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Krathoon
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Let's see if you guys can figure this out. I remember this game demo I played on a PC Gamer disc back around the early to mid nineties. The story of the game involved traveling around a virtual reality representation of a dead person's mind (I think it was a dead professor with some valuable information locked away in his brain) solving obtuse puzzles. I believe it was made using Macromedia software.
There was one humorous bit in the demo that may be the key to tracking this down. If you tried to save the game, a leprechaun would come out and say, "For the love of St. Peter, it is only a demo! Blarrrrgh!"
There was one humorous bit in the demo that may be the key to tracking this down. If you tried to save the game, a leprechaun would come out and say, "For the love of St. Peter, it is only a demo! Blarrrrgh!"
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Don't know about the leprechaun part...
Thanks, but that is not it. The game was also aimed at a mature audience.
LMoDB was really cool though.
Nope. This just involved travel through the mind. The movement was kind of like Myst and it had abstract landscapes.
It'll always be special to me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsidian_%28video_game%29
I looked at some web pages on it an that is not it. The game I am thinking of was exploring a human mind and the graphics were more simplistic.
You did give me another game to collect though.
Edit: It's not Dream Zone, is it?
Yeah. That isn't it. The game did not have an oriental theme. I remember one of the puzzles involved 3D shapes and mouth babbling gibberish. There also was another one that had sound effects from a cocktail party. It was a weird game.
Coconut Monkey never finished it. He has no hands.
No. Dream Zone was too far back. This game was a PC game and I believe it was windows based. Also, the graphics were much like Myst's with video clips doing the animations.
I hope it was Druid. Druid had exploring and is old. And had something to do with minds.
It is not Druid. This game was in first person, not isometric.
It was called Necrobius and it was by Microprose. I'll dig on the web for some more info. I found it on PC Gamer disc 8 from July 1995.
Edit: I am not finding much on this. I did find a link to some info on the guy who made it.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/danielauld
According to that page, it seems like there was just a Japan release of it.
I was looking at a web page for that one too and totally didn't think that would be it.
I must have really weird luck then, or missing some kind of joke; every time I read one of these threads it seems like the entire page is entirely filled with suggestions that either only have read one bit of the conditions or must be just fucking with the OP.
"Ok, this was a fantasy adventure game on the the Super Nintendo. It was a side-scroller and you used a sword and shield."
"Oh, Legend of Zelda: Link to The Past!"
"No, that zelda was top-down. This was definitely a side-scroller."
"How About Zelda 2?"
"I'm positive it was on the SNES; it didn't look 8-bit."
"Sounds like Super Contra or Metal Slug."
"Those weren't fantasy. This game was an adventure-RPG."
"Was it Baldur's Gate?"
"No that's a PC game."
"Phantasy Star."
"Not a SNES game."
"This reminds me of Morrowwind."
"Still not an SNES game."
"Oblivion?"
"Definite not that new."
"Super Metroid."
"No. Fantasy adventure game."
"I remember my favorite adventure game for Nintendo was Legend of Zelda..."
Eventually somebody gets it, but in the meantime there's a parade of suggestions that could at least note they don't fit one or two of the qualifications ("are you sure it was for that system?." "It might've been Castlevania, but he used a whip."). It's like asking for directions in London.
Sounds like this game was never released. No one wonder no one knew it.
...was it ActRaiser?
This is what Wikipedia says about them:
Which is probably why not much is known about the game, specially if it was cancelled or had a very short print.