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The world of adventure games is a wild one. Especially when you venture into the computer side of the equation where point and click adventures used to battle with text adventures and role-playing games alike. On consoles, it was a different story – text adventures were non-existent and role-playing games only picked up steam as […]
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8-Bit Adventure Anthology Volume One Features Point and Click Classics
October 12th, 2017 
Carl Williams 
Posted in NES, News, Nintendo 
Tags: Deja Vu, playstation, PS4, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, shadowgate, steam, Uninvited, Xbox One 
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Shadowgate Leaps onto Android and iOS
December 19th, 2015 Carl Williams Previously I have covered the original Shadowgate on the Nintendo Entertainment System, the buildup and launch on Windows of the remake and now, I am covering that remake releasing on Android and iOS. Shadowgate is a point and click adventure title that has more than a small cult following. Fans of Shadowgate probably remember the […]
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Posted in News, Portables Tags: android, Galaxy, HTC, ios, ipad, iphone, pc, remake, retro, retro gaming, retrogaming, Reverb Triple XP, Samsung, shadowgate, windows, zojoi, ZTE 2 Comments »
Traverse the Dank Dark World of Shadowgate on NES – December 16th, 1989 – Today in Video Game History
December 15th, 2015 Carl Williams Shadowgate for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is a point and click adventure. Formerly a computer game, fans were treated to quite a unique story here. The NES was not known for its long drawn out thought provoking titles. Rather, the NES was known for its quick reflex action titles that younger gamers enjoyed more. […]
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Posted in Comp, NES, News, Nintendo Tags: adventure, Icom Simulations, Kemco, Macventure, point and click, shadowgate 3 Comments »
The Fifteen Most Difficult NES Games (That Are Not Battletoads)
July 1st, 2015 Michael Crisman As the tropes go, there’s hard, and then there’s Nintendo Hard. The distinction is easily understood by anyone who grew up in the 8-bit era, but the tradition continues to this day with games like Super Meat Boy and I Wanna Be The Guy. Nintendo Hard games aren’t made that way by flipping a difficulty […]
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Posted in Console, News, Nintendo Tags: 8-bit, adventure of link, adventures of bayou billy, air fortress, Battletoads, Bubble Bobble, castlequest, conflict, Cybernoid, Deja Vu, difficult nes games, double dragon III, friday the 13th, Ghosts n Goblins, guardian legend, hardest, legacy of the wizard, nes, ninja gaiden III, nintendo, shadowgate, Solomon's Key, starship hector, Uninvited, VIDEO GAMES, x-men, zelda II 18 Comments »
New Game- Zombi Terror Brings The Walking Dead Adventuring to Classic Computers
February 16th, 2015 Carl Williams The Walking Dead is an interesting hit for A&E Television, a station that is kind of new to the zombie genre. On one hand it is completely outside of their comfort zone for content and on the other it fits right in with the current motif of action shows. The team at Kabuto Factory are […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Sega Tags: A&E, adventure, commodore 64, computer, Deja Vu, english, indie retro news, Kabuto Factory, msx, pc, point and click, retro, shadowgate, Sinclair, spanish, The Walking Dead, Uninvited, windows, Zombi Terror, zx spectrum, ZX81 No Comments »
Re-Release- Classic Macintosh Adventure Games Brought to Steam for Windows Retrogamers to Enjoy
January 31st, 2015 Carl Williams It is a good day to be a retrogaming fan as several classic Macintosh point and click adventure games have just been released onto Steam. Zojoi, the developer of these titles, has ported them to Windows and newer Macintosh platforms. Amongst the titles brought over only one will not be familiar to Nintendo Entertarinment System […]
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Posted in Comp, News Tags: adventure, apple IIgs, Deja Vu, indie retro news, macintosh, Macventure, point and click, retro, retro game, retrogaming, shadowgate, steam, Uninvited, windows 3 Comments » Update: Shadowgate Gets Release Date on Windows, No Definite Date for Mobile Yet
July 26th, 2014 Carl Williams Shadowgate, a title we covered a few months ago, has just been given a definite release date for the Windows version. There is still no definite release date for the mobile (iOS and Android) versions though. Shadowgate is a Kickstarter success story and a remake of a fondly remembered adventure game that hit various computers […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Portables Tags: adventure, android, carl williams first person, classic, ios, karl roelofs, Kemco, mac, nes, nintendo, pc, remake, retro, retro gaming magazine, retrogame, retrogaming, Seika, shadowgate, steam, windows, zojoi No Comments » Shadowgate Getting Remade for Android, iOS, Mac and PC
May 6th, 2014 Carl Williams Shadowgate, the classic adventure title that was a PC/Mac hit, is getting remade by the creators, Zojoi. This remake of Shadowgate is coming to many platforms including Android, iOS, Mac and PC- no word on a console version (the original did hit the Nintendo NES and Game Boy Color and ranks high with gamers that […]
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Posted in Comp, News, Portables Tags: adventure, android, carl williams first person, classic, ios, karl roelofs, Kemco, mac, nes, nintendo, pc, remake, retro, retro gaming magazine, retrogame, retrogaming, Seika, shadowgate, steam, windows, zojoi 5 Comments »
