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.
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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Emmanuelle: A Game of Eroticism is a graphic adventure created by Tomahawk and published by Coktel Vision in 1989 for Amiga, MS-DOS, and Atari ST. The game, categorized as an adult...
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Another Lifeless Planet and Me With No Beer is a rare interactive fiction/text adventure game that was released in 1989 for DOS. The game written by Dennis Drew takes place on a hostile alien planet where you have crashed your ship.
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Eagle Eye Mysteries is a first-person detective educational game developed by Stormfront Studios and published by EA*Kids in 1993 for PC MS-DOS only. It combines mystery-solving wi...
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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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Gnome Ranger is a text adventure with graphics created by Level 9 Computing and released in 1987 on several 8-bit and 16-bit platforms. Releases include Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Macintosh, and others.
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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's House of Horrors is an adventure game developed by Gray Design Associates and published in 1990 for PC MS-DOS. The mechanic resembles Sierra-style adventures (such as King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown).
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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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5 Days a Stranger is a freeware horror-themed point-and-click adventure developed by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw using AGS and released for Windows in 2003.
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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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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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The Adventures of Maddog Williams in the Dungeons of Duridian is a graphic adventure released by Game Crafters in 1991 for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST. In this fantasy title, devel...
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A Journey Into Xanth is an fantasy Adventure game developed by and published by PD-Freeware in 1993 for DOS.
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