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A look back on the Lucasarts adventure games part 1

admin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:43:13 +0000

Finally, I got something done! Here’s a video that I’ve been planning to do for a while now. A studio that was once known for a series of pirates, a private canine and his crazy rabbity thing, a tentacle that wanted to take over the world, and a whole bunch of other titles. It’s the lucasarts adventure games. Here’s part one, since the video was in 20 minutes long. I had to cut into two parts. I used music from various lucasarts adventure games. The songs are below this description.

Songs
Another world(The Dig)
Sophia’s Atlantis presentation(Indania Jones and the fate of Atlantis)
Largo LaGrande(Monkey Island 2 Lechuck’s revenge special edition)
Scabb Island(Monkey Island 2 Lechuck’s Revenge special edition)
The inn(Day of the tentacle)

Duration : 0:10:35

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Top 20 Greatest Adventure Games… (Retro Gamer Issue 84)

admin — Sun, 08 May 2011 04:05:12 +0000

… that weren’t made by LucasArts!

This is a video I made after reading and enjoying an article in Retro Gamer magazine issue 84 – the article detailed the best 20 adventure games that weren’t made by LucasArts and I liked the cut of its gib! So, I decided so spend a bit of time (read: a lot of time) making this video so that people can enjoy the article in a more visual manner.

Known problems with the video include:
My rubbish narration
No footage for Game 16 and barely any screenshots available
Generally quite rough around the edges

But hopefully it’ll still be enjoyable to a few of you and fingers crossed it will highlight some games to you that perhaps you’ve never played, or maybe you’ve played before but wouldn’t mind another crack at it. All in all, I just want this to spark a bit of debate and a bit of nostalgia.

If people like this, I’ll endeavour to make more in the future.

Duration : 0:36:49

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Video Game Genre – Adventure Games

admin — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:05:03 +0000

(Episode 5) In this episode of Video Game Genres, we take a very good look at the most important genre in video games, period. This is a genre that does not have action in them, but rather puzzle-solving, exploration, dialog, and story-driven type of games that we don’t see as often. These games are some of the most well crafted and well designed games than many of the modern mainstream games that oversaturated action cliché that barely makes a difference. adventure games are all about using your brains which requires hard thinking and patients when in play. They were once the most popular game genre in the 1980′s, but now they’re far from being the number 1 genre of gaming today. So my duty is to promote this video game genre and show you guys what many of these games have to offer; memorable & well-developed characters, original & creative setting, and some of the BEST story-lines in video games, ever! The storylines in these adventure games has some of the most thrilling, comedic, and intuitive storylines that you can EVER find in video games. Even more original than many people’s favorite game’s storyline and that’s saying a lot in talking about this genre as a whole.

If you’re not familiar with this genre, you MUST see this video because no one else would show this genre’s glory!!!
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Also these are the fallowing games that are [in this video] that I’ve played that you should check out!:

-Adventure (1977)
-Amnesia: The Dark Descent
-Beneath the Steel Sky
-Broken Sword 2
-Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon
-Clannad: The Game
-Clock Tower
-The Colossal Cave Adventure
-Dark Seed
-The Dig
-Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
-Enchanted Scepters
-Freddi Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp
-Full Throttle
-Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
-Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
-Gemini Rue
-Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
-Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
-Indigo Prophecy
-King’s Quest: Quest for the Crown
-King’s Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella
-Maniac Mansion
-Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle
-Secret of Monkey Island
-Secret of Monkey Island (Special Edition)
-Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge
-The Curse of Monkey Island
-Escape From Monkey Island
-Mystery House
-Myst
-Riven: The Sequel to Myst
-Myst III: Exile
-Myst V: End of Ages
-The Neverhood
-Pajama Sam
-Police Quest
-Putt Putt
-Runaway: A Road Adventure
-Sam & Max: Hit the Road
-Sam & Max: Save the World
-Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse
-Sanitarium
-Shenmue
-Shenmue 2
-Spy Fox
-Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People (Episode 1)
-The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes
-The Last Express
-The Longest Journey
-Space Quest
-Zack and Wiki
-Zork

Duration : 0:20:57

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Classic PC Adventure Game Music

admin — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:49:22 +0000

This is a selection of different songs found in some classic PC adventure games. Just a sampling of some of my favorite music featured in many of my favorite adventure games. Do you remember an adventure game that had great music? Post your favorite tunes from your favorite games in the comments or post a video reply with your favorite adventure game music.

Hope you enjoy!

Track List:

1. Dune Variation – Stephane Picq
(From “Dune”)

2. Freeing the Black Jaguar – Dan Kehler
(From “Eco Quest 2: Lost Secret of the Rainforest”)

3. The Crab Raft – M. Land, C. Bajakian, P. McConnell
(From “Indiana Jones: The Fate of Atlantis”)

4. Gabriel Knight Opening Theme – Robert Holmes
(From “Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers”)

5. The Timbermist Woods – Frank Klepacki
(From “The Legend of Kyrandia”)

6. Loom Main Theme – Tchaikovsky (arr. by FatMan)
(From “Loom”)

7. Closing Credits – Bob Siebenberg
(From “Space Quest III: The Pirates of Pestulon”)

8. The Secret of Monkey Island Theme – Michael Land
(From “The Secret of Monkey Island”)

9. Cassima’s Theme – Mark Seibert & Ken Allen
(From “Kings Quest 5: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder”)

10. Cathedral of the Lost – Michael Land
(From “The Dig”)

11. The Oracle – Chris Braymen
(From “King Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow”)

Duration : 0:9:59

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Classic Sierra Online Computer Games

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:01:05 +0000

Unforgettable games! This movie is a tribute to all the classic Sierra On-Line games and also to EVERY person from Sierra who helped bring us these games.

A few people have asked me who all the faces were at the end of the video (I wish I had included their names in the video along with their pictures). In order of appearance after Ken and Roberta: Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe (“Space Quest” designers, as the Two Guys from Andromeda), Al Lowe (creator of “Leisure Suit Larry”), Christy Marx (“Conquests of Camelot” and “Conquests of the Longbow” designer, beautifully rendered holding Excalibur on the cover of “Sierra Magazine”), Lori and Corey Cole (creators of the “Quest for Glory” series), Josh Mandel (“Freddy Pharkas” co-designer, who also contributed to a wide variety of Sierra On Line products), Mark Seibert (musician and composer of some of Sierra’s most famous themes) and Jane Jensen (best known as the designer of the Gabriel Knight series). Of course, so many other wonderfully talented and hardworking people from Sierra no doubt also deserve recognition for their work in providing us with such great entertainment over the years. I also wish I had been able to include all of them in this video. Finally, someone mentioned that the end of the video seems a bit random with magazine and game box covers, but that run-through is just to show the incredibly prolific nature of Sierra and its evolving and consistently top quality products over nearly 20 years.

King’s Quest
Space Quest
Leisure Suit Larry
Police Quest
Quest for Glory
Gabriel Knight
Conquests of the Longbow
Laura Bow
Freddy Pharkas

These games rocked!

Duration : 0:7:50

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History of Adventure Games

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:01:00 +0000

History of Adventure Games (63 adventure games in 2 minutes).

1980 Zork (Infocom)
1980 Mystery House (Sierra)
1984 King’s Quest (Sierra)
1986 Space Quest (Sierra)
1987 Leisure Suit Larry (Sierra)
1987 Police Quest (Sierra)
1987 Maniac Mansion (LucasArts)
1988 Gold Rush! (Sierra)
1988 Zack McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (LucasArts)
1989 Colonel’s Bequest (Sierra)
1989 Quest for Glory/Hero’s Quest (Sierra)
1990 Conquests of Camelot (Sierra)
1990 King’s Quest V (Sierra)
1990 Loom (LucasArts)
1991 Gobliiins (Sierra)
1990 The Secret of Monkey Island (LucasArts)
1991 Space Quest IV (Sierra)
1991 Police Quest III (Sierra)
1991 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge (LucasArts)
1991 Leisure Suit Larry 5 (Sierra)
1992 Dark Seed (Cyberdreams)
1992 Quest for Glory III (Sierra)
1992 Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis (LucasArts)
1992 Legend of Kyrandia (Westwood Studios)
1992 The 7th Guest (Trilobyte)
1992 The Journeyman Project (Presto Studios)
1993 Simon the Sorcerer (Adventure Soft)
1993 Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (Sierra)
1993 Day of the Tentacle (LucasArts)
1993 Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (Sierra)
1993 Sam & Max Hit the Road (LucasArts)
1993 Return to Zork (Activision)
1993 Myst (Cyan)
1994 Beneath a Steel Sky (Revolution Software)
1994 King’s Quest VII (Sierra)
1995 Full Throttle (LucasArts)
1995 Discworld (Psygnosis)
1995 Space Quest 6 (Sierra)
1995 The Dig (LucasArts)
1995 Phantasmagoria (Sierra)
1995 The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time (Presto Studios)
1996 Broken Sword (Revolution Software)
1996 Discworld 2 (Psygnosis)
1997 Myst II: Riven (Cyan)
1997 The Curse of Monkey Island (LucasArts)
1997 Broken Sword II (Revolution Software)
1998 Grim Fandango (LucasArts)
1998 The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time (Presto Studios)
1999 The Longest Journey (Funcom)
2000 Escape from Monkey Island (LucasArts)
2001 Myst III: Exile (Presto Studios)
2002 Syberia (Microids)
2003 Broken Sword III (Revolution Software)
2004 Myst IV: Revelation (Ubisoft)
2005 Phoenix Wright (Capcom)
2005 Myst V: End of Ages (Cyan)
2005 Another Code/Trace Memory (Cinq)
2006 Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (Funcom)
2006 Broken Sword IV (Revolution Software)
2006 Sam & Max Season Episodes (Telltale Games)
2007 Hotel Dusk: Room 215 (Cinq)
2007 Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure (Capcom)
2008 Jack Keane (Deck 13)

Duration : 0:2:0

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