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.
Spirit of Excalibur is a strategy-adventure game created by Synergistic Software and published by Virgin Mastertronic. it was released in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Macintosh, and later ported to Apple IIgs.
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Mean Streets is a dystopian cyberpunk graphic adventure developed by Access Software for MS-DOS and Commodore 64 in 1989. Later, it was ported to the Atari ST and Amiga in 1990. Th...
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Lenny's Music Toons is an educational musical adventure developed and published by Paramount Interactive for Windows 3.1 and released in 1993. Interacting with Lenny the Penguin an...
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Cadaver is an isometric arcade adventure created by The Bitmap Brothers and published by Image Works in 1990 for the Amiga and Atari ST. After the success of Xenon 2: Megablast 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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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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Cruise for a Corpse is a point-and-click graphic adventure from the French studio Delphine Software. The creators of other Amiga popular titles such as Future Wars: Time Traveller...
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Lost Eden is a fantasy adventure set on a planet populated with dinosaurs. It was created by Cryo Interactive and published by Virgin Interactive in 1995 for DOS, Macintosh, 3DO, and CD-i.
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Shivers is a horror point-and-click graphic adventure. Sierra On-Line produced and released the game in 1995 as a PC exclusive. Although it had a foray into the world of graphic ad...
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The Adventures of Robin Hood is an adventure game created by Millennium Interactive and published for Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS in 1991. The game, based on the legend of Robin Hood, was designed by Steve Grand and Ian Saunter.
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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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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Echoes from the Past is a graphic adventure based on the popular TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation. The game was developed by Spectrum Holob...
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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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Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels is an interactive fiction written by Bob Bates and published by Infocom. It was released for MS-DOS, Apple II, Commodore 64, Macintosh, and Amiga in 1988.
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