Point-and-click adventure games

[OceanBlue]

I'm not sure if this thread will end up needing to be moved to the PC Gaming sub-forum or not, even though some of the games are older ones.

Does anyone here remember the PC game Day of the Tentacle?

[Shawn Elestren]

Indeed.

Sam & Max rules.

[Region_unlocked]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

I'm not sure if this thread will end up needing to be moved to the PC Gaming sub-forum or not, even though some of the games are older ones.

Does anyone here remember the PC game Day of the Tentacle?

Day of the Tentacle is awesome! Cool thing about it is it has the previous game "Maniac Mansion" built into it as an easter egg. Don't really see stuff like that nowadays.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by Shawn Elestren

Indeed.

Sam & Max rules.

Think I remember playing a sample of one of the Sam & Max games (they were on a CD which came with an issue of a computer and video games magazine). Was one of them called Sam & Max Hit the Road?

Originally Posted by Region_unlocked

Day of the Tentacle is awesome! Cool thing about it is it has the previous game "Maniac Mansion" built into it as an easter egg. Don't really see stuff like that nowadays.

I don't recall if I completed the game, but it was entertaining (and educational). Don't know if this was the general packaging, but when I purchased it, it came in a large Toblerone-style box (with a green and purple colour scheme on the outside).

[OceanBlue]

Does anyone remember the Leisure Suit Larry and Broken Sword series? I didn't play any of the former, but I did get the director's cut of the first Broken Sword game on the Nintendo DS (loved it, and wished they had done a director's cut of the second Broken Sword game).

[SillyG]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Does anyone remember the Leisure Suit Larry and Broken Sword series? I didn't play any of the former, but I did get the director's cut of the first Broken Sword game on the Nintendo DS (loved it, and wished they had done a director's cut of the second Broken Sword game).

Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry was released sometime last year. It's a series that has had intermittent installments since its inception (of mixed quality), so it never really went away.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by SillyG

Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Don't Dry was released sometime last year. It's a series that has had intermittent installments since its inception (of mixed quality), so it never really went away.

Haven't been following the computer and video games releases a lot during the last few years, hence why I asked if anyone remembered the Leisure Suit Larry games. I didn't know there had been some new installments since I last heard of any new installments.

[Region_unlocked]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Think I remember playing a sample of one of the Sam & Max games (they were on a CD which came with an issue of a computer and video games magazine). Was one of them called Sam & Max Hit the Road?



I don't recall if I completed the game, but it was entertaining (and educational). Don't know if this was the general packaging, but when I purchased it, it came in a large Toblerone-style box (with a green and purple colour scheme on the outside).

The first Sam and Max is called "Sam and Max: Hit the Road". That's the only one Lucas Arts ever made. People loved the characters, but a 2nd game was stuck in production hell for years. Telltale eventually revived the series with: Sam and Max Season 1, Beyond Time and Space and The Devil's Playhouse. They're all pretty great games.

[Rayjaymay]

The Monkey Island games were probably the high point of the LucasFilm adventure games. I also enjoyed the Indiana Jones adventures too.

[Al_The_Strange]

Point-and-click games were my first foray into the gaming world as far back as the early 90s (93 maybe?). In the years before my parents even bought a PC, I watched some of my friends play Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and I was mesmerized. Excited, even. I had to get me a PC and play this for myself!

My folks eventually did get a PC, and at some point we had the game. I played it all the time--made it to the end on all three paths and discovered the two possible endings for myself. Even though I haven't played this game in years, I remember it fondly enough to rank it as one of the best--I really wished it could have become a movie.

Around that time, I also had copies of Space Quest IV (I swear, the first few minutes alone made me laugh so hard--the game itself wasn't a cakewalk, but I figured it out eventually), Quest for Glory (never did finish it, but I liked it), and King's Quest VI (another all-time favorite).

My best friend got into Sam and Max Hit the Road and wouldn't stop talking about it. Later on, he had Full Throttle and The Dig. I had copies of those later on (probably as part of the big LucasArts box set my parents gifted me), and they were a blast. Of course, I played Day of the Tentacle as well and loved it.

Somehow I came across some more offbeat games like The Dagger of Amon Ra, Prisoner of Ice, Ripley's Believe It Or Not: The Riddle of Master Lu, and Beneath an Iron Sky. I really liked all of these, but I only ever finished Prisoner of Ice (with a walkthough). The others were either too hard or gliched out on me (stupid floppies...).

By the time I hit high school, I was into Space Quest VI, King's Quest VII and Star Trek: A Final Unity. Those were probably my last ones from the 90s.

As a PlayStation gamer though, I did buy and play some of the Telltale games like Back to the Future, the King's Quest reboot, and the Walking Dead. I've enjoyed them and I've been happy with their stories.

I still have a lot of these games, either on ancient CD-ROMs, on steam, or in their remastered forms. I haven't really made time for them these days, and I got to admit that I could never get used to the older text-based games (like the first King's Quest and Space Quest)--VGA graphics spoiled me.

These days, I've been watching playthroughs on Youtube for something called Dark Seed I and II--it's a shame I missed out on that somehow, even though it looks hard.

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Does anyone here remember the PC game Day of the Tentacle?

Have you seen the remastered version available on Steam and the PSN? It held up perfectly--gameplay's the same, it's still a hoot, and it still has the Maniac Manson easter egg.

Same folks also remastered Full Throttle and Grim Fandango, and both have been phenomenal. All of these have the option to play with the original graphics too.

I'm hoping more remasters are on the way.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

Have you seen the remastered version available on Steam and the PSN? It held up perfectly--gameplay's the same, it's still a hoot, and it still has the Maniac Manson easter egg.

Same folks also remastered Full Throttle and Grim Fandango, and both have been phenomenal. All of these have the option to play with the original graphics too.

I'm hoping more remasters are on the way.

I can't remember which I bought last, either the Nintendo DS or the PS3 (the latter I use now for playing Blu-rays and some MOD DVDs which are a bit noisy when playing in the multi-region player). Haven't bought any games machines (or PC games) since then. I know of the PSN, but until late last week, had never heard of Steam.

I'd forgot all about Full Throttle and Grim Fandango. I remember playing some of each. Enjoyed the latter moreso. Thanks for the reminder. Have nostalgic thoughts (positive memories) about the majority of the point-and-click adventure games I played.

I can't remember the exact name of the series, but there was a PC series with 'Police' in the title. There could have been as many as four games in the series. I could never play it properly. Either there was a bug in the one game I played, or it was too tricky to understand.

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

I can't remember the exact name of the series, but there was a PC series with 'Police' in the title. There could have been as many as four games in the series. I could never play it properly. Either there was a bug in the one game I played, or it was too tricky to understand.

Probably Sierra's Police Quest series. I remember seeing ads for it, but I never played it.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by Al_The_Strange

Probably Sierra's Police Quest series. I remember seeing ads for it, but I never played it.

Thanks for your help. I think that's the series I was thinking of. Would like to see it remastered.

[OceanBlue]

Can't remember how I came across these PC point-and-click adventure games last month (might have been when looking at an actor's IMDb filmography). Does anyone here remember:

Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murders
and Santa Fe Mysteries: Sacred Ground?

Looks like they were released in the mid to late-nineties.

[LexInHD]

Here's a good Facebook group, where you can discover all sorts of unknown gems and rediscover old classics that you might have forgotten about.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2375645368

[Al_The_Strange]

Anybody ever play I Have No Mouth And Must Scream?

Nightdive did a remaster of it recently for consoles and Steam. Started a playthrough myself, but I couldn't get far.

[heyadol]

I’m way behind the curve here, just played through Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle for the first time. Didn’t have a PC as a kid but I remember seeing the box for Full Throttle at Babbages and I really wanted to play, glad I was finally able to check it off the list.