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Perhaps you’ll get a chuckle out of this. I played Doom (and Wolfenstein 3D) in that most glorious of all color palettes: cyan/magenta CGA (with PC speaker sound)....

Another little taste from Soup’s On, our album of reimagined music from The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour....

A little taste of what’s to come in our reimagining of The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour’s soundtracks.

My band Error 47 sat down with two legends — Graeme Devine and George Sanger — and chatted for an hour about the music of these iconic CD-ROM games. Lots of cool nuggets in here, including how Trilobyte took a massive chance in supporting General MIDI, and how we might not have gotten Nine Inch Nails’ beloved Quake...

My band Error 47 had the good fortune to sit down with these two legends last week and chat for an hour about the music of these two games....

ScummVM dev Sluicebox just blew the doors to the Sierra kingdom wide open. He wrote a decompiler that annotates the decompiled scripts flawlessly so there’s no more guesswork as to “uh, I wonder what ‘global34’ does.”...

What’s your favorite interface in adventure games? Doesn’t necessarily have to be the most perfect or easy to use; just the one that you’re the most partial to....

I was nudged towards looking into Matrix, the fedi-alternative to Discord, to see if I should set up a chat space for adventure game fans... and it turns out I didn't have to. One already exists!...

Edit: It's solved! I'M BACK! Original post follows for posterity:...

Mine is hands down the green alien fart cloud in The Pandora Directive. For three simple reasons:...

What's that one adventure game you can just boot up and have a great chill time with? Mine would probably be Day of the Tentacle. It's such a wonderful, colorful world to inhabit, and all the characters are lively and oozing with personality (no Sludge-o-Matic pun intended). I could spend hours just walking around talking to...

One of the things that have always endeared me to adventure games above all other types of fiction (books, movies, etc.) is that they give the player the opportunity to shape the story and unfold it at their own pace. While some games are content to have a linear story (and no slight against that — some absolute classics have...

I mean, obviously I'm biased, but Space Quest III just had one of the most amazing kick-ass soundtracks. Composed by Bob Siebenberg, the drummer from Supertramp!

Do you have a YouTube or Twitch channel about adventure games? Do you run a blog? Maybe a Discord server? Do you post interesting things about adventure games someplace I can't think of right now because hot damn there are a lot of social media right now?...

Are you a developer working on (or have worked on) an adventure game? Drop us a description and a link in this thread! Let's see those hidden gems.

Loom may not exactly be obscure by any standard, but I don't see it being mentioned nearly as much as, say, Day of the Tentacle or Monkey Island. But it was a truly revolutionary way of reimagining the adventure game genre, and in a very early age of point-and-click. No inventory, single mouse click interaction, using spells to...

Here, I'll start. When I was 8 years old, my parents went to a dinner party and plonked me down in front of the host's computer so I'd stay out of their way. The game they booted up to keep me occupied was Space Quest II. Little did they know what impact that would have on me...

Why does this exist, you may ask? Well, because I was looking around for communities to join, and all of the gaming communities were about games I don't play. 😅...