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And you can have a look at the rest of the list at the Indie Kings bundle tracker, although not all of the 18 listed bundles should really be there (eg. The Blackwell Bundle). However, there is even a couple of free bundles to grab.

I also notice that they missed out on the Just Adventure - Pay What You Want Special 3 Maybe 4 Great Games. Now I just need a time machine to play all these games.

I did a quick Google search and found several game titles with 'Scroll'. Several pre-dating the 1994 release of the first Elder Scrolls.

• Dragon Scroll: Yomigaerishi Maryuu - NES - 1987
• Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll - NES - 1987
• The Scroll - PC - 1995
• Magic Scrolls: Collection 1 - PC - 1991
• Dungeon Scroll - PC, iPhone, Android - 2004

I suspect Bethesda will have troubles winning this one, but courts can be funny sometimes.

ScummVM is your one stop for Adventure games. The original point & click adventure games. It's free and available on any platform, but you will require original game files. Many can be had at Good Old Games, as well as the usual less legal options.

Start off with some of the Humongous Entertainment games. Freddie the Fish or Pajama Sam. Great for kids, and fun to play together. Then move to LucasArts games. Day of the Tentacle is very funny and colorful game. LOOM is beautiful, and fairly straightforward to play. The Dig is epic sci-fi, and not too complex either. Sierra games are for the advanced student.

Then just let her loose on Just Adventure and let her see what she likes.

Try an adventure game.

Check out Just Adventure - they seem to be a pretty good resource for those of us that don't like the "kill everything" type games. While adventures are a niche market now, and not the major genre they were back in the late 80's and early 90's, there are still plenty available and still being made.

with Steve Bovis, whose job was to "put the game together and create all the visuals, coding, sounds, models, marketing and basically make the game flow and work. As well as manage and try to motivate the team."

http://www.justadventure.com/Interviews/Limbo/SteveBovis.shtm

The buck stops here.

It seems to me this has been done before as Journey to Wild Divine. I suppose that wasn't as portable, though.

Too bad LucasArts axed it initially, along with the Full Throttle sequel.

Also check out:

http://www.himalayastudios.com/
http://www.agdinteractive.com/
http://www.bigbluecup.com/
http://www.justadventure.com/

Instead of working out, which gets you tired, you can also play adventure games. They don't usually require much in the form of interaction with the computer. To get you started, you can try the Carol Reed mysteries, or Syberia. Look at Adventure Gamers or Just Adventure for more information.

Instead of working out, which gets you tired, you can also play adventure games. They don't usually require much in the form of interaction with the computer. To get you started, you can try the Carol Reed mysteries, or Syberia. Look at Adventure Gamers or Just Adventure for more information.

In contrast, the review of Neverend at Just Adventure's website http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/Neverend/Neve rend.shtm rates it as an A-. I think many of the Gamespot reviewers are given games to review in genres that they don't like and it is hard to write an objective review. Gamespot in particular always seems to give adventure games a bad review with only 2 games in the genre getting a rating over 8 in the past few years, and not since Syberia in 2002 has there been a rating over 9.

I haven't played the game myself, but I just thought it a stark contrast that the site where people enjoy adventure games rates it very high and a site where the reviewers are more generalized pan it.

Lost Paradise is an "upcoming" game.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (by Lucasarts) was probably the best movie-based adventure game of all time. Similar enough to have me going 'hey, I remember that from the movie!' yet different enough to suprise me now and then. Followed up by the quite enjoyable Fate of Atlantis (based upon an original work), these two games were a pleasure to play.

Does anybody make adventure games anymore?

Dying adventure genre? There haven't been as many new adventures out in years as in the past two years or so. I'd say the adventure genre is slowly coming back to us. Check out Adventure gamers, Just adventure, and Gamespot

Ahem, plain adventure games are not dead, you just dont see them advertized in the mass market anymore. Where Lucasarts and Sierra left off, a bunch of rather small development houses now fill the niche nicely. With Black Mirror, The Westerner (Wanted), Runaway, Uru, Syberia2, Tony Tough, Dark Fall, Lights out, Law and Order2 and a bunch of new titles in the line. The List of commerically released adventure games has been quite impressive, too big for a genre, already declard dead, if you ask me.

Here is the list for the upcoming months (from www.justadventure.com):

This is an old game that the name reminded me of instantly. Hopefully the developers will avoid the problems that plagued this game 7 years ago.

Namely nasty bugs, poor character development, and too many loose ends at the end of the game.

You sound a lot like Randy Sluganski (he's the editor of Just Adventure +).

After approximately 5 years of lying dormant the adventure genre is finally getting back on steam. I guess you can say that Syberia is the game that put the adventure genre back on the map. Now there are a lot of interesting games that are youst released or in the making. Check Adventuregamers.com and Just adventure + for details! I am not in any way connected to these sites, just very interested in new adventure games. The future is looking good! If only they would start making a new Tex Murphy game!

After approximately 5 years of lying dormant the adventure genre is finally getting back on steam. I guess you can say that Syberia is the game that put the adventure genre back on the map. Now there are a lot of interesting games that are youst released or in the making. Check Adventuregamers.com and Just adventure + for details! I am not in any way connected to these sites, just very interested in new adventure games. The future is looking good! If only they would start making a new Tex Murphy game!

I've grown rather fond of the idea of having electronic magazines as opposed to paper versions.

Here's one: The Inventory

Then check out Microïds. There are still many people who makes game that require some IQ.
Also check Just Adventure. There are many titles available, including upcoming ones.

Hello, Oscar.
Hello, Kate Walker!

Wasn't something like this in Gabriel Knight II: Blood of the sacred, blood of the damned?

I asked this very question in the last article we had about this cancellation, with nearly the same bitch-and-moan you have. Now that I'm all growed up with a job, I can afford to buy adventure games by the dozen. But they just aren't there. My girlfriend bemoans her selling of her Kings' Quest and Hero's Quest collections-- she said "I never thought those would be the last Adventure games made."

So, for everybody out there, here's a list of what I've found to keep me amused so far:

1. Everything ScummVM plays. You've probably played a good number of these, but I'm sure it's not all of them. Broken Sword I and II are good, and I haven't made my way around to Beneath a Steel Sky or Flight of the Amazon Queen yet, both released as freeware by their original authors to the ScummVM team. Buy the ones still being sold new, like Broken Sword and Simon the Sorcerer 1 & 2 to encourage "good behavior" from game companies.

2. Sequels to ScummVM games that ScummVM can't run yet-- things like Broken Sword III, Monkey Island 4, and Grim Fandango.

3. New things you've never heard of, but are still being sold new-- this is the best bet. Runaways: a Road Adventure (available new), Wyrmkeep's remade Inherit the Earth (may be in a future scummvm version, from peeking in CVS), Gilbert Goodmate for the PocketPC, Syberia 1 and 2, etc... Check out justadventure.com for news.

4. Stuff you haven't heard of but isn't still for sale-- this can be tricky, finding things on ebay or abandonware sites. A friend clued me into one he'd played when younger, now available as abandonware: Amazon: Guardians of Eden. I've heard good things about I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream, but don't have a copy yet. I've also turned up websites about a couple of Discworld adventure games that sound excellent, and the first two also seem to be available as abandonware. There is a third that is still for sale, so if you download the other two BUY THE ONE THAT'S STILL BEING SOLD.

Remember-- if you don't buy the ones that are for sale, companies will keep right on assuming the market doesn't exist for these games.

For old DOS games that don't work with ScummVM, NAGI, FreeSCI, or the like, there's always DOSBox, which does an excellent job of making your shiny new PC pretend that it's old and crappy to make the games run.

Anyway, that's what I know. Anybody got anything else?

Seriously it would be awesome to have an earthquake in a game, I don't think any other GTA-style game has done something like that (i.e. disaster scenarios).

One of the objectives in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3's LA level is "start the earthquake". Later on the same level you have to deal with a car teetering over the top of the broken freeway.

The PS2 title Disaster Report places you in an earthquake ravaged city.

Quake, on the other hand, doesn't seem to be earthquake related.

This is a great game, Just adventure gave it an A+.
I played it a bit last week, and it's definitly worth checking out.

Btw, it's kinda hybrid game, like System Shock, Deus Ex .. etc.

I like this game, I can even recommend it for children.

Hmm links are wrong.
Here are the links:
first link
second one

Not Aztec, Maggie, Olmec. Ooolmec!
Also, the giant stone head from Mr. Burns was Olmec in origin. Coincidence? Probably.

I think the *real* motives of Jack Thompson should be obvious to everyone. You see, he thinks his game was poorly recieved, and he's merely trying to exterminate all the competition.

Wait, you say you didn't know he was in a game? Haven't you ever played The Bermuda Syndrome?

The Bermuda Syndrome basically chronicles the adventures of pilot Jack J. Thompson . . . Final Grade: D

A shoddy disguise at best - all he did is remove his middle initial! Who was he hoping to fool, anyway?

(Moral: You can find facts to back up *anything* on Google.)

If you check around, there's a wealth of games that don't break the surface of the mainstream, simply because the bean-counters tell people that they won't make much money and so they never get much in the way of advertising money.

however, if you look at a few of the companies on top, you'll find a good number of quality games, at fairly low prices. right now, I'd say that the up-coming Sam and Max and Full Throttle games from Lucasarts are going to generate a lot more publicity within the genre as well as Dreamcatcher's continued offerings to adventure gamers everywhere.

Or at least LucasArts hope it isn't. They've got a sequel to the great Sam & Max + Full Throttle adventures.

It's amazing to see that Graeme actually stuck with the game industry after such a catastrophe with the fall of the company that tamed the CD-ROM for gaming. See Haunted Glory [gamespot.com] for the misadventures (and silly pictures) of Mr. Devine at Trilobyte.

What I wish to know is what ever happened to Rob Landeros? Last thing I can find on him is quite depressing. [justadventure.com]

Here's to expecting more good things from Graeme,

-Rob

Thank you, Ken, for creating something utterly unique, something warm, fun and beautiful. Damn you, Ken, for allowing others to tear it down.

It's all a bit theatric, but I cannot help thinking about 1987-1990 when I was just getting into computers and Sierra games were (and for some, still are) my favorites.

I just hope we can see the source for LSL, PQ Manhunter (just replayed it a few months back, it is still so awesome) released so we can port it to Linux and maybe spin some sequels off.