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Quest 1 is an early role-playing game for multiple systems. Players can be randomly assigned a character, or can create them by defining their strength, dexterity, health, experience, starting gold, and whether they are an elf, dwarf, or human. The goal is to explore a series of 58 interconnecting dungeon rooms which are graphically displayed on … Continue reading “Quest 1”
Year: 1981
Platforms: Apple II, Atari 8-bit, TRS-80
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Turn-based strategy
Explore is a simple text-based exploration game. It uses a simple text parser with which the player can move around. The game world is divided into multiple levels of a cavern complex. The goal for the player is to find coins and to escape unharmed. From time to time the player will encounter enemies that will … Continue reading “Explore (1980)”
Year: 1980
Platforms: Commodore PET/CBM
Genre: Adventure
City Adventure is a text adventure game for the TRS-80. The goal is for the player to meet up with their girlfriend Suzy in the city, and take her home with you. The player must figure out how to deactivate their security system, exit the house, and take a bus to the city. The player must … Continue reading “City Adventure (1980)”
Year: 1980
Platforms: TRS-80
Genre: Adventure
Kidnapped! is an early text adventure for multiple systems. The player has been kidnapped and placed on the 9th floor of an office building, with the goal to descend all 9 levels to win their freedom. The player must solve numerous text-based puzzles to open the way to the next level down, but multiple dangers await … Continue reading “Kidnapped! (1980)”
Year: 1980
Platforms: Apple II, Atari 8-bit, TRS-80
Genre: Adventure
You have decided to venture into Dracula’s castle in search of treasure. The halls are infested with vampires, werewolves and monsters, and your aim is to survive the beasties and accumulate as much gold as possible in this text based dungeon crawler. The game begins in a shop in Room 1 of the castle, which … Continue reading “Drac Is Back! (1981)”
Year: 1981
Platforms: Atari 8-bit
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
The House of Thirty Gables is an interactive text adventure written by Bill Miller and published by Instant Software. Enter the House of Thirty Gables but come prepared! Inside you will encounter all sorts of weird goings on. Serpents, dragons, wild bears, and sulking trolls are just a few of the strange creatures you’ll encounter … Continue reading “House of Thirty Gables (1980)”
Year: 1980
Platforms: TRS-80
Genre: Adventure
Mars…Your ship has crashed on the Red Planet and you have to get home. You will have to explore a Martian City, repair your ship, and possibly deal with hostile aliens to get home again. An interactive text adventure by Rodger Olsen. You can read about my experience with the game HERE
Year: 1980
Platforms: Commodore 64, Ohio Scientific, TI-99/4A, TRS-80 CoCo, Timex Sinclair 2068, VIC-20
Genre: Adventure
Graveyard Keeper is the most inaccurate medieval cemetery management sim of all time. Build and manage your own graveyard, and expand into other ventures, while finding shortcuts to cut costs. Use all the resources you can find. After all, this is a game about the spirit of capitalism, and doing whatever it takes to build … Continue reading “Graveyard Keeper”
Year: 2018
Platforms: Linux, Macintosh, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Action RPG
When an Angel and a Demon team up to kill their way into Heaven and stop the apocalypse, bullets will fly and blood will be shed. Play solo or in with a friend and burst through a room in a matter seconds killing enemies with a bucketload of weapons, special abilities, and melee options in … Continue reading “God’s Trigger”
Year: 2019
Platforms: PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter
It all started with a freak nuclear accident that gave all goats the necessary intelligence to quickly overthrow their human owners with their powerful rams, high jumps, and ear-blowing bleats. No, wait, that wasn’t it. The goats were intelligent from the very beginning, but since they had no thumbs, they waited patiently for humanity to … Continue reading “Goat of Duty”
Year: 2019
Platforms: Windows
Genre: Action
Theme: Shooter