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    Default Anyone have favorite Text/Graphic (hybrid) adventure games?

    The game style I'm talking about looks like this:

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    Graphics up top, text on the bottom.

    Does anyone have any personal favorites? Maybe your top 3? [It can be any platform]

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    Probably either Eric the Unready or Mystery House in my case. The former due to strong nostalgia and the latter due to being the first I had the patience to beat.

    If we were talking pure-text, I love Zork, and graphic adventures have so many I liked. I just never really spent much time with the 'tweeners.

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    Kings Quest 4 the perils of Rosella, and Maniac Mansion

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    Transylvania

    I also really enjoyed Spellcasting 101 series.

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    I always enjoyed this old game called Castle Explorer. It came on a disc inside my Tandy 1000. It's about as basic as it gets, but I still play it one and a while! You can see from the picture that it's pretty bear bones with just a few blocks for walls and little amorphous blobs to represent objects. Imagination is key....Name:  2131M.png
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    Quote Originally Posted by Griking View Post
    Ya know, I always thought that Transylvania looked really cool and bought a copy off Ebay for my Atari STe a few years ago. Then, just before it arrived my STe power supply died and I have yet to find a replacement!!!

    ::Sigh:: I'll play Transylvania one day.
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    Play it on an emulator.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seaquest View Post
    I always enjoyed this old game called Castle Explorer. It came on a disc inside my Tandy 1000. It's about as basic as it gets, but I still play it one and a while! You can see from the picture that it's pretty bear bones with just a few blocks for walls and little amorphous blobs to represent objects. Imagination is key....Name:  2131M.png
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    OMG I played that a wicked lot!!
    I remember finding alot of treasures & items like rubies, crown and there were glasses which you used to read something (if i remember correctly).
    I could never beat the game, the objective is kinda vague and I never knew what to do/where to do.

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    I played a whole whack of these on the Tandy Coco, which was probably my first experience with graphic adventure games, and one of the reasons I love them. Some of my favorites

    Trekboer - http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/trekboer.html

    Seaquest/Seasearch - http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/seasearch.html

    Calixto Island - http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/...ndgraphic.html

    Shenanigans - http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/shenanigans.html

    Sands of Egypt - http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/sandsofegypt.html

    and probably the best one - Interbank Incident - http://www.lcurtisboyle.com/nitros9/...kincident.html

    There are others of course but these are some of my favorites. Of course these lead to me play all the Lucasarts ones that came out in the late 80's and 90's for the PC.

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    My favorite is my first adventure game, Quest for Glory 2. Typing something out and then having the characters react to it graphically remains one of the most mind-blowing and inspiring moments that I've had playing video games.

    I didn't get to try another one until years later, after the genre all seemed to migrate to the point-and-click system. To me this felt like a step backwards - as if they had turned something like a box of LEGOs and a blank building canvas into that thing where you put the round/square/star-shaped block into the like-shaped hole. It's a much more sensible system for the raw puzzle-solving mechanics, and being able to do them more efficiently, but I felt like that came at the cost of interactivity and active imagination of the player, even if it was only an illusion.

    I don't think clicking a hand icon on something would have blown my mind in quite the same way.

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    I've always wanted to play the one from Big but I just read it isn't a real game.
    I'm glad you started the thread, though, as I've always wanted to try one of these.



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    I never could figure out how to play these and would get fed up and quit except for one exception to the rule - King's Quest V (PC-CD talkie version.) I somehow finished that one, had it on the NES but it just wasn't the same for me as it was a downgrade with dodgier control. I probably would have liked it more had I had the basic KQ5 game perhaps I have no idea. Either way age hasn't been kind as I just don't touch the stuff anymore.

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    I'd have to say Trekboer and Sam Diamond P.I. on the Color Computer 2.

    Of course, Hall of the King I, II, and III were pretty awesome too.

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    Definately "Translyvania." I had that for my Apple II.

    But even before that, "Ulysses and the Golden Fleece." I remember when I was a little kid, the older kids in my school were creating entire flowcharts and stuff to try and beat that game. Can't believe I remember things from being that young.

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    The Pawn and Guild of Thieves. Magnetic Scrolls games on Amiga and C64.

    Actually all the Magnetic Scroll games are fantastic. Alice in Wonderland, etc...
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    Zork. Is. The. Best. Especially the Apple II version.
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