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…
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…
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…
The Zen of Kayaking was created by pixel_turkey and gamedevjeff over the course of ten days, and released in 2024. It was inspired by classic Infocom text adventures like Hollywood Hijinx and made in Infocom’s Z-Machine format. The…
Zork is a text adventure game created by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling, Tim Anderson, and Bruce Daniels while they were at MIT. It was originally released for PDP-10 mainframe computers in 1977. The developers later founded Infocom and split…
HyperCard is a multimedia authoring tool created by Bill Atkinson and released by Apple Computer in 1987. It was incredibly popular, and it was used to create presentations, games, and even catalog physical media (and access it with a…