PC Adventure Games

I have managed to turn all of my roomates in Civilization III addicts. Although it is not as bad as turning your little sister onto smack, I am still not sure if I did the right thing. It is habit forming, and if nothing else, time wasting.

Also search Discworld Noir.

What was that?

http://www.lucasarts.com/products/grim/glottis.jpgDON'T TALK KITTY, JUST RUN BABY!!!

As for Laura Bow, it's an old game now, you may have a lot of trouble finding it. But the premise was that you were Laura Bow, a young journalist in the 1920s, who has just gotten a job at a major New York newspaper. She is covering the story of an artifact being stolen from a museum--the dagger of Amon Ra. Most of the game is spent at a high society party at the museum, and as the night goes on people keep turning up dead. It is really the best game I have ever played. The characters are all unique and well thought-out, the music is interesting, the depiction of the museum is creepy and intricate, and it's honestly a tense game. I'd say the only flaw is that of all early Sierra games--it's very easy to die.

Also, http://www.firthworks.com/roger/index.html

D'oh! Search: the Broken Sword games.

http://sc2.sourceforge.net/

Also check out SCUMMVM for running those old adventures on new PCs

http://scummvm.sourceforge.net/

i loved monkey island 1 & 2 with passion
also: indy & fate of atlantis
sam & max, day of tentacle,
police quest 1 & 2
space quest 3
ultima7 was awesome

worst game ever: 7th Guest

Nowadays? I play Warcraft III, and that sucker's enough of a time killer to keep me from testing out any other PC games.

Is it really true that you have to put the game in "fast" speed to finish one of the King's Quest games? ;)

i'm having that problem with Neverwinter Nights. it's damn fine. but the single player quest that comes with the game is pap. but oooo, it's as addictive as Civ. and i'm not even lying.

Who needs graphics?

ONe of the first things I do when I get a PC of my own is to get all the Kings Quest games. Rar Win 3.1!

This is what happens when there's a new game the Myst series:

1) Await it in breathless expectation, perhaps even upgrade my computer hardware.

2) Play it non-stop -- in the dark -- for two days straight.

3) Run out of patience at my lack of progress.

4) Worry that it will become a soulsucking experience if I don't stop soon.

5) Break down and cheat using an online walkthrough. Find out that I had neglected some super-obvious thing or was simply not capable of solving a particular puzzle.

6) Spend the next two-three years wishing I hadn't ruined the purity of my gaming experience.

7) Repeat as necessary.

So there's a new one out called Uru. I bought it on Friday and
I'm already at Stage #5. The graphics are, as always, gorgeous and somewhat less grotesque than before, the 3-D environment works pretty well, there are many annoying bugs where I 'fall through' a surface that should entirely solid, and several of the puzzle seem poorly worked-out -- including one puzzle whose solution even the walkthroughs I've read can't adequately reason out, other than it works.

Oh, and now there's an online element where I can play new puzzles continually and forever and ever. Rah and eep.

On the original version of that sentence, my mind wandered a bit and when I checked again, it read "a few points where the worst is yet to come". I need to go home and sleep now.

Oh man, it is so fucking sweet...

Remember Code Red? That was incredible.

I suppose that Sierra stuff like Space and Police Quests never got "switched" did they? :(

OR

Is there a keyboard shortcut like in Leisure Suit Larry?

HELP

If I remember correctly theres some sort of program you can get that will slow down your cpu so you can play older types of games. granted, my last experience with it seems to remind me that it was a DOS program, so it might not be able to hang with todays comparatively superfast cpus but I suggest poking around the intarweb and maybe you can find something. Ultima 7 is worth it. Now 8 on the other hand is f-n garbage.

civ3 is amazing, but my uh, surreptitiously obtained copy doesnt have the feature at the end where it shows your contry taking over the world. thats best the part! i also miss the greatness of the first civ when you would attack a phalanx with a battleship and lose. but ive said too much already..

I played the first two Monkey Island games for the first time EVER at the weekend, it was great fun. But what do I do with the stewed meat, I've tried feeding it to the dogs but nothing happens?

I'm looking for a similar old skool graphic adventure game, but in the style of 'solving a crime' sort of thing. This isn't a specific game I'm thinking of, but can anyone recommend something?

Police Quest?

There's a new Sherlock Holmes verus Cthulu one as well.

But what do I do with the stewed meat, I've tried feeding it to the dogs but nothing happens?

herbs from the forest -> stew -> sleepy dogs

ah the yellow plant?

yep

I recently played through Monkey Islands 1 and 2 with my 13-year old sister, and I thought the old-school graphics and interface would annoy her but she was totally into it. She even tolerated me going through the ridiculously long dialogue trees that were obviously put into the game to test the player's patience (like "if a tree falls in a forest and no one is watching, what color is the tree?" from the end of MI2).

Melissa W was OTM upthread, Laura Bow and the Dagger of Amon-Ra is an awesome game (and it's solve-a-crime too, Ste).

ooh, i'll check it out. ta

i just downloaded dosbox for my macbook and downloading old games!! started with jones in the fast lane though...

you could always try ringing 1-800-STARWARS if that still works

how much wood would a would chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

haha, i never did get round to asking her that question

hmmmm

old skool graphic adventure game, but in the style of 'solving a crime' sort of thing

There were some crime mystery graphic adventures, most of which I haven't played in full, to be honest. Laura Bow has already been mentioned but I think there was a whole series. The Gabriel Knight games are filed along with Laura Bow in my mind but I've never played them. Cruise for a Corpse is an Agatha Christie-style 20s art deco point+click murder mystery from Delphine software, who went on to do cult platform adventures Flashback and Another World. Shadow of the Comet (ok, Lovecraftian mystery rather than crime-solving)? Dreamweb? I may be miscategorising some of these, it's been a while.

Police Quest?

The problem with the Police Quest games is that the bought versions came with thick manuals detailing correct police procedure which you were expected to follow at all times. In the first game, which I enjoyed at the time but I was a lot more patient then, you need to save a bunch and be prepared to die every so often for not observing some protocol which had never occurred to you. It helped that I also had a copy of the hint software (progressively less subtle clues in the manner of Universal Hint System website or similar) for when I couldn't work out what my radio was bleating about.

Police Quest II, however, is pretty much unplayable without manuals (probably with them too) because not only is it stuffed with sudden protocol-breach deaths but half of them it doesn't even explain, which the first game at least was quite good about, plus it lets you get yourself completely stuck with no warning. If you don't type exactly the right things at the murder scene it'll let you leave with no indication that you haven't completed the investigation (in fact, at one point it seems to be recommending you leave early) and then you'll be stuck at the next part wondering why nothing's happening.

Nice. I will play them ALL!

Have been playing the early Lucasarts games on the DS (ScummVM) and they work really well. As do the infocom / mag scrolls text adventures (FrotzDS).

i use the scumm interface on pc too, it's pretty neat. i may suggest to my DS owning chum to get it.

i like the way they've tailored it to the DS - bottom screen is scaled to fit, top screen is zoomed in to the original resolution of the game. game choice is limited by DS memory, so no Broken Sword unfortunately. But most of the early classics are well playable - list below

your friend will need a way to boot romzhomebrew on the DS. Google is your friend here but I have a £20 M3 Simply which does the job fine.

Manic Mansion
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Loom
Passport to Adventure
The Secret of Monkey Island
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
Day of the Tentacle
Sam & Max Hit the Road
Bear Stormin' (DOS)
Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise (DOS)
Fatty Bear's Fun Pack (DOS)
Putt-Putt's Fun Pack (DOS)
Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon (DOS)
Putt-Putt Joins the Parade (DOS)
Beneath a Steel Sky
Flight of the Amazon Queen
Simon the Sorcerer 1
Simon the Sorcerer 2
Elvira 1
Elvira 2
Waxworks (Amiga version)
Gobliiins
Gobliins 2
Goblins 3
Ween: The Prophecy
Bargon Attack
Future Wars
All Sierra AGI games
Inherit the Earth
The Legend of Kyrandia

ahem. obviously not all "classics". unless someone can vouch for Fatty Bear's Fun Pack.

I could play DotT and Beneath a Steel Sky on the bus?! Why must everyone make me want a DS so bad when I already have a PSP and games I haven't even got round to playing and cannot possibly justify buying a DS?

(Yeah, I wanted a DS more than a PSP in the first place but I was not expecting either and it was a present, so)

Oh, I remembered there was an early 90s PC Sherlock Holmes adventure game searching for Jack the Ripper or something, which I found the demo of pretty dull, but...
(I have a feeling I'm missing something obvious, and that some of the things I listed are only on my list because they came up while trying to remember the obvious thing)

i think i played that Holmes game, indeed still have it - it won't play anymore though due to strange memory management issues programmed into it.

spacecadet check the scummvm site - they have builds for most platforms you could think of including phones and PSP. I played through Monkey Island 2 on my nokia phone (symbian) which was awkwardish at first but fine once I got used to it.

that just sounds painful !

it was ok really, but then I also happily played through SMB3 on the same phone so I probably have a high tolerance of eye strain and hand cramp!

Yeah, I don't know if I could handle Scumm games without some kind of mouse/stylus-style pointer, but then I played at least the first Monkey Island and probably some other Lucasarts adventures and other completely keyboard-unsuited games like Populous with arrow keys only (no mouse), so maybe I'm just getting prissy here.

But thanks for the info, I'll definitely take a look, if nothing else I've been meaning to try the PC version and not quite got round to it yet. My last intention of doing so resulted in me getting a Windows remake of Maniac Mansion (incredibly faithful but with slightly prettied-up graphics) instead.

wait, huh? how to play these games on a DS???

www.scummvm.org

"ScummVM DS is a homebrew application. This means that Nintendo haven't
approved it, as they do with commercial games. Therefore, in order to
run ScummVM you must rely on third party devices which are produced
without the approval or knowledge of Nintendo. The devices that can be
used to run homebrew on the DS vary widely. The easiest supported card
to use is probably the R4DS or M3 DS Real. These cards sits in your DS
slot. All that's required to be up and running on this card is to put
ScummVM DS and your games on the Micro SD card, stick the card reader
into your DS, and turn on. Nothing else is required. ScummVM DS can be
selected from a menu, and everything runs great."

you also need the files from an original copy of the game (but these are easily um acquired if you've um lost them)

Wld still like to find a copy of Maniac Mansion!

Abbott, google "maniac mansion deluxe" :-)

this won't load with my Firefox browser, i think because of that applet up top.

What doesn't load? (it works alright on my firefox)

Yeah, I can't get this thread to load with Firefox either.

There's some applet posted :

-- Alan (Alan), Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:08 AM (Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:08 AM) Bookmark Link

^^here

Firefox just stalls and won't load it.

old ILX :(

Day of the Tentacle has been remade with awesome graphics and its free.
King's Quest 1-2 remade - free
Quest For Glory games have been remade - free

just search them out if you want to play an oldie that you never played before cuz the graphics sucked

1-3

ok not impressed by GISing "day tentacle remake"

downloading KQ3 right now, cheers

phil, where are you finding games to download? i totally miss these dorky adventure games and want to play one TONIGHT! i think i already have dosbox.

SPECIFICALLY, there was this one game that came packaged with PC's in the mid nineties called ORPHEO'S CURSE that i LOVED. it was so bad. and I never got past the last level. I am totally hankering to play it.

actually this sounds nuts but i wouldnt mind downloading the 7th guest. agreed, it was totally lame but i feel like feeling 12 again. stauf was such a dork.

lots of stuff at http://www.abandonia.com

The music in T7G was excellent. The puzzles were ridiculous, but the cheesy FMV was an awesome reward at the time.

more at http://www.the-underdogs.info

Heh, all the nostalgia on this thread prompted me to crack open the VGA remake of Quest for Glory 1. The claymation monsters! The stat-grinding, meant to disguise the fact that winning the game consists of maybe six or seven simple tasks!

The King's Quest remakes CaptainLorax mentioned are good too: http://www.agdinteractive.com/

anyone ever play B.A.T ? or BAT2, on the Amiga?

I always remember seeing it in magazines and loving the graphic style and futuristic theme. I never played it tho, it won't work on my EMu.

the music for kentilla was, and always will be, awesome (that was c64 tho)

and it's not on youtube damnit. are there any sites that play old computer game music in flash or whatever? kentilla was rob hubbard so it must be out there!

Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space
This might have been what I meant by Day of the Tentacle remake.
3D fan based game. Looks fun.

Awesome games to keep an eye on.. still in beta
Broken Sword: The Return of the Templars
Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth like the old Fate of Atlantis game

i saw on some gaming nerd website that there was a new sam + max game!!

yes, someone said this to me recently too.

true

so this came out in 2006?? no one tells me anything :(

n00b

there's sequel series too!

Steve Purcell has control over his "Sam & Max" characters again

there's even a free episode, and it's the best episode of season 1:

http://www.telltalegames.com/store/lincolnmustdie (starts a download)

They actually finished that VGA Quest for Glory II remake!

http://www.agdinteractive.com/homepage/homepage.html

Huh, so was the Quest For Glory series basically sequels to Hero's Quest? I recall playing that quite a lot, strangely much considering how little progress I made. I suspect I played it too much like a straight adventure game, while it had a bunch of role playing elements that I hated and didn't really understand.
(I played those classic Sierra games a LOT as a kid, running back and forth between the computer, my dad and a dictionary, since I didn't really know English. Was really disappointed when all these companies started with point&click interfaces. In hindsight my favorite adventure games were the first two Monkey Island games though, so I guess I got over it)

Apropos of nothing: the last adventure game I played was Grim Fandango. 'Twas fantastic. Tried the demo of the recent Sam'n'Max thing, but it didn't seem to be much of a game. Might as well have been playing frigging Dragon's Lair, considering how uninvolving it was.

Anyone else play Colonel's Bequest? I see now the original post in this thread has mention of a -sequel-! I had no idea. The game was really quite fun in one way, but got really dull after a while, as I basically started running through all the "hit points" to try to get further. I.e. look through every peephole etc etc.
I'm amazed that I got through these games, considering how little of them I really understood. I completed frigging Cruise For A Corpse, for crying out loud! What a sad, awesome childhood.

Childhood shame: looking at the raw code of the game's system files to see if I could find conversational snippets that might give me some idea wtf to do next. I believe the Sierra ones had filenames ending in .001 etc.

err, not "code", but rather binaries etc.

Will never forget "Administer field sobriety test".

Also, been playing Broken Sword ( the first one) recently and it rocks.

I got my hands on a double pack of The Longest Journey and Dreamfall the other day. Which made me very happy

Classic Lucasarts adventures are on Steam now. $5 each.

hey did you guys know about this: http://www.telltalegames.com/monkeyisland

And also next week they're releasing a talkie remake of the original Secret of Monkey Island!

I downloaded the new Telltale episode yesterday only to have them say my graphics card is too old to run it. Whoever thought "your computer is too old to run Monkey Island" would be a sentence that exists in the English language?

Back in my day, we lost months of our lives to Wizardry.

http://www.gamethink.net/IMG/gif/appleII_wizardry_1.gif

indiana jones and the fate of atlantic played a really significant role in my childhoold (elementary school), partly cause it took me yearssss to beat that game. esp. in team mode, cause there's this one part where you have to push sophia into the knife juggler, and who the hell would think to do that?? the day I figured it out was pretty glorious.

last year when I was living in paris, somehow the game came up in a conversation with one of my bestfriends and it turned out he also played the game as a kid. so one saturday night after seeing this horribleeeee stereotype of a french band, we were feeling sorta 'fuck france' and wanted to act like disgusting americans (even though he was canadian.)

so we got a family sized portion of KFC, went to his apartment, attempted to get drunk on baileys (didn't work) and illegally downloaded IJATFOA and played through the entire thing by memory. well, not the entire thing actually, 98% of the way through, because when we were at the very end part in atlantis, my friend decided we should fight a nazi even though we coulda ran away without a scartch - and he promptly lost the fight. we hadn't saved the game for a longgg while and it was like 5 am, so that was that.

moral of the story: indiana jones and the fate of atlantis is the best game of all time.

great story iatee.

has anyone played the new monkey island yet? can't believe i hadn't heard of this before - the reviews have been good too, all around the 8/10 mark. can't wait for this - though i do suspect im expecting too much. it aint 1994 anymore

And also next week they're releasing a talkie remake of the original Secret of Monkey Island!

^^ This is event of the year imo. I hope they pull it off.

I look forward to trying out the Secret of Monkey Island remake, as I never finished the original! I'm also dying to play Tim Schafer's latest, Brutal Legend. Alas, I don't want to by a PS3 or Xbox. I wonder if it'll ever come out on PC? Grim Fandango and Full Throttle are two of my all-time favorites. I've had Psychonauts sitting in an unopened box for over a year, so maybe I should try that to tie me over.

Any other recommendations of similar games? I tried Longest Journey but got bored and didn't get very far. I tried Alice back in the day but am lousy at live-action fighting type stuff.

We can help you out here: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=67

Also, Psychonauts is awesome and worth your time.

the remake of monkey island is glorious, absolutely loved replaying it. any news on a remake of the sequel? the end screen suggests so, but would be good to know how long it'll be. from what i remember, MI2 was much longer then that first (about 3x as many floppy disks!), cannot wait!

haven't played that 'new' monkey island series though, anyone know if its worth it?

I played the mini-episode they gave away for Talk Like A Pirate Day and it passed the time fairly enjoyably but something was missing somehow. Whether that's just my nostalgia (and teenage patience for unintuitive puzzles without reaching straight for a walkthrough) or there really was something less charming about the jokes/interface/ability to solve puzzles without matching every inventory item with every item onscreen I'm not really sure.

Might still buy the series, though, as it wasn't BAD and I am glad to see it get resurrected.

(Haven't played the remake, that might answer the question)

you should play the remake, it's great. if you do, i'd like to know how you think they compare

can someone explain to me WHY you need to find the 7th Guest in the 7th Guest? I explained the plot of this game to my sister, and she asked WHY you needed to find the 7th Guest and I was fucking STUMPED! I mean, why does Stauf care so damn much?

this is a p big spoiler but iirc u are the 7th guest?

haha the wikipedia entry explains it better than i can:

As the guests explore the house, they experience illusions (or possibly real supernatural events) that begin to put them on edge. The seventh guest is revealed to be Tad, a young boy who sneaked into the house after being dared by his friends. Furthermore, they learn that Stauf wants one of them to bring Tad to him so that he can steal his soul ...in an apparent pact with the supernatural, it was required that Stauf collect a certain number of souls, and Tad is the last child he needs.