Adventure Game Reviews and Essays

All reviews are copyrighted by Murray Peterson. Please ask the author for permission to use the reviews.
• A short analysis of adventure games. Too much metaphor, too little analysis...
• My "Top Ten" list of games (poor counting skills)
• Alida (reviewed October 10, 2004)
• Atlantis II (reviewed June 4, 2000)
• Beyond Atlantis II (AKA Atlantis III)(reviewed November 21, 2001)
• Black Dahlia (reviewed March 3, 2002)
• Black Mirror (reviewed November 30, 2003)
• The Cameron Files (Secret at Loch Ness) (reviewed February 24, 2002)
• Chronomaster (reviewed August 23, 2000)
• Dark Fall (reviewed October 31, 2002)
• The Dig (reviewed May 21, 2000)
• DiscWorld II (reviewed June 14, 2000)
• DiscWorld Noir (reviewed April 19, 2000)
• Dracula Resurrection (reviewed April 25, 2001)
• Dracula, The Last Sanctuary (reviewed May 2, 2001)
• Egypt II (The Heliopolos Prophecy) (reviewed February 24, 2002)
• Egypt II (Drum puzzle saved game)
• Egypt 1156 B.C. Tomb of the Pharoah (reviewed January 6, 2001)
• Eric the Unready (reviewed May 22, 2000)
• Escape from Monkey Island (reviewed December 31, 2001)
• Faust: The seven games of the soul (reviewed February 9, 2001)
• The Forgotten, It Begins... (reviewed May 9, 2002)
• Gabriel Knight II (The Beast Within) (reviewed August 18, 2002)
• Gabriel Knight III (Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned) (reviewed June 14, 2000)
• Gateway (reviewed October 4, 2000)
• Jazz and Faust (reviewed September 3, 2002)
• Journey to Pompeii (reviewed March 12, 2001)
• The Longest Journey (reviewed July 21, 2000)
• Mummy, Tomb of the Pharaoh (reviewed June 5, 2001)
• Myst III: Exile (reviewed June 2, 2001)
• Myst IV: Revelation (reviewed October 30, 2004)
• Mystery of the Druids (reviewed March 17, 2002)
• Mystery of the Mummy (March 14, 2003)
• Nancy Drew, Message in a Haunted Mansion (reviewed May 9, 2002)
• Nancy Drew, Treasure in the Royal Tower (reviewed March 29, 2002)
• Obsidian (reviewed May 2, 2000)
• Odyssey...The Search for Ulysses (reviewed December 17, 2000)
• Post Mortem (reviewed January 3, 2003)
• Rama (reviewed May 7, 2000)
• RealMyst (reviewed December 27, 2000)
• Rhem (reviewed December 19, 2002)
• Riddle of the Sphinx (reviewed March 23, 2001)
• Road to India (reviewed March 29, 2002)
• Sacred Amulet (also published as Aztec) (reviewed August 28, 2000)
• Safecracker (reviewed April 15, 2001)
• Salammbo (reviewed June 14, 2003)
• Sanitarium (reviewed June 19, 2000)
• Schizm (reviewed January 26, 2002)
• Secret of Monkey Island (Monkey Island I) (reviewed September 10, 2000)
• Stupid Invaders (reviewed April 8, 2001)
• Syberia (reviewed September 10, 2002)
• Teen Agent (reviewed December 8, 2000)
• Tex Murphy, Overseer (reviewed March 12, 2001)
• Tex Murphy, Pandora Directive (reviewed November 21, 2000)
• Tex Murphy, Under a Killing Moon (reviewed October 9, 2000)
• URU (reviewed December 5, 2003)
• URU: Path of the Shell (reviewed August 29, 2003)
• The Watchmaker (reviewed September 23, 2002)

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• Sample Xnews filter file (score.ini) for dealing with binary group spam
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