Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
#94488
06/21/01 12:31 AM
06/21/01 12:31 AM
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Well since I've played a few new games since last year and now grouping a series isn't allowed my list is a little bit different than the last one. I am surprised with all the new games I did play this last year that some of them didn't make it to my list, as they seemed to be faves of quite a few other boomers here. Here goes: Thief Gold Black Dahlia Myst Exile Real Myst Beyond Atlantis Goblins 3(the third one) Ripper Obsidian Ring Shivers 2(the second one) Drakan Zork 1(the first one) Zork TGI Dracula the Ressurection Blade Runner Sassy
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
#94489
06/21/01 02:33 PM
06/21/01 02:33 PM
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Posts: 2,061 Alicante, Spain
carmen
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Here is my list
Timelapse Myst Myst Exile Zork Nemesis The Arrival The Neverhood Amerzone The Ward Gruntz Drowned God (When I finish it) The Feeble Files Discworld 2 Little Big Adventure 2 The Quivering (Vermin just made me remember how much I enjoyed this game)
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/21/01 06:45 PM
06/21/01 06:45 PM
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Posts: 1,793 The Middle of the Sonoran Dese...
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Mine are: Beyond Time Cassandra Galleries Curse of Monkey Island Dracula the Last Sanctuary Myst Myst III Neverhood Obsidian Reah Riddle of the Sphinx Riven Secrets of the Luxor Timelapse Xiama Zork Grand Inquisitor
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/22/01 09:44 AM
06/22/01 09:44 AM
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Posts: 1,845 Leavenworth, KS
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Gabriel Knight 2, The Beast Within Quest for Glory 4 Quest for Glory 2 Quest for Glory 1 King's Quest 8, Mask of Eternity Alone in the Dark 1 Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine King's Quest 5 Dracula 2 Dracula 1 The Messenger Atlantis Atlantis 2
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/23/01 12:00 AM
06/23/01 12:00 AM
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Joined: May 1999
Posts: 761 Santa Barbara, CA, USA
vermin
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I think I am the only person in the entire universe who liked THE QUIVERING enough to include it in their best of. What a shame.
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/23/01 11:54 PM
06/23/01 11:54 PM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 6,729 Long Beach, Australia
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Hi there, The final lists appear below. The linking one will come later. There is a numerical list, and an alphabetical list. An asterix in the alphabetical list indicates it is available for Mac - thanks to MacDee for that info. I tried to use complete names where I could, and have listed alternative titles where relevant. I took a few liberties with the names in the alphabetical list in order to get sequels and series together (eg Myst 2). In the numerical list however the games are as I understand their correct title to be. I have listed every game recommended, although I suspect a few would not be classed as adventure. The only games I did not list were recommendations outside the rules. All errors are my own, but are hopefully extremely minimal. Nearly 100 members posted recommendations, and just over 170 games were recommended. The top game received 51 recommendations, which meant 1 in every 2 persons had it in their 15 recommended games. The top game was a bit of a surprise. I knew it would do well, but I would not have picked it at the start as ending up on top. Finally, as I said last year, every game here is one which at least one person thought was among the 15 they would recommend out of all the games they have played. Allowing for tastes, that means there are no duds, and it will be a long time before I run out of good games to play flotsam ps - apologies for the formatting. That too is my fault. I just couldn't master the UBB codes [This message has been edited by flotsam (edited 06-24-2001).]
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/23/01 11:56 PM
06/23/01 11:56 PM
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flotsam
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51 Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within 48 Longest Journey, The 40 Myst/realMyst 40 Riven 32 Shivers 31 Timelapse 30 Broken Sword 1: Shadow of the Templars/Circle of Blood 29 The Curse of Monkey Island 29 Grim Fandango 29 Tex Murphy: Pandora Directive 29 Zork Nemesis 27 Black Dahlia 27 Myst 3: Exile 27 Sanitarium 25 Zork Grand Inquisitor 24 Faust: 7 Games of the Soul 24 Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers 22 Tex Murphy: Under a Killing Moon 22 Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis 19 Tex Murphy: Overseer 19 Amber: Journeys Beyond 18 Riddle of the Sphinx 17 Discworld 16 Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned 16 Lighthouse 15 Amerzone: The Explorers Legacy 15 Byzantine: The Betrayal 15 Day of the Tentacle 15 Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time 15 Monkey Island 1: The Secret of Monkey Island 15 Morpheus 15 Obsidian 15 Simon the Sorcerer 14 Discworld 2: Missing, Presumed…!? 14 Dracula: The Last Sanctuary 14 The Neverhood 13 Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror 13 Kings Quest 7: The Princeless Bride 12 Blackstone Chronicles 12 The Dig 12 Dracula Resurrection 12 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge 11 Kings Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow 10 Rama 9 Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis 8 Phantasmagoria 1: Prey its Only a Nightmare 8 Ring: The legend of the Niberlungen 8 Shivers 2: Harvester of Souls 8 Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe 7 Cydonia/Lightbringer 7 Discworld Noir 6 7th Guest 6 Atlantis 1: The Lost Tales 6 Blade Runner 6 Callahans Crosstime Saloon 6 Feeble Files 6 Legend of Kyrandia Book 1: Fables and Fiends 6 Monkey Island 4: Escape from Monkey Island 6 Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy 6 Ripper 6 Secrets of the Luxor 6 Titanic; Adventure out of Time 5 Dark Side of the Moon 5 Return to Zork 5 Traitors Gate 4 Cassandra Galleries 4 The Dark Eye 4 Last Express 4 Louvre: The Final Curse/The Messenger 4 Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh 4 Reah 4 Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Rose Tattoo 3 The Arrival 3 Bad Mojo 3 Beyond Time 3 Egypt 2: The Heliopolis Prophecy 3 Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine 3 Jewels of the Oracle 3 Kings Quest 2: Romancing the Throne 3 Legend of Kyrandia Book 2: The Hand of Fate 3 Pandora’s Box 3 Stupid Invaders 3 Xiama
2 Alone in the Dark 1, Ark of Time, Celtica, Drowned God: Conspiracy of Ages, The Forgotten: It Begins, Jewels of the Oracle 2, Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time, Karma: Curse of the 12 Caves, Nancy Drew 3: Message in a Haunted Mansion, Noctropolis, Outcast, Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness, Space Quest 3: The Pirates of Pestulon, Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation, The Quivering, Spycraft, Thief, Toonstruck, Torins Passage, Twinsen’s Odyssey, The Ward, Woodruffe and the Azimuth of Schnibble, Realms of the Haunting.
1 Alone in the dark 2, Armed and Delerious/Dementia, Azreal’s Tear, Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold/The Sacred Amulet, Beneath a Steel Sky, Blair Witch 2: Rustin Parr, Betrayal at Krondor, Blue Ice, Bureau 13, The Castle, Chaos, Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion, Comer, Countdown, Cracking the Conspiracy, Crusader: A Conspiracy in the Kingdom of Jerusalum, Dark Earth, Darkseed, Deathgate, Dracula Unleashed, Dust: A Tale of the Wired West, Eye of the Beholder 2, Entomorph: Plague of the Darfall, Fable, Fallout 1, Fallout 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of a Monster, Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist, Goblins 3, Gruntz, Heaven’s Dawn, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jack Orlando, Kings Quest 5: Absence Makes the Heart go Yonder!, Kings Quest 8: Mask of Eternity, Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra, Legend of Kyrandia Book 3: Malcolm’s Revenge, Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin, Les Manley 1: Search for the King, Maniac Mansion, Mission Critical, Necronomicon, Nocturne, Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses, Physicus, Pilgrim: Faith as a Weapon, Pirates!, Planescape Torment, Pompeii/Timescape, Prince of Persia, Prisoner of Ice, Quest for Glory 1: So You Want to be a Hero, Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire, Rent-a-Hero, Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender, Riddle of Master Liu, Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch, Silent Hill, Silver, Shannara, Space Quest 1: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter, Space Quest 2: Vohauls Revenge, Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers, Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier, SPQR: The Empires Darkest Hour, Star Trek: Elite Force, Star Trek: Final Unity, The Time Machine, UFOs, Versailles 1685, Voyeur, Ween: The Prophecy, Xanth, Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders, Zork 1, Zork Zero, Zork 2: Return to Zork
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/23/01 11:57 PM
06/23/01 11:57 PM
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6 *7th Guest 2 *Alone in the Dark 1 1 *Alone in the Dark 2 19 *Amber: Journeys Beyond 15 Amerzone: The Explorers Legacy 2 Ark of Time 1 Armed and Delerious/Dementia 3 *Arrival, The 6 Atlantis 1: The Lost Tales 22 *Atlantis 2: Beyond Atlantis 1 *Azreal’s Tear 1 Aztec: The Curse in the Heart of the City of Gold/The Sacred Amulet 3 *Bad Mojo 1 *Beneath a Steel Sky 1 Betrayal at Krondor 3 Beyond Time 27 Black Dahlia 12 Blackstone Chronicles 6 Blade Runner 1 Blair Witch 2: Rustin Parr 1 *Blue Ice 30 *Broken Sword 1: Shadow of the Templars/Circle of Blood 13 *Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror 1 Bureau 13 15 Byzantine: The Betrayal 6 Callahans Crosstime Saloon 4 *Cassandra Galleries 1 *Castle, The 2 Celtica 1 Clue Chronicles: Fatal Illusion 1 Countdown 1 Cracking the Conspiracy 1 Crusader: A Conspiracy in the Kingdom of Jerusalum 7 Cydonia/Lightbringer 4 *Dark Eye, The 1 Dark Earth 1 *Darkseed 5 Dark Side of the Moon 15 *Day of the Tentacle 1 Deathgate 12 *Dig, The 17 *Discworld 14 *Discworld 2: Missing, Presumed…!? 7 Discworld Noir 12 Dracula Resurrection 14 Dracula: The Last Sanctuary 1 *Dracula Unleashed 2 Drowned God: Conspiracy of Ages 1 *Dust: A Tale of the Wired West 1 Eye of the Beholder 2 1 Entomorph: Plague of the Darfall 3 Egypt 2: The Heliopolis Prophecy 1 Fable 1 Fallout 1 1 Fallout 2 24 Faust 6 Feeble Files 1 Flight of the Amazon Queen 1 *Frankenstein 1 Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist 2 *Forgotten: It Begins 24 Gabriel Knight 1: Sins of the Fathers 51 Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within 16 Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned 1 Goblins 3 29 Grim Fandango 1 Gruntz 1 Heaven’s Dawn 9 *Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis 2 Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine 1 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 1 Jack Orlando 3 *Jewels of the Oracle 2 *Jewels of the Oracle 2 2 *Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time 15 *Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time 1 Karma: Curse of the 12 Caves 3 Kings Quest 2: Romancing the Throne 1 Kings Quest 5: Absence Makes the Heart go Yonder! 11 *Kings Quest 6: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow 13 *Kings Quest 7: The Princeless Bride 1 Kings Quest 8: Mask of Eternity 4 *Last Express, The 5 *Legend of Kyrandia Book 1: Fables and Fiends 3 *Legend of Kyrandia Book 2: The Hand of Fate 1 *Legend of Kyrandia Book 3: Malcolm’s Revenge 1 Legend of the Prophet and the Assassin 1 Les Manley 1: Search for the King 16 *Lighthouse 48 Longest Journey, The 4 Messenger, The/Louvre: The Final Curse 1 *Maniac Mansion 1 Mission Critical 15 Monkey Island 1: The Secret of Monkey Island 12 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge 29 Monkey Island 3: The Curse of Monkey Island 6 Monkey Island 4: Escape from Monkey Island 16 *Morpheus 40 *Myst 40 *Myst 2: Riven 27 *Myst 3: Exile 1 Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion 1 Necronomicon 14 Neverhood 6 Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy 1 Nocturne 15 *Obsidian 1 Odyssey: The Search for Ulysses 2 Outcast 3 Pandora’s Box 8 *Phantasmagoria 1: Prey its Only a Nightmare 4 *Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh 1 Physicus 1 Pilgrim: Faith as a Weapon 1 Pirates! 1 Planescape Torment 1 Pompeii/Timescape 1 Prince of Persia 1 *Prisoner of Ice 1 Quest for Glory 1: So You Want to be a Hero 1 Quest for Glory 2: Trial by Fire 2 Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness 2 Quivering, The 10 *Rama 4 Reah 1 Rent-a-Hero 1 Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender 1 Riddle of Master Liu 18 *Riddle of the Sphinx 8 Ring: The legend of the Niberlungen 1 Ringworld: Revenge of the Patriarch 6 *Ripper 27 Sanitarium 6 *Secrets of the Luxor 1 Shannara 4 Sherlock Holmes: Case of the Rose Tattoo 32 *Shivers 8 Shivers 2: Harvester of Souls 1 Silent Hill 1 *Silver 15 Simon the Sorcerer 8 Simon the Sorcerer 2: The Lion, the Wizard and the Wardrobe 1 Space Quest 1: Roger Wilco in the Sarien Encounter 1 Space Quest 2: Vohauls Revenge 2 Space Quest 3: The Pirates of Pestulon 1 *Space Quest 4: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers 2 Space Quest 5: The Next Mutation 1 *Space Quest 6: Roger Wilco in the Spinal Frontier 1 SPQR: The Empires Darkest Hour 2 *Spycraft 3 Stupid Invaders 22 Tex Murphy 3: Under a Killing Moon 29 Tex Murphy 4: Pandora Directive 19 Tex Murphy 5: Overseer 1 The Time Machine 2 Thief 31 *Timelapse 6 *Titanic; Adventure out of Time 2 Toonstruck 1 *Torins Passage 2 Twinsen’s Odyssey 5 *Traitors Gate 1 UFOs 1 *Versailles 1685 1 Voyeur 2 Ward, The 1 Ween; The Prophecy 3 Xiama 1 Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders 1 *Zork 1 1 *Zork Zero 5 *Zork 2: Return to Zork 25 Zork Grand Inquisitor 29 *Zork Nemesis
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/24/01 12:35 AM
06/24/01 12:35 AM
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Posts: 7,408 Ft. Lauderdale, Florida USA
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Fantastic, wonderful job, Flotsam. I can hardle wait for NEXT year. .. .. ------------------ granny goodwitch ( I'll have that Double BAAGed, please ) A woman NEVER shot a man while he was doing dishes!
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Re: 2001 Gameboomer Recommendations
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06/24/01 04:37 AM
06/24/01 04:37 AM
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Posts: 963 Sweden
Mammamu
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Well done!! Thank you so much Flotsam! It must have taken a long time to to make this very good compilation. As I have high opinion of my fellow-gamers' taste (at least in adventure games) I will consult this very often, before I buy or play a game. Love, Christina
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