The game starts with an Ultima IV-like scene except that unlike Ultima IV, nothing happens in the view window. The Kingdom of Syree United States Everlasting Software (developer and publisher) Released in 1992 for DOS Date Started: 20 May 2019 The moment I fire up a game and see […]
What Remains – A new NES game surfaces from iodinedynamics
The NES scene has certainly been busy this month, with cool games announced such as Micro Mages and NEScape! But now another game is set to take center stage, as we’ve just come across a tweet from @remwhat, that they have released the final version of What Remains; an 8-bit interactive fiction and […]
The Last Works Before the Renaissance
By 1993, textual interactive fiction was reaching the fag end of the unsettled, uncertain half-decade-and-change between the shuttering of Infocom and the rise of a new Internet-centered community of amateur enthusiasts. Efforts by such collectives as Adventions and High Energy Software to sell text adventures via the shareware model had […]
Vegetables Deluxe – An upcoming colourful overhaul to a fabulous C64 Match 3 game
Double Sided Games didn’t just announce Winterdane; a first-person rogue type RPG, with randomly generated levels looking like a rather cool dungeon crawler. But they also announced an upcoming game called ‘ Vegetables Deluxe ‘, which yes is also coming to the C64. Now if you’ve heard of this game […]
Journey: Won! (with Summary and Rating)
The winning screen you’ve been desperately anticipating for 8 years. Journey United States Infocom (developer and publisher) Released in 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, and Macintosh Date Started: 20 March 2011 Date Finished: 21 May 2019 Total Hours: 23 (including 9 in 2011)Difficulty: Hard (4/5)Final Rating: (to come […]
Rule the Waves 2 Review : Does it Still Rule?
It’s June, 1944. A line of French battleships screens a motley collection of carriers, escort carriers, and destroyers. The sun is about to rise as flight crews prepare to attack a target in Sardinia. Our fighters are inferior to the Monarchist Italians, but our bombers are glorious. The signal is […]
Rule the Waves 2 Review : Does it Still Rule?
It’s June, 1944. A line of French battleships screens a motley collection of carriers, escort carriers, and destroyers. The sun is about to rise as flight crews prepare to attack a target in Sardinia. Our fighters are inferior to the Monarchist Italians, but our bombers are glorious. The signal is […]