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    sarien.net – retrofitting old titles with multiplayer features via HTTP

sarien.net – retrofitting old titles with multiplayer features via HTTP

In the early 90’s, Sierra On-Line defined the Adventure Game genre with the ‘Quest’ series: King’s Quest, Space Quest, Quest for Glory and Police Quest. For many, this was the height of Sierra On-Line’s accomplishments- but their resume also boasts blockbuster titles Half-Life and Counter-Strike. Sadly, the company has been merged, absorbed and disbanded since 2006 by current owner Activision Blizzard.

While it’s very likely that no new titles will ever be published by Sierra On-Line, fans have taken to celebrating these games in a number of different ways; a surprising number of fans have compiled their ‘Quest’ games, some being […]

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    More retro games in the iTunes Store – Beneath A Steel Sky: Remastered

More retro games in the iTunes Store – Beneath A Steel Sky: Remastered

Beneath A Steel Sky was a Puzzle/Adventure game made by Virgin Production in 1995. This type of genre has been (mostly) lost in today’s game marketplace, replaced by first-person shooters and MMOGs. Puzzle/Adventure games were the the natural evolution from the text-parsing adventure-games of the 80s, an reigned supreme in the early 90′s. Story driven. Walk around. Interact with your environment. Ask questions of other in-game characters. Pick up items and use them to interact and solve puzzles. And above all else, help your character win the day.

The cut scenes in this game are done with still cartoons, whereas […]

Retro games in the iTunes Store – ‘Golden Axe’

Poking around the iTunes Store can be tedious due to its sheer size- however, a growing number of retro games are being ported into Apple apps, and it would be a shame for any them to go overlooked. From ‘Beneath a Steel Sky’ to ‘Archon’ to ‘Zork’- I’m going to take a systematic look at some titles that are sure to help fight the, ‘LAX to JFK flight’ Blues .

The first game I’ve had a chance to spend some time with is Golden Axe, one of a number of iPhone ports by Sega. If you never played Golden Axe, […]