Ballyhoo is an interactive fiction computer game designed by Jeff O’Neill and published by Infocom in 1985. It was released for ten different 8 and 16-bit platforms, including MS-DOS, Atari ST, and Commodore 64. It is Infocom’s nineteenth game. With a circus-themed plot, the game’s tagline was “Big-time suspense under the Big Top!” The player’s … Read more
Full title Castle of Terror Year of release 1984 Publisher Melbourne House (UK) Author(s) Grahame Willis Machine type ZX Spectrum 48K Number of players 1 Controls Keyboard Type Adventure: Text Message language English Original publication Commercial
Space Ace is a laserdisc video game produced by Don Bluth Studios, Cinematronics and Advanced Microcomputer Systems (later renamed RDI Video Systems). It was unveiled in October 1983, just four months after the Dragon’s Lair game, then released in Spring 1984, and like its predecessor featured film-quality animation played back from a laserdisc. The gameplay … Read more
Neptina, Neptune’s daughter, has been imprisoned at the bottom of the sea by Titans. Your goal is to rescue her by locating the scattered pieces of a magical trident! You will need to take the form of a dolphin and a bird in order to locate the pieces that are hidden in the ocean and … Read more
Originally created in 1983, Montezuma’s Revenge became a household name as a huge hit for most popular early home computers and game consoles. Originally developed for the Atari 800 with the 48K expansion module, Montezuma’s Revenge would see a release on the Atari 8-bit Atari 2600 and 5200, the Apple II, ColecoVision, Commodore 64, IBM … Read more
Six separate game sequences create the movie experience! The unsuspecting colonial marines receive a briefing on the enemy to be faced. Guide your ship through a rough flight to LV-426. Hold off the hordes as your squad cuts its way out of the Operations Room. Fight the clock and the Alien’s attack to rescue Newt … Read more
Made with a program called The Quill, a text-adventure creation program, this game’s story is based on a number of Beatles song lyrics. Set in the year 2953, you are a Keeper of the Archives who takes care of Ancient Earth knowledge while space pioneers look for a New Earth to colonize. In your research, … Read more
Border Zone is an interactive fiction video game written by Marc Blank and published by Infocom in 1987. It was released for MS-DOS, Apple II, Commodore 64, Amiga, Atari ST, and Macintosh. Unlike most other purely text-based games, Border Zone incorporates real-time aspects of gameplay. It is also Infocom’s thirtieth game.[citation needed] Its tagline is … Read more
An adventure game based on an anime film of the same name, published for the Famicom by Kemco. Toki no Tabibito “Time Stranger” is an adventure game with a heavy emphasis on text commands and dialogue, similar to other NES adventure games like Portopia Serial Murder Case or Hokkaido Serial Murders: Fade to Okhotsk. Unlike … Read more
Hidden throughout a haunted mansion are three pieces of a magical urn, and your goal is to enter the mansion and retrieve all three before you lose your nine lives! The game is played from an overhead point of view where you see only your eyeballs as you explore the four floors of the maze-like … Read more