Since their humble beginnings as text-based narratives, adventure games have come a long way.
Retro games, abandonware, freeware and classic games for PC and Mac
Since their humble beginnings as text-based narratives, adventure games have come a long way.
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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Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch is a point-and-click graphic adventure created by Tsunami Media for PC and released in 1992. The game is set in the universe created by sci-fi a...
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Return to Zork is a graphic adventure designed by Doug Barnett for Activision and released in 1993 for MS-DOS and Macintosh. The game is one of the official sequels to the famous...
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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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GamesNostalgia pays a small tribute to Sir Roger Moore with James Bond 007: A View to a Kill, an interactive fiction created by Angelsoft. The game was released for Apple II, DOS, and Macintosh in 1985.
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Martian Memorandum is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Access Software in 1991 for MS-DOS. The North American company, founded in Utah, was famous for several sp...
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Companions of Xanth is an adventure game published in 1993 by Legend Entertainment. Making a video game based on a book is really a risk. The title is not judged by its quality as ...
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Ween: The Prophecy (or just Prophecy in the US) is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by Coktel Vision. It was released in 1992 for Amiga, DOS, and Atari ST. ...
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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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Tau Ceti is a mix of action, adventure, and space simulation initially developed for the ZX Spectrum by Pete Cooke in 1985. The game was also ported to Atari ST, C64, and MS-DOS. A...
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Captain Blood is a space adventure created by ERE Informatique initially for the Atari ST, released in 1988. It was later ported to Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple IIgs, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and many other platforms.
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Die Kathedrale (The Cathedral) is a German-only text adventure with graphics created by Weltenschmiede and published by Software 2000 in 1991. The game was released for PC and Amiga.
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Weird Island is a simple but nice graphical point and click adventure developed and released as freeware in 1992..
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Rome: Caesar’s Will is a lesser-known educational adventure released in 2000 by Montparnasse Multimedia. The French company is commonly associated with pure educational titles. S...
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