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#1 2 SEP 2011 at 10:36pm
walsh Sorcerer Apprentice Posts : 384 Joined: 15 DEC 2010 Status : Offline	Now that I'm getting used to using dosbox to play old games, I want to explore any gems that I might have missed from that era. So I'd like to start up a list of classic adventure games which everyone should have played. I don't know what "classic" should mean, but I'd say anything before mid/late 90s, that is quite simply a great game. Everyone knows about the Gabriel Knights, Kings Quests, Broken Swords. Not everyone knows about Sanitarium, Dragonsphere, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Riddle of Master Lu.
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#2 3 SEP 2011 at 9:10am
Fnord Schattenjger Posts : 2752 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm Status : Offline	Classics is quite a hard term to define, but one that just misses your definition is Schizm: Mysterious journey. A really good myst-style game (heck, it is nearly a clone of myst). Challenging, good puzzles and an interesting environment. Get the DVD version, if possible. The last Express is relatively famous among adventure gamers, but nearly unknown to the rest of the world. The game has a beautiful hand drawn style, believable characters, a real time environment with characters moving around, doing their own things (which can impact you) and many endings. The last express can be found on GOG for $6. Current Let's Play: Crusader: No Remorse
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#3 3 SEP 2011 at 9:47am
Mr Innocent. Journeyman Posts : 1317 Joined: 15 JAN 2008 Location: GR Status : Offline	I'd add I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream to the list of gems any adventure gamer should play. And I see you mention Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, well, as far as I am concerned, playing all the adventure games developed by Legend Entertainment should be obligatory to get posting rights in any adventure gaming forum . Except perhaps Time Quest, you can skip that one.
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#4 3 SEP 2011 at 10:42am
walsh Sorcerer Apprentice Posts : 384 Joined: 15 DEC 2010 Status : Offline	*Originally Posted By Fnord (3 SEP 2011 9:10am)* Classics is quite a hard term to define, but one that just misses your definition is Schizm: Mysterious journey. A really good myst-style game (heck, it is nearly a clone of myst). Challenging, good puzzles and an interesting environment. Get the DVD version, if possible. The last Express is relatively famous among adventure gamers, but nearly unknown to the rest of the world. The game has a beautiful hand drawn style, believable characters, a real time environment with characters moving around, doing their own things (which can impact you) and many endings. The last express can be found on GOG for $6. Played (and loved) Last Express, but I haven't played Schizm yet, thanks for reminding me! I read some reviews at the time when I discovered Myst and was scared away by it being called the "most difficult game ever made" and stuff like that. *Originally Posted By nik2008ofs (3 SEP 2011 9:47am)* I'd add I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream to the list of gems any adventure gamer should play. And I see you mention Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, well, as far as I am concerned, playing all the adventure games developed by Legend Entertainment should be obligatory to get posting rights in any adventure gaming forum . Except perhaps Time Quest, you can skip that one. Great, that's a couple more to add to my list. I Have No Mouth sounds very interesting, and as for the Legend games, I've wanted to play Xanth/Shannara/Death Gate for a long time now. The two Gateway games were fantastic.
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#5 3 SEP 2011 at 12:46pm
Traveller Guild Master Posts : 4040 Joined: 3 JUL 2010 Location: US Status : Offline	I Have No Mouth is very dark but very interesting. If you enjoyed Sanitarium, chances are that you'll love it. * * * Just call me Trav. * * * “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch "They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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#6 3 SEP 2011 at 2:06pm
marshal99 Intergalactic Janitor Posts : 6 Joined: 27 AUG 2011 Status : Offline	Go back a little further and i would recommend Heart of China & Rise of the Dragon.
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#7 3 SEP 2011 at 2:14pm
Fnord Schattenjger Posts : 2752 Joined: 15 SEP 2008 Location: SE, Stockholm Status : Offline	Another game worth considering is Bad Mojo. It is not a game for those who can't stand strong graphical images, but it has a very different theme to it, and it is quite good. If you are interested in the game, get the "redux" version, it is the game game but with most technical issues resolved and the FMV sequences look better. Current Let's Play: Crusader: No Remorse
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#8 3 SEP 2011 at 2:51pm
tincup2 Journeyman Posts : 822 Joined: 8 MAR 2011 Location: US, NYC Status : Offline	Dogday, Bad Day on the Midway, SPQR and Lighthouse fit the category I think - not often discussed but all very good. ADD: and Mission Critical perhaps?
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#9 3 SEP 2011 at 3:13pm
InlandAZ Guild Master Posts : 5586 Joined: 4 MAY 2007 Status : Offline	I'll throw in Noctropolis, it's great little game and some really funny out takes at the end. What?
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#10 4 SEP 2011 at 3:28am
Helen Guild Master Posts : 3436 Joined: 12 OCT 2002 Location: US Status : Offline	I would throw in Shivers and Zork GI. And absolutely all the Tex Murphys if you havent played those.
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#11 4 SEP 2011 at 5:57pm
tincup2 Journeyman Posts : 822 Joined: 8 MAR 2011 Location: US, NYC Status : Offline	I'll add a few more: SpyCraft Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster Qin
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#12 4 SEP 2011 at 9:27pm
Mr Innocent. Journeyman Posts : 1317 Joined: 15 JAN 2008 Location: GR Status : Offline	I just remembered that I quited liked all of the adventures based on Star Trek, 25th Anniversary, Judgement Rites, and Final Unity. If I had to pick one though, I'd go with STNG: A Final Unity, the last and more mature in terms of design of the lot. Edit: Ah, I just remember a few more DOS era adventures that weren't all that well-known, in spite of their high quality. Touche: Adventures of the 5th Musketeer. Orion Burger (by the guys that made Riddle of Master Lu). Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender (by the guys that made Dragonsphere). Flight of the Amazon Queen (but that has gained some measure of fame since going freeware and being supported by ScummVM). Shadow of the Comet. Bloodnet (a bit of an adventure/RPG hybrid, must play for gothic/cyberpunk fans) Kingdom O' Magic, a very humorous and sadly overlooked little gem. Well, I could propably come up with a few more if I really put my mind to it, but it can wait until you play the ones above .
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#13 5 SEP 2011 at 3:32am
JKing Schattenjger Posts : 2349 Joined: 4 MAY 2008 Location: 0 Status : Offline	*Originally Posted By nik2008ofs (4 SEP 2011 9:27pm)* I just remembered that I quited liked all of the adventures based on Star Trek, 25th Anniversary, Judgement Rites, and Final Unity. If I had to pick one though, I'd go with STNG: A Final Unity, the last and more mature in terms of design of the lot. I could never get A Final Unity to run, not on any hardware I've had and not in DOSBox. Is there some kind of special, arcane trick? o I need to sacrifice a virgin? You can't kill someone in a studio.
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#14 5 SEP 2011 at 12:32pm
Mr Innocent. Journeyman Posts : 1317 Joined: 15 JAN 2008 Location: GR Status : Offline	*Originally Posted By JKing (5 SEP 2011 3:31am)* I could never get A Final Unity to run, not on any hardware I've had and not in DOSBox. Hm. I played it both in pure DOS (on a Celeron 333MHz, 128MB Ram, NVidia Riva TNT 16MB ), and using Dosbox on a much more modern PC. That was at least 4 years ago and my memory is a bit fuzzy, but I did fiddle a bit. I think I installed, in Dosbox, a VESA driver called univbe. *Originally Posted By JKing (5 SEP 2011 3:31am)* Do I need to sacrifice a virgin? I don't think that's necessary. But if all else fails, you could always try having sex with a virgin, you never know what will work with these old games.
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#15 5 SEP 2011 at 1:59pm
portiafimbriata Intergalactic Janitor Posts : 76 Joined: 12 FEB 2009 Status : Offline	Beneath a Steel Sky. Don't know if it qualifies as lesser known though. Cthulu loves me, this I know&&The Necronomicon tells me so
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