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Verb/ose: A Personal Analysis of the Graphic Adventure Game Genre, By Duncan R. Piasecki

By Duncan R. Piasecki  The adventure game genre goes back to the late 1970s, but what makes a good one? This

HG101 Presents: Contra and Other Konami Classics

Cover artwork by Rusty Shackles UNOFFICIAL AND UNAUTHORIZED. Let’s attrack aggressively! Contra and Other Konami Classics, brought you to by long-standing

Retro Game Super Translation Selection

By Hanenashi Error Localization is a tricky business, especially due to the myriad of differences between both the English and Japanese

Super 3D Noah’s Ark

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Christian FPS

When id Software was still just a dream called “Ideas of the Deep” and its founders were still employed at

Radix: Beyond the Void

Back in the mid-90s, when first person shooters were known merely as “Doom clones”, the shareware scene was flooded with titles

Syndicate Wars

This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Syndicate

Syndicate Wars follows the basic plotline established in American Revolt – Eurocorp has taken over the globe and installed each of its citizens

Shadowrun (Genesis)

This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series Shadowrun

Shadowrun on the Genesis was developed by Blue Sky Software, who also did the 16-bit Jurassic Park games for Sega, along with the

Lisa The Joyful

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Lisa

Lisa The Joyful, a short DLC campaign created from reaching a stretch goal on Painful‘s kickstarter, has the difficult job

Lisa The Painful

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Lisa

That perfecting feel didn’t happen until the crowdfunded Lisa The Painful (simply listed as Lisa on Steam). This game switches

Lisa The First

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Lisa

CONTENT WARNING: The following articles discusses abuse, sexual assault, suicide, and drug addiction The Lisa series is a very difficult

Cadash

It’s hard to underestimate the impact that Dragon Quest and Wizardry had on the Japanese video game landscape. Beyond the clones that flooded the

Dirty Pair: Project Eden

Perhaps one of the greatest anime series from the ’80s, Dirty Pair saw its full length movie, Project Eden, released in Japan

Darklands

Darklands is a role-playing game released in 1992 by MicroProse and developed by its in-house studio MPS Labs. The game is

Growl

There’s something fascinating about the rather twisted morals of 80s action movies. If the cause was strong enough, any kind

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