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Missed Classic: Return to Eden - Won! (With Final Rating)
By IlmariThe most important thing in flyingLast time I had just managed to become the mayor of Enoch, the city built by robots on Eden. With nothing else to do, I boarded a train and traveled to the...
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Quest for Glory I - WON!
Written by TBD.When we last met our Quest for Glory characters before our Christmas detour, I'd asked for assistance.I had help from Ilmari who told me that, as I had feared, I was dead-ended! Of the...
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The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes - Lady in a Blue Dress
Written by Joe PranevichHappy new year! I hope you all had an enjoyable year and enjoyed our Christmas and New Years bonus posts. The good news is that I was able to make significant progress in...
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Quest for Glory I - Final Rating
Time to rate the game!I had a bit more to think about when rating this game as opposed to others. In particular, I compared it with the original Hero's Quest, other Sierra VGA remakes and my own...
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The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes - Murder on the 9:10 Express to Bedford
Written by Joe PranevichWelcome back! Last time out, we arrived at what I think will be the meat of the case: adultery. An aristocrat named Lord Brumwell had an affair, and a child, with a servant (and...
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Missed Classic: Cyborg - Won! (With Final Rating)
Written by VoltglossWe left off last time having reached the bridge of the spaceship we’ve been blundering around all this time, having rediscovered that we are its cyborg captain and need to fix up...
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Game 91: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - Introduction (1992)
A weapon more dangerous than the Atom Bomb??? We're gonna need a hell of a lot of refrigerators!So what is Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis?Well, let's start from the beginning. QUESTION: Who is...
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Missed Classic 50: The Saga of Erik the Viking (1984) - Introduction
By IlmariWhat’s Terry Jones got to do with adventure games? And what's bookware?As unlikely as it may seem nowadays, text adventures were seen by many in the middle of 1980s as the next big trend in...
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The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes - Won!
Written by Joe PranevichWelcome back! Well, you’ve read the title already so you know that we are reaching the end of our Sherlock Holmes adventure. It’s been a fun ride. As I left off last week, I had...
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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - The Psychic Sidekick
Written by TBDIndiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis has one of the best opening sequences I can recall. After playing through it again now I was reminded of a discussion point we had a little over a...
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Missed Classic: Erik the Viking - Sailing the Seas
By IlmariBefore returning to North Sea, let’s take a look at the Pacific OceanYou’ve all probably heard about Gulliver’s Travels - if nothing else, at least his visitation to the land of tiny...
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The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes - Final Rating
Written by Joe PranevichAnd here we are, finally at the end of the Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes. We solved a murder (or three), reunited a woman with her son, and explored the highs and lows of 19th...
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Game 93: L.A. Law: The Computer Game (1992) – Introduction
by AlexVideo games, like any other form of entertainment, are meant to provide recreation.Let’s look at the word “recreation” for a moment. It is made up of two separate parts, both Latin derived: the...
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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - A Lot on Our Plato
Indiana Jones Journal Entry #2: I'm now on the look out for the mythical Lost Dialogue of Plato, which supposedly leads to the mythical city of Atlantis. I'm sceptical that Atlantis or the Lost...
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Missed Classic: Erik the Viking - Won! (With Final Rating)
By IlmariWhere should we sail today?Last time I had just got instructions to find six things for magician Al Kwasarmi:The sound of a cat movingA woman’s beardThe roots of a mountainThe sinews of a...
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Missed Classic 51: Seastalker - Introduction (1984)
Written by Joe PranevichNow, where was I? Oh yes, before I was distracted by the amazing Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes (plus a Christmas side trip), I had just completed Sorcerer, the first Infocom...
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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - By Balloon to the Sahara
Written by TBDIndiana Jones Journal Entry #3 : I had to convince a Frenchman in Monte Carlo that I'm a ghost, and had to get a discount from a beggar in Algiers in order to take a balloon trip over the...
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L.A. Law: The Computer Game – Case #1: The Wrathful Race
by Alex In the comments to my first L.A. Law post, reader Lugh expressed his or her feelings about this game’s technical qualities:“20. It's a Capstone game, so I'll be shocked if it even works.” Well,...
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Seastalker - Won! And Final Rating
Written by Joe PranevichWelcome to the Aquadome! Last week, I started into Seastalker and discovered that my father’s company's underwater base is under attack by a sea monster. I was able to finish...
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What's Your Story - Alex Romanov
Answers: Alex RomanovIntroduction and captions: IlmariIt has been a pleasure reading the comments of Alex Romanov, who appears to have encyclopedic information on some of the games we've been playing....
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