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Cronela's Mansion Is A Maniac Mansion Style Point 'N Click Coming To Retro Machines

Time Extension about 10 days ago

Including NES, SNES, GBA, Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, PC, and Switch.We're huge fans of point-and-click adventure games here at Time Extension, with Lucasfilm Games' Maniac Mansion ranking high on the list of our favourite games in the genre. So when we le …
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Mystery Show Is A Spooky, New Love Letter To The Game Boy Camera

Time Extension about 13 days ago

The game features the work of over two dozen photographers.Originally released back in 1998, the Game Boy Camera has continued to be surprisingly popular with creators in recent years — despite its limitations — with the latest example of this being a …
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Feature: Rosewater Dev On Point ’n Click Westerns & Casting Red Dead’s Arthur Morgan

Time Extension about 22 days ago

"I told him like, ‘Let’s make sure he doesn’t sound like Arthur Morgan.'".If you're a fan of point-and-click adventure games, you've probably come across Francisco González's work in the past.For the last 20 years, he's been producing some classic g …
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Kickstarter Book 'Beyond The Click' Criticized For Plagiarism And AI Art

Time Extension about 2 months ago

The book has somehow managed to raise £2560, almost half its goal.Update : Slope's Game Room, which runs a regular "Kickscammer" line of videos, has done an in-depth look at this particular campaign:Original Story : A new Kickstarter book claiming to be a …
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Fragmented Almanac: Teaser Trailer and an Interview with Developer Roby Provost

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 3 months ago

Last month, the Junkyard office was abuzz with excitement when we caught wind of the news that Fragmented Almanac, a compilation of two eerie narrative-based puzzle games, was soon due to be released by fledgling indie studio ANTIRUINS on our beloved Sega …
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Indiana Jones Using Nazi Enemies Is A "Creative Lapse" Says Fate Of Atlantis Director

Time Extension about 3 months ago

"They thought Nazis were an inherent part of that world".Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is coming to Xbox this year, and has plenty of people excited about the famous explorer and his adventures – both cinematic and interactive.However, it's also a g …
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Interview: "An Enormous Headache" - The Amazing Story Behind Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis

Time Extension about 3 months ago

From the perspective of its director/co-designer Hal Barwood.Hal Barwood has had a fascinating career. Not only did he pen the script for Steven Spielberg's first-ever motion picture film The Sugarland Express and the 1981 dark fantasy film Dragonslayer (a …
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Discworld Remasters May Happen, According To Series Designer

Time Extension about 3 months ago

"We are a little bit beyond that point".In a recent interview with Time Extension, Gregg Barnett (the designer of the classic Discworld point-and-click adventures from the '90s) revealed that remasters of the games may finally be on the cards after years o …
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Fragmented Almanac: Unique Dreamcast Puzzle Collection goes up for Pre-order!

The Dreamcast Junkyard about 4 months ago

One of my favourite memories from when I first got involved with The Dreamcast Junkyard happened towards the end of February 2020, when I played the demo for "Reaperi Cycle" in preparation for an episode of our podcast, the DreamPod. Interesting extra …
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The Brilliant Coup Is A New Zak McKracken-Esque Adventure Game Coming To Steam

Time Extension about 4 months ago

The Brilliant Coup looks to be a brilliant tribute to '80s point & click adventures.If you happen to love classic Lucasfilm point-and-click adventure games, then you may be excited to learn about The Brilliant Coup — an upcoming indie adventure title fro …
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ScummVM Announces Support For '90s Point And Click Classic Orion Burger

Time Extension about 4 months ago

Featuring the legendary voice talent of Rob Paulsen and Jim Cummings.In a new update on its website, the team behind ScummVM has announced full support for Sanctuary Woods' '90s point-and-click classic Orion Burger in its daily builds.The team is currently …
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The Secret Of Monkey Island Has Been Ported To C64 (Well, Kind Of)

Time Extension about 5 months ago

A barebones take on an adventure game classic.The Secret of Monkey Island is often regarded as one of the best adventure games that Lucasfilm Games ever produced, so it comes as no surprise that there is still an active fan community around it all these ye …
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Review: Delphine Software Collection 1 - A Meagre Selection, But Hey, It Has Flashback

Time Extension about 5 months ago

Out of this World, man.Mention the name Delphine Software to gamers of a certain age, and you'll almost certainly get some excited chatter about titles like Another World and Flashback, two of the finest cinematic platformers ever made. However, while thos …
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Anniversary: Sam & Max: Hit The Road Turns 30 This Month

Time Extension about 7 months ago

"You're an ignorant dolt, Max".Sam & Max: Hit the Road, one of LucasArts' most beloved point-and-click adventures, is 30 years old this month (thanks, @Bhaal_Spawn).Based on Steve Purcell's anthropomorphic detective duo, the game launched on MS-DOS in …

Last Escape - A new Point-and-click adventure by Fred Rique via MSXdev23

Indie Retro News about 8 months ago

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Catalog Drops for September 2023

Playdate News about 8 months ago

Fall is here, and with it, three new game drops (“drops” are similar to “falls”). Look at all these lovely titles: ? Quantum Phantom Basketball, a basketball-fighting game set in a cataclysmic high fantasy New York City. Made by B …
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Discovering R.B.I. Baseball on NES

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

I regularly come up with stuff here I say I’ll come back to and look at it more detail sometime later, and do you know what? Sooner or later I generally do! Either a man of my word or it just saves me thinking what’s next, take your pick! Let me give …
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Requests • GAME: ASM - Das Computer-Spiel

LemonAmiga about 8 months ago

This is out now: https://www.asm-das-spiel.d... a German point-and-click adventure, winner of a coding competition in 1991 of the German cult video game magazine and which was resolved two months ago (!) in a new retro revival issue of "ASM".Would be gr …
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On the Retro Radar for September 2023

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

Time for our regular roundup of the mostly (but not strictly) retro-interest games releases on the way for the coming month, with trailers for everything and maybe a few snippets of fascinating information too! All sorts of stuff going on this month, incl …
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Revolution Reveals Trailer For Two New Broken Sword Games At Gamescom 2023

Time Extension about 9 months ago

Including a new story & a remaster of Shadow of the Templars.As part of the Xbox @ Gamescom livestream, Revolution Software has revealed a look at two new Broken Sword titles. This includes an enhanced remaster of the first game in the series called Broken …
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Fantastep #BestOfSaturn

Shiro! about 9 months ago

April 1997 saw the Japan-only release of Jaleco’s Fantastep, a 3D adventure game featuring 2D sprites. Heavy on the language barrier, the adventure is more of a point-and-click affair and... …
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Simon The Sorcerer Origins Will Feature Music From (Reads Notes) Rick Astley

Time Extension about 10 months ago

Point-and-click prequel scores a big name.Classic '90s point-and-click adventure Simon The Sorcerer is getting a new outing, thanks to the efforts of Italian developer Smallthing Studios.Originally released in 1993 by Adventure Soft and conceived by father …
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Arcade Attack Podcast – July (1 of 2) 2023 – What makes the best… Point and Click Adventure game

Arcade Attack about 11 months ago

Oh we know you’ve missed these! Dyl bring his no research to the table to get to the bottom of what makes the perfect point and click adventure game. The gang discuss the genre’s origins, their favourite games, and define what the ultimate resu …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #89

Retro Arcadia about 11 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… Alone in the Dark Prologue is a playable teaser for the upcoming re-imagi …
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On the Retro Radar for July 2023

Retro Arcadia about 11 months ago

Time for our regular roundup of the mostly (but not strictly) retro-interest games releases on the way for the coming month, with trailers for everything, and if you’re lucky, a few snippets of fascinating information too! We had a load of proper heavyw …