Death Gate (1994): Legend Entertainment’s Dense Fantasy Epic
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Companions of Xanth (1993): Legend Entertainment Adapts Piers Anthony
Adapting Piers Anthony’s Puns Piers Anthony’s Xanth novels run on pun-based magic and relentless wordplay, which sounds like a nightmare
Mean Streets (1989): Where Tex Murphy Started It All
Where Tex Murphy Began Every long-running detective series has to start somewhere, and for Tex Murphy that somewhere is 1989’s
Martian Memorandum (1991): Tex Murphy’s Cyberpunk Detour
Tex Murphy’s Cyberpunk Turn The second Tex Murphy game trades some of Mean Streets’ arcade trappings for a tighter, more
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Under a Killing Moon (1994) Review — Tex Murphy Goes Fully 3D
Tex Murphy Goes 3D Four CD-ROMs, full-motion video, and a fully explorable 3D city — Under a Killing Moon was
Heart of China (1991): Sierra and Dynamix’s Pulp Adventure Serial
Pulp Adventure, Sierra Style By 1991, Sierra had built an empire on fantasy quests and sci-fi comedy, so a 1930s
Dark Seed (1992): When H.R. Giger Designed Half Your Living Room
Imagine your own house, rendered faithfully down to the furniture, and then imagine it again as a biomechanical nightmare where
Waxworks (1992): Horror Soft’s Last Game Before Becoming Adventure Soft
The Studio’s Final Horror Soft Release Waxworks arrived in 1992 as Horror Soft’s last game under that name, on Amiga,
Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus (1992) — Bigger Dungeon, Bigger Body Count
From Haunted Castle to Cursed Film Studio Two years after the original Elvira, Horror Soft and Accolade returned with a
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1990) — Horror Soft’s Haunted-Castle Debut
Casting a real horror-movie host as the star of a dungeon crawler sounds like a marketing gimmick on paper. In
Prisoner of Ice (1995): Infogrames Takes Cthulhu to the Antarctic
A Sequel Nobody Was Sure Would Work Shadow of the Comet was Infogrames’ first attempt at Lovecraftian adventure gaming, and
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet (1993): Infogrames’ Lovecraftian Slow Burn
Lovecraft, rendered as a slow-burn adventure Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet, developed and published by Infogrames in 1993