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Tarturian was a follow up to Highlands Computer Service’s first game, Oldorf’s Revenge. It was largely an expansion of the ideas introduced in Oldorf’s Revenge. This was a very early hi-res vector graphics and text adventure game of the same era and style as Mystery House. Intriguingly, Tarturian, like Oldorf’s Revenge, allowed you to choose … Continue reading “The Tarturian”
Year: 1980
Platforms: Apple II
Genre: Role-Playing (RPG)
Theme: Graphic adventure, Interactive fiction / text adventure
It’s spring break time for the students of the Sorcerer University! Ernie Eaglebeak and his friends from the Hu Delta Phart fraternity load their flying carpet with booze and sun lotion, and head to a beach resort. However, there they encounter students from a rival college, more specifically the Getta Lodda Yu fraternity. These young … Continue reading “Spellcasting 301: Spring Break”
Year: 1992
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Adventure
Having recovered the Sorcerer’s Appliance in the previous game, Ernie Eaglebeak begins his sophomore year at the Sorcerer University. Having chosen Hu Delta Phart for his fraternity pledge, Ernie is given exceedingly difficult hazing rituals by the Pledgemaster Chris Cowpatty. Meanwhile, Ernie’s wise adviser, Professor Otto Tickingclock, who became the president of SU, asks him … Continue reading “Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer’s Appliance”
Year: 1991
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Adventure
Ernie Eaglebeak is a young lad living with his cruel stepfather Joey Rottenwood, who keeps him locked up in the attic. Ernie is secretly in love with his neighbor Lola Tigerbelly, a young woman definitely out of his league. Things take a turn for the better when Ernie gets accepted as a freshman by the … Continue reading “Spellcasting 101: Sorcerers Get All the Girls”
Year: 1990
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Adventure
In Spellcaster University, you take on the role of the director of a magic university in a colourful world of heroic fantasy. Build your school, manage your budget, recruit teachers. Will you turn it into a black magic academy, with the best professors of necromancy and demonology? Or a place in harmony with nature to … Continue reading “Spellcaster University”
Year: 2021
Genre: Simulation
Roger Wilco, the brave interstellar janitor who has already saved the universe from many great dangers, is now in a very embarrassing position. His commanders show no respect for his courageous actions in the previous game. Instead, he is being accused of all kinds of violations against the galactic law, is deprived of all the … Continue reading “Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier”
Year: 1995
Platforms: DOS, Macintosh, Windows, Windows 3.x
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Graphic adventure
After travelling back and forth through time in the previous game, Roger Wilco is back in the Starfleet Academy, serving as both a cadet and a janitor. Cheating his way through the Starfleet Aptitude Test, Roger is finally given the rank of captain, his own ship (a garbage scow) and a mission: to explore strange … Continue reading “Space Quest V: The Next Mutation”
Year: 1993
Platforms: DOS
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Graphic adventure
Following his humorous adventures in previous game, Roger Wilco is relaxing at his favorite pub somewhere in time and space when heavily armed soldiers enter the room. Carrying a parting message from Roger’s old nemesis, Sludge Vohaul, they plan to get rid of the janitorial hero, execution style. That is, until a man with an … Continue reading “Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco & the Time Rippers”
Year: 1991
Platforms: Amiga, DOS, Macintosh, PC-98, Windows 3.x
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Graphic adventure
Narrowly escaping the events of Space Quest II: Vohaul’s Revenge, Roger Wilco’s escape pod floats through space. As just another metallic item of junk, it’s soon picked up by an interstellar garbage hauler. Waking up in a pile of trash, quite familiar for this janitor-turned-hero, Roger Wilco must somehow escape. Once given access to the … Continue reading “Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon”
Year: 1989
Platforms: Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, Macintosh
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Graphic adventure
The ace janitor Roger Wilco thought he’d seen the last of Sludge Vohaul. However, like every evil scientist is supposed to, Vohaul returns with an even meaner scheme. This time he intends to infest the planet Xenon with thousands of genetically engineered door-to-door life insurance salesmen. The last thing he wants is Roger messing things … Continue reading “Space Quest II: Vohaul’s Revenge”
Year: 1987
Platforms: Amiga, Apple II, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, DOS, Macintosh
Genre: Adventure
Theme: Graphic adventure