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Speaking of puzzles, they’re where Personal Nightmare gets everything wrong. So, start stuffing objects in there, although this might mess you up on later puzzles. Weirdly, your briefcase within inventory provides a secondary inventory which is massive. Thankfully the inventory has a fully graphical representation although it has a max capacity.

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Clicking on one helps fill out the text parser, although you can just as easily type out a full command by hand. A list of verbs is always present on the right side of the screen. This game uses a parser-based system with some graphical elements. Of course, the map itself is huge meaning you can still get lost for other reasons. Rooms look distinct as well-meaning you won’t get lost in a maze of samey-looking sections. In particular, death scenes (which you’ll come across frequently) are super grisly. Pixel art has moved away from the “painterly” style that became prominent before 3D graphics took over so this all looks very refreshing. The best aspect of Personal Nightmare are the graphics. It seems this is the case with most of Horrorsoft/Adventure Soft’s catalog (see Waxworks). However, this 1989 horror title is steeped with so much antiquated adventure gaming conventions that it is extremely hard to come back to today. And heck, there are definitely some horrifying moments in the title. Personal Nightmare is a great name for a horror game.

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The now defunct company released Simon the Sorcerer 3D in 2002 and Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth in 2005.Platform: PC – Amiga, Atari ST, DOS, GOG*

In 1998 Mike and Simon Woodroffe set up Headfirst Productions to allow them to develop non-adventure style games. In 1997 Adventure Soft released The Feeble Files, with the lead character being voiced by Robert Llewellyn who played Kryten also in Red Dwarf.

Simon in the first game was voiced by Chris Barrie who played Arnold Rimmer in Red Dwarf. Waxworks and the Elvira games used a modified AberMUD 5 game engine.Ī remodelled Adventure Soft Publishing was born in 1992 and began to release the famous Simon the Sorcerer series, continuing the trend towards more graphical gaming. It was followed by two games based around Elvira, Mistress of the Dark: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark and Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus, and a game named Waxworks, all of which moved away from keyboard command input to mouse-driven gaming with animation and music from Jezz Woodroffe (a session musician with Robert Plant, Black Sabbath and other bands). The first 16-bit game Personal Nightmare based on a design by Keith Wadhams featured music, animation and some mouse control coupled with a traditional text-based game system. With the rise of more powerful systems like the Amiga and a growing disinterest in text-focused games Adventure Soft began to actively exploit the graphical and multimedia angle of the games. Adventure Soft also began producing games for Tynesoft including the game of Supergran and Terraquake (featuring He-Man). The first fruits of this deal were Seas of Blood by Michael Woodroffe and Alan Cox, followed by Stefan Ufnowski's Rebel Planet Temple of Terror by Mike and Simon Woodroffe followed shortly afterwards.īlizzard Pass (a single-player game closely related to AberMUD) by Cox and Kayleth (by Stefan and Ann Ufnowski) followed as the company diversified the game range. Adventure Soft signed deals that gave it access to the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, as well as a new more sophisticated game system.

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1985 saw the release of a game based on the television series Robin of Sherwood.īy 1986 Adventure International in the U.S. The first and perhaps most successful of these was Gremlins – The Adventure (1984) based on the film Gremlins. Adventure Soft employed Brian Howarth, the author of the Mysterious Adventures series.Īfter a time the rate of release of games by Adventure International slowed and the company began to write other games using the same system. In the beginning Adventure Soft operated out of Birmingham, converting the Adventure International games by Scott Adams to run on microcomputers found in the United Kingdom market which were not currently supported.