April was a busy month. Between the Easter holidays, personal moments and a cornucopia of birthdays, the only real celebration of note the fact that I turned another year older! As did the Collection Chamber itself the month before (it's 10-year anniversary flew by unnoticed in March). So, to mark our aging selves I put my mark on a bunch of aging games from my genre of choice; the point-and-click adventure!
My personal pick of the month is a surreal and thought-provoking dive into the afterlife with Next Life (2007 Future Games) from the Czech team behind The Black Mirror and Alter Ego. With it's ancient Aztec mythology and out-there B-movie plot, The Crystal Skull (1996 SOME Interactive & Maxis, Inc) comes in at a close second.
Free D.C! (1991 Cineplay Interactive) is an early attempt to use claymation in its art style to tell a pulpy tale of a dystopian future where the world has been taken over by robot overlords America's capital has been turned into a human zoo for their amusement. It's from a team of ex-Cinemaware developers (Defenders of the Crown) so expect great graphics for its time. Private Eye: Philip Marlowe (1996 Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, Inc) also has a unique art-style with high-contrast animations to retell the classic Raymond Chandler noir novel The Little Sister as a deceptively complex interactive movie. Lastly, there's an educational adventure for younger players called Rumpelstiltskin's Labyrinth of the Lost (1995 TerraGlyph Interactive, Inc).
Just the one update this month. Disney's Animated Storybook: Hercules has been brushed up with the addition of a scanned PDF manual and a migration from DOSBox to DOSBox-X. See the game page for more info.
And for the rest of this month's adventures, click that little "Read more »" button you can see just below this sentence. Adventure awaits...
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1991 Cineplay Interactive
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1996 Byron Preiss Multimedia Company, Inc
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1995 TerraGlyph Interactive, Inc
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Belated Happy Birthday, then, to the one and only Collection Chamber! Happy to see some more, this time completely obscure to me titles.
ReplyDeleteExcuse me for using this place for such a request, but could you take a look at the comments section for Urban Runner? Some time ago I left there a note regarding the ScummVM version used for that repack. Cheers!
I'm happy to see these titles too, but they are so obscure [I only knew Next Life] that none of them were mentioned on the site's Request List. I would suggest taking inspiration from that list for new adventure games to explore.
DeleteIn the meantime, I look forward to trying The Crystal Skull, etc. Looks intriguing.
Happy birthday!
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