Pulp heroes from the past – Crash Garrett
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
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 […]
Time traveling from the past – Time Zone
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 […]
Time traveling from the past – Timeship
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 […]
From the ads of the past, games of yesteryear – Tutankham
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 […]
From the ads of the past, adventures from yesteryear – The Adventures of Willy Beamish
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 […]
From the ads of the past, adventures from yesteryear – Heart of China
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 […]
