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And the Trilogy Becomes a Quartet
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 09/22/2017
In the 1980s, developer ICOM Simulations released a series of point-and-click Adventure games on Macintosh. PC gamers of the time were staunchly entrenched in DOS, so these games received relatively little fanfare… that is until the Japanese companies Kemco and Seika got their hands on these titles and ported them to the original NES. While the Mac originals had no background music and horrible Mac OS (pre-X) interfaces, the Japanese outfitted the NES versions with killer chiptune soundtracks and a clean UI that would work just as well with a mouse as a controller. As a result of this collaborative effort, “Shadowgate,” “Uninvited,” and “Déjà Vu: A Nightmare Comes True” are still considered some of the best, most iconic Adventure games of all time. While “Déjà Vu” …
