Look behind you...a three-headed monkey!

[UltraMarioMan]

After finding my copy of Sam and Max Hit the Road a while back (Death to Lucasarts for murdering the sequel :( ) I've been slowly going through my piles of junk in my closet. I just found my copys of Monkey Island 1&2. Whoo!

[A Black Falcon]

I wish I could find my copy of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis like that! :(

[Great Rumbler]

Sam and Max is an awesome game. Probably one of the best point-and-click adventures of the 90's.

[A Black Falcon]

I haven't played it, but I have definitely heard that it's one of Lucasarts' best... of course I think all of Lucasarts' adventure games are great (I don't know of any of their major releases that could be called less than great except for maybe Monkey Island 4...), but that only makes that one even better I'd say.

I wish that I'd lost Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle and not Indy. I always liked Indy a lot more than DOTT... I know DOTT is good, and funny, but for some reason I never liked it as much as most of the other Lucasarts adventures I've played...

[Great Rumbler]

I haven't played it

Well, that's a mistake!

[OB1]

I could make a copy of Indy for you, ABF. Just give me money for shipping.

[A Black Falcon]

Well sorry for our computer company not giving us Sam & Max too... that's where we got MM: DOTT and Indy Fate from (as well as Rebel Assualt). And with two LA adventure games I didn't see much need to buy a third then...

On the subject of missing games (not sold, lost). I know I've mentioned it before, becuase it happened a couple of years ago, but I'm still really annoyed that I managed to lose six games, presumably all at the same time (since all were in the same place in paper sleeves, not the plastic cases...)

Indy Fate I really miss (I never finished it! Hard...). MechCommander Gold I beat and hadn't played in a while so that's not quite as bad (though it'd be nice to still be able to play the fun multiplayer mode and I never beat the expansion (included on the Gold disc), so I do wish I hadn't lost it...). Worms Armageddon I don't mind so much because I still have the very similar Worms 2 (you really only need one of Worms 2/Armageddon/World Party, they're nearly identical...). Death Rally I beat but it'd still be great to have because it's a very fun racer. Incoming was a fun, if simplistic, action/flying game. Sure, it runs too fast on my computer and wasn't the greatest game ever made, but it's fun once in a while and I was hoping that someday I might actually finish the thing... Ultim@te Race Pro is an okay racing game. But it has only four tracks ("sixteen" with the weather effects, mirror, and reverse modes), has no campaign (only single races here...), and won't run at all on my computer, so this one I minded losing least. Fun arcade racing, but there's not much there... and it doesn't work on my PC anyway.

For console games I've only ever lost one. Micro Machines V3 for GBC. Very fun racing game, and much better than Micro Machines 1&2: Twin Turbo for GBC (that was a poorly done port if there's ever been one...), so I'm still annoyed that I managed to lose it somehow.

And I have the Monster Truck Madness CD but lost the insert with the CD Key on it so I haven't played it in a very long time. But from what I remember, I don't think I'm missing much... :)

As for finding lost games, not like that. I have found boxes in the closet with games that I had forgotten the location of, but not just loose CDs... I try to keep track of where games are, and don't just leave them lying around to get lost all by themselves.

Oh, and I wish I had Monkey Island 2. I have the rest of the series, and if it's as good as MI1 I definitely wish I had it. :) ... but I also wish I had Loom, The Dig, Sam & Max, Full Throttle... am I missing any? I think that's all of the major LA adventures that I don't have, anyway.

[Great Rumbler]

I lost my copy of Caesar 2 somewhere, I'd really like to know where that game went.

[A Black Falcon]

Caesar II was, when I played it, one of the hardest games I had ever played... the first thing that comes into my head in relation to that game is that CG movie with you as a galley slave. :S

As I've said before, the only mission I ever beat was Sardinia.

[Weltall]

I haven't played it, but I have definitely heard that it's one of Lucasarts' best... of course I think all of Lucasarts' adventure games are great (I don't know of any of their major releases that could be called less than great except for maybe Monkey Island 4...), but that only makes that one even better I'd say.

I wish that I'd lost Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle and not Indy. I always liked Indy a lot more than DOTT... I know DOTT is good, and funny, but for some reason I never liked it as much as most of the other Lucasarts adventures I've played...

If you want to 'lose' DOTT, I'll be more than happy to take it off your hands. I've (to some extent) been after that game for years.

[Great Rumbler]

I have a copy of it, but I don't intend to lose it anytime soon.

[A Black Falcon]

Buy it from Lucasarts then! They sell a collection with DOTT, Sam & Max, and Indy Fate... (only sold together)

http://www.lucasarts.com/companystore/adventure/

They also do still sell Full Throttle, Grim Fandango, Monkey Island 1-3 Collection (only sold together), and Monkey Island 4. Not The Dig or Loom.

... so why haven't I got that? Well before I lost Indy I didn't want to buy three games just to get one... but now I don't have two of them so $30 for the three seems like a better deal... but I just prefer to buy games in stores, that's probably what it goes down to. I've never bought a game over the net. And none of these are still available in stores.

Darn game collections... because of them I have second copies of some games. Two copies of Descent, two of Lords of the Realm II, two of Rally Championship, two of Rebel Assualt... but sometimes it's welcomed when the collections include improved games. Lemmings Paintball included a improved, Win95 version of classic Lemmings in the box (which still actually works, unlike Lemmings Paintball itsself...), a nice update on the DOS version I also have; Civ II Gold made the game run better in Win95 (I'd had some issues with the Win3.1 version) and added multiplayer (and made me buy a fourth Civilization II product). Similar deal with Warcraft II BNE. :)

[Dark Jaguar]

Maybe you should start. Yes, I know the satisfaction of actually having the thing you want IN YOUR HANDS right then is a huge bonus. I mean, who wants to ditch some cash and have nothing to show for it until a few weeks later? Not I, but when you have to, you have to, and it'll be worth it when it arrives. Actually, depending on the shipping, it might actually only take one week. I've bought a couple things online before, and generally I don't enjoy the prospect of having to wait for anything I buy, but sometimes it's just a must.

[A Black Falcon]

Plus, I don't have a credit card.

[A Black Falcon]

Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle... great artwork. Great style. Very funny lines. The humor is good. Classic Maniac Mansion (yup, the full game) is hidden in the game. But... well, when I first played it I got stuck on a pretty early puzzle that annoyed me a lot. I did play it again since (thanks, SCUMMVM!), and it is a very good game, but I still think that Lucasarts has done better (though it's definitely a classic and while I may think it's not quite as good as Indy (or, probably, Sam & Max), that's not very bad because those three games are easily three of the best adventure games ever...).

Indy was much more serious, so the environments didn't grab your eye quite as much -- more realistic, after all -- but it's also great and I just thought it was more fun to play. It's also got replay value (three routes through the game!) and action parts... and a very well done story, of course. Great game. I think I got stuck (and gave up) in an ice cave or something, though...

[Dark Jaguar]

Try getting a debit card then. As this whole board talked about before, it just draws from your regular account, and it works EXACTLY like a credit card so every single place, EVERY SINGLE ONE, that will accept that companie's credit cards also, by default, accepts a debit card from that company.

[A Black Falcon]

If my bank has that it probably would be a good idea, yeah...

There is only one problem with older adventure games: interface. Oh, sure, these three have menus and stuff and not text (I don't know of any LA text-entry adventures...), but there are a lot more options -- what is it, 12? Compared to now when adventures have, typically, three (Look, Talk, and Interact)... it adds more of a learning curve to the game. Nothing like a text-based game, but it's not quite as intuitive...

[A Black Falcon]

Well sorry for our computer company not giving us Sam & Max too... that's where we got MM: DOTT and Indy Fate from (as well as Rebel Assualt). And with two LA adventure games I didn't see much need to buy a third then...

On the subject of missing games (not sold, lost). I know I've mentioned it before, becuase it happened a couple of years ago, but I'm still really annoyed that I managed to lose six games, presumably all at the same time (since all were in the same place in paper sleeves, not the plastic cases...)

Indy Fate I really miss (I never finished it! Hard...). MechCommander Gold I beat and hadn't played in a while so that's not quite as bad (though it'd be nice to still be able to play the fun multiplayer mode and I never beat the expansion (included on the Gold disc), so I do wish I hadn't lost it...). Worms Armageddon I don't mind so much because I still have the very similar Worms 2 (you really only need one of Worms 2/Armageddon/World Party, they're nearly identical...). Death Rally I beat but it'd still be great to have because it's a very fun racer. Incoming was a fun, if simplistic, action/flying game. Sure, it runs too fast on my computer and wasn't the greatest game ever made, but it's fun once in a while and I was hoping that someday I might actually finish the thing... Ultim@te Race Pro is an okay racing game. But it has only four tracks ("sixteen" with the weather effects, mirror, and reverse modes), has no campaign (only single races here...), and won't run at all on my computer, so this one I minded losing least. Fun arcade racing, but there's not much there... and it doesn't work on my PC anyway

So yeah, today, I was at my moms' for a while (had an appointment, watched the Red Sox game with them, they won it... :) )... and while I was there... I noticed that she'd FOUND THESE MISSING GAMES! Yes, they hadn't been lost at college, as I'd been assuming for over a decade now (those games vanished some time during the '02-'03 school year). Instead, they were in a box under my moms' computer desk. Now, note: I think she bought the house in '04, so that box has to have been moved there without anyone looking in it, I think. I could be wrong about that, but still, it proves that no one had looked in that box in a decade... Anyway, the box had these papersleeve games, a couple of programs (Encarta '95, MS Works, Windows 3.11 + DOS 6.22, Canon Creative...), and a bunch of random scraps of paper (for use as scrap paper). Yeah.

Now, I know I definitely did not put those games in that box. I first noticed them missing at college and thought they'd vanished there. Well, apparently not! No one has any idea how they ended up in that box, though. It's quite the mystery. So yeah, crazily enough, I now have all of these missing games again. And they are all there, in their original sleeves: Micro Machines 2, Death Rally, Incoming, Ultim@te Race Pro, MechCommander Gold, Civilization II Gold Multiplayer Edition, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, and Worms Armageddon. Plus as I said I took that DOS 6.22+Win 3.11 disc. Amazing, just amazing.

Of those games, I repurchased Indy & the Fate of Atlantis a couple of years ago (digital download), because it's awesome. Incoming I bought on GOG with Incoming Forces (its sequel) also included this year I believe, though I mostly got it for the first game. I have another copy of the Civ II MGE, I believe... I think this copy (from a 4-pack of strategy games) was a double. Worms Armageddon, Death Rally, and MechCommander Gold, though, I haven't played since losing these discs. Ultim@te Race Pro and Micro Machines 2 I downloaded a while back in order to play them again, but it's really, REALLHY awesome to have the actual discs again! So, so cool...

And plus, the Red Sox won too, and my glasses were fixed. So yeah, it was a very good day. They only way it could have been better would be if that box of floppy disk games had been there too... ah well. At least I can play all of those games even without the discs, since I have them installed... that was not the case for most of these games! So yeah, in many ways this was better than finding that. Amazing. I never, ever thought I would see these discs again. I guess that's what you get when someone does a once-in-a-decade-level cleaning? :)

[Great Rumbler]

I've been playing Curse of Monkey Island, The Dig, and Day of the Tentacle on my Android tablet recently. All still very awesome games and they work quite well with the tablet and touchscreen.

[A Black Falcon]

Huh, yeah, I guess adventure games would work well on a tablet. Is that working through an emulator or something, or are there actually official ports? (I'm guessing the former?)


Micro Machines 2 is such a hard, HARD game... pain, suffering, and rote memorization, that's this game! I mean, I've played it a few times here and there since losing this disc -- or rather, since getting my WinME computer that couldn't play the game well since this game requires Windows-less DOS -- I have the GBC version, and I'v eplayed a bit of the emulated Genesis version, but every time I go back to this game, it surprises me about just HOW difficult it is. The first Micro Machines is a great game, but this one is so, so fast, you really do need to memorize the tracks to have a chance. And with a huge track library and a track editor if you want to make some of your own, that's a tall order!

I do still love the game, the graphics are quite nice and I'd completely forgotten that the PC version had CD audio (it's mediocre rock, that's probably why I'd forgotten...), but man is it hard. I remember finding the game tough back when I first got the PC version in '96 or so, but not as hard as it's seemed when I go back to it later... probably because back then I put in the time to memorize those tracks, which you must do to not finish last every time (after the first race or two).


As for those other games, MechCommander's still pretty good too! I should play through the expansion pack... I still have my expansion pack save files, and I didn't get all that far, since after beating the whole original campaign in '00-'01 or so I didn't want to play the addon right away... then a few years later the disc vanished. Ultim@te Race Pro is the same nice-looking-but-only-okay-playing game I remember. Unfortunately I don't have my original save file for the game, so no comparing to my old best times... ah well. I don't think I played the game enough to get THAT good at it back then anyway; it was an okay game, but Pod, for instance, was better.


As for Fate of Atlantis... I know I got it digital-download a while back, but I never got too far in it. It's been years now since I've put a serious effort into an adventure game, for whatever reason. I really should change that, and FoA is of course one of the best ones ever. I always did like it more than Day of the Tentacle, the other Lucasarts adventure game we got with our new computer in early '95.

[Great Rumbler]

I'm running them through the Android port of ScummVM.

[Dark Jaguar]

Resurrecting old threads is a GREAT way to make it seem like there's more than 5 people posting here!

[A Black Falcon]

Hah... true, DJ. :)

I'm running them through the Android port of ScummVM.

Ah, yeah, that was my guess... I didn't know there were cellphone ports of ScummVM, but it is a game style that would work well on a touchscreen, so it makes sense that someone would do that.