Ranking Non-Sierra/LucasArts Adventure Games!

This week Anna & Paul are joined by author of the upcoming book "Questing For Glory The Definitive History of the Quest for Glory Series", Jason Mical! Jason brought his expertise, fun facts and insight as he and Anna talk at Paul about their favorite series! Join us as we walk through each game in the series, and delve into everything from development stories to soundtracks—Mangia!   Questing For Glory Website Follow the project on Bluesky   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower       Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network: Space Quest Historian's Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum - A Fair & Balanced Retrospective Adventure Game Geek's Some of the Spookiest Adventure Games of 2024 (feat. Paul!) OneShortEye's  Even MORE King's Quest IV Details Adventure Game Hotspot's These First Time Indie Devs are Putting the Industry on Notice (feat. The Phantom Fellows) Save Your Game's Episode 32 - Kings Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella & Paul Korman Laura Cressup's Twitch & YouTube Channels       Conversations with Curtis' Paul Korman & Daniel play The Phantom Fellows! Tech Talk with Daniel Albu's A Conversation with Vince Lee (Star Wars: Rebel Assault / Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire) The Adventure Games Podcast - Interview with Paul Korman - The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast & The Phantom Fellows   Say hi I guess! Twitter (Anna) - @CGGpodcast Twitter (Paul) - @PhantomFellows Bluesky ThePhantomFellows.com Send us your words! E-mail:  [email protected] Become a Patreon to support the show? www.patreon.com/ClassicGamersGuild Join the group and talk about neat stuff! Facebook Page Facebook Group We're also on Instagram & YouTube  "CGG Theme" and "A Minor Concussion" by The Volume Remote Intro greeting (usually) by (and thank you to) Hope Kodman VonStarnes   The Phantom Fellows is available on: GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower                      

This week Anna & Paul are talking about cozy games to play during the holidays! They also touch on the odd lack of snow in adventure games while mentioning all the ones they could think of with some. Because snow >= holidays. So roast some acorns on the fire and curl up on the whatever and Mangia!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower       Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network: Space Quest Historian's Running the Space Quest I remake as fast as possible Adventure Game Geek's Some of the Spookiest Adventure Games of 2024 (feat. Paul!) OneShortEye's The AGH Network Plays The Phantom Fellows! (feat Anna & Paul!) Adventure Game Hotspot's Ranking the 25 BEST Sierra-Online Adventure Games Ever Save Your Game's Episode 32 - Kings Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella & Paul Korman Laura Cressup's Twitch & YouTube Channels       Conversations with Curtis' Paul Korman & Daniel play The Phantom Fellows! Tech Talk with Daniel Albu's A Conversation with Vince Lee (Star Wars: Rebel Assault / Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire) The Adventure Games Podcast - Interview with Paul Korman - The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast & The Phantom Fellows   Say hi I guess! Twitter (Anna) - @CGGpodcast Twitter (Paul) - @PhantomFellows ThePhantomFellows.com Send us your words! E-mail:  [email protected] Become a Patreon to support the show? www.patreon.com/ClassicGamersGuild Join the group and talk about neat stuff! Facebook Page Facebook Group We're also on Instagram & YouTube  "CGG Theme" and "A Minor Concussion" by The Volume Remote Intro greeting (usually) by (and thank you to) Hope Kodman VonStarnes   The Phantom Fellows is available on: GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower                      

This week Anna & Paul sampled some of the exciting new old games that just recently released: King's Quest - It Takes Two To Tangle, Space Quest V - Talkie Edition, and King's Quest VI - AGI Demake. They sampled all of them, and then talk about weird Canadian sandwiches. And possibly the games too, I don't know, you tell me. Mangia!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower     Download King's Quest: It Takes Two To Tangle Download Space Quest V: Voice Acting Mod Download King's Quest VI AGI Demake  (Developers Playthrough)   The Adventure Games Podcast - Interview with Paul Korman - The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast & The Phantom Fellows   Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network: Space Quest Historian's Tex Murphy: Mean Streets - A Fair & Balanced Retrospective Adventure Game Geek's Some of the Spookiest Adventure Games of 2024 (feat. Paul!) OneShortEye's The Dirty Secrets of King's Quest IV (appearances by Anna & Paul!) Adventure Game Hotspot's The Best Space Quest Game Now Has Voices - SQV Voice Mod Save Your Game's Episode 32 - Kings Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella & Paul Korman Laura Cressup's Twitch & YouTube Channels       Conversations with Curtis' Paul Korman & Daniel play The Phantom Fellows! Tech Talk with Daniel Albu's A Conversation with Alexandra Boyd (Titanic / Monkey Island / Ship of Dreams: Titanic Movie Diaries)   Say hi I guess! Twitter (Anna) - @CGGpodcast Twitter (Paul) - @PhantomFellows ThePhantomFellows.com Send us your words! E-mail:  [email protected] Become a Patreon to support the show? www.patreon.com/ClassicGamersGuild Join the group and talk about neat stuff! Facebook Page Facebook Group We're also on Instagram & YouTube  "CGG Theme" and "A Minor Concussion" by The Volume Remote Intro greeting (usually) by (and thank you to) Hope Kodman VonStarnes   The Phantom Fellows is available on: GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower                      

This week Anna and Paul are ranking some adventure games that weren't made by Sierra or LucasArts. If Paul got his way this episode is called I Have No Willy And I Must Beamish, but I'm guessing it's prolly something clunky and annoyingly descriptive. Anyway this was fun, Mangia!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower     The Adventure Games Podcast - Interview with Paul Korman - The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast & The Phantom Fellows   Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network: Space Quest Historian's Tex Murphy: Mean Streets - A Fair & Balanced Retrospective Adventure Game Geek's Some of the Spookiest Adventure Games of 2024 (feat. Paul!) OneShortEye's The Dirty Secrets of King's Quest IV (appearances by Anna & Paul!) Adventure Game Hotspot's The Best Space Quest Game Now Has Voices - SQV Voice Mod Save Your Game's Episode 32 - Kings Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella & Paul Korman Laura Cressup's Twitch & YouTube Channels     Conversations with Curtis' Paul Korman & Daniel play The Phantom Fellows! Tech Talk with Daniel Albu's A Conversation with Larry The O (Escape from Monkey Island / Galactic Battlegrounds / Jedi Knight)   Say hi I guess! Twitter (Anna) - @CGGpodcast Twitter (Paul) - @PhantomFellows ThePhantomFellows.com Send us your words! E-mail:  [email protected] Become a Patreon to support the show? www.patreon.com/ClassicGamersGuild Join the group and talk about neat stuff! Facebook Page Facebook Group We're also on Instagram & YouTube  "CGG Theme" and "A Minor Concussion" by The Volume Remote Intro greeting (usually) by (and thank you to) Hope Kodman VonStarnes           The Phantom Fellows is available on: GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower    

This week Anna & Paul talk about Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within! Look. I'm gonna give it to you straight, seee, this isn't our finest hour, but we wanted to get something to you under tricky circumstances and this is arguably, possibly better than deafening silence, I don't know, you tell us. Mangia?   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower     AdventureGameGeek's Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within – Beastly Location Tour   The Adventure Games Podcast - Interview with Paul Korman - The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast & The Phantom Fellows   Save Your Game's Episode 32 - Kings Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella & Paul Korman   Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network: Space Quest Historian's Lighting a fire for no reason | The Phantom Fellows (pt. 1) Adventure Game Geek's The Phantom Fellows Interview - Adventure Game Fan Fair 2024 (feat. Paul!) OneShortEye's I Broke My Friend's Game (so you don't have to) (feat. Paul!) Conversations with Curtis' Paul Korman & Daniel play The Phantom Fellows! Tech Talk with Daniel Albu's A Conversation with Julian Kwasneski (The Dig / Outlaws / Grim Fandango / Psychonauts / Sam & Max) Adventure Game Hotspot's Dave Gilbert, Charles Cecil & More Discuss Success & Failures Laura Cressup's Twitch & YouTube Channels     Say hi I guess! Twitter (Anna) - @CGGpodcast Twitter (Paul) - @PhantomFellows ThePhantomFellows.com Send us your words! E-mail:  [email protected] Become a Patreon to support the show? www.patreon.com/ClassicGamersGuild Join the group and talk about neat stuff! Facebook Page Facebook Group We're also on Instagram & YouTube  "CGG Theme" and "A Minor Concussion" by The Volume Remote Intro greeting (usually) by (and thank you to) Hope Kodman VonStarnes       The Phantom Fellows is available on: GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower                      

This week Anna & Paul are ranking Sierra Point And Clicks, AGAIN! This time they do it even more betterly. That's not true, it's still pretty cavalier if not lawless, but this time it's the titles released in 1993-1996. Ish. What game comes out on top? Totally forgot. For sure a Sierra one though. Mangia!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower     The Adventure Games Podcast - Interview with Paul Korman - The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast & The Phantom Fellows   Save Your Game's Episode 32 - Kings Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella & Paul Korman   Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network: Space Quest Historian's Lighting a fire for no reason | The Phantom Fellows (pt. 1) Adventure Game Geek's The Phantom Fellows Interview - Adventure Game Fan Fair 2024 (feat. Paul!) OneShortEye's I Broke My Friend's Game (so you don't have to) (feat. Paul!) Conversations with Curtis' Paul Korman & Daniel play The Phantom Fellows! Tech Talk with Daniel Albu's A Conversation with Julian Kwasneski (The Dig / Outlaws / Grim Fandango / Psychonauts / Sam & Max) Adventure Game Hotspot's That's Edutainment - Adventure Game Fan Fair Panel Laura Cressup's Twitch & YouTube Channels     Say hi I guess! Twitter (Anna) - @CGGpodcast Twitter (Paul) - @PhantomFellows ThePhantomFellows.com Send us your words! E-mail:  [email protected] Become a Patreon to support the show? www.patreon.com/ClassicGamersGuild Join the group and talk about neat stuff! Facebook Page Facebook Group We're also on Instagram & YouTube  "CGG Theme" and "A Minor Concussion" by The Volume Remote Intro greeting (usually) by (and thank you to) Hope Kodman VonStarnes       The Phantom Fellows is available on: GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower                      

This week Anna & Paul are ranking Sierra Point And Clicks! Look, I'm typing this through my cats legs while he looks deeply into my eyes so let's justvzdvd - okay now he's sitting on most of both my arms. Look you know the deal, there were games, now they're ranked and a bunch of laughs and nonsense happen in between - MANGIA!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG  Steam  itch.io Fireflower     Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network: Space Quest Historian's Space Quest on GBA has been FIXED (after 20 years) Adventure Game Geek's The Phantom Fellows Interview - Adventure Game Fan Fair 2024 (feat. Paul!) OneShortEye's I Broke My Friend's Game (so you don't have to) (feat. Paul!) Conversations with Curtis' Tori, Paul & Daniel play Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Reforged! Tech Talk with Daniel Albu's A Conversation with Julian Kwasneski (The Dig / Outlaws / Grim Fandango / Psychonauts / Sam & Max) Adventure Game Hotspot's 13 ICONIC adventure game items that are entrenched in gaming culture Laura Cressup's Twitch & YouTube Channels   Save Your Game   Say hi I guess! Twitter (Anna) - @CGGpodcast Twitter (Paul) - @PhantomFellows ThePhantomFellows.com Send us your words! E-mail:  [email protected] Become a Patreon to support the show? www.patreon.com/ClassicGamersGuild Join the group and talk about neat stuff! Facebook Page Facebook Group We're also on Instagram & YouTube  "CGG Theme" and "A Minor Concussion" by The Volume Remote Intro greeting (usually) by (and thank you to) Hope Kodman VonStarnes                    

An episode 4 years in the making... 105,482 Line of Code & Dialog 19,850 Sprites 1,415 Days in Development  150 Inventory Items 151 Achievements  72 Rooms In Game 39 Characters 14-22 Hours of Gameplay 1 Developer This is it. On September 27th The Phantom Fellows will be released. Here is our game developers roadmap, how an adventure game goes from an idea to a reality.   I've had the best 4 years of my life making this game and I am so excited to share it with you 🤍 -Paul    Mangia! Also thank you to Jack Allin who (doesn't know it but) helped tremendously with the framing of this episode. Okay go, manga tutti!   Wishlist our adventure game, The Phantom Fellows! Releases September 27th on Steam & on GOG   Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network: Space Quest Historian's Back Seat Designers - Ep. 0: Reacquaintances Adventure Game Geek's The Phantom Fellows Interview - Adventure Game Fan Fair 2024 (feat. Paul!) OneShortEye's The Game That's Nothing But Stairs Conversations with Curtis' A Conversation with Bob Clendenin (Scrubs / Cougar Town / Dude, Where's My Car? / L.A. Noire) Tech Talk with Daniel Albu's A Conversation with Jane Jensen (Gabriel Knight / Gray Matter / King's Quest VI / Police Quest 3) Adventure Game Hotspot's 13 ICONIC adventure game items that are entrenched in gaming culture Laura Cressup's Twitch & YouTube Channels   Save Your Game   Say hi I guess! Twitter (Anna) - @CGGpodcast Twitter (Paul) - @PhantomFellows ThePhantomFellows.com Send us your words! E-mail:  [email protected] Become a Patreon to support the show? www.patreon.com/ClassicGamersGuild Join the group and talk about neat stuff! Facebook Page Facebook Group We're also on Instagram & YouTube  "CGG Theme" and "Plate Runner" by The Volume Remote Intro greeting (usually) by (and thank you to) Hope Kodman VonStarnes           And finally, I'm gonna have to go ahead and ask you- I am once again asking you, to wishlist my game. I'm workin real hard on it, full time, and I think you're gonna love it. BUT, I'm gonna need you to tap on this and then tap several more times, until it's wish listedOMG THANK YOU SO MUCH ThePhantomFellows.com Available on Steam & on GOG      

This week Anna & Paul are talking about Indiana McCracken and The Loom of Tentacle Island! Ok fine, they're actually ranking all of LucasArtseses adventure games but the dummy who writes these just wanted to say that (hey screw you, me!) So grab some snacks and get cozy - unless your thing is listening to this while exercising in which case absolutely do not get a snack or cozy, and tune in to find out where your favorite game lands in this very professional, very serious* ranking! Mangia!   Wishlist our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows Releasing September 27th!   Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network: Space Quest Historian's Space Quest... on the Game Boy Advance?! Adventure Game Geek's The Phantom Fellows Interview - Adventure Game Fan Fair 2024 (feat. Paul!) OneShortEye's The Game That's Nothing But Stairs Conversations with Curtis' David Fox & Matthew Alan Kane play Zak McKracken with Say Mistage & Daniel Albu - PART 3 Tech Talk with Daniel Albu's A Conversation with Julian Kwasneski (The Dig / Outlaws / Grim Fandango / Psychonauts / Sam & Max) Adventure Game Hotspot's Al Lowe playing the Leisure Suit Larry Theme at the Adventure Game Fan Fair (feat. Paul!) Laura Cressup's Twitch & YouTube Channels     Say hi I guess! Twitter (Anna) - @CGGpodcast Twitter (Paul) - @PhantomFellows ThePhantomFellows.com Send us your words! E-mail: [email protected] Become a Patreon to support the show? www.patreon.com/ClassicGamersGuild Join the group and talk about neat stuff! Facebook Page Facebook Group We're also on Instagram & YouTube  "CGG Theme" and "A Minor Concussion" by The Volume Remote Intro greeting (usually) by (and thank you to) Hope Kodman VonStarnes   Games In the Episode: Maniac Mansion Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure Loom The Secret of Monkey Island Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle Sam & Max Hit the Road Full Throttle The Dig The Curse of Monkey Island Grim Fandango Escape from Monkey Island         And finally, I'm gonna have to go ahead and ask you- I am once again asking you, to wishlist my game. I'm workin real hard on it, full time, and I think you're gonna love it. BUT, I'm gonna need you to tap on this and then tap several more times, until it's wish listedOMG THANK YOU SO MUCH ThePhantomFellows.com The Phantom Fellows on Steam           *Seriousness not guaranteed, must be 18 years or older or have a parent's credit card to judge the level of professionalism       

This week Anna & Paul are ranking Sierra's SCI0 games! SCI0 was a magical time for Sierra, Colonel's Bequest, Space Quest 3, Hero's Quest, King's Quest IV, Leisure Suit Larry 2 & 3, codename iceman, Police Quest 2, Conquests of Camelot... and because ranking these legendary games is such a difficult task, they've brought in help from the CGG community as well as from their Adventure Game Hotspot Network friends. Where does your favorite land? Find out now on this weeks thrilling installment of the CGG Podcast - MANGIA!   Wishlist our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows Releasing September 27th!   Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network: Space Quest Historian's What happened to me at the Adventure Game Fan Fair convention (w Anna & Paul) Adventure Game Geek's The Phantom Fellows Interview - Adventure Game Fan Fair 2024 (feat. Paul!) OneShortEye's The Game That's Nothing But Stairs Conversations with Curtis' Al Lowe plays Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist with game developers Bill Shockley & Steve Conrad! Tech Talk with Daniel Albu's A Conversation with Francisco González (Rosewater / Lamplight City / Shardlight / A Golden Wake) Adventure Game Hotspot's Al Lowe playing the Leisure Suit Larry Theme at the Adventure Game Fan Fair (feat. Paul!) Laura Cressup's Twitch & YouTube Channels     Say hi I guess! Twitter (Anna) - @CGGpodcast Twitter (Paul) - @PhantomFellows ThePhantomFellows.com Send us your words! E-mail:  [email protected] Become a Patreon to support the show? www.patreon.com/ClassicGamersGuild Join the group and talk about neat stuff! Facebook Page Facebook Group We're also on Instagram & YouTube  "CGG Theme" and "A Minor Concussion" by The Volume Remote Intro greeting (usually) by (and thank you to) Hope Kodman VonStarnes   Games In the Episode: King's Quest IV King's Quest I: Quest for the Crown  Colonel's Bequest Hero's Quest  Space Quest III Leisure Suit Larry 2 Police Quest 2 Leisure Suit Larry 3 Codename Iceman Conquests of Camelot Mixed-Up Mother Goose           And finally, I'm gonna have to go ahead and ask you- I am once again asking you, to wishlist my game. I'm workin real hard on it, full time, and I think you're gonna love it. BUT, I'm gonna need you to tap on this and then tap several more times, until it's wish listedOMG THANK YOU SO MUCH ThePhantomFellows.com The Phantom Fellows on Steam