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- The Struggles of Graphic Adventure Games - Why are text adventures flourishing while graphic adventure games struggle? By Stephen Granade.
- Just Adventure Review - Rated A+ by Ray Ivey. "Few recent graphic adventures get as many things right as Exile does. It reminds you of why you began playing adventure games in the first place."
- GameSpot Review - Rated 4.3/10 by Ron Dulin. "Computer gaming, and the graphic adventure genre in particular, may be in serious need of innovation, but this run-of-the-mill adventure doesn't provide it."
- GAC - Graphic Adventure Creator - An adventure writing system from by Incentive Software Ltd that was quite popular among the 8-bit systems. This page offers the version for ZX Spectrum for download, with or without the quickstart data.
- Brass Lantern Review - Rated 2.9/3 by Stephen Granade. "Grim Fandango is one of the bestest graphic adventure games to come along in a long time."
- Adventure Collective Review: Murder She Wrote - Rated 3/5 by Robert Perrett. "While the graphics may appear dated, the Dagger of Amon Ra is a nicely done adventure title suitable for all mystery lovers."
- GameSpot Review (PC) - Rated 9.2/10 by Rebecca B. Anderson. "Beautifully illustrated, hand-painted graphics combined with an entertainingly twisted plot makes this an eye-catching adventure to savor." Reader reviews. 5 screen shots.
- Adventure Collective Review: Search for the Gamers? - Rated 2/5 by Philip Jong. "A decent graphic adventure in the King's Quest tradition that boasts trend setting cel animations with possible mass and family appeals."
- MAD -- adventure game engine - A free graphical adventure game engine, it is completely script-driven and highly customizable. Mad features an archive system, animated sprites, mp3 playback, and path finding. A beta is currently available.
- The Graphic Adventure Creator - Has the ZX Spectrum version as SNA files. Also scans of the box and manual.
Wikipedia Articles
- Flight of the Amazon Queen - Flight of the Amazon Queen (FOTAQ) is a graphical point-and-click adventure game by Interactive Binary Illusions originally released in 1995 for DOS and Amiga and re-released as freeware in 2004 for use with ScummVM. It is very similar in style in many ways to LucasArts' many popular point-and-click adventures of the 1990s, and was inspired by Monkey Island.
- Unwinnable - Unwinnable is a state in many text adventures, graphical adventure games and computer role-playing games where it is impossible for the player to win the game (not due to a bug but by design), and where the only other options are restarting the game, loading a previously saved game, wandering indefinitely, or meeting death. It ...
- ADRIFT - ADRIFT is a graphical user interface used to create and play text adventures. The name is an acronym for "Adventure Development