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Maniac Mansion And Early Lucasgames

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:46 am
by Snake Plissken
Anyone remember this game as I do? And the other early lucasgames point and click adventures? :D

I was curious if anyone else here fondly remembers them in the early point and click genre, I just fired up the remake made by Lucasfan at the underdogs.org and I thought I'd share it with you, if not, go play this game you'll enjoy it if your a point and click fan like me :wink:

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:53 am
by Artemio
I simply love the M;onkey Island series.... the fate of Atlantis game, oh... the good old times =P

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:30 pm
by Warrior Bob
Awwww yeah, count me in on those. I love a good adventure game, point and click or otherwise. I loved Myst, the Zork series, King's/Space/Peasant's quest, Snatcher, and all the Lucasarts games. The cancellation of the new Full Throttle and Sam'n'Max games was a sad thing indeed.

Heh, I just picked up the GBA remake of Broken Sword the other day. Yay adventure games!

Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:38 pm
by Snatcher2047
Ah, Maniac Mansion... the memories. That was a classic videogame. One of the first RPG's I ever played. Great... now I have to download it now that you reminded me of it. Freakin' Nurse Edna... :evil:

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:00 pm
by Warrior Bob
I hope everyone here's familiar with ScummVM?

Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:06 pm
by Artemio
I love the thing....

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:18 am
by aie
me too^^

I love The Dig, this game is great.
Also i love the Cthulhu Click Adventures, there awesome, espicially Prisoners of Ice.
You can find it at underdogs.
Gabriel Knight 1 Sins of Fathers is good too but hard to find :(

Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 4:50 pm
by Snake Plissken
Warrior Bob wrote:I hope everyone here's familiar with ScummVM?

:D

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:09 am
by Warrior Bob
Cthulhu Click adventures? Hot dang, I gotta get me one of those. I'm rather fond of the Lovecraft mythos, you see.

To the Underdogs! *zoom*

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 8:55 am
by aie

Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:15 pm
by Warrior Bob
Thanks much! Now I just gotta get my old DOS machine working....

Ack! No! Must....do....homework.....resist....call...of....Cthulhu....

*gets eaten by tentacles*

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:27 am
by originalcracker
How about Full Throttle? That was one of my favorites. And just plain text adventures; The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe was awesome.

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 1:16 pm
by Snake Plissken
originalcracker wrote:How about Full Throttle? That was one of my favorites. And just plain text adventures; The Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe was awesome.
OH YES!!! Music to my ears!!!

Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:23 pm
by Ninja Kurosai
H.P. Lovecraft pwns j00 8)

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 1:58 pm
by ReasonWhyNot
Nothing to do with any of the games mentioned, but if anyone wants to pick up a decent anime style adventure completely ripped off of Kojima's Policenauts, then you should pick up the PSX game Project: Horned Owl (known only as Horned Owl in Japan). It's mainly a light-gun shooter more than anything else, though interestingly enough, the animated curscenes the game offers were drawn by known other than Mamoru Oshii, the creative mastermind behind the Ghost in the Shell films. The game itself runs fairly cheap on eBay, so try and find it.

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 6:18 pm
by Snake Plissken
ReasonWhyNot wrote:Nothing to do with any of the games mentioned, but if anyone wants to pick up a decent anime style adventure completely ripped off of Kojima's Policenauts, then you should pick up the PSX game Project: Horned Owl (known only as Horned Owl in Japan). It's mainly a light-gun shooter more than anything else, though interestingly enough, the animated curscenes the game offers were drawn by known other than Mamoru Oshii, the creative mastermind behind the Ghost in the Shell films. The game itself runs fairly cheap on eBay, so try and find it.
Oh boy that game ahahahahhhahah, I remember my cousin buying it, and saying how innovative it was to the gaming world. I held back my electric volgin styled fist and remembered "he's only a 12 year old" 8)

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2004 8:58 pm
by ReasonWhyNot
It's not that bad. Of course it's in nowhere near comparable to Policenauts, but it's cheap and it's available in the US, so that's better than nothing, don't ya think??

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2004 12:35 am
by Warrior Bob
I don't care if it doesn't stand up to policenauts. A good game is still a good game, even if it's not the best game out there. I can stand to play more than one game, especially since I don't speak Japanese so Policenauts is out of the question for me.

Does anyone know what kind of light gun this game supports? Like, is it a guncon game, or is it one of the games that only takes Konami's light gun standard? I must say you have my attention :) Thanks in advance!

Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:51 am
by ReasonWhyNot
It's a GunCon game.

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:15 pm
by Warrior Bob
So I went out and bought this game, found it for four dollars at a local record store that sells games without any idea of their worth. I got Final Fantasy III (the US version of IV) for the SNES there for $10, too. Hahahahahahahhaa.

It's not a GunCon game actually, which makes sense, since the GunCon is a namco product, and is in fact compatible with Konami's light gun standard. Fortunately I happen to have such a gun lying around, so I was able to play it properly. It's a pretty fun gun game actually, full of lots of blasting and things that blow up, and manages to be difficult without resorting to throwing enemies at you that take dozens of hits to kill like so many other games do. Actually, most of the game reminded me of Elemental Gearbolt, which can only be a good thing for a fan of gun games.

However, the only similarity to Policenauts is that the main characters are part of a police force that pilots mechs, and that it's done in an anime style.

I still really liked it though =) Thanks for the recommendation!

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 2004 11:22 pm
by Johnny Undaunted
Just for the record:

The character designs in Project: Horned Owl were done by Masamune Shirow (who created the original GitS manga), NOT Mamoru Oshii.

And Horned Owl is hardly a Policenauts-ripoff at all. The whole "cops in mecha"-thing has been done long before Policenauts to begin with, since Patlabor at least (which Policenauts was partially based on, they even had the same mecha designer).

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 6:48 pm
by ReasonWhyNot
Warrior Bob wrote:It's not a GunCon game actually, which makes sense, since the GunCon is a namco product, and is in fact compatible with Konami's light gun standard.
Didn't realize. I took light-gun to mean GunCon.
Johnny Undaunted wrote:Just for the record:

The character designs in Project: Horned Owl were done by Masamune Shirow (who created the original GitS manga), NOT Mamoru Oshii.
My mistake.
And Horned Owl is hardly a Policenauts-ripoff at all. The whole "cops in mecha"-thing has been done long before Policenauts to begin with, since Patlabor at least (which Policenauts was partially based on, they even had the same mecha designer).
I doubt its existence would have been without Policenauts. The concepts are more than a similarity.

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 8:26 pm
by Johnny Undaunted
ReasonWhyNot wrote:Yeah, again, my mistake. I could have sworn I read somewhere that Mamoru Oshii was responsible for the anime cinemas, but I must have simply confused one name for another. As for it being a Policenauts ripoff, well, it sort of is. It's a game, rather than just an anime. Would it likely have been made without Policenauts as inspiration?? I don't think so.
Policenauts = A graphic adventure game that combines elements from mecha anime and buddy cop filcks (starring two main characters that are virtually lifted from one of the latter group).

Project: Horned Owl = Generic mid-90s shooter about two guys in mecha suits that battle agaisnt a terrorist group named after a heavy metal band.

Sorry, but I failed to see the resemblance.

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2004 11:19 pm
by ReasonWhyNot
Johnny Undaunted wrote:Policenauts = A graphic adventure game that combines elements from mecha anime and buddy cop filcks (starring two main characters that are virtually lifted from one of the latter group).

Project: Horned Owl = Generic mid-90s shooter about two guys in mecha suits that battle agaisnt a terrorist group named after a heavy metal band.

Sorry, but I failed to see the resemblance.
They're both anime light-gun adventures. They're both cop and mecha stories. And Horned Owl did follow up on Policenauts pretty quickly. I would say those are reasonably large similarities that one was conceived from the other.

Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2004 12:19 am
by Johnny Undaunted
ReasonWhyNot wrote:
You yourself already said most of the resemblances, granted they aren't anything greatly intricate (not that they need to be). They're both anime shooter adventures (though Policenauts has mush more to it than just that, but even so, it's still a likeness). They have the whole cop and mecha things going on. And.......well, those are big similarities. It's not like two characters have the same name, so one must have borrowed that concept from the other. Horned Owl seems to have at least lifted a bit of its premise from Policenauts, if not all. All games do that. Though in case of Kojima's games, he sems to lift more from movies than games, which keeps his stuff fresh from a gameplay perspective. I don't see why you're being so argumentative about this. Then again, why am I??
Because you're calling one game a ripoff of another, when in reality they're two distinct games that only share a common theme that's already commonplace among Japanese games and anime to begin with. That's why. It's as idiotic as calling Resident Evil a Splatterhouse-ripoff, when the two games are nothing alike save for the horror theme.