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Déjà Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas

Streamed from August 6 to September 3, 2024

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!!

Streamed from July 9 to August 6, 2024

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

Streamed from July 19 to August 2, 2024

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…

Maupiti Island

Streamed from November 7, 2023 to July 2, 2024

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…

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire

Streamed from March 1 to March 22, 2024

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…

Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail

Streamed from December 1, 2023 to February 23, 2024

Conquests of Camelot: The Search for the Grail was designed by Christy Marx—creator of Jem and the Holograms—along with her late husband, Peter Ledger. It was released by Sierra On-Line in 1990 for MS-DOS, Amiga, and Atari ST. The game…

HyperCard

Streamed from August 18 to December 17, 2023

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…

Perfect Tides

Streamed from September 29 to October 27, 2023

Perfect Tides is a modern indie adventure game inspired by the point-and-click classics of the 90s. It was made by Meredith Gran, and released for Windows and Mac in 2022. Gran is best known for her web comic, Octopus Pie, which ran from…

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