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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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Willy Morgan Brings Classic Adventure Genre Up to Date
August 11th, 2020 
Carl Williams 
Posted in Comp, News, Windows 
Tags: adventure, Curse of Bone Town, Day of the Tentacle, gog.com, imaginarylabs, king's quest, Monkey Island, point and click, steam, VLG Publishing, Willy Morgan 
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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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Posted in Comp, News, Windows Tags: adventure, Adventure Game Studio, Disturbia, Itch.io, king's quest, Maniac Mansion, point and click, police quest, Postmodern Adventures, space quest, The Burbs No Comments »
Stranger Things Adventure Game Released by Fans
October 30th, 2016 Carl Williams Stranger Things, a popular mini-series on Netflix, took the world by storm via nearly 100% word of mouth advertising. This show was set in the style of the early 1980’s. Boy did it capture the mood of that time period. From how the actors dressed to how they talked and the environment they displayed it […]
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Clock Tower Lops Limbs Off PlayStation Owners – October 1st, 1997 – Today in Video Game History
October 2nd, 2016 Carl Williams When you think of horror games on the original PlayStation console, what do you think of? Maybe you only know Capcom’s Resident Evil in this genre. Maybe you go a little less mainstream and remember something called Clock Tower by our friends at ASCII Entertainment? While this is technically the second Clock Tower game it […]
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Posted in News, PSOne, Sony Tags: 3d, adventure, ascii, capcom, clock tower, horror, Human, king's quest, playstation, point and click, psone, resident evil, Scissorman, sierra, sony No Comments »
Kings Quest Needs Your Help – May 10th, 1984 – Today in Video Game History
May 9th, 2016 Carl Williams The original Kings Quest was quite a game. For the time it was amazing, it still is in many respects. Kings Quest was a marvel for the period and something that was just not seen on computers. Up to the release of this harbinger of things to come title by Sierra Entertainment (later to become […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: adventure, King Edward, king's quest, point and click, Roberta Williams, sierra, Sir Graham No Comments »
5 New Games Prove the Commodore 64 is Not Dead
September 6th, 2015 Carl Williams The Commodore 64 was officially released in 1982, actually turning 33 years old just last month, and still has new games coming out for it. Talk about dependable. Even Commodore themselves kept the computer alive for nearly 12 years before calling in the horses on this one. That is quite a long time for a […]
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New Game: Inherit the Earth Released for the Commodore Amiga CD32
March 5th, 2015 Carl Williams While we have covered Amiga CD32 releases over the last year or two, recently they have kind of slowed down. This happens though, as one area slows (such as the Amiga CD32) another picks up (such as the Atari Jaguar and NES areas). That does not mean that there are no releases whatsoever for the […]
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New Game: Highway Tears Brings Law and Order Style Referencing of Real Events to Adventure Gaming
July 19th, 2014 Carl Williams Everyone knows that Law and Order, nearly all of the spin-offs and the original, feature storylines that heavily reference real world events. Names and other details are changed and sometimes facts from multiple stories are mixed into one episode to keep the show interesting. Highway of Tears is a game that is aiming to do […]
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New Game: The Samaritan Paradox for Windows
May 9th, 2014 Carl Williams New adventure games are a rare event today. This once great genre has fallen to the wayside of gaming, at least with the major game publishers. This delegation to the back burner by the “big boys” has opened the door for indie developers to shine. Take the Samaritan Paradox for Windows for example, this game […]
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