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Pulp heroes from the past – Crash Garrett

September 21, 2016by Reggie C. Leave a comment

The adventure game genre was experiencing a golden time in the 80s and into the early 90s. Companies like Infocom, Lucasfilm Games (later to be renamed as Lucasarts), Sierra On-Line, […]

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Star Trekking from the past – Star Trek 25th Anniversary

September 8, 2016by Reggie C. Leave a comment

Today marks Star Trek’s 50th Anniversary and 24 years ago, in 1992, Interplay released Star Trek: 25th Anniversary helping to celebrate the franchise’s birthday, an adventure game that was mostly […]

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Time traveling from the past – Time Zone

July 27, 2015by Reggie C. Leave a comment

Roberta Williams’ long career in gaming covered a number of incredible milestones for the adventure genre whether it was merging graphics with text parser driven mechanics or expanding on the […]

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Time traveling from the past – Timeship

July 24, 2015by Reggie C. Leave a comment

Time travel has always been a tricky subject for any system to tackle from PnP RPG systems to computer games. Many often used it as a simplified wrapper to wow […]

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From the ads of the past, games of yesteryear – Tutankham

January 2, 2014by Reggie C. Leave a comment

This arcade classic from Konami released in 1982 combined the thrills of treasure hunting and survival into a horizontal, side scrolling action game. It was apparently supposed to be called […]

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From the ads of the past, adventures from yesteryear – The Adventures of Willy Beamish

November 21, 2013by Reggie C. Leave a comment

Sierra On-Line was still at the top of its adventure gaming mojo in the early 90s and Dynamix also dabbled in the same genre diversifying its library as a part […]

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From the ads of the past, adventures from yesteryear – Heart of China

November 14, 2013by Reggie C. 1 Comment

Westwood wasn’t the first, or the last, studio to diversify its library of games. Though it was well known for Command & Conquer, it dabbled with action RPGs via its […]

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