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Topic: CHRONOMASTER

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15 SEP 2008 at 2:20am

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Guys, I do enjoy your view on adv. games.

I must confess I am one of the greatest fun of adv. games, and as such I have had played at least 90% of games mentioned here on the site. But I was terribly disapointed seeing  that in whole TOP 50 thread NO ONE has mentioned this game.

CHRONOMASTER

Ok, it is kind of late at my home so I will add just a little bit on the game. It is my FIRST and FOREMOST on the TOP 200 list. Stunning graphics and story, really.

Rene Corda , protagonist is creator of pocket universes, each one of which possess its distinctively intrinsic laws, like magic ie. 7 of these Rene's Universes were put into stasis (flow of time was stopped). Rene has to bring these Universes back to normality (restore flow of time, or if you like me believe that time is an illusion, Rene has to bring back change). Not only has he to do that, He has to find culprit for apparent stasis of these 7 Universes, revealing motives for stasis and so on....

Game is MASTERPIECE, believe me on this one. I did have played everything mentioned here from Perry Rhodan being my last, over moment of silence, all sam and max episodes and original game, monkey island 1-4, grim fandango, broken mirror, full throtle, myst 1-5, broken sword 1-4, all questes (king's quest, police quest, eco quest...), legend of kyriandia (malcolm and his friends
, discworlds (I did particularly liked NOIR), runaway, shadow of destiny, DOTT, the longest journey 1 and 2 (dreamfall), to very old games, like Amiga's Universe, the Bat, Beneath a steel sky, Indy and fate of atlantis, gene machine, Leisure  suit larry 3-7, loom, post mortem, gabriel's knight, Dark Seed 1&2, shivers 2, at least 10 nancy drews, few scherlock holmes, journey to center of earth, schizm, blade runner, syberia 1&2, Nibiru, Zero Critical,  Road to india, Midnight nowhere, Harvester, Sanitarium... I just could continue like this for 15 minutes.

All of this with an intention to STRESS this point >  CHRONOMASTER is my number ONE. Pay tribute to Roger Zelazny who wrote the book and died during the time the game was prepared. Pay tribute to Dream Forge who also developed Sanitarium some time later, and play Chronomaster!

Cheers guys,
Miroslav Cvetinov

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15 SEP 2008 at 11:18am

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I played this game many years ago and still remember something of it.  This perhaps is a tribute to the quality of the game.  Well worth seeking out and playing.

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15 SEP 2008 at 3:42pm

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With a glowing review like that from someone who's been around the genre I think I might believe you. I looked it up on mobygames and it doesn't look half bad.

I'll add to my list of "to play some time".

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15 SEP 2008 at 5:47pm

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yes, you have a point, this is tribute. I felt somehow disappointed that no one mentioned this game in the whole forum. I suppose that reasons for this we can find in death of Roger Zelazny and bad marketing after his death. I experience this lack of popularity of the Chronomaster as true sadness due to the fact that many guys now will not use dos emulators (dosbox...) and will not enjoy this splendid masterpiece.

This game really has a special place in my collection, it is one of rare gems amongst myriads of products of consumerism and consumer society.

Miroslav Cvetinov

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16 SEP 2008 at 5:03pm

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Who owns the rights now? GOG.com would be a great home for it, with easy to use pre-setup dosbox installs.

Personally I love dosbox so it won't be an issue.

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17 SEP 2008 at 10:42am

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Yes, I remember this game. May still have the CD somewhere. It had an innovative structure, but some weaknesses as well. Such as one part where you would die and have to reload and work out what went wrong, then die again when the next thing you did was wrong.

However, I enjoyed the game and the story, especially the Arabian Nights part, and I'd give it something like a 6.5/10. Not a masterpiece in my opinion but well worth a try when you are looking for something different.

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