Game Center CX: Arino no Chousenjou 2
Game Center CX: Arino no Chousenjou was a surprise hit in Japan, so naturally a sequel was greenlit. The concept is …
Spelunker II
Spelunker II for the Famicom is an extremely weird product. It’s absolutely nothing like the original game – instead of being …
Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?
Nippon Ichi aren’t a company to do things in half-measures. Their Strategy RPGs are well known for the absurd amount …
Gold Rush!
Gold Rush! is one of the handful of early Sierra adventures no one remembers. It never became a series, and the …
Leisure Suit Larry (Introduction)
Please note that this article contains some adult content, in the way of both text and images, and is considered …
Machinarium
There are few game so gorgeously understated as Machinarium, a gorgeous little adventure game by Amanita Design, a small team of …
Simon the Sorcerer: Who’d Even Want Contact?
In the fifth Simon game, the Magic World has been invaded by a group of aliens called Nihonians, not only stirring up …
Pandora Directive, The
Two years after the release of Under a Killing Moon, which proved to be a critical and financial success, Access released …
Under a Killing Moon
Tex Murphy disappeared from the gaming world for three years, only to resurface unexpectedly at the end in 1994 in Under …
Martian Memorandum
A few years after the events of Mean Streets, Tex is once again contracted to find a missing person. This time, …
Mean Streets
Back in the ’90s, Access Software was largely known for its popular Links series of golf games. But their other big entries …
Policenauts
For the longest time, Policenauts was considered Hideo Kojima’s lost masterpiece. Although initially released in 1994 for the Japanese PC-9821 home computer, …