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.
The Guild of Thieves is a text adventure with images created by Magnetic Scrolls and released in 1987 for several home computers. Thanks to the portable game engine, the adventure ...
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Murders in Venice is an adventure game developed by Cobra Soft and released by Infogrames initially for Amiga and Atari ST in 1989. One year later, it was ported to MS-DOS. In this...
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Universe is a graphic adventure created and published in 1994 by Core Design for Amiga and MS-DOS. The game tells the story of Boris, a young man who has been summoned from modern Earth to another universe.
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The Jetsons: George Jetson and the Legend of Robotopia is an adventure game developed by The Dreamers Guild. It was published by MicroIllusions in 1989 for the Amiga. As you can im...
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Simon the Sorcerer is a point-and-click adventure game created by Adventuresoft and released in 1993 for the Amiga and MS-DOS. The Amiga AGA version, with 256-colour graphics and c...
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Asterix: Operation Getafix (Asterix - Operation Hinkelstein in the German release) is an action-adventure created by Cocktel Vision. It is based on the character of the famous comic invented by Goscinny and Uderzo.
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Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor is a text-based adventure game developed and published by Infocom in 1987. It was released for MS-DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, Commodore 128, and Macintosh.
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La Abadía del Crimen (The Abbey of Crime) is a video game developed in 1987 by Paco Menéndez. The game was initially conceived as a version of Umberto Eco's book The Name of the ...
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Maniac Mansion is a memorable point-and-click graphic adventure created by LucasArts initially for the Commodore 64. Written by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, it's the first adventu...
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a graphic adventure created by Coktel Vision. It is a videogame adaptation of the famous sci-fi novel by Jules Verne, written in 1870. The game was ...
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This is a remake of Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe's classic 1987 hit, Space Quest II: Vohaul's Revenge. The game, created by Infamous Adventures in 2007, features VGA graphics with...
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King's Quest III Redux is an enhanced remake of the popular point-and-click adventure published by Sierra in 1986. This fantastic remake features hand-painted backgrounds and new c...
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Transylvania is the first chapter of a series of horror graphic adventure games created by Antonio Antiochia and published by Penguin Software. This first game was released in 1982 for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, and Commodore 64.
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Dune is a strategy adventure developed by Cryo Interactive and published by Virgin Games in 1992 for Amiga and PC. Based on the famous Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel, the game was also ported to CD and released for the Sega CD console.
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