Category: Review
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Uninvited (Windows) Review
Written in 2010 I first posted this review on Abandonia. I am adding it here, in case Abandonia eventually closes. Score: 4 (out of 5) As I mentioned in the DOS review of Uninvited, the Windows remake was bound to get a separate entry on Abandonia. Five years separate the two releases, making it easy to…
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Uninvited (DOS) Review
Written in 2010 I first posted this review on Abandonia. I am adding it here, in case Abandonia eventually closes. Score: 3 (out of 5) Uninvited is a horror adventure game released in 1986 and is a hybrid between interactive fiction and a point-and-click game. It uses the same graphical interface as Déjà Vu: A Nightmare Comes…
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Word Whiz Review
Written in 2010 I first posted this review on Abandonia. I am adding it here, in case Abandonia eventually closes. Score: 3 (out of 5) Having a similar interface to Trivia Whiz, Word Whiz is a game that tests your English language vocabulary. A shareware game created in 1990 by Scott Miller, Apogee/3D Realms re-released it as freeware…
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Trivia Whiz Review
Written in 2010 I first posted this review on Abandonia. I am adding it here, in case Abandonia eventually closes. Score: 2 (out of 5) It’s hard to compare trivia games to other games. Testing one’s intellectual level is not something that most gamers enjoy doing, especially since the other genres look so much more…
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Prisoner of Ice Review
Written in 2013 I first posted this review on Abandonia. I am adding it here, in case Abandonia eventually closes. Score: 3 (out of 5) Between the 1992 release of Alone in the Dark and 1995, when Prisoner of Ice was launched, horror adventure games have become a real phenomenon in the industry. The genre has the perfect devices…
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Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow & the Flame Review
Written in 2009 I first posted this review on Abandonia. I am adding it here, in case Abandonia eventually closes. Score: 4 (out of 5) Thought the story ended with Jaffar’s death? Not so fast! After the prince defeated the evil Vizier, the Sultan, who has returned from the foreign wars, offered him great riches.…
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Prince of Persia (1990) Review
Written in 2009 I first posted this review on Abandonia. I am adding it here, in case Abandonia eventually closes. Score: 5 (out of 5) Many of you may have forgotten already, but before I reviewed this game there was a stub review written by the founder of Abandonia, Kosta. In 5-6 lines of words,…
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Playskool Puzzles Review
Written in 2012 I first posted this review on Abandonia. I am adding it here, in case Abandonia eventually closes. Score: 3 (out of 5) It’s only natural that a toy maker would expand into the realm of educational software–and that’s exactly what Hasbro did in the 1990s. They’ve published more than a few titles…
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Monuments of Mars Review
Written in 2009 I first posted this review on Abandonia. I am adding it here, in case Abandonia eventually closes. Score: 2 (out of 5) Monuments of Mars is a CGA-based platform game released in 1991 by Todd Replogle through Apogee Software, and I must admit that the only reason I wanted to review it…
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Murders in Space Review
Written in 2010 I first posted this review on Abandonia. I am adding it here, in case Abandonia eventually closes. Score: 3 (out of 5) Murders in Space is the last title released in a unique series of adventure games that had you solve countless crime cases in some of the most exotic places ever: from…
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