Since their humble beginnings as text-based narratives, adventure games have come a long way.
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Since their humble beginnings as text-based narratives, adventure games have come a long way.
Starcross is an interactive fiction/text adventure published by Infocom in 1982. The story was written by Dave Lebling, one of the authors of Zork: The Great Underground Empire. ...
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Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon is the third game, and one of the most appreciated, in the Space Quest series. It was developed and published by Sierra On-Line in 1989 for Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS.
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Space Quest V: Roger Wilco - The Next Mutation is a humorous graphic adventure released in 1993 for PC. Unlike the other chapters of the Space Quest series, Space Quest V was not...
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Softporn Adventure is a text adventure created by Chuck Benton for the Apple II in 1981. The game was programmed in AppleSoft BASIC. Initially released by Benton with his own compa...
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Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier is the last entry into the Space Quest series and was developed and published by Sierra in 1995. It was released for DOS and Windows.
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Space Quest II: Chapter II - Vohaul's Revenge is a graphic adventure game created by Sierra On-Line and released in 1987 for DOS and Apple II. The Amiga and Atari ST versions were released in 1988.
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Shivers is a horror point-and-click graphic adventure. Sierra On-Line produced and released the game in 1995 as a PC exclusive. Although it had a foray into the world of graphic ad...
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Prisoner of Ice is an H.P. Lovecraft inspired graphic adventure game developed and published by Infogrames in 1995 for DOS and Mac. It is primarily based on the novel At the Mountains of Madness.
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The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel is an adventure game created by Mythos Software. It was published by EA in 1992 for MS-DOS. As you can imagine, ...
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Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel is a simulation/adventure game produced by Jim Walls (former Police Officer) for Sierra On-Line. It was originally released in 1987 and ...
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Mean Streets is a dystopian cyberpunk graphic adventure developed by Access Software for MS-DOS and Commodore 64 in 1989. Later, it was ported to the Atari ST and Amiga in 1990. Th...
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Lost Eden is a fantasy adventure set on a planet populated with dinosaurs. It was created by Cryo Interactive and published by Virgin Interactive in 1995 for DOS, Macintosh, 3DO, and CD-i.
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Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels is an interactive fiction written by Bob Bates and published by Infocom. It was released for MS-DOS, Apple II, Commodore 64, Macintosh, and Amiga in 1988.
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Police Quest III: The Kindred is the third graphic adventure of the Police Quest series created by Sierra Entertainment. Unlike the predecessors, including Police Quest and Poli...
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