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Let’s make a game in World Builder!

Streamed from March 31, 2023 to September 6, 2024

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: 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…

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…

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…

Swamp Witch

Streamed from July 25 to August 8, 2023

Swamp Witch was created by Jim Thompson in World Builder. He made the game for his kids, and they’re featured as the main characters. He actually created two versions: one where you play as his daughter and another with his son. The…

The X-Files Game

Streamed from June 13 to July 4, 2023

The aptly named The X-Files Game is a point-and-click FMV game developed by HyperBole Studios. It was released in 1998 for Macintosh and Windows, then for PlayStation the following year. It was directed by Greg Roach, based on a story by…

Shadowgate

Streamed from March 7 to March 28, 2023

Shadowgate is a point-and-click adventure game developed by ICOM Simulations and released for Macintosh in 1987. It was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1989, one of many ports and remakes over the years. The game…

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