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Last modified on Thu 27 May 2021 05.31 EDT 15. Maniac Mansion (1987, ) The 1980s were crammed with wonderful adventure games – The Hobbit, King’s Quest, Leather Goddesses of Phobos – but the first point-and-click title to be designed by comic genius Ron Gilbert using the SCUMM scripting language is the classic that busted out of the genre ghetto. Filled with great jokes and B-movie cliches, the game made brilliant use of its accessible and intuitive interface, as well as seamles...

Photo: Jesse Kumin/Permission of Hock Wah Yeo With GameStop’s stock exploding and shrinking on a weekly basis, it’s easy to forget that until recently, it was an open question whether the next-gen of gaming consoles were going to come with an optical drive at all. Physical games managed to avoid the grim reaper, for now, but little care is put into their packaging these days. A whole generation missed out on a time when you could walk into a Babbages and an encyclopedia-sized PC game box pr...

Packaging for the Asciiware Sphere 360 PlayStation controller (photo courtesy of Hock Wah Yeo) When Hock Wah Yeo was hired by the game publisher Velocity, the head of the company gave him an unusual order: “Scare me.” 1     Let’s say you go to the store and buy a video game. What does it look like? Chances are, it comes in a plastic box, roughly the size of a DVD case, and there’s a logo on the top that tells you what platform it’s for — Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo. It’s easy to...

Arcade Classic, Lode Runner, from Tozai Games Coming to iiRcade Share Article Officially licensed from Tozai Games, four titles from the Lode Runner series will be added to the iiRcade Store, including the original arcade version. Lode Runner is an all-time classic, both on early 80’s home consoles as well as in the arcade. iiRcadians should really enjoy this nostalgic series. CHICAGO (PRWEB) January 26, 2021 iiRcade Inc., the ul...