A film noir point-and-click adventure on NES. Amnesia, 1930s Chicago, investigation. Unexpected concept for the console, honest execution. For old-school narrative gaming fans.
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Adventure1 player12+
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Point-and-click adventure game in which Mac Marlowe, an amnesiac detective, investigates his past in a nighttime city. Published by Kemco, released in Sweden in 1990. Text narration with choices, city exploration and puzzle solving. NES port of ICOM's Deja Vu point-and-click.
This Deja Vu edition flagged for Sweden belongs to the Scandinavian NES releases, distributed in a PAL territory where text-driven point-and-click adventures stayed niche. A Kemco port of ICOM's noir classic, it appeals both to console adventure-game fans and to Nordic regional collectors, whose PAL distribution variants form a sought-after segment that is hard to complete.
Is Deja Vu still worth playing in 2026?
A point-and-click adventure from Kemco, Deja Vu plunges amnesiac detective Mac Marlowe into a film-noir night city, where he investigates his past by searching places and clues. The noir mood, the writing and the old-school investigation keep real character, rare on the machine for an adventure of this kind. The menu interface is clunky and the sudden deaths frustrate. An estimable curiosity for fans of retro narrative adventure and MacVenture nostalgics.
