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Moar Boxshots for ya from our all Submitter-King Ermuli.

So check this out, will ya?!

The RGB has a very difficult case, which they weren't be able to solve for 6 months. So they hired a fortune-teller to use her powers and select a name from the phone-book. The name is Hopper, Mark Hopper, a teenager wearing blue jeans and a purple baseball cap...

Back in the old days, I requested Teenagent two or three times. Then, Abandonia Reloaded came, and the game went there because it is freeware. However, it was commercial - and even had a restricted shareware version - till Metropolis decided to donate it to the public in 1999.

Frodo took the screenshots and wrote the review and a walkthrough! 

Only by following the path of others' blood and trials you can leave safely the woods. The heroes alone need only guts to venture in the darkness, but the ordinary people rely on each others' help when in a difficult situation. And so the heroes die, slain by hungry beasts and disoriented orcs, while the ordinary folk walk quietly and without worries on a single path, the right one.

I'm here to tell you about the new walkthroughs on the site:

Dark Seed II Thanks to Saccade
Aleshar - World of Ice Thanks to Haba
Last Half of Darkness Thanks to Shadow_Stalker and Mac Doogle (the one who wrote it)

Even with its destruction, Titan-Net will continue to threat the peaceful life on Chromos, as long as its legacy remains in the hands of those thirsty for power. Your democratic government was removed by Argok Kraal and his acolytes. You must escape from exile, gather enough forces and crush the enemy in order to restore the Republic, all this in Battle Isle's original turn-based warfare.

Thanks to Wicky, you can now enjoy Battle Isle 2 Scenery CD - Titan's Legacy, with its infernal difficulty. Prove that you're a true BI fan!

In the old Abandonia there was Communism, queues, the Kremlin, Lenin, the KGB, queues, Karl Marx, the Cold War and queues. But in the new Abandonia, things have changed. Now there is Capitalism, KGB TV, Burger Czar and Trotsky Interactive Games. Oh, and queues (some things never change). But waiting in the last queue was worthwhile, since Geezer's ration stamp got accepted. And so, there also are a manual for The Big Red Adventure and more boxshots of this game on the new Abandonia! (Scanning things for the own ration stamp is common on Big Red Abandonia, btw. ^_^ )

From tomorrow till Wednesday next week, there will be additions of extra materials to 10 Infocom text adventures we already have on site. It's original "Manual", "Hints" and "Maps and Documents" PDFs, cut out of the PDF monsters which came with the Classic Text Adventure Masterpieces compilation.

Make sure you snarf these frobnitzem, you'll need 'em!

PRISM, my name is Abraham Perelman. It's all true, I'm afraid. You are a computer, and your life was merely a simulation whose purpose was to instill you with intelligence and self-awareness.

And you thought you were just like everyone else.

- Manual
...includes a Map of Rockvil, South Dakota, the Whimsies and the inside story on the PRISM project from the Dakota Online Magazine and a Class One Security Mode Access Matrix.
- Hints

Greetings. My name is Merlinus Ambrosius, but men call me Merlin. You are young King Arthur who has grown up in ignorance of his heritage. The time has come for you to draw Excalibur from the stone and rise up to defend Britain. But before you can do so, you must earn the wisdom, experience, and chivalry points that will demonstrate that you are indeed ready to claim your birthright and take up the burden of kingship.

- Manual
- Maps and Documents
...consist of the Book of Hours.

A shadow of evil has fallen over the land. The crops are blighted, the earth scorched from lack of rain. Disease and famine ravage the once-prosperous people, whose hope of salvation fades with each passing day. The only hope left is to find the wizard Astrix, in faint hope that he will emerge from his distant solitude and offer his assistance. A party was dispatched, but they haven't been heard from since their departure months ago. Now, with winter's hardships looming on the horizon, a second expedition has been assembled and will soon embark on a fateful Journey into the unknown.

- Manual
- Maps and Documents
...consist of a map of the land.

The year is 1936. In the United States, a new miracle fabric called nylon is becoming popular, the Great Plains continue to suffer from a severe drought that is turning the region into a Dust Bowl, Alf Landon is running for President, Victor Hess is receiving the Nobel Prize for Physics for discovering cosmic radiation, Gone With the Wind is the best-selling novel, and steak is twenty-five cents a pound. Elsewhere, black track star Jesse Owen is embarrassing Adolph Hitler by winning four gold medals at the Olympic Games in Berlin, Edward the VIII of England is abdicating the throne to marry a commoner, the Spanish Civil War is beginning to heat up, and the Leather Goddesses of Phobos are completing plans to invade the Earth and turn it into their private pleasure world.

- Manual
...includes the 3D comic The Adventures of Lane Mastodon #91 - Lane battles the Shameless Leather Goddesses in 2D and a double-sided Secret Catacombs Map.
- Hints

In The Lurking Horror, you are a student at G.U.E. Tech. You have braved a snowstorm to get to the Computer Center and finish work on an assignment. But the snowstorm has turned into a raging blizzard, and has trapped you in a complex of buildings late at night. You are not alone, fortunately ... or perhaps, unfortunately?

- Manual
...includes the G.U.E. at a Glance - A Guide for Freshmen and a George Underwood Edwards Institute of Technology Student Identification Card.
- Maps and Documents
...consist of a map for this year's Pigeon Day Student-Faculty Scavenger Hunt and a note of the finder.
- Hints