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A Welcome Return
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/12/2015
The original “Shadowgate” was created by ICOM Simulations, a Western game maker that, at the time, was equivalent to modern Indie developers in its scope. “Shadowgate” was the third in a series of four stellar Adventure games that were originally released for Mac OS, but were quickly ported to a range of other PC platforms and consoles. My first experience with ICOM’s Adventure games came from the NES ports, which were among the finest pieces of entertainment to be found on that 8-bit console, despite still falling into standard Adventure game design flaw of sometimes being a bit too clever for their own good.
Regardless, thanks to its fantasy theme and tantalizingly dangled background lore, “Shadowgate” was always my favorite of the ICOM games. As a middle-schooler, I …
