#Legend of Kyrandia 3 - Back in Kyrandia

[mendelpalace]

MS-DOS/WIN Funk Grooves to Make Love to Your Old Workstation By

0:00 1. The Incredible Machine - Cruz 2:28 2. Zyclunt - Track 2 5:47 3. Interstate '76 - They Call Me Swinger 9:07 4. Legend of Kyrandia 3 - Back in Kyrandia 13:56 5. Rise of the Triad - Oww! 16:12 6. Genocide 2 - Trap of Relics 18:23 7. Trev to the Rescue - Front Yard 20:22 8. Jazz Jackrabbit - Menu Screen 24:09 9. Genocide 2 - Red Hot Atmosphere 26:31 10. Pike: Oreracija Gromoverzhec - Menu 27:54 11. One Must Fall: 2097 - Arena 3 30:43 12. Punky Duck - Menu

A collection of funky tunes from MS-DOS and early Windows games, compiled by Emmxyzzy. Video taken from Fuzzy's World of Miniature Space Golf.

[zerohour1974]

Day 4 : Top 5 DOS Games

Well hello people, occasionally I like to play games and while I don't consider myself a regular gamer in any way.  I do tend to play much older games maybe because my hardware I have isn't exactly cutting edge or mainly because I see nothing of excitement in most modern games.

I don't know why but modern AAA gaming just for me for all it's very pretty graphics, seems very dull.  They seem to churn out the same tripe over and over again.

I think the most recent games I had fun with were Untitled Goose Game and Bloodstained and neither were through major AAA mainstream publishers.

Anyway I'm waffling back to the topic at hand.  Occasionally I like to load up DOSBox and play some games from back when Windows was still seen as not overpowering and games needed sometimes black magic voodoo of config.sys and autoexec.bat shuffling to get sufficient memory to play the games.

Which was always a bit hit and miss.  Anyway onto my list...

5.  Wing Commander (1992, Origin)

It was one of the first PC games I bought and it was on 3.5"  floppies.The prowess is simple you are a pilot onboard the TCS Tiger's Claw and you and normally a computer partner are sent out to combat the ongoing threat of the Kilrathi.

Basically it's a space flight/dogfighting simulation.  The game has some good writing and actions do have consequences in the narrative.

I admit I was not great at the game but it was fun never the less.

4.  Legend of Kyrandia : Book 1 (1992, Westwood Studios)

This was a point and click adventure.  It's the first in a trilogy of  the Kyrandia games.  Malcolm an evil jester who has been confined for years for murdering your parents has escaped and is systematic destroying Kyrandia.

You play Prince Brandon, grandson of Kallak and basically after Malcolm turns your grandfather to stone, the forest spirits ask you to stop Malcolm and restore the balance of the world.

Like most point and click games some of the puzzles can be a tad frustrating and unlike LucasArts games this one will kill your character, so save often. While the amount of deaths are not quite to Sierra levels of ridiculous.  You can do certain things that will kill you.  The most notorious for this is the second area cave maze where you need fireberries to advance and if they die or you walk into a dark room you will be instantly murdered.

Basically you need to restore the 4 gems of power to an amulet and then remove Malcolm and reclaim your kingdom.

Overall fun game if at times has you wandering around a lot.

3.  Epic Pinball (1993, Epic MegaGames)

Epic Pinball is as the name suggests a set of various pinball tables to play.

The game came with 13 different themed pinball tables ranging from Crash and Burn to things such as Android and Deep Sea.

All the tables were top down scrolling pinball tables with all the usual ramps, targets and bumpers.  It was a pretty slick moving affair and is still considered as quite an exceptional pinball game.

2.  Micro Machines (1994, Codemasters)

Now obviously many consider the best versions of Micro Machines to be either the NES version or the Genesis version but to be honest the PC version was to be honest the one I played the most.

If you have been living in a hole in the ground under a rock basically Micro Machines was a top down racing game where you drove around specific tracks such a dinner tables and more.

Micro Machines were an actual toy car set which was about an inch tall at best sold in many different versions sold by Galoob.

Obviously racing around the various environments such as desktops, gardens, and also the various vehicles from buggies, to helicopters and tanks and much more.  It was fun and fast.  If you managed to come first in 3 races in a row you got to drive the monster truck through a very twisty stage in a very limited time to try and get an extra life.

Principal was simple finish either first or second and you will survive and move to the next race.  Third or fourth lose a life ( you start with 3) and try again. There is also a challenge mode and a two player mode.  Basically this involves trying to get a screen ahead of your opponent.  You both start with four points and the idea is to get to eight on the scoreboard or complete 3 laps with the highest score.

1.  Tyrian (1995, Epic MegaGames)

You play the role of Trent Hawkins a pilot sent out to investigate  the planet Tyrian.  Which in turn he gets embroiled in a war with Microsol.

Tyrian is a very colourful horizontal shooter with many levels, a full story and several hidden secret levels.The game is quick paced and fun and you can upgrade your ship between every level using the money you have collected through out the previous level.

Obviously certain upgrades can only be got by getting to the secret areas but that equally makes the game good for replay value.

The game has an amazing soundtrack and the levels are long enough to be interesting but never too long to be boring.

It's a game I absolutely adore and have played many times.  

Story mode is where the majority of the fun is however  there is an arcade mode (where power-ups  fall down the screen when certain enemies are shot as opposed to buying and upgrading like the main game)  also a 2 player mode where you control two halves of a ship.

Highly recommended... Obviously Tyrian 2000 came out and added a fifth chapter bit it was not as good as the previous ones...

In 2007 Jason Emery released the game as open source so OpenTyrian is available on many platforms.

Well what are your favourite DOS games ? Let me know.... 

[mainswatch]

3 minutes to midnight game

#3 minutes to midnight game how to#

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Boxed items are listed as "code/code" where the first code represents the box, and the second code describes the contents.On the other hand, I am an idiot, and this isn’t how puzzles are supposed to be solved, and there’s nothing more excruciating than the developers of a puzzle game asking if you need help! 3 Minutes to Midnight is out some time in 2019, so luckily I have time to figure out how good my tolerance for feeling stupid is. On the one hand, I like that this feels almost more like real life puzzle solving, and that the game both gives you logical solutions to find, but also treats you like you’re not an idiot. Instead of “Boy, I’ll need a lever to open this valve!” you get something more “I can’t get a grip on this with my hands.” There were a couple of instances like this in the demo, where I was encouraged because I was on the right track, but not given an overt clue as to where to go next - because 3 Minutes to Midnight also eschews the character saying something out loud to help you, like “Hm, the citronella is sort of working… If only I had a way to do with it!”. I kept thinking that I was basically doing the right thing, and couldn’t figure out what was missing. Partially because I am an idiot, but also because I have this learned behaviour that I can’t do a thing in a game unless it’s the right thing to do, I got stuck in a loop. I picked some up and tried to use it on the mosquitoes, and Betty rubbed it over her arms and noted that the mosquitoes didn’t bite her that time - but she still couldn’t walk past. So then I had a big pool of citronella-y sludge. I’d found some lemongrass, and there was a mangle right by said insects, and I know what citronella is. In 3 Minutes to Midnight, y’have to get past a big cloud of mosquitoes. 3 Minutes to Midnight is one of a very few games that lets you try stuff that sort of works, but isn’t quite right. If it’s neither of those, you’ll get an “I don’t want to do that,” or some other verbal clue telling you that tieing a harpoon to a bottle or whatever won’t work. Most puzzle games won’t let you do a meaningful interaction unless it’s a) funny or b) part of a puzzle solution. 3 Minutes to Midnight does this too, but takes it a little further. Recent point and click games, from your Thimbleweed Parks to your Unavoweds, have figured out that puzzles actually following some kind of logical thread make for ultimately more satisfying solves for the player. In one of the Legend of Kyrandia games you have to USE Teddy Bear WITH T-Rex to escape a lava cave.

#3 minutes to midnight game how to#

See, while DotT and the like taught me how to solve puzzles in games, that lesson boiled down to “trial and error”, because often the solution to a puzzle would be so obscure that it wouldn’t even make sense if you squinted. The game has a cool Saturday morning cartoon vibe to it that I was really into.īut the crux of a puzzle game are the puzzles of course, and Scarecrow have taken a slightly different approach. I was also a fan of what developers Scarecrow Studio describe as “high-def cartoon art”. She had a strong Laverne from Day of the Tentacle vibe. The cast of characters was suitably wacky: a raccoon, a man in a diving suit hunting a lake monster, and a girl playing host to three different personalities. I got to play as her in a short segment of B plot, so as not to spoil any of the puzzles in the main story. That’s, like, two retros for the price of one.īetty Anderson, a plucky amnesiac teen, is one of two playable protagonists. In this case the game is set in the ‘40s, and the character I played is wearing a poodle skirt and a letterman jacket. Point and click puzzle adventures have had a bit of a resurgence over the last few years, and it seems like every one of them kind of markets itself like it’s the first one to bring back the genre (3 Minutes to Midnight’s Steam page says “Yeah, puzzles - remember those?”, as if there hasn’t been a single puzzle in a game since 1989).

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Those old Lucasfilm/LucasArts ones like Day of the Tentacle and the Monkey Island series were some of the first games I ever played, and they taught me how puzzles in games are supposed to be solved. I played it at EGX last weekend, because I really like PnCs, as we purists definitely call them (do not check that). 3 Minutes to Midnight is not, as my brain keeps suggesting, a sequel to a classic Maiden track, but a point and click adventure game.

[linuxgamenews]

FoxTail due to release new Chapter next week

FoxTail point and click adventure game will receive Chapter 3 on May 7th for Linux, Mac and Windows PC. Thanks to the evolving effects of developer Gingertips Game Studio. Due to make it's debut on both Steam and GOG. FoxTail is a retro point and click adventure. Which follow the quest of Leah the fox to save her grandmother. Two of the game’s eight chapters are available now on Steam and GOG. Chapter 3 is due to release on May 7th as a free update. So if you already own the game. You'll be one of the first to experience the new part of the story. If you know FoxTail, this is a classic point and click quest. One that also takes inspiration from the adventure games of the mid-‘90s. It brings back those sweet childhood memories. Such as the summer break has just started. Watching the sunrise, while breathing the cool morning air. And the world around is full of secrets.

FoxTail gameplay trailer (Early Access)

What features make the game special:

Back to the 90s! Foxtail is a retro point and click adventure. Which also includes a classic The Legend of Kyrandia and Monkey Island feel to it.

An exciting and heartwarming story of Leah the Fox. Since Leah’s ordinary trip to the countryside turns into a coming of age journey to find a cure for her grandmother.

Charming looks. Foxtail is full of carefully created pixel graphics. Besides that, there are lots of cute details and smooth animations. Just look at that sunset!

Complex puzzles with a variety of solutions. The game’s puzzles truly challenge your imagination! So you don’t have to follow the one “right” way. As a result, almost every puzzle offers different solutions.

The long and winding road. Foxtail offers 8 chapters of classic adventure.

FoxTail is in Early Access now for Linux, Mac and Windows PC. Priced at $9.99 USD. The full game will consist of 8 chapters. Available now on Steam and GOG.

[shionch]

Mention some of your favourite videogames please

Oh boy, you have asked The Question! I’m a major video games nerd, and there are so many I love… if I had to choose a single one, I’d implode from the pressure.

This post is going to be LONG (sorry), so I’ll put the most important part first: currently, I am in the process of making a game of my own. It takes ages because other than a couple of people who helped me out with music and sound, I’m pretty much on my own. But we’ll get there eventually, just you wait. The working title is City Under Siege, and it’s a visual novel mixed with strategy and dating sim elements. Basically, you play as a General who arrives to save the besieged city, you meet local resindents, you investigate who started the war and why, etc, and naturally you can fall in love with almost any of the characters you meet, including the enemy general. I’m so excited to write that game!

(ask me at cityundersiege-vn for progress updates if you’re interested, we have a playable demo and everything)

Now, on to the actual games I play… putting that under the cut, because the post is super long, and I don’t want to clutter anyone’s dashboard too much.

My absolute favorite series has to be the Sims, The Sims 2 and The Sims 4 in particular. TS2 allows virtually unlimited control when you create your character’s face, something the latter games lack; the animations quality is also top-notch, the smallest things like getting in/out of the car, taking the frying pan out of the kitchen drawer, all kinds of things are animated. The Sims 3 is a step back in that regard, although it offers some spectacular building tools, probably the best in the series, but I don’t really like building stuff. So. Currently, TS2 cannot be run properly on my computer, so I’m playing TS4 which is actually good, it had body diversity and trans gender options (that last part solidified my love for it).

There is one sims family I’ve been playing for 9 years, almost a decade. Five generations with an accompanying story. I love them so much, they’re like my own family at this point.

I love BioWare games for their intricate stories and quality writing.

Jade Empire is the best in that regard, the story is rich and complex, all the choices are truly difficult because they all have moral reasoning behind every option. The music, the colorful graphics, everything in that game is so enjoyable! I would sell my soul for a good sequel tbh.

Dragon Age 2 is one of my all-time favorite games, again, for its writing. Sure, it’s a little unpolished in parts, but ultimately, I find the story very nuanced and multi-faceted. It shows how true evil can hide behind benevolence, and the finale is tragic and brilliant in that tragedy.

Mass Effect trilogy is pretty good, although I usually prefer fantasy to Sci-Fi. It raises some interesting questions, especially ME3, regarding sentience and how far “the good guys” are willing to go for survival, what makes us people, etc. When I watched that recent “Annihilation” movie, I kept thinking I saw those themes explored in Mass Effect, lol.

I love visual novels, too! One VN that I cannot recommend enough is Solstice by MoaCube. IT IS SO GOOD. Brilliant writing that keeps you on the edge of your seat, the intrigue, the moral complexity, and of course the stunning art… one of my favorite games ever, definitely! I especially love the Kala subplot there: a knowledge so powerful, even asking too many questions about it can drive you mad…

Coming Out On Top is a really fun game, as well as Dream Daddy. Both are gay VNs, and both have interesting characters and hilarious cutting-edge humor. The light tone, the lovely art, they’re the fluffy rom-coms you never knew you needed until you played them.

Most Choice of… games are fun if you like text games (which I do). They’re more like interactive novels, really. My favorites are Zombie Exodus; Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance; Pendragon Rising.

Oh, I also love old adventure games like Sierra’s and Lucas Arts’ ones, and recently Telltale. The Day of the Tentacle and the Monkey Island series were a big part of my childhood, they helped me learn English, and overall they’re just very fun, witty, beautiful games. The remastered versions are even available for mobile phones, I think.

Technobabylon and Shardlight are great adventure games. Powerful emotional stories. A must-play if you like adventure games and/or cyberpunk.

The Legend of Kyrandia series is one of my favorites, too. The second game in the series, Hand of Fate, is probably the best one due to its humor and the peculiar game mechanic where you get to make magic potions.

I’ve recently played Expeditions: Viking, and while it might be not my favorite game yet, the start is rather promising. It has its problems, which I’m not sure I should focus on. It’s time-consuming due to its tactical focus, a single fight takes 10 minutes at the very least. I haven’t managed to finish it yet, but the beginning of the game looks promising.

When it comes to strategies, I love Age of Mythology and Age of Wonders: Shadow Magic. Don’t let the titles confuse you, they’re completely different games. AoM is a real-time strategy, while AoW:SM is turn-based. In AoM, you meet a wonderful Queen Amanra (incidentally voiced by the same voice actress who plays Meredith in Dragon Age 2) and travel through Ancient Greece, Egypt, Norse lands, and in the latest DLC even China. Very fun. In AoW:SM, you play as a wizard in a war against shadow demons; not much in terms of story, but the soundtrack is one of the best I have ever heard in my life!! I even bought it separately, which I never do. That music is so good, it’s a balm that cures a wounded soul.

I could go on and on, because I have barely scratched the surface of the games I love, these are the bare essentials… but this post is too long as it is.

Sorry for the late and disproportionally huge answer ^.^’