While I was creating a game in World Builder for the original Macintosh, I decided it would be a fun project to port it to the Playdate. Much like the first Mac, this tiny yellow game system has a monochrome display that’s just a little…
The Crimson Diamond is a modern text-parser adventure game inspired by The Colonel’s Bequest and other classic mysteries. It was created by Julia Minamata and released for Windows and Mac in 2024. The Crimson Diamond stars Nancy…
Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir was designed and written by Yoshio Sakamoto, and published by Nintendo for the Famicom Disk System in 1988. The original game was only released in Japanese. It was later remade as part of Famicom…
Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter was released by Sierra On-Line in October 1986. It was designed by Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe, the “Two Guys from Andromeda.” In Space Quest, you play as Roger Wilco (or a name of your choice), a…
William C. Appleton created Enchanted Scepters for the original Macintosh in 1984. It was one of the first point-and-click adventure games ever made. To help him create he made World Builder, the first multimedia authoring tool. World…
Déjà Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas is the final game in the MacVenture series from ICOM Simulations. It was originally released in 1988 for Mac, and later ported to several other systems. One of those ports was a version for Game Boy Color by…
An assortment of games I’ve played that don’t fit into any other category. Most of these are incomplete playthroughs, demos, or shorter games I was able to finish up in one stream.
Déjà Vu: A Nightmare Comes True!! is the first game in the MacVenture series from ICOM Simulations. It was originally released in 1985 for Mac, making it among the first point-and-click adventure games. The Mac versions of these games…