This year has flown by. You blink, and it's the end of November! I've mostly been engrossed in God of War: Ragnarok since it came out, but the rest of my free time has been dedicated to The Collection Chamber. There are 5 great games featured this month so check out the obscure movie licenced FMV adventure (with too many arcade bits) Eraser Turnabout (1996 Imagination Pilots & Warner Bros.), the many versions of the underrated action platformer Fur Fighters (2000 Bizarre Creations Ltd), the Norse-themed role-playing sequel Heimdall 2: Into the Hall of Worlds (1994 Core Design), a classic point-and-click adventure starring everone's favourite sleuth The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Serrated Scalpel (1992 Mythos Software & Electronic Arts) and Bill Plympton's Take Your Best Shot (1995 7th Level Inc) a desktop toy based on his award-winning 1991 short Push Comes to Shove.
There are a couple of revisions too. Kiss: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child now uses a Windows 10 patch instead of dxWnd granting it better compatibility. I've also added a scan of the manual too. The Neverhood has also been revised updating ScummVM and fixing some save-game and screenshot annoyances. If you've not played either before, give them a go. They're pretty good.
To try the others, head on past the jump and dive in.
Click on the images below to head on over to the game page.
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1996 Imagination Pilots & Warner Bros.
Windows '95
Action-Adventure-FMV-Movies
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2000-2001 Bizarre Creations Ltd
Windows + DreamCast + PlayStation 2
Action-Platformer-Animals!
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1994 Core Design
DOS / Amiga / Amiga CD32
Role Play-Fantasy-Vikings! |
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1992 Mythos Software & Electronic Arts
ScummVM
Adventure-Point & Click-Mystery-Sherlock!
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1995 7th Level Inc
Windows 3.1
Edutainment-Desktop-Comedy-Animation-Weird!
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Thanks for another kick of forgotten fun :) Great as always .Thank you
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome! Enjoy
DeleteThank you very much for the posted games. Congratulations on your work
ReplyDeleteSome suggestions:
ReplyDeleteMindGym - mind-expanding educational title (article: https://obscuritory.com/software/mindgym/ )
A Fork in the Tale - a five-disc fantasy FMV game starring Rob Schneider
Mind Grind - multi-gameplay-genre trivia game
Mastermind - adaptation of the notoriously difficult quiz show
Weird - an encyclopedia of the unexplained disguised as a first-person adventure game
History of the Universe - educational title about physics, from the creators of Weird
Xplora1 - the other Peter Gabriel CD-ROM
Just thought of a few more: (no rush with any of these, of course - I'm just a huge fan of 90's CD-ROM games and want to make sure you know about them)
ReplyDeleteSecrets of the Luxor - first-person point-and-click adventure game, featuring a Stargate-esque plot
Celtica - like Myst, but Irish
Midnight Stranger - Canadian first-person adventure game, about the people you meet while wandering around at night
MODE - the epic sequel to Midnight Stranger, about sneaking into an artsy party that hides a bizarre secret
The Elroy Series - Two adventure games (Elroy Goes Bugzerk and Elroy Hits the Pavement) and a unique creativity toy (Elroy's Costume Closet), made by the company behind the Gigglebone Gang, but aimed at a slightly older audience
The Eloy series has been announced for Steam and the demo for Elroy Goes Bugzerk is already online there.
DeleteHaven't seen the movie Eraser or heard of the game, but I have to try every damn FMV adventure :|
ReplyDeleteAs always, great work!
I discovered your page recently, and it's a wonderfull resource to find old games, and all the work you put on the releases so they work on modern systems is astounding. A million thanks my friend!
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