hey guys, I'll put put up a blog post later today , but I'm so excited about this. HardCoreGaming101 has been working on a book for a couple years now and it's finally done. It's a complete history of the "golden age" of adventure games. If you know HG101, then you know this is serious and thorough reading. It's a huuuuuuuge tome worthy of the HG101 name, as it's a real education in the genre.
and of course I'm so honored and excited that Kurt included a (short) essay I wrote on Scooby-Doo Classic Creep Capers for GBC.
Full info, table of contents and link to order the book at the link above.
racketboy wrote:Just bought it! Not that I am short on things to read at the moment, but I'm all for supporting HG101 and I'm short on knowledge of the genre...
awesome! It's well over 700 pages, so should keep you busy for a while.
Gamerforlife wrote:This looks pretty awesome. I would love to learn a bit more about some of the graphic adventures I've finished like Day of the Tentacle
the list of games covered is insane!
Table of Contents (in very loose order)
All About Sierra
King's Quest
Space Quest
Leisure Suit Larry
Police Quest
Quest for Glory
Gabriel Knight
Laura Bow
Phantasmagoria
Freddy Pharkas
EcoQuest
Pepper's Adventures in Time
Torin's Passage
Codename: Iceman
The Black Cauldron
Gold Rush!
Shivers
Lighthouse
Heart of China
Rise of the Dragon
The Adventures of Willy Beamish
Rama
Fascination
Bargon Attack
Lost in Time
Ween: The Prophecy
Gobliiins
The Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble
All About LucasArts
Labyrinth
Maniac Mansion
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Indiana Jones - Last Crusade / Fate of Atlantis
Loom
Monkey Island
Sam & Max
The Dig
Full Throttle
Grim Fandango
All About Legend
Spellcasting
TimeQuest
Gateway
Eric the Unready
Companions of Xanth
Superhero League of Hoboken
Death Gate
Mission Critical
Shannara
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles
Myst
The 7th Guest
ICOM MacVentures:
Shadowgate
Deja Vu
Uninvited
Lure of the Temptress
Beneath a Steel Sky
Broken Sword
Dark Seed
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Harvester
Sanitarium
Bad Mojo
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet/Prisoners of Ice
Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller
Dreamweb
Noctropolis
Blade Runner
Star Trek (Judgment Rites, 25th Anniversary, Final Unity)
Future Wars
Operation Stealth
Cruise for a Corpse
Legend of Kyrandia
Neverhood
The Last Express
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes
The Journeyman Project
Hugo
Tex Murphy
Discworld
Simon the Sorceror
The Feeble Files
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Zork
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
Dragonsphere
Return of the Phantom
Touche
Les Manley
Altered Destiny
Inherit the Earth
Toonstruck
Starship Titanic
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Scooby Doo Mystery (Genesis/Gameboy)
Blazing Dragons
Blade Runner
Kingdom O' Magic
KGB / Conspiracy
Innocent Until Caught
The Orion Conspiracy
The Gene Machine
Ripper
Neuromancer
Beavis & Butthead in: Virtual Stupidity / Do U / Daria's Inferno
Igor: Objective Uikokahonia
Dune
Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick
Amazon: Guardians of Eden
Dragon Lore
Nippon Safes, Inc / Big Red Adventure
Fable (1996)
Personal Nightmare
Alien Incident
Ringworld / Return to Ringworld
Universe
Curse of Enchantia
Murder on the Mississippi
Enchanted Scepters
The Fish Files
Snow Job
Circuit's Edge
Chewy: ESC from F5
Lost Eden
Tass Times in Tonetown
The Dark Half
Teenagent
Orion Burger
The Space Bar
Cosmology of Kyoyo
Obsidian
Gadget: Past as Future
Bad Day on the Midway
Tequila & Boom Boom
Bureau 13
Bud Tucker in Double Trouble
Jack Orlando
Hopkins FBI
Wayne's World
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
Snoopy: The Cool Computer Game
Hook
Earthrise
Jerome Lange Mysteries (Mortville Manor / Maupiti Island)
Gold & Glory: The Road to El Dorado
The Dark Eye
Ripley's Believe It or Not: The Riddle of Master Lu
Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy
The Longest Journey / Dreamfall
Amerzone
AMBER: Journeys Beyond
Morpheus
9: The Last Resort
Syberia
Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
Snatcher
Policenauts
Shadow of Destiny
Runaway
Strongbad's Cool Game for Attractive People
Limbo of the Lost
Secret Files
A Vampyre Story
Gray Matter
Indie:
Ben There, Dan That!/Time Gentlemen, Please!
The Chzo Mythos
Machinarium
The Shivah
Emerald City Confidential
Gemini Rue
Interviews:
Al Lowe (Designer of Leisure Suit Larry)
Corey Cole (Designer of Quest for Glory)
Bob Bates (Founder of Legend Entertainment)
Josh Mandel (Writer/Designer/Voice Actor for Sierra)
I mean, the Ween game is even in there! You can't get much more thorough. Haha.
Just bought it! Adventures games on the PC brings back some really great memories for me, plus anything Kurt does is usually fantastic. Thanks for the heads up!
Pardon my ignorance but what's up with the candles around the King's Quest creator on the back page? I read the page and it didn't say anything about an homage or dedication (if she passed).
