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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 »
Retro Gaming Steam Highlights June 2020
June 27th, 2020 Carl Williams Here are some fun pieces of retro gaming on sale with Steam right now. For those that do not know, this time of year is the annual Summer Sale. Tons of games go on sale for two weeks or so. For fans of older titles though, this can make it hard to find them. I […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Windows Tags: adventure, arcade, beat 'em up, brawler, Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle, contra, Contra Anniversary Collection, double dragon, Double Dragon Trilogy, fighting, first person shooter, fps, ikaruga, June 2020, metal slug, point and click, raiden legacy, sale, Sanitarium, shooter, steam, wolfenstein 3d No Comments »
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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Posted in Comp, News, Sega, Sega CD, Windows Tags: adventure, limited run games, lucasfilm, point and click, secret of monkey island 2 Comments »
Myst 25th Anniversary Collection Kickstarter Success
May 12th, 2018 Carl Williams The Myst franchise is currently making a comeback on Kickstarter. Cyan have secured the rights to all seven games, even the ones they did not make, in the franchise and have collected them together for the first time. Not only that, they have also gone through with working with industry veterans to make all seven […]
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Posted in Comp, Macintosh, Windows Tags: 25th Anniversrary, adventure, crowdfunding, Cyan, kickstarter, myst, point and click No Comments »
Titanic Resurfaces Twenty-One Years Later
December 28th, 2017 Carl Williams The Titanic was supposed to be unsinkable. On its maiden voyage that theory was proven quite wrong by some frozen water. Many people lost their lives that night, many more were affected for the rest of their lives and historians have spent the years since trying to figure it all out. Sure, wreck re-creationists have […]
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Posted in News Tags: adventure, Adventure Out of Time, fmv, gog.com, pc, point and click, TItanic No Comments »
ScummVM Update Brings Tons of New Games Compatibility
December 20th, 2017 Carl Williams If you are a fan of classic adventure games, then you already know about ScummVM. For the few that don’t know about this engine already here is a quick synopsis. Basically, this engine allows fans to enjoy classics using a new, up to date, rendition of the original engine used. ScummVM brings compatibility with newer […]
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Posted in Comp, Linux, Macintosh, News, Windows Tags: adventure, point and click, SCUMMVM, windows No Comments »
New Point and Click Adventure A Near Dawn Launched on Kickstarter
November 5th, 2017 Carl Williams A Near Dawn is a brand-new point and click adventure that was created in a similar vein as Broken Sword and Monkey Island. Let’s look at what is interesting about this new game seeking crowdfunding support. First, the graphics are brand new, original, along with a fully voiced story to help keep you interested. Great […]
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Posted in Android, Comp, Linux, News, Portables, Windows Tags: A Near Dawn, adventure, kickstarter, linux, macintosh, point and click, windows No Comments »
Future Noir Adventuring with Blade Runner
October 6th, 2017 Neil Reive With the Blade Runner 2049 film expanding on the 1982 original, we thought it would be fitting to look back at Westwood Studio’s epic 1997 sci-fi adventure classic along with input from the company’s co-founder Louis Castle. It was back in 2009 when I covered Blade Runner for issue 3 of Retroaction magazine and also […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Windows Tags: adventure, blade runner, pc, point and click, westwood, windows 1 Comment »
Thimbleweed Park Coming to Android
August 28th, 2017 Carl Williams Point and click adventure fans already know the name Thimbleweed Park quite well. If you don’t, then just how big a fan of the genre are you? For those that are reading this and are not fortunate enough to know that name, Thimbleweed Park is a point and click adventure throwback to the good old […]
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