Author: CRPG Addict

Surreptitiously awarding the Rune of Valor to Kliftin of Jhelom.             The more Gideon thinks about it, the more he doesn’t really like having a death-dealing demon bound up in his sword. The question is what to do about it. Ideally, there would be some magic ritual that would simultaneously […]

I suspect the title font is in amber, but someone let me know for sure.                  Amberstar Germany Thalion Software (developer and publisher) Released 1992 for Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS Date Started: 20 June 2020    Amberstar is the first game I […]

I have a feeling we’re going to regret this.               So far in our chronology, expansions have been rare enough that we haven’t devoted any significant time to them. Although not common, they are nearly as old as CRPGs themselves. The first that I can identify for sure two 1981 […]

             The entry for OrbQuest (back in March) has been updated with some information from LanHawk, who managed to win the game with the character that I abandoned on the threshold of victory.

                   The Legacy United Kingdom Magnetic Scrolls (developer); MicroProse (publisher) Released 1992 for DOS Date Started: 3 June 2020Date Ended: 17 June 2020 Total Hours: 25Difficulty: Moderate-Hard (3.5/5)Final Rating: (to come later)Ranking at time of posting: (to come later)            Summary: A first-person adventure […]

This title screen doesn’t occur until a couple of hours into the game.            Final Fantasy Japan Square (developer); Nintendo (publisher) Released in 1987 for NES in Japan, 1989 for MSX, 1990 for NES in North America Remade numerous times for various platforms, including mobile, between 1994 and 2016 Date […]

Druxinusom asks me about Inamo. I love that the dialogue options allow you to say that Inamo was murdered or to say something like, “Uh, well, he’s not doing so hot.”              I suppose it’s time for a recap before we move forward. The Avatar hasn’t been in Britannia for […]

The enemies get more terrifying and grotesque.        The Legacy is a much bigger game than I expected going in. I figured it would be a typical adventure game set in a haunted house with maybe three levels and a basement, all of them relatively compact, with all rooms serving […]

Maybe “Axis” isn’t a great name for a German game company? I’m just putting it out there.            Mythos Germany Independently developed; published by Axis Komputerkunst Released 1985 for Commodore 64 and Atari 800 Date Started: 7 June 2020 Date Ended: 8 June 2020 Total Hours: 3 Difficulty: Easy (2/5) […]

The most legitimately scary moment in the game so far.                  I’m not an adventure game addict. My experience with them is somewhat limited to the few that I played as a child and they hybrids I’ve played on this blog. What I […]

          Abandoned Places: A Time for Heroes Hungary ArtGame (developer); Electronic Zoo (publisher) Released 1992 for Amiga and DOS Date Started: 15 May 2020 Date Ended: 4 June 2020 Total Hours: 33 Difficulty: Moderate (3/5) but very imbalanced Final Rating: (to come later) Ranking at time of posting: (to come […]

I bought the GOG version, which says nothing about a Realm of Terror.             The Legacy United Kingdom Magnetic Scrolls (developer); MicroProse (publisher) Released 1992 for DOS Date Started: 3 June 2020     The Legacy is a rare horror-themed RPG. We’ve had a few, including Don’t Go Alone (1989), […]

In this session, I saw the “full party death” screen for the first time.             I tried hard to finish Abandoned Places for this entry, pouring almost 16 hours into it over the last six days, but I’m not quite there. It’s been very frustrating, and I wish I’d just […]

Can my reward be a haircut?              TaskMaker United States Storm Impact (developer); XOR (publisher) Released 1989 for the MacintoshRemade and re-released as shareware in 1993 Date Started: 15 May 2020 Date Ended: 25 May 2020 Total Hours: 13 Difficulty: Moderate-Hard (3.5/5) Final Rating: (to come later) Ranking at time […]

Spider webs posed a (mild) obstacle on some of this session’s dungeons.            A second session with Abandoned Places has shown it to be an adequate but unmemorable Dungeon Master clone. Most of the things I initially liked about it–elements in which it departed from the usual Dungeon Master template–have […]

This is a pretty morbid way to organize your “to do” items.          TaskMaker United States Storm Impact (developer); XOR (publisher) Released 1989 for the MacintoshRemade and re-released as shareware in 1993 Date Started: 15 May 2020           TaskMaker is a slick little game, probably the best I’ve played so […]

Or A Tinne Fot Hetves if you go by a literal interpretation of the font.         Abandoned Places: A Time for Heroes Hungary ArtGame (developer); International Computer Entertainment (publisher) Released 1992 for Amiga and DOS Date Started: 15 May 2020           It’s nice to see a new country enter the […]

The king without a throne! The land without a king!            Owing to circumstances, this will be a brief entry, but I wanted to at least talk about some of the things that occurred to me as I continued my explorations of the Dungeon Despise. Despise is the dungeon that, […]

You are not misinterpreting this screen. The troll is having his genitals stimulated by a magic stone. It’s that kind of game.            Muryaden France Elrik et Deckard (developers); Bytlejuice (publisher) Released in 1989 for Apple II Date Started: 12 May 2020 Date Ended: 14 May 2020 Total Hours: 5Difficulty: […]