At the turn of the century, it was hard to find gamers—or gaming journalists, for that matter—who didn’t despise SecuRom and SafeDisc digital rights management copy protection on some of the top ...

The ScummVM community has just made the early CD-ROM gaming era more accessible. For five years, multiple people have worked on making Macromedia Director games playable on modern hardware, and today, ...

In the nearly 18 months since a CD-ROM-based “Nintendo PlayStation” prototype was first found in an estate sale, emulator makers and homebrew programmers have created a facsimile of what CD-based ...

After over a year of on-and-off tinkering, the “Nintendo PlayStation” is fully operational. The unreleased console — which was formed out of an ill-fated partnership between Nintendo and Sony in the ...

ScummVM, the collection of recreated last-century game engines that allows replaying classic adventures from the likes of LucasArts and Revolution, has just added support for Macromedia Director. This ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. One of the spookiest CD-ROM games of the '90s, The 7th Guest, is getting a new lease on the afterlife with a remake for virtual reality devices.

The point-and-click CD-ROM games in the 1990s required patience: They were slow and peppered with cheesy acting. But they also were formative for an entire generation of gamers. Playing Myst was like ...

In another case of digital rights management doing harm to paying customers, a slew of CD-ROM games are being rendered inoperable by a security update in Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. As ...

Part of what made the recently-departed Prince so immensely popular was not just how great his music was, but also just how downright strange he was. Prince was so comfortable in his own peculiarities ...

Months after a one-of-a-kind “Nintendo PlayStation” console was discovered and restored to working condition, diehard SNES fans have crafted a homebrew game compatible with Nintendo’s unreleased SNES ...

Theresa Duncan made a series of CD-ROM games in the 1990s aimed at young girls, encouraging imagination and adventure through playfully drawn, dreamlike narratives. Theresa Duncan made a series of ...