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GrimmHatter
Nasrudin's Apprentice
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Now that's creative packaging. Publishers and developers just have no imagination these days. One of my favorites was the old letter in the box Star Tropics came in for Nintendo. You had to actually refer to the letter to get past one part of the game. In the days before walkthroughs and GameFAQS.com, if you didn't have that letter, you had better have a friend that did or you weren't finishing your game.
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Dark Elf
Obey your Master
Joined: 06 Feb 2002
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Location: Lady Gaga's rear window
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| Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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I remember King's Quest VI (and I suppose most of the Sierra point-and-click adventures, why aren't games like that made anymore?) coming with a rather extensive book on the lore of the Land of the Green Isles. You couldn't possibly beat the game without it, as one of the puzzles | Spoiler: (highlight with mouse to read) | | required you to know a language of hieroglyphs |
to be solved.
Good game. Too bad my disc is gone and the freewares you find on teh intarnets doesn't come with the voiced dialogue. That was the winning point of the game, really.
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dstanzler
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Joined: 30 Mar 2007
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Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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My mom squashed our Arcanum box in the garage; next time I'm home I'll check for the map.
I never played too many puzzle games. I went from Commander Keen to Treasurecove to Tombraider to Diablo I to Half-life to Everquest to Diablo II to Arcanum to Wow.
For some reason these games have touched me in ways that would take forever to explain. Something about a good portion of my childhood and my dreams being wrapped up in these complete fantasy worlds. Just switching gears briefly, I generally think these games really stimulated my sense of imagination, dramatically.
In Commander Keen 4 if you bothered yahooing the lingo (back in the early nineties) they sometimes reveled shortcuts through the levels =).
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