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Re: Adventure Games(Mac Style) and Spam         

Group: comp.sys.mac.games.adventure · Group Profile
Author: Andrew Plotkin
Date: Apr 30, 2008 19:52

Here, Agent 5 yahoo.com> wrote:
> Even Zarf has taken to reviewing PS2 and PC games neigh on
> exclusively.

Sorry!

Some of my reviews are for games that are PC/Mac releases. But I've
stopped posting them here because, well, it's all spam and nobody's
listening. I wrote a lot about Myst Online, which supported (Intel)
Macs, but those essays were posted on my web site rather than on
Usenet. (And now it's been cancelled.)

Newsgroups die. It's unfortunate. It's not necessarily the same as Mac
adventure games dying, but it's related.

On the other hand, quite a bit of current adventure gaming consists of
micro-games written in Flash. Those work on Macs. The "hidden object"
genre has sort of extended its tendrils into the adventure world --
they're not pure adventure games but some of them have puzzles and
environmental interactions. Most of those are available for Mac and
PC.

For the big adventure releases, yeah, you pretty much have to run
Windows in some way.

--Z

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