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.
Weird Dreams is an action-adventure created by James Hutchby and Herman Serrano for the Atari ST and released by Rainbird in 1989. Later it was ported to Amiga, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.
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Mortville Manor - Le Manoir de Mortevielle in French - is a graphic adventure created by Lankhor initially for the Sinclair QL. The original game was published in 1986, but in 1987 a new and improved version for Atari ST was released.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a text adventure by Infocom, based on the famous novel by Douglas Adams. The book, a comedy science fiction genre masterpiece, was written in 1979.
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Rome: Pathway to Power, also known as Rome: AD92, is a game created by Firstlight and published by Millennium Interactive in 1992. It was released for the Amiga and MS-DOS. The tit...
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Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True is a point-and-click mystery game developed by ICOM Simulations and published by Mindscape. The title was released initially for the Apple Macintosh...
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The Pawn is a text adventure created by Magnetic Scrolls initially for the Sinclair QL and published by Sinclair Research in 1985. The game wasn't very successful and one year late...
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Hugo II: Whodunit is an adventure game for MS-DOS designed by David P. Gray and released in 1991. Created using the same engine as Hugo's House of Horrors, it was followed by Hugo III: Jungle of Doom which was released in 1992.
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Lords of Doom is a horror adventure/role-playing game from Attic Entertainment Software, published by Starbyte Software in 1990. It was released for Amiga, Atari, Commodore 64, and DOS.
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Das Stundenglas (in English, The Hourglass) is a text adventure developed by Weltenschmiede and published by Software 2000. It was released for Amiga, Atari ST, and DOS in 1990. Th...
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Deadline is a text adventure published by Infocom in 1982. It was written by Marc Blank, one of the principal authors of Zork: The Great Underground Empire. The game was initially released for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit, and TRS-80.
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Knight Tyme is a graphic adventure published by Mastertronic in 1986 for 8-bit platforms, initially from the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. Later it was ported to Commodore 64 and MSX.
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Zork III: The Dungeon Master is the third and final chapter of the Zork classic trilogy, and one of the most famous text adventures ever created. Published by Infocom, it was relea...
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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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