Recovered games - an IFDB Poll
by Denk
RSS FeedAny game which has been practically unavailable for a long time for most players but is now again available to play, though there might be differences from the original version.
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| Bee, by Emily Short 3 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Denk... (No comment) [+](No comment) () --Drew Cook... (No comment) [+](No comment) --ccpost...  Vote for this game | |
| Final Girl 2.0, by Hanon Ondricek 2 votes (No comment) [+](No comment) --Denk... (No comment) [+](No comment) --Laney Berry... Vote for this game | |
| Gorm, by Chris Allen 1 vote "An Old Time Travel Quest For The Archimedes" [+]"An Old Time Travel Quest For The Archimedes: A very large magazine cover game from 1994. Extremely well done. I love the juxtaposition of locales and objects from different eras. It runs very smoothly in the RPCEmu Emulator." ( - Full review) --Canalboy... Vote for this game | |
| Mirror of Khoronz, by Derek Haslam 1 vote "updated version available for Archimedes under Derek Haslam's boulsworth web address. " [+]"updated version available for Archimedes under Derek Haslam's boulsworth web address. " ( - Full review) --Canalboy... Denk says: Thanks, I love old school games. Vote for this game | |
| Olimpo en Guerra, by Eduardo José Villalobos Galindo 1 vote "Part 2 recovered in 2020" [+]"Part 2 recovered in 2020: See website/WikiCAAD links for the story (in Spanish). Part 2 of this 1989 game was thought lost until 2020, when the author recovered it from an unfinished version." --JTN... Vote for this game | |
| The Cavity of Time, by Sam Kabo Ashwell 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Sobol... Denk says: Thanks, seems to fit the poll requirements. Vote for this game | |
| HAUNT, by John Laird 1 vote "Really Arcane Mainframe Game Written In OPS-4 in 1979" [+]"Really Arcane Mainframe Game Written In OPS-4 in 1979: Now runnable on a Windows PDP Emulator. I emailed John some years ago and he was very helpful. Check out his page on the game here https://laird.engin.umich.edu/haunt/" ( ) --Canalboy... Denk says: Thanks. I understand from CASA that there is no save-feature which could become quite cumbersome I can imagine. Vote for this game | |
| Crystal Cave, by Kevin O'Gorman 1 vote "A Really Obscure Old Colossal Cave Variant" [+]"A Really Obscure Old Colossal Cave Variant: Watch out for Ranger Rick! Being English I'd never heard of him but he is a real pain. This game is very weird but worth a look if like me you love obscurities. Denk where are you?" ( ) --Canalboy... Denk says: Thanks, that is already a lot of interesting proposals to look into. Vote for this game | |
| Gateway to Karos, by Derek Haslam 1 vote "Expanded Archimedes Version" [+]"Expanded Archimedes Version: A Wonderful New Version Of Derek Haslam's Old Acornsoft Masterpiece" ( - Full review) --Canalboy... Vote for this game | |
| Grassy Knoll: The JFK Assassination Simulation, by Tom Kidd 1 vote "Does it count if it was never released?" [+]"Does it count if it was never released?" --JTN... Vote for this game | |
| Castlequest, by Michael S. Holtzman and Mark Kershenblatt 1 vote "old advent style mainframe game" [+]"old advent style mainframe game: Recovered by Arthur O'Dwyer and well worth a look for the traditionalists among us." ( - Full review) --Canalboy... Denk says: Thanks, this one sounds fun! Vote for this game | |
| Ronin, by David Alzofon, Cathryn Mataga 1 vote "Written 1980s; recovered 2023" [+]"Written 1980s; recovered 2023: It's not the final version and is reportedly very incomplete, but still, some of the experience has been recovered." --JTN... Vote for this game | |
| Quest, by Roger Plowman, David Betz 1 vote "A Very Obscure Old DOS / TADS Fantasy Quest. " [+]"A Very Obscure Old DOS / TADS Fantasy Quest. : A great old-fashioned romp in a claustrophobic valley. If you love ADVENT you will love this." ( ) --Canalboy... Vote for this game | |