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The Witness Infocom1985 labelimageminimize
Borrowed Time Activision (Interplay)1986Borrowed Time is set in mid-1930's. The player assumes the role of a private investigator named Sam Harlow, who has to solve the kidnapping of his ex-wife Rita Sweeney. At the beginning, he runs away from two thugs, who want to kill him for an unknown reason. They fail, and he begins to search the town for clues, asking its inhabitants for information. But if the player makes a wrong move, Sam dies - killers come from nowhere and murder him...

The player has to type in combinations of verbs and nouns to make an action. Locations are described in text form and presented by pictures, the latter often providing additional information not contained in the text description.***
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos Infocom1986Budget version
[63]***Requires 520ST or newer, 512KB, keyboard. 1 Player. Supports a printer.
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Bob Winner Loriciels1987 labelimageminimize
Prohibition Infogrames1987 labelimageminimize
Murder on the Atlantic IntraCorp (Cobra Soft)1988 labelminimizeminimize
Chicago 30's  Topo Soft;U.S. Gold (Topo Soft)1989 labelimageminimize
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Action Game Lucasfilm Games;U.S. Gold (Tiertex)1989 labelimageminimize
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure Lucasfilm Games;U.S. Gold (Lucasfilm Games)1989Europe, 1938. The Lost Ark was just a warm-up! Now Adolf Hitler is after the most powerful talisman of all - the Holy Grail. A few brave men stand in his way. Fortunately, one of them is Indiana Jones. And this time, he has his dad with him. The bad guys are in your face all the way - Nazis, mercenaries, traitors and spies. Not to mention everything the Luftwaffe can throw at you. Can you handle the heat? If you can, you just might earn a higher I.Q. (Indy Quotient) than the man with the whip and the hat.***
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The King of Chicago Cinemaware (Master Designer Software)1989 labelimageminimize
Total Eclipse Incentive Software;Spotlight Software1989An impending eclipse of the sun is about to trigger an ancient Egyptian curse. The Earth will be annihilated unless you, racing against time, can locate and destroy a mysterious, secret shrine. Alone in a vast Egyptian pyramid, you face a chamber of horrors beyond your wildest dreams as you roam blindlessly amidst the mystic ruins. Hoping your cartography skills are stonger than your stomach, you grimace as you plunge forward into the pungent atmosphere of what could be your greatest archeological discoverya - and if you fail - your last.

Avoid poison darts, booby traps, mummies, deadly spiders, and other fatal surprises in your search! Confront and overcome obstacles which no human has faced in over 4000 years!

- Total Eclipse features "Freescape", a fast, smooth-scrolling solid 3-D graphics system. Feel like you are actually travelling in a great Egyptian pyramid as you view the surroundings in a 3-D first person point-of-view.
- Adventure, arcade action, puzzles, traps, treasures and more!
- Race against a real-time clock to save mankind from destruction!
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Dick Tracy Titus1990 labelimageminimize
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis LucasArts;U.S. Gold1992 labelimageminimize
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