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O' LINKS
Feel free to visit any of these great websites. I’m not partnered with
any of them and I don’t receive a dime if you click any of the links
below. Some of them you may have already heard of, others are just
cool sites that might get overlooked in the increasingly crowded world
wide web.
GAME CREATION
Adventure Game Studio
Chris Jones’ amazing swapware game
creation utility. Updated often, vigorously supported and featuring a
robust support forum. Many of the Barn Runner games were made with this
great program.
Game Maker
Mark Overmars’ equally amazing game
creation utility. In addition to Adventure Game Studio, this engine is
also being used to create some of my games. It’s not swapware, but it is powerful and versatile enough to
justify the small price tag.
GAME RELATED
Video Game Music Archive
Where old console game .midis go to be
forever enshrined.
Just Adventure Games
Reviews of all the classic and not so
classic games of yesterday. Take a trip back to the days when games
required quick thinking and not a quick trigger finger to complete.
Home of the Underdogs
Packed to the rafters with all the
games that made classic adventure gaming so great – And it’s all FREE!
Download some of the greatest games ever published but PLEASE DONATE TO
THE CAUSE! All that bandwidth ain’t free. Besides, they have the coolest
mascot ever and you know you need to buy a tee shirt with that kind of
cool printed on the front!
Abandonia
Reloaded
Reviews of some of the best freeware
games available on the net. They gave some of the Barn Runner games great
reviews, so you know they have good taste!
*NEW*
Caiman Free Games
Like Abandonia above, Rudy and his crew
have collected some great freeware games. Plus they've been big
supporters of the Barn Runner games for several years now!
MISCELLANEOUS
Grumpy Gamer
Ron Gilbert's (he of Monkey
Island and other classic LucasArts Gaming fame) editorial / rant
website. One of the greats of adventure gaming plus he has a fascinating
article in the archives about just how much work and money goes into producing old school
adventure games. Well worth the time of any game maker in the making.
TEXTFILESDOTCOM
A nostalgic peek into the early days of
the internet. For anyone who visited a bulletin board system back in the
days when BBSs were the only thing you COULD visit, this is the place for
you. Just browsing this site makes me remember when
War
Games was the
most cutting edge hacker coolness I had ever seen. I should have linked
this site from the very beginning as it is very much in tune with the
"retro-ness" TWI is all about.
The Watley Review
A great humor site with a
distinct feel. How would the world at the turn of the last century report
on the news of the world of today? Go there and find out -- and send them
an electro-mail while you're at it. Not updated as often as I would like,
but funny, unique and even more retro than TWI is!
Paleo-Future
For everyone who digs the
retro-science vibe of my games, behold! A site that catalogs just the sort
of visions of the future I was raised on as a child of the 70s / 80s!l
*NEW*
What You Ought To Know
The Brothers Winn fill your head
with almost useful information in these funny, short films. If you've ever
wondered why it feels so weird when you
whack your funny bone or why
orange juice tastes so damn nasty if you've just
brushed your teeth, then
this is the place for you.
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