Browsing all articles tagged with point-and-click.
Clock Tower
The classic point and click adventure gets a modern (for 1996) overhaul. Run, hide, and try to outsmart the immortal Scissorman.
Shadowrun (SNES)
William Gibson-inspired cyberpunk roleplaying from the comfort of your own console. Play as Jake Armitage is a loose recreation of Shadowrun novel “Never Deal with a Dragon.”
Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
Roberta Williams’ Phantasmagoria walked a delicate line between camp and hardcore horror. Personally, I didn’t feel it pulled this trick off terribly well. While the carnival atmosphere allowed for some truly gruesome Saw-like kills, the plot lacked serious tension and quickly fell into stale haunted house/possessed lover routines. Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh is a [...]
Drascula: The Vampire Strikes Back
I’m going to assume you speak English. And if you’re reading this, let me inform you that you do. Hi, literate English-speaker! Say, remember when you first discovered adventure games? (NOTE: If you haven’t, go do so. Then come back. -Ed.) Wasn’t it great? It’s all sunshine and daisies for a while. The genre was [...]
Martian Memorandum
Tex Murphy is your typical private dick in the not-so typical world of California, circa 2039. A third World War has slagged most of Earth, causing lingering radiation, a lowered population, and ghastly deformities for those unlucky enough to become mutants. A few safe havens, populated by a mix of radiation-immune “normals” and segregated mutants [...]
The Dark Eye
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a bland and boring FMV and 8 bit sprite, While I slobbered, scarcely sober, realized it was late October, Happy games were all “Game Over”, now for something filled with fright. ‘Here’s a title called ‘The Dark Eye’. That sounds amply filled [...]