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.
B.A.T. is a mix of sci-fi adventure and RPG created by Ubi Soft and released initially for the Atari S.T. in 1989. More versions were released the following year, including Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.
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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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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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Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards is the first game in the series of adult-oriented adventures created by Al Lowe. Not many know that this game was a graphical a...
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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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Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse is an educational adventure created by Humongous Entertainment. It was released in 1996 for Macintosh and Windows. It's the sequel of the first Freddi Fish, released in 1994.
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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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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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Spellbound is an adventure-platformer created by David Jones for Mastertronic. It was published under the label Mastertronic Added Dimension in 1985 for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.
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The Abbey of Crime Extensum is the 2016 remake of the 1987 ZX Spectrum game "La abadía del crimen" by Paco Menéndez and Juan Delcán. This free adventure was developed by a Spani...
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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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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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KGB (also known as Conspiracy) is a graphic adventure created by the french studio Cryo and published by Virgin Games for PC and Amiga in 1992. The game uses the engine of Dune, also created by Cryo.
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