition, we have been discussing the brilliant adventure game Caren and the Tangled Tentacles on the C64. It was released as a downloadable 1.1 version, and then later as an exclusive limited […]
This blog has become, among other things, an examination of good and bad game-design practices down through the years, particularly within the genre of adventure games. I’ve always tried to take the subject seriously, and have even dared to hope that some of these writings might be of practical use […]