Games - Explorer (34 results)

Explorer was an Italian magazine. Its adventure games usually featured recurring characters. The name of the character was used to create series of games of particular genres (fantasy, sci-fi, horror, western...) and this was helpful to retain players who loved that character. Every game was introduced in the magazine by a short story with the character and very important information about the puzzles, like a password, a magic word or a code name. In this way the publishers dissuaded the use of pirated tapes without the original magazine.

Some of the more popular characters:

- Dick Ironside was a policeman, used for action stories
- Nigel Stevenson was a young man catapulted by a magic flower into a world of fantasy, with elves, evil wizards, gnomes, princesses, dragons, trolls...
- Roger Barrow was a secret agent specializing in UFO investigation
- Frank Russell was the survivor of an air raid during a war and he was protagonist of action stories
- Yarkho was a magician, protagonist of adventures similar to Enchanter
- Terry Jones was an Indiana Jones-type archaeologist, and he would search for treasure in exotic lands and mysterious ruins
- Morgan Tyler was a starship trooper, sometimes shipwrecked on hostile planets, sometimes in charge of saving a starship from an alien plague or fighting off a robot invasion
(information courtesy of Darkiss)