Jackal

Did you ever wonder why they call this genre “adventure”, when so many games are more about conversation and puzzle solving than any actual adventuring? Fortunately, there are some games that manage to create the excitement of daring quests, including a title hidden among Sierra’s earliest games. Gold Rush! is a tale of cunning and […]

There are far too few examples of excellent games based on movies. Despite the huge back catalogue of films at developers' disposal, we still find ourselves drowning in a sea of uninspired action titles, based on low-brow Hollywood blockbusters. But despite this unfortunate situation the game industry finds itself in, a few instances of a […]

The last time we checked in with Graham, the hero of Sierra’s first King’s Quest game, he’d recovered the three lost treasures and ascended to the throne as Daventry’s new king. Accompanied by a verse of Greensleeves on the internal PC speaker, King’s Quest II opens to reveal the forlorn king sitting in this very […]

The 7th Guest is as famous and significant a game as Myst—well, almost. Released a year before Myst in 1993, it had the same kind of luminous graphics wound around a familiar point & click format. It tantalized users with a siren song of perspicuous graphics and open exploration. Gamers flocked to game stores clamoring […]