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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Scrooge	LeisureLand	1991
Where's the Necessary Room?	Top Books	1983
Last Half of Darkness III	SoftLab Laboratories	1992
Tsarevna: A Medieval Russia Quest	Yavsoft	1994	Bob Bisquit is an American on a quest to win the heart of a beautiful Russian princess. Only the one who will find Tsarevna's real name can marry her, and thus Bob's journey begins. Tsarevna is a puzzle-solving point-and-click adventure game, with cartoon-like 2D graphics reminiscent of the first two Monkey Island games and other adventure titles of the early nineties. Puzzle solving is not the only aspect coming into picture in this game; players also get to take a look at life of a medieval Russian city (based on true historical facts!).
Troubles	Top Books	1983
Hilfe für Amajambere	Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung (The Art Department)	1995	Paul is a development aid worker in an African village called Amajambere. Since his popular predecessor has fallen ill, Paul steps in for him and tries to implement his concept. The problem is that the villagers don't cooperate and an important delivery goes missing.
The Dark Convergence	- (Jeff kintz)	1993	his is a very rare horror adventure game. The plot is simple: one night the player and some friends have a car crash on a near-deserted road. The player is sent out to search for some help and stumbles on an abandoned house. Inside it bloody bodies are found, and unknown menaces from other worlds and other dimensions try to kill the player. Will you survive the night and save the day? The game is programmed in QBasic (there is even the .bas file inside the game's folder) and the engine is similar to the one used in the Hugo's House of Horror series. The player controls the character with arrow keys and types the desired action using the parser. The game focuses on a morbid atmosphere and on violence with many nasty and gory situations in it. The plot and atmosphere for some ideas are reminiscent of Dark Seed.
Geheimprojekt DMSO	Merckle (The Art Department)	1993	Geheimprojekt DMSO ("Secret Project DMSO") features the generic private eye, the generic adventure setting and a lot of painkiller ointments, all ingeniously united on the game's cover illustration. DMSO is short for Dimethyl-Sulphoxide, the prime ingredient of Merckle Pharma's Dolobene(TM) and Rheumabene(TM) ointments, and thus a likely target for scheming international criminals. As detective Jack Bene, you travel through Europe in search for the formula, solving simple puzzles and using a fair amount of ointments on your way. Geheimprojekt DMSO is freeware, was published in German and Germany only, and features the exact ingredients of 100 g Dolobene(TM) and 100 g Rheumabene(TM) on no less than three manual pages.
The Legend of the Condor Heroes	Soft-World International	1993	This is the first game adaptation of the first part of the popular literary trilogy "Condor", written by Hong Kong writer Jin Yong (English name - Louis Cha ). The game uses the engine of the previous colorful RPG creation of Soft-World - Legend of Power Book. The plot of the first part of the trilogy tells us about the beginning of the invading army of the Jurchen Jin on the ground of the Song Dynasty in northern China. First, a strong male friendship between two soldiers - Jan Tesin and Guo Xiaotian. They fought shoulder to shoulder with the army Jin invaders. The friendship was so strong that they have agreed that if their future children will be of the same sex, they will be named brothers (or sisters), and if they are of different sexes - that they will be a married couple. Then Guo Xiaotian died and Yang Tesin went missing. The main part of the book is devoted to their children (both boys), whose names are Guo Jing and Yang Kang. The first was honest, kind, truthful, but a bit rustic, and the second is intelligent, cunning and vindictive. Over time, fate brings them together like this and like their fathers. But throughout the novel, the treacherous Yang Kang is revealed to be getting stronger and stronger. He planned to Jurchen invaders seize his native land Sung. But with the help of Guo Jing Jing army of Mongols break, and Yang Kang overtakes the punishing hand of fate. You will play a character Guo Jing, along the way meeting friends and other characters from the literary work. Many people mistakenly classify this game as just another RPG but in fact it is not. This is a typical genre of Adventure, since there are no RPG-parameters of the character. You just need to walk, to talk to people and take action. Main action is very short: talk (icon "conversation"), walking (the icon "man") and do (icon "hand"). There are more icons - a sword and a rag to wipe something. Discussions are displayed in the window with the image of the person speaking. If it is a thought to oneself, the text is enclosed in angle brackets. If it's just overheard conversations from the side it will not be a portrait of the speaker. For each correct action sequence made, gaming events will be transferred to the new state. In the story, you can move from one locality to another. In this case, you will be presented a general plan of the settlement and its individual species near buildings or on the streets. Learn the purpose of a house on the same map, you can use the menu item "eye". Gaming mouse will be painted in three different colors (red, yellow and green) when you hover over objects, people or animals. Green color means that the action is possible. Graphics resolution is the same as in the game Legend of Power Book and uses a similar method of vectorization: Chinese style and a limited set of contrasting colors. Actors in the frame can be a lot and they are pretty well animated.
Last Half of Darkness II	SoftLab Laboratories	1992	Last Half of Darkness II is an adventure game that uses the same engine as its predecessor. Maintaining the horror atmosphere, the game has the player interact with the environment by selecting verb commands and collecting items to solve puzzles and advance the story.
Backstage	Live Club (The Art Department)	1994
Dylan Dog: Through the Looking Glass	Simulmondo	1993
Homey D. Clown	Capstone Software (Synergistic Software)	1993	"Homey don't play that!" Take on the role of Homey D. Clown, the most popular Damon Wayans character from Fox's sketch-comedy series "In Living Color". Players guide Homey through his typical day on the streets of New York, using his sock to bop the annoying people he meets. Gameplay is point-and-click, with a combination of adventure and a little arcade.
The Dark Convergence II	- (Jeff kintz)	1994	This is the sequel to The Dark Convergence and takes place some time after the end of the original game. The player has survived the horrible night, but his mind is deeply scarred by the horrors he had to face. In fact, the player lives as a bum, wandering aimlessly on the streets, not capable of retrieving his own lost sanity. A new horrid menace may be lurking underneath the apparent calm and may be linked to the psychiatrist who is searching for the player. This game uses the same engine as the original game with similar gameplay and atmospheres.
Skyworker	Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (The Art Department)	1994	It's the 22nd century. To unburden the situation in the crowded cities huge platforms with research facilities, factories and living areas have been built in the sky. You play a young man or woman who has just finished school and gets the chance to live in SkyCity, one of those platforms. But there is one condition. You have to find an apprenticeship within three months if you don't want to be sent back to the surface. Skyworker is a game by the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Labour that simulates the application process for an apprenticeship. In fact, Skyworker is a life simulation. With your teleporter you visit different locations in the city like a bar, a casino, drugstores or shops where you can buy things and meet people who give you tips about applications or other locations in the city. To earn money you can do temporary jobs which are presented as a mini-game in which you have to arrange figures by their appearance for instance. Within three months you have to find an apprenticeship. If you are not sure for what job you want to apply for you can go to career counselling. In multiple choice questions they try to find out which job suits to you. Afterwards you can go to a training center where you can improve your skills. After having created a curriculum vitae you can contact enterprises and are invited to an interview in which the boss tries to find out if you have appropriate skills and are informed about the content of the job you are applying for. The next day you get either a declination or an invitation to an aptitude test. The test consists of 14 exercises about general education, logical thinking and mathematics. If you pass the test, you have the job but the game won't be over yet...
Börnie's Journey	Österreichische Bundesbahn (Top Job)	1994	The old question: What is faster, the train or the car? So even in Austria in the 90s, there were already negotiations about which wheels would get you from A to B faster. This is also the case with the main character of this nice game by Tob Job. Börnie bets with his friends that he can visit all the capitals of Austria by train within 80 hours and also complete a task in each city. While his friends are on the road by car. As always with Top Job, there are very nicely pixelated graphics in this game, even if the graphic style is a bit more unusual this time than in the other games. In terms of gameplay, the game stays within the standard of the genre without standing out negatively or positively. So it's definitely worth a look for adventure fans.
In the Dead of Night	Trecision	1995	In one of the better but sadly less-known shareware games, you are private investigator Tom Scool. You have been hired by a dishonest jewel collector to sneak into a famous actress' chalet, posing as the double of well-known thriller writer Eric Wells, and to steal her precious gem "Vesnú". But the actress was killed by one of her guests and because of snowstorm you have to wait for police and try to solve this murder case by yourself. Every character has their own personality and you have to find their weakest places, talking to all of them and collecting the items which are available for your inventory. The game sports some good puzzles, believable characters, and an excellent plot. Overall, an atmospheric game that could easily have sold as a commercial game, and boded well for Trecision's later adventure games, including the outstanding Nightlong.
Arnie Goes 4 Gold	Bank Austria AG (Top Job)	1994	This is a promotional game by an Austrian bank. It's a humorous adventure which plays with many Austrian stereotypes - it begins with the name of the protagonist: Arnie. After the death of his rich uncle Fritz he inherits a key to a house - but first he has to find it. The handling is similar to the SCUMM system found in the classic LucasArts adventures: You select between six verbs to interact with your surroundings. Unlike most adventures you can take several objects with you which have no use in the game. The puzzles mostly center around finding hidden items and using them in a creative way. And, of course, the usage of services provided by Bank Austria. This game was linked with a lottery.
Lethal Tender	Froggman (Pie in the Sky Software)	1993	Lethal Tender's graphics are similar to those of Wolfenstein 3D. Bad boy Nick Hunter must thwart the evil Thorne Devereaux's plan to coat U.S. currency with a time delayed explosive by infiltrating his base and mowing down swarms of identical nameless guards. Shoot guards, collect colored keys to open doors, pick up more powerful weapons — you know the drill. The game does set itself apart from other shareware FPS with the addition of inventory screen, some inventive level design, and some semblance of plot development.
Bi-Fi Roll: Action in Hollywood	Bi-Fi Roll (The Art Department)	1994	This is a free German advertising adventure for "Bi-Fi", a popular salami brand in Germany. Players take the role of Lukas, whose job is being a bike courier during the summer school break. One day he has to deliver the script for the new Bi-Fi commercial to the film studios. Suddenly he finds himself in a crime scene. The studio boss has been kidnapped, the spot production is being sabotaged and he is to solve the mystery. It's a typical point-and-click adventure game with a humorous plot and one of the best of these type.
Falsches Spiel mit Eddy M.	Via Productions (Gruner + Jahr)	1994	You play the media planner Eddy Mockelby that is fired by his boss, because he is said to have sold secret information to competitors. Prove his innocence. This advergame for German news magazine Stern is a point-and-click adventure that offers quite beautiful graphics. Eddy falls into a story about fraud and media manipulation.
Auf der Suche nach Dr. Gara	ARAG (Promotion Software)	1994	This is a free advertising game to promote ARAG insurance company. We have to go to Dinotown to solve the mystery of the prehistoric beings populating the city. Well, that's about the entire plot. First, we are approached by a dangerous dinosaur that compels us to enter name and address in a form, so that we come into possession of an identity document. We then find us on orientation map again, which makes up virtually the most gameplay. So we are at any of the countless villages only a short time and then land again on the map - assuming you will not be eaten by a giant lizard, because you have given a wrong answer. You go aimlessly through this area. There is an ice cream parlor, a car dealership, a golf course, a hospital, a radio tower, yes, even a disco. Only the ARAG insurance agency that employs the only human contact can help out sometimes. In addition, in the inventory a lot of great items are accumulated, which can not be considered because you do not know in 80% of cases what they are supposed to represent. There are no right puzzles, the difficulty is to find out at what place in Dinotown currently something can be done. The game seems designed for children and the graphics are static.
Weird Island	- (Kevin Lee)	1992	Weird Island is a graphic adventure which uses an original 'point and click' interface, eradicating the need for typing of complex sentences. It features graphic illustrations of every location from a first person perspective. This allows you to take part in the game as yourself not some computer character. The plot of the game is as follows:
Baldur's Gate: Edition spéciale	Interplay Productions	1998
Jonny Quest: Curse of the Mayan Warriors	Hollyware Entertainment (MicroIllusions)	1993
La Diosa de Cozumel	Aventuras AD	1990
Crazy Circus	Sparkasse (Ad Games)	1994	Frank and Jenny are witness to a kidnapping and work as amateur detectives in a crazy circus. This we learn in the intro of the promotional adventure for a savings bank. The cost of the game was quite remarkable for the time, at least in the advertising game sector. Integrated voice output, music on the cd as well as graphics of LucasArts level raise the game to a welcome change from the crowd.
Sunny Shine: On the Funny Side of Life	Philip Morris (Rainbow Arts)	1990
Die Goldene Mähne des Samson	Brinkmann Niemeyer (Advertising Games)	1994	One of the German advertising point-and-click adventures poular in the 90s, this one was made by the tobacco company Samson. It's reminiscent of an old dungeon crawler, but it is in fact a true adventure. The player's task is to find the golden mane of Samson. In addition to the adventure, it has five minigames for distraction. These can be started at any time and offer little games such as Go, Mahjongg and Pinball.
High Seas Homicide	Sherwood Forest Software	1993	High Sea Homicide is a murder mystery game. You are Martin T. Berringer, Master Detective from Scotland Yard. While on vacation aboard the HMS Elias ocean liner, you find yourself in the midst of yet another murder mystery. You must find the killer and bring them to justice. Use the Keyboard to input commands such as open door, get gun and look around. Requires VGA graphics and a hard drive.
The Secret of Donkey Island	Vochozka Trading (Pterodon Software)	1994	This is a parody on the glorious Monkey Island games... A pirate-wannabe Gaybush Nosehair must travel to the dangerous Donkey Island, to find a treasure and to face his enemy - the ghost-pirate LeDuck. The interface is pretty much the same like in first two Monkey Island games, and the graphics are also very similar. The development of "Tajemstvi Osliho ostrova" started after two students of the same high school - Jarek Kolar and Petr Vlcek first met. They worked on the game for fun and only in their free time. The programmer coded the whole game on a school's computer because he didn't have his own. After two years of development they contacted Petr Vochozka (the only one Czech publisher of games at those times) and signed a publishing deal with him. On June 20, 2000 (exactly 6 years after its first release) it was released as freeware.
Cleanman	Scotch (Rauser Advertainment)	1994	An adventure game made in the style of comic book superhero named Cleanman, this was distributed as a free application for cleaning videotapes by 3M - Scotch company
Berlin Connection	Berliner Morgenpost (Promotion Software)	1994	In the game you are Benny, a youngster from Berlin, who is bored of his loneliness. So you go to discotheque and meet a beautiful girl Mora. The main goal in the game is to make a good relationship with her, talking correctly to her and other people and using inventory items. Also Tom, a reporter of Berliner Morgenpost, is present in the game. This was a German advertising adventure that was a part of a targeted campaign for the recovery of young readers for the newspaper Berliner Morgenpost.
Abenteuer Europa	SPD (EgoSoft)	1994	With this point-and-click adventure the SPD political party in Germany tried in 1994 to recruit people for its party program and win the election. However, completely contrary to this adventure, they did not succeed in real life. Fred Beck, reporter of a strictly non-capitalist paper is stumbling through Europe, supposedly hunting for the story about a conspiracy of evil drug-traders and and the garbage-mafia.
Isle of the Dead	Merit Software (Rainmaker Software)	1993	A dull game which attempts to mix the shooter and adventure genres with not much success. You crash on a deserted island full of zombies and must escape. It has Wolfenstein type graphics and you can freely roam and shoot things until you come to an area which you must manipulate objects and use your inventory at which point the 3d view becomes static in order to do so.
Softporn II	?	1985	In the shadowy dives of Hoboken, New York, a lust-crazed man seals a final tryst with an old flame on the eve of her permanent relocation to far Denmark with her husband. This is a game that simulates a sexual exchange between a man (the player) and a simulated woman. Taking initial user input for the players' names, personality traits and measurements, it equips them with appropriate adjectives and behaviors and points them in the direction of the player's garret. Actual game input overlooks the strengths of a text parser, with viable options including various combinations of vanilla erogenous zones with hands and mouths. When the arousal levels of both parties is sufficient (both the male being flagged with "hard" status and the woman with "wet" -- indicated by the game via the report command) simulated penetration is allowed.
Kajko i Kokosz	Mirage Software (Seven Stars Multimedia)	1995	A pair of inseparable friends - smart, short, yet brave Kajko and his buddy, big, bald, fat, strong & gluttonous Kokosz - must face again the notorious Zbojcerze (Rogueknights) and their evil plot set to conquer the peaceful village of Mirmilowo. The early medieval setting and fantasy themes resemble "Asterix & Obelix". Kajko i Kokosz is a classic point & click adventure game, based on a popular Polish comic book series featuring the same characters. You can switch between the two characters at will, and some actions have to be done with a specific character. The controls are pretty simple - to interact with the environment, you just have to click. You have a limited space in your inventory, but you can take an object from your inventory and drop it anywhere at any time. The game graphics feature original artwork created by the creator of the series, Janusz Christa, thus retaining the "look & feel" of the comic books.
Paku Paku	Paladin Systems	2011
Nippon Safes Inc.	Dynabyte	1992
The Amazon Trail	MECC	1993	The game runs under Windows 3.1/95 or later, but sound and music will not work unless the game is run from DOS (or DOS Mode under 95).
Swigridova Kletba	JRC Interactive (Agawa)	1996
My Friend Koo	cdv Software Entertainment	1997
Wild West – The Incredible Adventures of Donald Reddish	Proline	1993
Discworld II: Missing Presumed...!?	Psygnosis (Perfect Entertainment)	1996	Death, the grim reaper, who normally ushers the Discworld inhabitants into the afterlife, is on an extended vacation. This means that those whose "time is up" are faltering around in limbo. Now it's up to Rincewind to bring him back or suffer the fate of immortality. Gameplay is divided into 4 Acts. There are many locations to explore and a multitude of obstacles in Rincewind's path to overcome. Conversations with characters and interaction with inventory objects is necessary to move ahead. The game features unique humour similar to the previous game.*** [84]
Bud Tucker in Double Trouble	Merit Studios;Topware Interactive (Merit Studios)	1996	This wacky adventure puts you in the shoes of Bud Tucker, a pizza delivery boy who also has a job as a lab assistant during the nights. The story involves some fantastic features, mad scientist and robots. One day, Bud found the Professor missing and later learns he's been kidnapped by the evil Dick Tate. Tate, an insane, whiny sob wishes to create a world filled with the people he loves most...himself. To do that, he plans to use one of the Professor's inventions and clone a billion versions of himself to populate the world. It's up to Bud Tucker to track down the loon and the Professor before Barryville becomes Tate Town. It's a point & click adventure where you must travel to various locations in Barryville and find clues and help from the citizens there. The game play consists of picking up items and using them when necessary. There are 3 parts in the game and in the first part, Bud Tucker is locked up in a crumbly hotel in Seedy Street. Speech is available in the game as well as subtitles. The menu (pick up, use, etc) can be displayed in words as well as icons. This cartoon adventure is sadly little known because Eidos cancelled its plan to distribute the game in the U.S... probably due to poor sales in Europe, which is probably due to lack of marketing. Because: it's a fun and solid game in every respect with a wacky plot, though disappointingly short.*** [84]
Tom Long: The Time Adventure	McCain (Promotion Software)	1994	This German adventure served as a promotion game for the food company McCain. It is only available in german language. Tom's girlfriend is trapped in a computer game and only he can free them. The graphics are very like LucasArts' Day of the Tentacle. The puzzles are well made, but the dialogue can be sometimes very confusing.
Andromedas Erbe	author	1994	Released in two parts. The first part was free, for the second part you had to register.
Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror	Virgin (Revolution)	1997
Project Paradise	Ikarion (Soft Enterprises)	1997
The Punisher	MicroProse (Paragon Software)	1990	Murder, vigilantism, revenge, bloody shootouts, family massacres, orgies, animal and human sacrifice, satanism... This was published by Microprose boys and girls. Sure, they do a lot of war simulations with implied violence (killing billions), but I can't recall them ever using so much up-close and personal depictions of so many mature subjects. Apparently the copy protection questions the game asks about the manual are based on an entirely different manual.

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