Tag: 1982 Release

  • Horse Racing (Arcadia 2001)

    Horse Racing (Arcadia 2001)

    (Review archived from September 30, 2014) Remember a few months ago when I said, “the blog has grown … and nowadays the articles appearing here are exclusive to the blog itself“?  Well as of this post, that statement will have been a lie.  I’ll be on vacation over the next couple of weekends, and rather…

  • Transylvania (Apple II)

    Transylvania (Apple II)

    (Review archived from February 25, 2023) Transylvania is yet another game I can trace back to some of my earliest experiences with video games in general and adventure games specifically (it’s a bit of a tie between this, Space Quest, and Zork but through the fog of intervening years I’m not sure which one I…

  • The Zork Anthology (PC/GOG)

    The Zork Anthology (PC/GOG)

    (Review archived from January 30, 2019) In some ways it’s a bit unfortunate that text adventures fell out of favor as graphical processing became more and more advanced, and consequently (I would imagine) due to the idea that graphical adventure formats were more palatable ‘to the masses’. After all, even in the modern age, no…