Rex Nebular and the cosmic genderbender

The late 80's and early 90's were the golden years of adventure games on the PC format. The biggest en most popular games came from Lucasarts and Sierra, naturally some other companies wanted in on the deal. Rex Nebular and the cosmic genderbender…

Kick off

Soccer is something that you either hate or love, I belong to the former group. It's probably because of this that I don't like games based on soccer as well but kick off is an exception. Kick off isn't the usual soccer game in that the action…

Jimmy White’s wirlwind snooker

Snooker is a classic English game similar to pool but much more complicated as the table is a lot bigger and the balls are a lot smaller. To score points you have to pot the balls in any of the six pockets on the sides of the field. You must…

Return of the Phantom

The phantom of the opera is an adventure game based on the classic play and book originally released in the early 1900's. At the start of the game it is the present day and the play is about to start but then events unfold much like the play…

Robinson’s requiem

In the future mankind has finally reached out into the great unknown of space, unfortunately it's a big place and they need a way to eplore. Some individuals who are dangerous to society are sent on far away missions to explore new planets,…

Journey to the center of the earth

Who doesn't know Journey to the center of the earth, the novel by Jules Verne, in which several characters travel underground and find a lost world filled with extinct creatures and plants still living. This is one of the games made after the…

King of Chicago, the

King of Chicago reminds me of Sinbad and the throne of the falcon because it uses almost exactly the same formula. The game is basically a collection of minigames and in between it gives you some control at what to do next by presenting you…

SimCity

In the good old days of gaming developers tried a lot of new things some of which were so radical at the time that they couldn't even find a publisher for them. Simcity was such a game as it had no ending and you were pretty much free to do…

Aztec challenge

Aztec challenge is a game like many others of it's time, you play an aztec man who has to prove his worthiness as a warrior and you must complete seven different tasks to do just that. If at any time you fail one test you will be able to start…

Night mission pinball

Night mission pinball is pinball simulator but it could be easily looked over because it doesn't really look like anything special. The theme of the pinball machine is that of a bomber doing a night bombing run and a lot of the bonus points…