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1989/1990 26 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
Good or bad, 1989 games took risks. Instead of a pile of Wizardry-derivatives and entries in established franchises, the last year of the 1980s, and the decennial of the first commercial RPGs, produce...
Game 111: Dragon Fire (1981) 24 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
One more 1980 game. I was planning to issue a posting about this one in early August, but I never got it fully written. Dragon Fire--not to be confused with the 1984 action game Dragonfire--is a slig...
Keef the Thief: Won! (with Final Rating) 23 Aug 2013 | 02:11 am
The sad part is, there's actually a plot-related reason behind the baby with a mohawk holding an electric guitar. Keef the Thief: A Boy and His Lockpick Naughty Dog (Developer), Electronic Arts (Pub...
Keef the Thief: A Bit Less Grief 21 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
The game's outer world. Given the acid with which I started my first post on Keef the Thief, my opinion of the game had nowhere to go but up. I'm not saying it's become part of my soul or anything, b...
Game 110: Keef the Thief: A Boy and His Lockpick (1989) 19 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
"Gee, I wonder in what decade this game was made" -- no one. Every so often, while going through the games on my blog list, I fire up a new game and get in a bad mood from the opening screen. This is...
The Third Courier: Won! (with Final Rating) 18 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
The Third Courier Manley & Associates, Synergistic Software (Developers); Accolade (Publisher) Carol Manley (designer) and Ivan Manley (designer/director) Released 1989 for DOS, 1990 for Amiga, Ata...
Game 109: The Third Courier (1989) 17 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
In just about every way, The Third Courier is an artifact of the past: its Cold War narrative, its setting in a divided Berlin, its plot involving the physical transportation of sensitive materials, i...
Windwalker: Won (with Final Rating) 15 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
Windwalker ORIGIN Systems (developer and publisher) Greg Paul Malone II (creator) Released 1989 for DOS, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and Macintosh Date Started: 9 August 2013 Date En...
The Wayward Windwalker 14 Aug 2013 | 11:54 am
I'm having flashbacks to my honeymoon. Windwalker has provided at least one unique experience: I have rarely in my CRPG-playing career been so baffled as to what I'm supposed to do. In a change from ...
Game 108: Windwalker (1989) 10 Aug 2013 | 02:36 am
Every once in a while, a baffling sequel appears. I remember when The Whole Ten Yards came along. Don't get me wrong: The Whole Nine Yards was a pleasant-enough film, but it's hard to imagine some stu...
