Mr Bill's Favorite Links

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Where To Buy Games

Getting Help With Games

Online Adventure Game Magazines

Specific Game Websites

Interactive Fiction (Text Adventures)

Game Development

Websites devoted to helping you and me develop our own games

Getting Help With Games

Adventure Games Coalition

The Adventure Games Coalition is a worldwide group of websites that all support the Adventure Game genre. If you are looking for walkthroughs, cheats, demos, or patches, plus reviews, previews, articles, and more about Adventure Games, just visit these sites. They are all devoted to promoting Adventure Games.

Balmoral Software Excellent walkthroughs for many of the games listed on Mr. Bill's Game Reviews. They also list and describe those games that they consider the Top 10 Best Adventure Games Of All Time.

Castle Darkmoon Great walkthroughs for many of the older classics (including numerous text adventures) as well as for some of the newer adventure games. Also has UHS hint files (Universal Hint System) for many of these same games.

GameBoomers This website was designed by adventure gamers for adventure gamers. Here you can find discussion boards (forums) where members help each other by providing hints or solutions to those stuck in a game, and also help to get a game installed and/or running correctly. The site also has walkthroughs, reviews, and previews for many adventure games as well as for other genres. Another wonderful aspect of this website is the music and other memorabilia located there that is associated with the 'Baby Boomer' era.

Game Nuts This is another website that was designed by adventure gamers for adventure gamers. They have forums where members provide hints or solutions to each other, as well as help in getting a game to run correctly. They also provide links to walkthroughs, reviews and previews for a very large number of adventure games.

Games Over Bert Jamin's website, who says "Stuck in a game? Even after days you can't get any further? No sweat! Go to my Walkthroughs to find the complete walkthrough that you need for the game. You will find walkthroughs for almost every game (older games as well as the very newest games)! And of course I keep the walkthroughs as up to date as possible."

Jeanne's Great Game Links Whatever game genre you enjoy, Jeanne has designed this site for you and me as an easy way to find hints for the games that we play. Here you will find links to sites containing game walkthroughs and cheats, game manufacturers, online magazines, places to buy and sell games and much more. Updated Monthly!

Linda's Adventure Home Page Linda invites everyone to fly into her 'Orbit of Adventure Games'! She has many message boards where she and others answer questions relative to where to find a game, where to find a walkthrough, why won't my game run, etc. Linda also provides some walkthroughs of her own and many links to other helpful sites (finding patches, walkthroughs, developers, publishers, sellers, and so on).

Mystery Manor Adventure This beautiful site provides reviews, screenshots, saved games, walkthroughs, music and much more for many many adventure games.

The Spoiler Center Provides a very large number of walkthroughs for games of all genres. Walkthroughs for most of the games that are on Mr. Bill's website can be found here.

Universal Hint System The Universal Hint System ($20 registration fee) provides a hint system that only gives hints as you need them. Less apt to spoil your game than by using walkthroughs. They have hint files available for hundreds of games. You can download a free trial version to see if it is right for you, but you will only be able to read maybe two thirds of the hints for newer games unless you register the trial version (after which they will send you a code number to unlock the full version for all games). Most of the older games hint files are free for download, and all UHS files are free for online viewing. The downloaded UHS reader and hint file is my favorite way to get help.

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Online Adventure Game Magazines

Adventure Classic Gaming Adventure Classic Gaming is the premiere online resource dedicated to classic and retro adventure gaming, covering both classic adventure games and interactive fiction on all computer and console gaming platforms.

Adventure Gamers An online adventure gaming magazine with reviews, previews, and editorials dealing primarily with adventure games and other closely related genres. They are providing numerous free Downloads, an Online Chat, and a Helpdesk where you can download the latest hint files for the Universal Hint System Reader, and find links to other sites' walkthroughs for your favorite adventure games.

Adventure Games Forever This English version of the German website developed by Moe Perry specializes in reviewing adventure games. Moe also provides a fair number of links to other reviews, fansites, walkthroughs and more.

The Adventure Games Hall of Fame This site, developed by Zoltan Ormandi, specializes in reviewing primarily adventure games. In addition to his large number of reviews, Zoly also provides screenshots, walkthroughs and helpful links with each review.

Just Adventure + An online magazine specializing in reviewing adventure games. They provide reviews, previews, articles, interviews, a message board and a number of interesting links.

Mystery Manor Adventure This beautiful site provides reviews, screenshots, saved games, walkthroughs, music and much more for many many adventure games.

PC Game Review Nice site that reviews and previews games of all genres. They also have numerous helpful links, a Market Place message board where you can buy, sell, or trade items with other gamers, and a great Message Board where you can get help on games of many different genres. When you use their message board, introduce yourself to a great person named Lara who will be the one answering most of your questions.

Quandary Computer Game Reviews One of the oldest and best online gaming magazines, specializing in reviewing adventure, role-playing, puzzle and children's games, plus providing some walkthroughs and a number of helpful links. They also publish some of the best and most thought-provoking editorials that you will ever read.

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Specific Game Websites

Colossal Cave Adventure Page The very first adventure game ever developed for the computer ("interactive fiction"), way back in the early 1970s by William Crowther. Here you can download the game for yourself, as well as get maps and walkthroughs for it.

Discworld Game Pages Wonderful site about the 3 Discworld games that are reviewed on our site. Music, pictures, free downloads, walkthroughs, hint files and much more. Enjoy!

Simon The Sorcerer 3D Official Site The website about the sequel to the famous Simon The Sorcerer games, known as 'Simon The Sorcerer 3D'. Headfirst Productions' (formerly Adventure Soft) first game using a 3D engine.

Wonderful World of Zork Links to many of the wonderful sites that were created in honor of Zork (the GUE or Great Underground Empire), that wonderful world created by Infocom in the late 1970s. So far there have been 12 games produced that are related to the world of Zork (9 text and 3 graphical adventures).

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Interactive Fiction (Text Adventures - Minimal to No Graphics)

Baf's Guide To The Interactive Archive Reviews hundreds of text adventure games, most of which can be downloaded as freeware. Includes games starting with the very first adventure game ever produced for the computer in 1968-72 which was called 'Adventure' (also known as 'Colossal Cave') up through the newest text adventures being produced today.

The INFOCOM Homepage If there is anything that you want to know about Infocom (the exciting computer gaming company of the 1970s and 1980s), then this is the site to visit. Walkthroughs, maps, etc are available for all of the games from Infocom. This company was the creator of the wonderful Zork world (the GUE or Great Underground Empire), which was the first commercial game ever produced for the computer. Enjoy!

PDD's Adventure Page Provides the history of interactive fiction, many important interactive fiction links, information about many early companies that produced interactive fiction, and many free downloads of interactive fiction games.

XYZZY News Provides many wonderful articles about text adventure games, from the very first adventure game ever produced for the computer in 1968-72 called 'Adventure' (also known as 'Colossal Cave') up through the newest text adventures being produced today. As a matter of fact this site encourages the development of new text adventure games by hosting the annual XYZZY Awards. Their site also provides reviews, walkthroughs, hints, help and much more. Great site!

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Game Development

Sites devoted to helping you and me develop our own game

Adventure Game Studio Adventure Game Studio (AGS for short) is a free program that allows you to create your own point-and-click adventure games, similar to the early 90's Sierra and Lucasarts adventures. It consists of an easy-to-use development environment, and run-time engine.

Adventure Maker Adventure Maker is a free innovative toolkit for Windows that allows creating point-and-click games and multimedia software in minutes, without any scripting or programming. You can choose between creating software for Windows and for PSP.

Game Maker Do you want to develop computer games without spending countless hours learning how to become a programmer? Game Maker allows you to make exciting computer games, without the need to write a single line of code.

Liberty Basic Liberty BASIC has many built in graphics commands including a sprite animation engine suitable for creating games. It also can play MIDI music files and wav audio files and read a joystick, the mouse and a keyboard.

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