Maupiti Island is a point-and-click detective mystery game, and a sequel to Mortville Manor. It was originally released for Amiga in 1990, then for DOS and Atari ST in 1991, along with updated artwork. It has beautiful graphics, a unique…
Murder Club, also known as J.B. Harold Murder Club, is a detective mystery game from Rika Suzuki. Early in her career she co-founded Riverhill Soft, where she created 黒猫荘相続殺人事件 (“The Black Cat Manor Inheritance Murder Case”) and other…
The Secret of Donkey Island, or Tajemství Oslího ostrova, is a Czech adventure game created by two high school students, Jarek Kolář and Petr Vlček. The game was made on school computers using a game engine they created themselves. It…
Manhunter: New York was developed by Evryware and published by Sierra On-Line in 1988. Manhunter was initially released for MS-DOS, Apple II, and Apple IIgs, with versions for Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari ST following a year later in…
Two complete playthroughs of The Colonel’s Bequest were not enough to satisfy me. I was determined to obtain the elusive Super Sleuth ranking, and I decided to do it as fast as I could. I started with spending some time carefully…
In the early 1990s, Sierra released remakes of several of their earlier games, using their new SCI engine that was first used for King’s Quest IV. SCI allowed for graphics at twice the resolution of their earlier AGI engine, enhanced…
Alone in the Dark 2 was directed by Franck De Girolami, one of the programmers of the original game, and published by Infogrames in 1993 for MS-DOS. The stylish, moody horror of the original is mostly absent, replaced with a disjointed…
Alone in the Dark was directed by Frédérick Raynal, and published by Infogrames in 1992 for MS-DOS. Sweet Home is generally considered to be the first survival horror game, but Alone in the Dark was perhaps the first 3D survival horror…