Fade to Black (1995): Flashback’s Awkward Leap Into 3D
Conrad B. Hart survived Flashback’s 2D platforming only to wake up in a fully three-dimensional world that barely knew how […]
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Little Big Adventure 2 (1997): Twinsen’s Odyssey Goes Bigger
How do you follow up one of the most beloved action-adventures of the 1990s? Adeline Software’s answer was simple: make
Little Big Adventure (1994): Twinsen’s Fight Against Dr. FunFrock
Few mid-90s action-adventures managed to feel this warm-hearted while also being genuinely inventive under the hood. Adeline Software’s Breakout Hit
Time Commando (1996): Adeline Software’s Detour Into Pure Combat
After Little Big Adventure, Adeline Software wanted to make a sequel. What they made instead was a beat-’em-up that fights
Alone in the Dark 3 (1994): Survival Horror Goes to the Wild West
Resident Evil owes more to this trilogy’s closing chapter than most horror fans realize. Infogrames Closes Out the Original Trilogy
Amazon: Guardians of Eden (1992): Access Software’s Jungle Detour Before Tex Murphy
1957. A researcher named Jason Hunt disappears into the Amazon looking for his missing brother, and Access Software builds an
Ripper (1996): The Four-Million-Dollar FMV Game With Christopher Walken
No PC adventure game before or since has assembled a cast quite like Ripper’s. Hollywood Money Meets a PC Adventure
Creature Shock (1994): Argonaut’s Pre-Rendered Alien Nightmare
Somewhere between a rail shooter and a survival horror game sits Creature Shock, a title that spent its entire budget
Cyberia (1994): Interplay’s Attempt to Merge Shooter and Adventure
Cyberia wanted to be a movie you could steer. Sometimes that ambition paid off, and sometimes it just made the
The Big Red Adventure (1995): An Italian Heist Comedy Set in Post-Soviet Moscow
Doug Nuts wants to steal the crown of the Russian Czars. He is, by his own admission, not very good
Orion Burger (1996): The Silliest Alien Invasion on DOS
What do you do when an alien fast-food mogul decides Earth’s population is the secret ingredient in the galaxy’s most
Igor: Objective Uikokahonia (1994): The Game That Started Spain’s Adventure Scene
Every national games industry has a first graphic adventure, and Spain’s happens to be a slapstick comedy about a lovesick