When you talk about interactive fiction the first name that usually comes to mind is Infocom who released a lot of great titles back when these titles were very popular. The lurking horror is the one and only horror game they released though. You play the part of a student at GUE tech university who’s […]
Perseus and Andromeda is another text adventure that was released only on the C64. It takes the then standard form of a textbased interface with the upper half of the screen filled with a picture of the surrounding. The story is from ancient Greek mythology and it goed somewhere along the lines of this. Perseus […]
The full title of this game is: More Adventures of Big Mac the Mad Maintenance Man while the title screen removes the ‘more adventures’ part. I have no idea what the backstory of the game is but I do know that Mac the maintenance man has to go into a power station and turn off […]
In case you don’t know what chess is I suggest you do a search on the internet because I won’t explain it here. Battlechess adds something with the intention of making the game more interesting for the casual player by having the pieces replaced with puppets that fight when you take another players piece. You […]
Altough the title shadow president might believe you to think that this is about conspiracy theories about a second shadow government ala the X-files but this is not so. The game is named after the shadow network which in the game is used by you, the president of the U.S.A., to view all information about […]
Games have been made about pretty much every popular sport out there and icehockey is no exception. Faceoff lets you control one team and you can either play a single match or a whole season of competition. Games are played in three periods of several minutes and if by the end of the match the […]
Q-bert is a puzzle game that takes place entirely on a series of steps which you can jump on to change the color. The object is to change the entire field to one color and once a tile has been changed to the correct color it will stay that way. On the first levels the […]
Carrier command is a strategic game in which you control an aircraft carrier and all of its resources and your aim is to take over as many islands as possible. You carry four flying vehicles called mantas which you can use to attack any enemies on the islands. After you have cleared the area of […]
Return to Ringworld is a sequel to Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch which was based on the bestselling novel by Larry Niven. In that game you, Quinn and a Kzin named Seeker of Vengeance and Miranda Rees, saved the puppeteers from extermination after gathering some powerfull items from the Ringworld. This game continues directly where […]
The king of the Gobliiins has gone crazy and three heroes have been selected to find a cure for the king. Each of them has a special abilty: the engineer can use any item he finds, the magician can change objects and the warrior can fight and climb. You have to combine each of their […]
