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Missed Classic 71: Asylum – WON!* and Final Rating
by Will MoczarskiMed 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...
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Game 112: Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Vol. II - Introduction (1992)
Written by Joe PranevichThe blurb on the back of the box tells us, "What they said about Sherlock I, you'll say about Sherlock II." I am fairly certain that there have never been truer words in...
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Reader's Choice 1992
Only two games to go before the end of 1992! We continue with the tradition of letting our readers choose, what is the best game of the year.Choose wisely (and no, we are not saying what you should...
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Consulting Detective Vol. II - Between the Lions
Written by Joe PranevichWelcome back! I hope you got your score guesses in because it is time to dive into the first case. Just as in the previous game, we have three cases to choose from; while we can...
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Missed Classic 72: Microworld (1981) – Introduction
by Will MoczarskiMed Systems Marathon Overview:(a) 1980 Summary(b) Reality Ends (1980)(c) Rat’s Revenge / Deathmaze 5000 (1980)(d) Labyrinth (1980)(e) Asylum (1981)The confusing ad (thanks to Ira...
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Ringworld - Two Boxes and a Repurposed Probe
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...
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Missed Classic 72: Microworld – WON! and Final Rating
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 CharmMy actual...
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Consulting Detective Vol. II - The Lions, the Pick, and the Redhead
Written by Joe PranevichIn the words of the world’s greatest detective, “Wowsers!” We have a case with two dead actual lions and one dead guy named “Lions”. It may be contrived, but thus far it’s been...
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Ringworld - Won!
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...
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Missed Classic 73: Curse of Crowley Manor (1981) – Introduction
by Will MoczarskiIntroduction: Who was Jyym Pearson?The sixth adventure game in our Med Systems marathon is the last one released in 1981, and it’s a rather famous one. The Institute is also the first...
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Zork Marathon: Selling the House that Zork Built
Written by Joe Pranevich On June 13, 1986, Infocom ended, but our story does not. That is the day that Activision officially acquired Infocom. The team had fun with the event, even hosting a mock...
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Ringworld - Final Rating
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...
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Missed Classic: Curse of Crowley Manor – WON! and Final Rating
by Will MoczarskiCursing Crowley ManorThis 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...
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Game 113: Ween : The Prophecy (1993)
[Admin note: Since there's still so much left of the last game of 1992, Consulting Detective 2, we've decided to already start playing the first game of 1993. Enjoy!]Written by Alfred n’ the FettucSo...
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Consulting Detective Vol. II - Pair of Pretty Paintings Pilfered, Perhaps Pawned
Written by Joe Pranevich After a birthday detour back into Infocom-land, I’m back to playing Consulting Detective. Last time around, I solved the first of three cases by finding a lion-murdering thief...
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Missed Classic 74: Escape from Traam (1981) – Introduction
by Will MoczarskiSpecial thanks to the Museum of Computer Adventure Game History! (mocagh.org)It’s time for the third OtherVenture and our second Jyym Pearson game Escape from Traam. This one has a...
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Missed Classic: Escape from Traam – WON! and Final Rating
by Will MoczarskiLast time we left off after about an hour of gameplay, with a reasonably small gameworld and some items we haven’t found a use for. We deciphered an alien language and attempted to...
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Missed Classic 75: Earthquake – San Francisco 1906 (1981) – Introduction
by Will MoczarskiThe 1906 San Francisco earthquake hit the famous Northern Californian town 113 years ago on April 18 with a magnitude of nearly 8. Almost 3000 people died in the event and over 80...
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Ween : The Prophecy - Vampires and Strawberries
Written by Alfred n the FettucNote to my fellow adventure gamers : Due to a monstrous amount of work in my real life, I’m very late on my writing. So sorry about the long delay and the short post. I’ll...
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Consulting Detective Vol. II - Failure! Fiendish Forger Found a Friend to...
Written by Joe PranevichI failed at this case. If you follow our blog to read about masterful play and to see an expert gamer moving from clue to clue with purpose and conviction, you have come to the...
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