Tag: goblins

There you have it! After the “recent” compatibility update of ScummVM, an adventure game interpreter which is able to run on almost any platform, Goblins 3 is now also supported. You’ll have to download the daily SVN build because release version 0.10.0 is still not fully ready yet. With a little bit of luck, maybe even Woodruff could become playable. That would be awesome, since DOSBox or native running on WinXP gives you a horribly bad resolution. For those of you who never played any Goblin adventure/puzzle game: it’s basically combining and clicking to progress to the next screen, full of more annoying but very humoristic puzzles. Sometimes Blount gets help from Chunk the Parrot (I think it is? Stupid pixels!) or his potential girlfriend.

Another Goblin adventure playable on the DS.

Goblin Princes are Ugly

Am I the only one wondering what the heck the lead artist ate the day he created Goblins? Uh oh, did I spell this wrong? Not really. In Gobliiins, the prequel, you can control three Goblin creatures, hence the three ‘i’-s. This game comes with two wacky dudes and the sequel with only one.
Every year an article pops up about Adventure games and the death of the genre and every year a fantastic game gets released to counter this myth. Sadly, only a few of those games are really worth playing trough. That’s why I’d like to take a look at the past with you to games wich are worth mentionning. How did this genre fare in the DOS era, when pixels ruled the world and nobody shouted like hell oh no these graphics suck!. Retro is in.
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