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Believe it or not, but there used to be an undumped, officially licensed Back to the Future game out there... but no more!! HUGE thanks to several people for making this possible.
More info in the Internet Archive:
archive.org/details/back-to-…
Maps for "Egger Land Episode 0: Quest of lala" and "Egger Land/Fukkatsu! Egger Land" for Windows:
vgmaps.com/Atlas/PC/index.ht…
When people talk about old games, I don't buy the idea that the graphics were always made with CRT blending in mind, because high-quality video output existed even in the 80s.
However, in cases like Back to the Future for the PC-88, it's super obvious that this is the case:
Not sure why I did this, but I ripped the graphics from all three versions of Hunchback: The Adventure (1986, Ocean Software).
Hunchback: The Adventure has one of the worst fonts I've ever seen in a game, and it's a text adventure, where the entire game revolves around reading text! Just look at how much the “s” looks like a “g.”
This obscure, officially licensed Highlander RPG needs to be found and preserved! ASCII published it in 1986 exclusively via mail order and only for a very limited time. Three episodes were released, each priced at 3,000 yen. The game was available for the PC-88 and X1 computers.
Here are covers to early computer RPGs that Stuart Smith made between 1980 and 1985. I’ve only played them recently for the first time, and I gotta say, they’re charming and still rather fun to play today, if you don't mind the outdated visuals.
This Japanese episodic Highlander RPG, released by ASCII in 1986 for the PC-8801 and Sharp X1 computers, is lost media.
It was available by mail order for a limited time and appears to have been advertised only in LOGiN magazines (11/1986–01/1987).
Will this game ever be found?
Character portraits from different versions of Xak III: The Eternal Recurrence, an action-RPG by Micro Cabin:
Character portraits from different versions of Xak: The Tower of Gazzel, an action-RPG by Micro Cabin:
Character portraits from different versions of Fray in Magical Adventure (AKA Xak Gaiden), an action-RPG by Micro Cabin:









































