1001th played so far Genre: Interactive Fiction Platform: Various Year of Release: 1984 Developer: Infocom Publisher: Infocom So this is weird. If there had not been a second edition of the book, I would be done now – instead I’m going into overtime. I’m playing the final double digit game – it was the last […]
Posts Tagged ‘interactive fiction’
#73 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Posted: 23rd September 2021 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1984, Infocom, interactive fiction, Various
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#103 Trinity
Posted: 8th March 2020 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1985, Infocom, interactive fiction, Various
851st played so far Genre: Interactive Fiction Platform: Various Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Infocom Publisher: Infocom After we started the previous fifty with one Infocom adventure, A Mind Forever Voyaging, which I loved, I got to play another one from the list. It left me with Trinity, which is more focused on puzzles, though with […]
#87 A Mind Forever Voyaging
Posted: 24th July 2019 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1985, Infocom, interactive fiction, Various
801st played so far Genre: Interactive Fiction Platform: Various Year of Release: 1985 Developer: Infocom Publisher: Infocom To kick off the next fifty and hundred, we go to an Infocom adventure. Not quite an indie – I’m starting to run light on those anyway – but these Infocom adventures do stand out, and A Mind […]
#56 Planetfall
Posted: 12th June 2017 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1983, Infocom, interactive fiction, Various
609th played so far Genre: Interactive Fiction Platform: Various Year of Release: 1983 Developer: Infocom Publisher: Infocom It feels like the arcades dominate these early years of gaming, and my mind, when seeing a title like Planetfall, automatically assumes it’s some action gamer or shooter once again with a space theme. The space theme is […]
#1016 Thirty Flights of Loving
Posted: 23rd May 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2012, blendo games, interactive fiction, pc
513th played so far Genre: Interactive Fiction Platform: PC Year of Release: 2012 Developer: Blendo Games Described as a first-person adventure game, I didn’t really know what to expect from Thirty Flights of Loving before I started. It’s the story of a heist, but the main thing that stood out from what I’d seen is […]
#35 The Hobbit
Posted: 8th January 2016 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1982, beam software, interactive fiction, melbourne house, Various
479th played so far Genre: Interactive Fiction Platform: Various Year of Release: 1982 Developer: Beam Software Publisher: Melbourne House It’s been a while since we’ve played a text adventure, isn’t it? It certainly feels that way. And while The Hobbit technically isn’t, the version we’re playing having some graphics, they’re simple interpretations that don’t actually […]
#52 Dragon’s Lair
Posted: 17th March 2014 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1983, advanced microcomputer systems, adventure, arcade, cinematronics, interactive fiction, taito
315th played so far Genre: Adventure/Interactive Fiction Platform: Arcade Year of Release: 1983 Developer: Advanced Microcomputer Systems Publisher: Cinematronics/Taito Today, again, we play one of the games we (or I) have been most curious about since the start of this blog. Dragon’s Lair is an early adventure games, but using the Disney animation style we […]
#13 Eamon
Posted: 7th June 2013 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 1980, apple II, donald brown, interactive fiction
245th played so far Genre: Interactive Fiction Platform: Apple II Year of Release: 1980 Developer: Donald Brown Publisher: None And now we truly go back in the ages. Text adventures – interactive fiction – with some strong RPG elements. Its special feature isn’t that, however – we’ve had games like Adventure before and MUD was […]
#998 Heavy Rain
Posted: 10th July 2012 by Mulholland in GamesTags: 2010, interactive fiction, playstation 3, quantic dream
161st played so far Genre: Interactive Fiction Platform: Playstation 3 Year of Release: 2010 Developer: Quantic Dream Publisher: Sony This is really old news by now but those of you who are yet to see Kara need to scooch over to Youtube (click here for the clip). I saw both this and another video by […]
#645 Façade
Posted: 19th November 2011 by Jeroen in GamesTags: 2005, independent, interactive fiction, pc
101st played so far Genre: Interactive Fiction Platform: PC Year of Release: 2005 Developer: Michael Mates and Andrew Stern Publisher: N/A After all that celebrating and big names, we now go to something more experimental. Facade (please ignore the lack of cedilla from now on – while it’s in the name, it’s more work for […]