There were 2 different LucusArts Indiana Jones graphic adventures - The Last Crusade (subtitled 'The Adventure Game', as opposed to the god-awful 'Action Game' platformer) and The Fate of Atlantis.
Oh, and 'Beneath A Steel Sky' was pretty spiffy too.
That'll be because the old 'hamster-in-microwave' trick. It was taken out of some versions, though I *think* it's still in the US NES game.Originally Posted by NeoVenom
yeaaah that was one of the games i couldn't remember when i posted my reply, and it lets another one come to my mind: 'Guilty'
btw Fate of Atlantis is far superior to The Last Crusade
-Jan
Undoubtably so, though I've got a soft spot for The Last Crusade, since it was the first graphic adventure I ever finished
They took it out. They also took out that part when you put the tentacle mating song in the Green Tentacle's room and "something" happens which causes you to die. They also censored "For a good time, Call Edna."
Here is an interesting document about the NES Maniac Mansion:
http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/maniac.html
By the way, I was playing Maniac Mansion a while back for the C64 and I always have problems going into the huge telescope room. You know the hole on top of the man-eating plant (I think that'z what it is called). Everytime I make it to the top, I can't enter the room. Does anyone else encounter this same problem?
That's what I originally thought, but the DP Database suggests otherwise:
http://66.92.250.36:8080/DP/cmf/game.cmf?gameid=114596
Ohhh...interesting, but I bet they took out the part where Ed kills you if you give him the cooked hamster. I will never put a hamster in a microwave, even if it'z in a game.
Another that wasn't mentioned was "Mean Streets" by Access Software. You took control of Tex Murphy in a futuristic setting that mixed a graphical interface adventure with some action sequences and a mini flight sim as you tried to solve a supposed suicide. It used 256 colors (one of the first at the time to really use the colors) and had a sound setup called "real sound" (if I'm not mistaken) that pumped sampled music, sound effects and voices through your PC speaker.
Pretty cool game.
Personally, I like the whole point & click concept. For games like Grim Fandango and Monkey Island IV, there's no use with the mouse. So far I haven't seem any pointing and clicking in both of them. Also, it'z hard for me to use a keyboard with those games, so I use a controller instead. If Lucasarts ever release another Maniac Mansion game, I hope it has the same gameplay as Day of the Tentacle. But with technology today, it will most likely be like Grim Fandango and Monkey Island IV.
I wouldn't mind seeing a remake of Zak McKraken with all of those icky mazes replaced with dungeons full of random RPG battles. With the game's nonlinear structure, it could work out awfully well.
Anyway, if you've tried out Beneath a Steel Sky and Flight of the Amazon Queen already, you may enjoy Teen Agent. It is also freeware, and it has some thoroughly stupid puzzles, but it has some of the best writing I've ever seen in a game of its type.
sorry, double post
-Jan
Zak reminds me of this: Zak McKrakken 2 is being made by a group of fans
also Broken Sword 2.5 btw, a new 2D Broken Sword (looks promising)
-Jan
That Maniac Mansion page is really cool. :) I've read that article before, but I've never seen any pictures of the removed things.
Actually that page said they kept it.
Heh. I just think that paragraph's funny.In the credits, which are shown after the conclusion of the game, there are two occurrences of the word Scumm, which stands for Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion. Scumm is the story game development system which was used to produce Maniac. They understood, and asked "What is NES SCUMM?" That is the version of Scumm that we did for the Nintendo. "Yeah, but it says NES SCUMM. What will people think?"
I don't know what people will think. And we will never know what people will think. I took it out.
They didn't object to the nasty stuff that happens to the hamster. Ron suggested that it was just violence.
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Wendie 99
Last edited by Daria; 05-11-2011 at 09:01 AM.
I guess I missed that part.They didn't object to the nasty stuff that happens to the hamster. Ron suggested that it was just violence.Sorry, my apologiez.
Sorry for double posting. I wanted to delete the post before this one but I couldn't.
Currently I'm playing Monkey Island 4. Half of the stuff in that game I would have never found out. I hate getting stuck in a Graphic Adventure game without a walkthrough. Has anyone beat a Graphic Adventure game without looking at a Walkthrough? I have beaten a couple without looking at one, but the hardest Graphic Adventure game for me was The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate. I definately couldn't beat this game without a Walkthrough.
I almost made it through Grim Fandango without any hints. (Couldn't quite figure out how to talk to the beatniks.)
I love the old school days of Graphic Adventure Gaming. My favorite ones were in the Lucasarts collection I used to have on floppy which included:
Secret Of Monkey Island
Maniac Mansion
Loom
Zak Mckracken
Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade
Such great times. I'll never forget some of the moments I've had playing such as poor Rusty's fate in Loom. That poor, poor boy! And the dark room with the breathing monster in Zak Mckracken that freaked me the hell out when I was younger.
I really enjoyed a lot of sierra's adventure games as well, such as Space/Police/King's quest. Too bad the King's Quest series ended pretty horribly with that 3dish crap one, eh?
I remember recently I was playing Zak with headphones on. While I was walking thru the jungle (I think all who played Zak will remember), I heard that loud roar and I have to admit, I got scared.I have to play them on a C64 emulator cuz I lost the cable that connects the keyboard to the disk drive.
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