The Adventure Gamer – Page 2 – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Missed Classic: Trinity – When Soviet Time-Traveling Robot Armadillos Attack

On March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich In Trinity, we traveled to the dawn of the nuclear age and attempted to change history. We failed and became trapped in a time loop with our mischievous roadrunner friend. I suppose there are worse ways to go. In the words of one famous time traveler, […]

Missed Classic 83: Asylum II (1982) – Introduction

On March 12, 2020March 12, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Will Moczarski Introduction: Prelude to a Sequel Asylum must have been a major success for Med Systems Software, as the team of company president William F. Denman jr. and Frank L. Corr jr. teamed up once more about one year later to program its sequel, simply called Asylum […]

Shadow of the Comet – Flight of Icarus

On March 10, 2020March 10, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

By limbeck Things have progressed more smoothly in this session, with a bit of excitement and a lot more exposition. I finished the previous one after getting a quest from Mr UNDERHOUSE to get a diary from the Mayor’s safe and with Miss PICOTT vehemently refusing to give me her […]

Journeyman Project – Final Rating

On March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko All the way back on gameplay post 1, one of our intrepid commenters managed to neatly summarize my final sense of the game. Ross said, “This is one of my favorite series of games, but man is this first one clunky.” That’s exactly it. It was a […]

Missed Classic: Trinity – Won! (And Final Rating)

On March 5, 2020March 5, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich We finally made it to the end of Trinity, but the ending was a lot longer than I expected. The trip through New Mexico is the longest sequence in the game and it’s a lot of fun, even if I bit off more than I could […]

Game 117: The Legacy: Realm of Terror (1993) – Introduction

On March 2, 2020March 2, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

By Voltgloss In 1992, Infogrames released Alone in the Dark, which put the player in the role of an unsuspecting investigator who experiences the horrors of the mansion of an eccentric magnate, after said eccentric magnate committed suicide. The player tries to escape from the mansion, the unspeakable lurking fears […]

Shadow of the Comet – Development Hell

On February 29, 2020February 29, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by limbeck So, the last session finished with me recovering from last night’s events and Dr COBBLE prescribing me some pills to stop a heart attack. As I get off bed and put on my clothes, I have two goals for the day: get these pills from the pharmacy; […]

The Journeyman Project – Justice – Won!

On February 27, 2020February 27, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Agent 5 Journal #5: “My work is finally done here. Sinclair is neutralized and the timeline should be back to normal now. He’ll be imprisoned, I’m sure, and justice will be done. After all, if I hadn’t stopped them, his robots would have killed thousands of people. […]

Missed Classic: Trinity – Fly Me to the Moon

On February 21, 2020February 21, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich Trinity continues to impress and depress me. Last time out, we witnessed the unexpected destruction of New Mexico thanks to a more powerful than expected nuclear test at the Trinity site. My guess was that we had finally found the “plot” of this game: to find […]

Shadow of the Comet – Miss PICOTT’s Dominion

On February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by limbeck The town of Illsmouth is quaint, but what about the forest surrounding it? I am curious to scout the forest, in case there are any locations I was missing. I am wrong. The forest consists of a sort of a maze, with only a handful of different […]

The Journeyman Project – Last Impression

On February 15, 2020February 15, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Agent 5 Journal #4: “I’m almost done. All three robots are destroyed, and now the last thing to do is to catch up with Elliot Sinclair. My impression of him is that he’s unstable and very dangerous. I was almost flattened by his robot, after all. He […]

Shadow of the Comet – A Friendly Little Town

On February 12, 2020February 12, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by limbeck So, here I am, in my not so austere room, getting to grips with the controls of the game. I can move with the arrow buttons, but only on four directions, which seems fair. Sometimes, though, you jump to the next screen by stepping at the wrong […]

Missed Classic: Trinity – Is This the 50s? Or 1999?

On February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich Welcome back! Last time out, I explored the strange mushroom forest that I was dropped into after the end of the world. This “wabe”, as I think it is called, is a strange place set in the shadow of a gigantic sundial and includes giant bees, […]

Gobliins 2 – Final Rating

On February 8, 2020February 8, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

By Ilmari I am a bit torn about Gobliins 2. I began playing it with great expectations. The second game in the Gobliins-series showed clear improvements over its predecessor, being easier to play and fairer, while still retaining the wackiness of the first game. The more I played, the more […]

The Journeyman Project – Meeting on the Planet

On February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Agent 5 Journal #3: “That Elliot Sinclair really seems to have gone nuts! I’ve now neutralized two of his assassin robots and retrieved more evidence that Sinclair is the one behind them. Meeting the second robot face to face was rather alarming, but once we left the […]

Game 116: Shadow of the comet (1993) – Introduction

On February 3, 2020February 3, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

By limbeck In 1992, Infogrames released Alone in the Dark, which put the player in the role of an unsuspecting investigator who experiences the horrors of the mansion of an eccentric magnate, after said eccentric magnate committed suicide. The player tries to escape from the mansion, the unspeakable lurking fears […]

Gobliins 2 – Won!

On February 1, 2020February 1, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

By Ilmari Prince is auditioning for the role of Arthur Fleck (BTW, notice the picture showing wizard goblin with his friends from the first game) Last time, Prince had just been possessed by a demon, and the wizard goblin suggested using water from his fountain. The water did separate the […]

Missed Classic: Trinity – Gyre and Gimble in the Wabe

On January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich Welcome back! It was a bit slower going than I had hoped to get here, but we got here nonetheless. Last time around, we jumped into Trinity and an exploration of a near-future Kensington Gardens followed by total nuclear annihilation. Fortunately, we escaped just in the […]

The Journeyman Project – Maximum Wave

On January 28, 2020January 28, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Agent 5 Journal #2: “I’ve managed to avoid the distortion wave and retrieve the unaffected archive of history. The computer then determined that there were three separate interference events in the past that changed the flow of time. So far, I was able to save Dr. Castillo […]

Gobliins 2 – Gotta Stop (Messin’ About)

On January 25, 2020January 25, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

By Ilmari Prince, if you’d just come down, this would be all over All things come to an end, but some things just don’t know when to end. Last time I had led goblins to a giant beanstalk, which magically transported all the goblins near the village where I started. […]