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Burns11 · 10-18-2010, 08:08 AM

All the Icom adventures for the NES, Deja Vu, Shadowgate and Uninvited, were interesting (they were ports of earlier games originally released on Apple platforms and are rudimentary transitional games trying to put a graphical interface on a text adventure.

You have Princess Tomato in Salad Kingdom, which is a Japanese knockoff of the Icom adventures.

Nightshade is a pretty good and overlooked adventure.

Murder on the Missippi is a pretty good Japanese adventure with a branching storyline that had 4 endings, that I don't think was ever translated.

Then you have adventures that were a bit of jumping action but had an emphasis on environmental puzzles, Solstice and Star Tropics (the latter is one of my favorite NES games).

You also have Sweet Home, which was a kind of adventure-RPG hybrid.

I didn't include mediocre ports of popular PC adventures like Maniac Mansion and King's Quest V (I think it was).

10-18-2010, 08:08 AM	#5
Burns11 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 188	All the Icom adventures for the NES, Deja Vu, Shadowgate and Uninvited, were interesting (they were ports of earlier games originally released on Apple platforms and are rudimentary transitional games trying to put a graphical interface on a text adventure. You have Princess Tomato in Salad Kingdom, which is a Japanese knockoff of the Icom adventures. Nightshade is a pretty good and overlooked adventure. Murder on the Missippi is a pretty good Japanese adventure with a branching storyline that had 4 endings, that I don't think was ever translated. Then you have adventures that were a bit of jumping action but had an emphasis on environmental puzzles, Solstice and Star Tropics (the latter is one of my favorite NES games). You also have Sweet Home, which was a kind of adventure-RPG hybrid. I didn't include mediocre ports of popular PC adventures like Maniac Mansion and King's Quest V (I think it was).