My grandparents had a computer before we did, and I think for a good solid year or two I completely ignored the two most beloved members of my family in favor of running full tilt into their library to play this game before my brother got his dumb baby hands on the keyboard.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
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Don't know if you recall but did your game come with a reference encyclopedia to look up the various historical facts needed because mine totally did and it was awesome.
Oh are we talking about Legend of Kyrandia in here?
Oh my god this game was soooooo good
Just a treat from beginning to end
I liked all the Kyrandia games, but the second one is still my favorite for having a strong female protagonist who doesn't need to rely on a man to get to her objectives
In fact, she
saves the man from the big bad
at the end!
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But at my aunt's house, she had some pretty sweet games. I think she had like all of the Commander Keen games, some platformer where you played as an alien who could stick to walls (Cosmos?), and then a trilogy of murder mystery adventure games that I cannot remember the name of. I believe two of them took place in mansions and the other took place in an Amazonian jungle. I can't really remember much about them except spending hours playing them (and in some cases, trying to figure out what command the game wanted me to type in so that I could plug the hole in the inflatable boat and get across the underground lake beneath the mansion).
The alien platformer is Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, and the mystery adventure game trilogy is Hugo's House of Horrors.
I didn't even realize how old it was until I looked it up
it's like the third videogame ever
everything is on steam these days, even this! it's not listed on their store pages, so you need to follow a direct link to get to it: steam://install/480
I can't be the only person who threw the bucket of Christopher's blood onto his son
ah, the good old days of having to rewrite config.sys just to run one game
I gamed the casino so much in this game that I had more gold than the game could hold: after a while it started deleting chunks of world geometry every time it generated more money. In the end the game world was so broken that I flew my magic carpet into the final dungeon and landed it maybe two rooms away from the Black Gate.
I can never find it on google because the name isn't unique enough
you started at ground level and had to fight your way to the top of a pagoda with increasingly difficult enemies
this is a game I played on my dad's DOS IBM
four-bit color monitor
I played Ninja. Launching your knife and throwing stars in each room, then charging in with your sword or karate kicks. I remember me and my brother trying to kill every enemy in each room such that their sodden corpses stacked on top of each other. A friend described this phenomena as a "double-whammy pancake," which at age seven or eight I believed was the apex of humor.
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Super Solvers Midnight Rescue at your service! Man that was awesome too.
Did anyone else play the leisure suit Larry games growing up? God, what didn't I use to get my jollies
I recall my mom and dad being surprised that I was able to figure out the answers to the "test you for being an adult" questions at the start of LSL1. I also remember being vaguely disappointed at the lack of cartoon nudity (hey I was 8 or 9 or 10 or something). I also had no clue what a prophylactic was.
Also, whoever posted the Alleycat game video? I hate you. That game was hard.
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When I was living in India I would periodically bug my mother to let me have access to this strange Russian computer capable of a stranger series of LCD games, among which was one called Alleycat.
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I was just coming in here to post this!
My grandparents had a computer before we did, and I think for a good solid year or two I completely ignored the two most beloved members of my family in favor of running full tilt into their library to play this game before my brother got his dumb baby hands on the keyboard.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Oh my god this game was soooooo good
Just a treat from beginning to end
I liked all the Kyrandia games, but the second one is still my favorite for having a strong female protagonist who doesn't need to rely on a man to get to her objectives
In fact, she
at the end!
big
I can't be the only person who threw the bucket of Christopher's blood onto his son
oh yes
so good
did anyone play Ninja?
I can never find it on google because the name isn't unique enough
you started at ground level and had to fight your way to the top of a pagoda with increasingly difficult enemies
this is a game I played on my dad's DOS IBM
four-bit color monitor
The alien platformer is Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, and the mystery adventure game trilogy is Hugo's House of Horrors.
everything is on steam these days, even this! it's not listed on their store pages, so you need to follow a direct link to get to it: steam://install/480
ah, the good old days of having to rewrite config.sys just to run one game
I gamed the casino so much in this game that I had more gold than the game could hold: after a while it started deleting chunks of world geometry every time it generated more money. In the end the game world was so broken that I flew my magic carpet into the final dungeon and landed it maybe two rooms away from the Black Gate.
Yessss
there was one in a school, and one in a television station
and then a later one where you had to earn money to design the fastest racecar you could
help me out here
The room is now clear of enemies
BLOW UP EVERYTHING
That sounds like the Super Solvers games to me
The school one was probably Midnight Rescue?
I played Ninja. Launching your knife and throwing stars in each room, then charging in with your sword or karate kicks. I remember me and my brother trying to kill every enemy in each room such that their sodden corpses stacked on top of each other. A friend described this phenomena as a "double-whammy pancake," which at age seven or eight I believed was the apex of humor.
Microwave the hamster.
those games were the world's worst teases
I thought I was going to get to see porn
instead you got vague innuendo
really you'd see racier things on prime-time TV
Oh wow, I remember this game. I actually enjoyed it.
I recall my mom and dad being surprised that I was able to figure out the answers to the "test you for being an adult" questions at the start of LSL1. I also remember being vaguely disappointed at the lack of cartoon nudity (hey I was 8 or 9 or 10 or something). I also had no clue what a prophylactic was.
Also, whoever posted the Alleycat game video? I hate you. That game was hard.
yessssss that was it
those games were wonderful to eight-year-old-me
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Its multi was fun as hell, man.
You would have had a blast.
The one where you're a detective who wakes up in a motel room with amnesia?
and obviously