Investigating the history of videogames, an in-depth look into their obscure, untold and often troubled development story, trivia and everything else interesting.
We’ve seen how adventure gaming struggled to survive after 2000, bouncing back after some lackluster years. The message was clear: the adventure gaming market was dedicated only to titles developed in 3D and console-friendly. Apparently old school point’n’click 2D had irremediably lost its marketability. The Walking Dead series from TellTale and the success of Quantic…
WELCOME BACK, MY PRETTIES Welcome to part 2 of the death and rebirth of adventure games. We’ve already celebrated the funeral so, now, we’re going to see how adventure gaming slowly comes back to life, shambling et al. We will focus on 2001-2009, the period when things will start to be set in stone for…
If I was a gamer… but then again no In my teenage years, adventure games were my favourite genre. While I did play many other games, every time I knew about the release of an adventure game, I would make sure to track it down and play. This for two critical reasons: they offered the…
No one was paying attention to the end of the decade that fateful 31st of December 1999. Hey, we had more important things on our hands. It was the end of the millennium! Perhaps, people were busy sending heaps of sms to their friends and family and trying to remember to turn off your pc…