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Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb is an adventure game developed by The Dreamers Guild and published by New World Computing in 1994.. The point and click adventure game features a world of talking humanoid animals, with the gameplay focusing on a fox on a quest to find a stolen orb, a relic of the mythical humans.
A reviewer for Next Generation scored the compilation a perfect five out of five stars. He praised the "functionally comprehensive" selection of Infocom games and the six Interactive Fiction Competition games, estimated the total playtime at 1,200 hours minimum, and said the gameplay "represents the pinnacle of well written, interactive fiction."
Notable graphic adventure games of the 1980s Game Developer Publisher System Date released Notes Game engine Mystery House: On-Line Systems: On-Line Systems Apple II: 5 May 1980: First graphic adventure game, featuring black and white visuals. ADL (Adventure Development Language) Wizard and the Princess: On-Line Systems: On-Line Systems
The following list of text-based games is not to be considered an authoritative, comprehensive listing of all such games; rather, it is intended to represent a wide range of game styles and genres presented using the text mode display and their evolution across a long period.
A series of gamebooks and Lone Wolf: The Roleplaying Game; also a second game by Mongoose, the Lone Wolf Multiplayer Game Book: Lord of the Rings Adventure Game: Iron Crown Enterprises: 1991-1999 Based upon the fantasy works of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game: Decipher, Inc. 2002-2006 Based upon the fantasy works of J ...
Challenge of the Ancient Empires!, also known as Ancient Empires is an educational computer game created by The Learning Company in 1990 for both MS-DOS and Macintosh. [2] It is designed to improve history, logic, and problem solving skills in children ages 7 to 10 [3] (or 10 and up, according to the box art seen to the right).
Madeline is a series of educational point-and-click adventure video games which were developed during the mid-1990s for Windows and Mac systems. [1] [2] The games are an extension of the Madeline series of children's books by Ludwig Bemelmans, which describe the adventures of a young French girl.
Aliens Adventure Game, based on the 1986 film Aliens, emphasizes combat between human Colonial Marines and the space horrors from the movie. [1] Like the Living Steel adventure game previously published by Leading Edge Games in 1987, Aliens Adventure Game uses a much simplified version of the complex rules system used in Phoenix Command in 1986.