Final Rating – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Shadow of the Comet – Final Rating

On April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

By limbeck The first time I played Shadow of the Comet was probably some time in the late ’90s or early 2000s. I was relatively fresh in RPGs and the Cthulhu Mythos, and still at university. So, a Cthulhu Mythos inspired adventure game definitely looked like just what I needed […]

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 […]

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 […]

Ween : The Prophecy – Alternative paths and Final Rating

On January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Alfred n the Fettuc Before submitting WEEN to the PISSED rating, we need to study the alternative paths that you can take through the game. I counted two (but I might also have missed something), one using the fish amulet to breathe underwater, and the other attainable by […]

Missed Classic 81: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

On December 31, 2019December 31, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

By Ilmari Let the year 2020 begin! I considered saving my take on this game as an April’s Fool post. I would have pulled a trick on you readers and published my previous Adrian Mole -post second time, with just some necessary modifications. It would have been a faithful reflection […]

Missed Classic: The Price of Magik – Won! (With Final Rating)

On December 29, 2019December 29, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

By Ilmari Underground Last time, I had just explored a house from top to bottom and defeated a giant slug with some salt. Beyond the slug opened up a completely new playing field. It seemed the game was funneling me towards some direction, since there were so many one-way connections […]

Missed Classic 79: A Christmas Adventure (1983)

On December 25, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich Merry Christmas! Welcome back to another Christmas at “The Adventure Gamer” where we are looking at our sixth holiday adventure game! Time flies while we are having so much fun and I’m just amazed that we keep finding new holiday adventures to play. This time out […]

Missed Classic 78: Crash Dive! (1984)

On December 17, 2019December 17, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich For the era that we study, Brian Moriarty is one of the giants. He brought us three of Infocom’s classics, starting with Wishbringer, and jumped over to LucasArts to create Loom, one of my favorite adventure games of all time. Before we move on to Trinity […]

Missed Classic: The Institute – WON! and Final Rating

On November 28, 2019November 28, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

by Will Moczarski Last time I explored the first of four dreams that make up the bulk of The Institute. I presented it as a streamlined narrative for your convenience, rather than describe all of my errancies. On my first run, for example, I examined the bronze statue from the […]

Consulting Detective Vol. II – Hint Book Review & Final Rating

On November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich The time has come to put another game into the cabinet and officially close out 1992! We played a staggering 38 adventure games this year. I’ll leave the year-end commentary to Ilmari, but we are moving on quickly to 1993 which somehow has even more games. […]

Saigon: The Final Days – WON! and Final Rating

On November 14, 2019November 14, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

by Will Moczarski Last time I was severely stuck. Not even the first room in Asylum had given me such a headache. I was unable to venture past the Viet Cong gun nest and unable to open the dead soldier’s snap pocket on the starting screen. I must have tried […]

Missed Classic: Earthquake – San Francisco 1906 – WON! and Final Rating

On November 2, 2019November 2, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

by Will Moczarski The game’s own PISSED rating To get the most important fact out of the way first: You need the crowbar a lot. Last time I was stuck somewhere in earthquake-ridden San Francisco in the year of 1906 with nothing left to do. My only lead was the […]

Missed Classic: Curse of Crowley Manor – WON! and Final Rating

On October 2, 2019October 2, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

by Will Moczarski Cursing Crowley Manor This is an astonishing game. I know that it might seem as if I was easily satisfied by a few extra descriptions in a text adventure but for a game released in 1981 it does a lot of things right. So far, it’s not […]

Ringworld – Final Rating

On September 28, 2019September 28, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko As with some other games based on science fiction novels, I think we’re going to find that Ringworld is an interesting but flawed attempt to bring the deep story of a novel into an interactive adventure game. In some ways, Ringworld is a very traditional adventure game […]

Missed Classic 72: Microworld – WON! and Final Rating

On September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

by Will Moczarski Med Systems Marathon Overview: (a) 1980 Summary(b) Reality Ends (1980)(c) Rat’s Revenge / Deathmaze 5000 (1980)(d) Labyrinth (1980)(e) Asylum (1981) Second Time’s the Charm My actual playthrough of Microworld takes me about 7 hours and a fair amount of head-scratching. I’ll start from the beginning in this […]

Missed Classic 71: Asylum – WON!* and Final Rating

On August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

by Will Moczarski Med Systems Marathon Overview: (a) 1980 Summary(b) Reality Ends (1980)(c) Rat’s Revenge / Deathmaze 5000 (1980)(d) Labyrinth (1980) * with a little touch of “lost”. On the Road to Find Out So I solved the roadster puzzle. It took some gall, it took some nerve, I’m still […]

Inca – Final Rating

On August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

By Ilmari Sometimes we beat games, sometimes games beat us. Inca definitely did that for me. At first it forced me to lose my dignity and rely on cheat codes to get even started. Then, after this irreparable error of dishonest gaming, I didn’t even manage to get to the […]

Nippon Safes Inc. – Final rating

On August 12, 2019August 12, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Torch What were my expectations when I started playing this? Well, maybe more safes… Honestly, my familiarity with the game only goes as far as remembering to have seen some screenshots in a magazine some time in 1992. I guess it was a review, but I can’t recall […]

Batman Returns – Final Rating

On August 2, 2019August 2, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Joe Pranevich Christmas in July August! There comes a time in everyone’s life where they need to put away their toys and provide a numerical rating for a tie-in adventure game written in 1992. More than once, in my case. But before we get into the all-important rating, […]