Great Games: Day of the Tentacle

Hoagie meets the founding fathers

“Day of the Tentacle” is one of my favourite games of all time.  I played it through as a teenager and I loved the 3 streams of play.

The basic concept is that you play as 3 friends, all separated by 100 years (Laverne in 2176, BerNARD in 1976 [...]

Great Games: Invincible Island

One of my earliest gaming memories is in screaming in rage at this game.

It would say something like “you can see a bent fork.”  I would type “Pick up bent fork.” It would say something like “I don’t understand the word “bent.” I would scream.

The game was released in 1893 and I was [...]