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Thursday, October 19, 2006
Name That Game #2
No prizes this time (except for bragging rights), just a challenge for you to NAME THAT GAME!
This one feels like a softball, but maybe I'll be surprised. You need to name the game AND the name of the company that developed it.
Hint: This is a PC game. And this screenshot is taken from a point pretty early in the game.
Let's see who is a gamer geek of truly historic proportions. If you don't know, the answer may surprise you.
Enjoy!
UPDATE: Martin Richard Strikes again, and came up with the answer via Google-fu. I guess I really shoulda blurred out the proper names in the screenshot, huh?
The game is "Journey", subtitled "The Quest Begins," by none other than Infocom, previously known for doing text-only adventures (and having an ad campaign at one point bragging about how they stuck their graphics where the sun doesn't shine - meaning inside your head).The game was by noted Infocom designer Marc Blank, and it really did resemble something of an "interactive novel" (or the popular term today, "Interactive Fiction"). The game's prose was in past-tense, a very rare and interesting approach.
And it was sorta-kinda RPGish, though I really felt it was more of an adventure game.
I've been INTENDING to get around to finishing it for over 15 years now.
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I posted this a little later in the day this time for people who check in during / after lunch. Some people complained last time it was too early.
And I didn't mean anything by italicising the word "historical," other than noting that this is not a fairly recent game. As if you couldn't tell...
And I didn't mean anything by italicising the word "historical," other than noting that this is not a fairly recent game. As if you couldn't tell...
Journey - The Quest Begins, by Infocom.
I can't give credit to my useless-info-sponge of a head tho.. thanks google and wikipedia ! ;)
I can't give credit to my useless-info-sponge of a head tho.. thanks google and wikipedia ! ;)
Martin Richard Strikes Again!
Yeah, I really should have blurred out the proper names in the screenshot, in retrospect. But it was very late last night when I did this, and I was tired.
Congrats again! Your geek-fu may be more Google-fu, but that works!
Yeah, I really should have blurred out the proper names in the screenshot, in retrospect. But it was very late last night when I did this, and I was tired.
Congrats again! Your geek-fu may be more Google-fu, but that works!
Yup the proper names made it really easy..
Makes me want to have a look at the dusty shelf and see if I might have something obscure.. hm.
Makes me want to have a look at the dusty shelf and see if I might have something obscure.. hm.
I recognized that screenshot right away, which is odd, because it's been a very long time since I played it, and the version I had was for the Amiga.
(The graphics were WAY better on the Amiga version, by the way.)
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(The graphics were WAY better on the Amiga version, by the way.)
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