The Collection Chamber: MONTHLY 5

Tuesday, 30 September 2025

MONTHLY 5 - September 2025

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The Summer is over and Autumn brings along with it a quintet of games from the depths of the Collection Chamber. Another Marvel superhero gets digitised in Iron Man: Interactive CD-ROM Comic Book! (1995 Pixel Technologies & Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc), and we learn about war in the sci-fi action game Q.A.D. Quintessential Art of Destruction (1996 Cranberry Sauce). Then, we got on a Secret Mission (1996 Microids) in a captivatingly obscure adventure game before embarking on an epic journey in the overlooked European role-playing game TechnoMage: Return of Eternity (2000 SUNFLOWERS Interactive Entertainment Software GmbH).

My personal pick of the month, however, is a little more chaotic. Chaos: A Fantasy Adventure Game (1996 HarperCollins Publishers) is an entertaining Myst clone with a focus on that scientific ideology called chaos theory. Most of its real-world methodology goes way above my head (something about butterflies causing hurricanes), but the game itself is pretty darn good.

That's not all. I've been a busy little butterfly, updating two games from the annals of the site, both classics from the mind of Terry Pratchett. Discworld Noir now plays natively thanks to a recently discovered patch. The Colour of Magic, a rather obscure text adventure, adds manuals, a map and versions from a bunch of different systems all of which now play via Retroarch. It's well worth checking out.

You may have also noticed that the Genre pages have been given an overhaul. You can now sort and filter from a bunch of options which took me a hell of a lot of time to implement. I've also given separate entries for all of the games that appear in compilations, so you can easily see if a game you're looking for is a part of one.

Coupled with a stint of real-life busyness, I've been full on these past 30 days. So much so that a couple of reviews might be a little late (their downloads are still ready to go though). Next month is spooky season, so expect some horrific interactive entertainment to unveil themselves from the dusty depths of the Chamber. Until then, adios!

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