Reiko – The Retro Gaming Treasury

Game 124: Ecoquest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest (1993) – Introduction

On June 24, 2020June 24, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Almost four years ago, I covered the original Ecoquest here on the blog, and now we’ve arrived at the sequel: Lost Secret of the Rainforest. Instead of diving deep below the sea, this time we’ll be exploring the rainforest. You may remember that Ecoquest had a bit […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The Journeyman Project – Time Distortion

On January 21, 2020January 21, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Agent 5 Journal #1: “Today was not a good day to oversleep. If I hadn’t made it to work when I did, we all would have been erased permanently. This is the most major time rip I’ve ever seen, and I’m the only one who was on […]

Game 115: The Journeyman Project (1993) – Introduction

On January 4, 2020January 4, 2020 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Adventure Gamers, I am very excited to begin a new series with you all. This post will be an introduction to the first game in a groundbreaking time travel series: Journeyman Project! I’ve been looking forward (backward?) to covering the first Journeyman Project because JP2: Buried in […]

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 […]

Ringworld – Won!

On September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Quinn’s Journal #4: “Telepath helmets are apparently a bad idea. Good thing I had that neural wave blocker we found. All’s well that ends well, except we still haven’t found Louis Wu and Chmeee. But the Patriarch is neutralized and that’s a good day’s work. I just […]

Ringworld – Two Boxes and a Repurposed Probe

On September 15, 2019September 15, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Quinn’s Journal #3: “We’re making good progress on collecting these stasis boxes. Hindmost keeps demanding answers we don’t have or don’t want to give. We’d do better if he’d just leave us alone to do what he sent us here for. At least Seeker hasn’t been putting […]

Ringworld – Five Aliens and a Stasis Box

On August 25, 2019August 25, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Quinn’s Journal #2: “I’ve managed to escape with Chmeee’s son in the prototype ship, but now the Puppeteers want us to go retrieve some ancient technology in stasis boxes on Ringworld. How are we ever going to catch up with the Destroyer? These boxes are not exactly […]

Ringworld – Three Stuns and Five Wires

On August 15, 2019August 15, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko Quinn’s Journal #1: “What a strange business this is. First, my old friend Louis Wu disappeared, and managed to see it coming soon enough to alert me, and then I found that his contact Chmeee had also disappeared under unusual circumstances. I had very little time to […]

Game 111: Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch (1992) – Introduction

On August 7, 2019August 7, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by Reiko The last game I played through for the blog was Dune (let’s pretend Rome never happened), which was more or less based on the famous science fiction novel, and before that was Gateway. Up next, I have the opportunity to present another game based on a famous […]

Rome: Pathway to Power – Final Rating

On May 21, 2019May 21, 2019 By IndieRetroNews

Written by TBD with Reiko In a rare case for The Adventure Gamer, this game was actually played by two of us. Reiko introduced us to the game and started it, making the first gameplay post, and then I took over when Reiko was unable to complete it. As Reiko […]

Rome: Pathway to Power – Out of the Fire

On February 5, 2019February 5, 2019 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

Written by Reiko Hector’s Journal #1: “Someone’s going to want to know eventually how a simple slave managed to get so far. I am hardly a simple slave, at least now, but I’d like to think that I was never ordinary. Yet you could say that I just got lucky, […]

Game 105: Rome: Pathway to Power – Introduction (1992)

On February 1, 2019February 1, 2019 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

Written by Reiko Rome: Pathway to Power is a bit of an odd duck. It’s a historical adventure set in Rome, of course, in AD 92, which was also its other sub-title. But its main screen uses an isometric perspective, and at least one level involves controlling whole armies rather […]

Island of Dr. Brain – Final Rating

On January 18, 2019January 18, 2019 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

Written by Reiko Island of Dr. Brain was quite the puzzle-fest, and of course, for a puzzle-lover like me, it was fun to play. However, I suspect that the parts don’t add up quite the same way they did for its predecessor. Let’s see how the categories compare. Puzzles and […]

Island of Dr. Brain – Won!

On January 6, 2019January 6, 2019 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

Written by Reiko Easy if you can read a treble clef. In the far corner of the room, I find a piano, which launches the music puzzle. This has three stages. “Lesson 1” is Sight Reading: clicking the correct note on the piano that matches each note on the staff. […]

Island of Dr. Brain – Books and Balances

On December 14, 2018December 15, 2018 By Ilmari Jauhiainen

Written by Reiko I just completed various language puzzles (synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms) to collect three items to place on the counterweight to a bridge in order to access the interesting hut in the corner of a robot village. Inside the hut we have a very eclectic collection of decorations, […]