Vintage Gaming - part three: other Adventure Games, ScummVM, and ID Software

Posted by: Rea Maor In: Games

Our next stop on the vintage gaming tour is ScummVM, the portable virtual machine with the unappetizing name. The AGI interpreters do great for Sierra, and Sierra was certainly at the top of the games market (at a time when they didn’t even know it themselves!), but many other adventure gaming companies deserve their due [...]


Vintage Gaming - part two: Sierra Games and DOSbox

Posted by: Rea Maor In: Games

The number one most in-demand category of vintage games is the legendary games of Sierra online. Sometimes I think Sierra Entertainment suffers a misguided notion; they continue today as a division of Vivendi, and they’re still putting out game titles today - even for present-day consoles. Yet the fans are screaming for the classic PC [...]


Vintage Gaming - part one: The Least You Need to Know

Posted by: Rea Maor In: Games

This five-part series will explore the world of vintage game revivals. These are the largely fan-driven efforts to port classic games of the 80’s and 90’s to modern-day platforms. The process is slow, difficult, and riddled with legal hang-ups, but if you play detective and dig into some instructions, the reward for re-living a glorious [...]