Childhood PC Gaming: The 7th Guest

Submitted by Krapintosh on Sun, 01/29/2012 - 23:13

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Younguns don't know what it is to fear such horrible FMV. Nonetheless, it scared the crap out of me as a kid, and getting it to run right on my PC was an achievement in itself.

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Submitted by Smackpump on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 01:05.

I still have my copy, along with the 11th Hour.

11th Hour was better, I thought. Talk about some hard puzzles and riddles. I remember three that were neigh impossible: the furniture puzzle (moving the piano), the toy train in the attic turret, and the goddamn connect four game where the AI would kick your ass every time. I had the guidebook. The furniture puzzle had about 60 steps to complete and the train had a good 35 steps. I loved that the house was abandoned for decades between games 1 and 2 and by the second one was half rotted, truly haunted looking. Also the fireplace in the game room having "HELP ME" scrawled into it.

Still amazing games though. The music was great, and eventually The Fatman (composer) went on comment on remixes of his own work on OCRemix years and years later.

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Submitted by Kreetard on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 04:51.

I definitely remember the 7th Guest score being scarier than it is to me now, heh.
The Dark Eye was another pretty great PC game from the way-back-when. It's a game based on Poe's work and includes a neato movie (cutscene?) in which William Burroughs reads Annabel Lee. Good shit.

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Submitted by TP70 on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 06:48.

I remember this one. A friend of me played it all the time. It scared me too and it was too hard so i didn't play.
I am sure games are way easier nowadays.