Missed Classic 79: A Christmas Adventure (1983)
Written by Joe Pranevich Merry Christmas! Welcome back to another Christmas at “The Adventure Gamer” where we are looking at our sixth holiday adventure game! Time flies while we are having so much fun...
View ArticleMissed Classic 80: The Price of Magik (1986) - Introduction
By IlmariIt's again a time to celebrate the start of a new year with a round of Missed Classics. Just as 2010s are changing into 2020s I am about to come to an end in my own Level 9 marathon by...
View ArticleMissed Classic: The Price of Magik - Won! (With Final Rating)
By IlmariUndergroundLast time, I had just explored a house from top to bottom and defeated a giant slug with some salt. Beyond the slug opened up a completely new playing field. It seemed the game was...
View ArticleMissed Classic 81: The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole (1987)
By IlmariLet the year 2020 begin!I considered saving my take on this game as an April's Fool post. I would have pulled a trick on you readers and published my previous Adrian Mole -post second time,...
View ArticleWeen : The Prophecy - WON! (No More Strawberries)
Written by Alfred n the Fettuc At last, I have vanquished Ween! It took me long enough, not because it’s a particularly long game but especially because I have had a few extremely busy months, and very...
View ArticleGame 115: The Journeyman Project (1993) - Introduction
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!...
View ArticleGobliins 2 - Pass Me the Mayo
By IlmariLast time the goblins had just infiltrated the castle grounds and found a friendly dwarf who had promised to help them, if they just brought him an imprint of a lock in a chest.Target: the...
View ArticleWeen : The Prophecy - Alternative paths and Final Rating
Written by Alfred n the Fettuc Before submitting WEEN to the PISSED rating, we need to study the alternative paths that you can take through the game. I counted two (but I might also have missed...
View ArticleGobliins 2 - Floating castle
By IlmariI am probably overthinking it, but I have a hard time understanding the geography of the game. The world outside the castle shows no sign of a sea nearby. Still, under the castle is what the...
View ArticleMissed Classic 82: Trinity (1986) - Introduction
Written by Joe PranevichI should be at the beach and instead I am playing a game that is equal parts charming and deeply disturbing: Moriarty’s Trinity, a “fantasy” adventure game about inevitable...
View ArticleGobliins 2 - Meatballs of Happiness
By IlmariLast time I got the impression I would start this section instantly from the throne room. Alas, my journey from the subterranean sea ended somewhere else.In the kitchenStill, throne room...
View ArticleThe Journeyman Project - Time Distortion
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...
View ArticleGobliins 2 - Gotta Stop (Messin’ About)
By IlmariPrince, if you’d just come down, this would be all overAll things come to an end, but some things just don’t know when to end. Last time I had led goblins to a giant beanstalk, which magically...
View ArticleThe Journeyman Project - Maximum Wave
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...
View ArticleMissed Classic: Trinity - Gyre and Gimble in the Wabe
Written by Joe Pranevich Welcome back! It was a bit slower going than I had hoped to get here, but we got here nonetheless. Last time around, we jumped into Trinity and an exploration of a near-future...
View ArticleGobliins 2 - Won!
By IlmariPrince is auditioning for the role of Arthur Fleck (BTW, notice the picture showing wizard goblin with his friends from the first game)Last time, Prince had just been possessed by a demon, and...
View ArticleGame 116: Shadow of the Comet (1993) – Introduction
By limbeckIn 1992, Infogrames released Alone in the Dark, which put the player in the role of an unsuspecting investigator who experiences the horrors of the mansion of an eccentric magnate, after said...
View ArticleThe Journeyman Project - Meeting on the Planet
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...
View ArticleGobliins 2 - Final Rating
By IlmariI am a bit torn about Gobliins 2. I began playing it with great expectations. The second game in the Gobliins-series showed clear improvements over its predecessor, being easier to play and...
View ArticleMissed Classic: Trinity - Is This the 50s? Or 1999?
Written by Joe PranevichWelcome back! Last time out, I explored the strange mushroom forest that I was dropped into after the end of the world. This “wabe”, as I think it is called, is a strange place...
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