TotallyGN writes: "Penny Arcade Adventures Episode 3 released nearly a year ago, and since then has received many a title update and has been made available to many platforms since then. With Episode 4 launching on PC and Xbox Live Indie Games soon, it’s worth looking at this game again and reviewing the most recent build of the game. The game has new content and various tweaks made to it, but is it worth looking into this game in the first place? Of course it is."
Perhaps ironically, many of these games are rarely played by people who still enjoy videogames from the days of the arcade and systems like the NES and Sega Genesis. This list covers retro-inspired indie titles that deserve more attention. We’ve excluded more well-known games, such as Super Meat Boy and Shovel Knight, from consideration. Also note that many of the listed games are free. Finally, this list isn’t definitive; it only covers games that we believe are as good as or better than the retro-inspired games that get most of the hype.
An interview with Bill Stiernberg from Zeboyd Games about the making of the 16-bit Penny Arcade Adventures, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness Episodes 3 and 4.
A review via eGamer.co.za for the indie title Penny Arcade 3 (shortened name). Quote:
"The Penny Arcade Adventures games started off in 2008 when episodic content was all the rage and people still believed that Half-Life 2: Episode Three was a thing, and how far we’ve come since then.
Indeed after releasing the first two episodes of this independently-developed gaming series based off the Penny Arcade webcomic, when episodic content began to die down and only Telltale Games still really soldiered on, hopes were dashed when the Penny Arcade website announced that Hothead Games would not be making the third game, effectively cancelling it, back in 2010.
Fast forward to late 2011 when the website announced that development had been taken up by Zeboyd Games, who were taking the series in an entirely new direction, and it certainly shows in the final release. "
