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| 1 OCT 2006 at 1:58am |
Mickey_BitskoIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | That's a great idea. I'd love to see these in one package. They're all good detective fun. In my wildest fantasies, I imagine The Adventure Company or some other benevolent entity starting a division which rereleases the "old" classics, and doing it right for once.
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| 28 OCT 2006 at 6:38pm |
MdaGIntergalactic Janitor
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Status : Online | I haven't played any of the Tex Murphy games and I would love to find them in a compilation.
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| 30 OCT 2006 at 3:32am |
jalexSchattenjger
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Joined: 5 MAR 2003
Status : Offline | I would love to see that happen too. I still play the old ones but they are hard to get running on a modern system now.
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| 5 NOV 2006 at 9:40pm |
MikekellyPrivate Detective
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Microsoft now owns the studio. MAYBE - they could release them again OR make a new game!
With their Xbox being a big priority for them - perhaps a combination PC/Xbox rerelease might make sense.
Time will tell - I'd love to see it myself.
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| 5 NOV 2006 at 11:50pm |
RecklessJourneyman
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Joined: 14 NOV 2002
Status : Online | As pointed out in the other thread on this page (started by Randy), Microsoft have already offloaded those assets to Take-Two. According to Mobygames:
In October of 2004, the business unit of Microsoft that still comprised of the people and projects from Access Software, were sold to Take-Two. The studio was renamed Indie Built, Inc.
Quoting Randy's post:
Well, Chris Jones is working on Stolen Life, a movie which we've known about for some time and today we have a nice article about it courtesy of Alexander Tait - http://www.justadventure.com/Previews/StolenLife/StolenLife.shtm
He also owns a company that develops software golf simulations.
As for Aaron Conners, I spoke with him this weekend on the telephone and he's no longer with Take 2 and is now happily employed at Ubisoft in their Montreal division. Take 2 really did Access wrong and it is unlikely that we will ever see a rerelease of the Tex games, but both Aaron and Chris have spoken to me in the past about reviving Tex as an online game and while it never panned out, Aaron said that he hopes to have another adventure game in development in a year or two. We did speak about the new popularity of digital downloads, Gametap and game installments such as Bone and Sam and Max and the possibility still exists that Tex could be revived in a similar fashion.
I've already written to Gametap as they do seem to be interested in quality adventure games but it probably wouldn't hurt if they were to hear from a few thousand fans either.
A re-release is probably not likely given the games are large (DVD sized) which would preclude online play and possibly even download to play. They were technically advanced at the time of release and aren't super friendly to get running on modern systems. Perhaps something will come along but I would place money on it just yet
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