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Castlevania The Adventure for the Nintendo Game Boy marks the first time the franchise went portable. Konami was all in with Nintendo at this time and the Game Boy had just launched. Bringing Castlevania to those new gamers was an easy choice to make. Thus, we got our first taste of the whip cracking franchise […]
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Castlevania The Adventure Marks Game Boy Debut for Franchise – December 6th, 1989 – Today in Video Game History
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Mickey Mania Takes Fans on Disney Historical Adventure on Sega Genesis – November 7th, 1994
November 7th, 2020 Carl Williams Mickey Mania continued the tradition of 16-bit Disney games being great offerings. Other than a snafu or two on TurboGrafx-16, this was true. The full title of this multiplatform game was long. The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse graced the box. What gamers got was just that – an adventure that covered most of Mickey’s […]
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Willy Morgan Brings Classic Adventure Genre Up to Date
August 11th, 2020 Carl Williams Willy Morgan and the Curse of Bone Town is a newly released point and click adventure. The developers, imaginarylab, are based in Italy and this is their first game. Before you pass judgement on this game, check out the trailer after the jump. I am sure longtime adventure fans will see more than a few […]
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Billy Masters Was Right Preview, Maniac Mansion Style Point and Click Adventure
July 18th, 2020 Carl Williams Billy Masters Was Right is a callback to the classic LucasFilm title Maniac Mansion. When pulling on that kind of pedigree you better have a good game. While a final verdict is yet to come, I can safely say, fans of the genre will love this one. The graphical style, text overlay, etc are all […]
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Deep Diving Adventures Spiritual Successor to Aquanaut’s Holiday Launches on Nintendo Switch
March 24th, 2020 Carl Williams Gamers are always looking for that next real-life thrill turned game. Diving is one such thrill that has not exactly been done to death in gaming. Polish developer Jujubee S.A. is working to bring gamers safe access to the world of underwater exploration with Deep Diving Adventures. I am wondering just how complicated the Labo […]
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Sega CD Classic Adventure Game Seeing Rerelease
February 20th, 2020 Carl Williams Quick, who remembers The Secret of Monkey Island? Specifically, the Sega CD version. For console gamers, like me, this was my first taste of Lucasfilm adventure games. While I had a computer, it was an old Color Computer II which was used to write short stories and the like. Gaming was not an option on […]
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Atari 2600 Receiving New Action Adventure Game Robot Zed
June 9th, 2019 Carl Williams If you are familiar with the Atari 2600 independent homebrew scene then you probably know Princess Rescue and Zippy the Porcupine. The developer behind those two titles is currently working on a new action adventure game called Robot Zed. That alone should have you jumping to the end of this article for the download link.
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Castlevania Getting New Adventure on Android and iPhone
February 23rd, 2019 Carl Williams It seems to be Castlevania day here at Retro Gaming Magazine, earlier today I wrote about a fan port of the first Castlevania game to Intellivision and now this. It seems that Castlevania will be seeing an outing on Android and iPhone sometime this year, this time from Konami. Let’s just hope it sees release […]
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Daemon 9 Creates FMV Horror Adventure
January 12th, 2019 Carl Williams Full Motion Video (FMV) games missed their calling in my opinion, at least back in the day, by not focusing on the horror genre. So many went for the drama or action angle (a few on 3DO went for comedy as well), angles that are not easy to achieve great results in. Horror FMV games […]
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Team Innocent Sends Gamers on Space Police Adventure on NEC PC-FX – December 23rd, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
December 23rd, 2018 Carl Williams The NEC PC-FX is one of many consoles that never left Japan. Therefore it has more than a few exclusive titles North American gamers probably never heard of. One such title is Team Innocent. This is a 3rd person, fixed view, adventure title that features pre-rendered backgrounds with character sprites laid over them. This style will […]
