Retro Games
Bazooka Sue is a game in the classic point-and-click genre, the style immortalized by LucasArts titles, released for PC in 1997. While fleeing a police chase, the protagonist, a human-pig hybrid, takes refuge in a small village, where she gets swept up in a plot involving conspiracies, cloning, and even world domination.
Manhunter: New York is a first-person point-and-click adventure released in 1988 for MS-DOS PC. Aliens have taken over the city and need to recapture rebel humans. Your mission is to carry out this dirty work as a bounty hunter, using the full extent of extraterrestrial technology to your advantage.
Harvester is a point-and-click adventure game featuring live-action FMV footage with real actors, released in 1996 for MS-DOS PCs. It stands as one of the most disturbing games in history, boldly confronting players with taboo subjects and forcing them to reflect on how far video game violence can bleed into real life.
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery is a point-and-click adventure game released in 1995 for MS-DOS. One year after the events of the first game, Gabriel, now in Germany, must investigate a series of brutal attacks involving wolves, werewolves, a hunting club, King Ludwig II, and a lost opera.
Dark Seed is an adventure game released for Sega Saturn in 1995. It’s a direct port of the Macintosh version that came out a year earlier. You play as Mike Dawson, a writer who has just bought a house. On the very first night, a mysterious dream reveals that aliens have implanted something in your brain. You have 3 days to unravel the mystery and eliminate the threat.
The Miracle of Almana (known as Arumana no Kiseki in Japan) is a 2D adventure-platformer game released in 1987 for the Nintendo Famicom Disk System. Your mission is to recover a legendary magic jewel stolen from a remote village, which triggered a curse that turned all its inhabitants into stone.
The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy is an action beat ‘em up game released for arcades in 1990. Research on weapons of mass destruction is underway under the orders of a feared colonel known as the “Supreme Demon”. Fearing the evil to come, an old scientist removes the prism, a key element for the malicious plan, and entrusts his granddaughter with protecting it. For years, the colonel tries to reclaim the prism, and during one pursuit of the scientist’s granddaughter, she is saved by a young adventurer named Edward Randy. Thus begins our journey to destroy evil and keep the prism in safe hands.
Klaymen Klaymen: Neverhood no Nazo (as it is known in Japan) is a point-and-click adventure game released for the PlayStation in 1998. In it, Klaymen must explore a land filled with terrifying creatures, extraordinary machines, and mysterious artifacts. Long ago, the king of this world was betrayed by his trusted assistant. To restore peace to Neverhood, it is necessary to unravel a plot involving ancient secrets, bizarre inventions, and challenging puzzles.
Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle, from 1993, complete gameplay.
Developer/Publisher: LucasArts
PC MS-DOS CD-ROM Talkie version.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, from 1992, complete gameplay.
Developer: Tiertex / LucasArts
Publisher: U.S. Gold
Sega Genesis / Mega Drive version.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, from 1991, complete gameplay.
Developer: Software Creations
Publisher: Taito
Nintendo / Famicom version.
Indiana Jones Greatest Adventures, from 1994, complete gameplay.
Developer: Factor 5
Publisher: JVC
Super Nintendo / Super Famicom version.
