The "Help me remember the title of this game!" game!
Dear everyone,
I know you are a community of adventure/puzzle gamers, so it's worth a try:
I have been looking (on and off for the past 4 years) for a game that frustrated me as a child, and has since returned to haunt my sleepless nights. I cannot remember the name; I only really remember the first puzzle. A first puzzle that I couldn't, no matter what I tried, solve.
The first puzzle was set outside a mansion. You needed to get inside the mansion. The only way in was through the front door, but when you clicked on it a rude little man poked his head out and said you weren't allowed to enter without permission or something. To your right was a payphone, which I assumed you needed to use to get permission to enter the building. No matter what numbers I dialed I couldn't get anything.
It was back in the day when I didn't realise the true potential of the interwebz as a source of hints and cheats. Go figure.
I'm pretty sure it had the same feel and graphics as the old Myst and Zork games.
Any ideas?
I know you are a community of adventure/puzzle gamers, so it's worth a try:
I have been looking (on and off for the past 4 years) for a game that frustrated me as a child, and has since returned to haunt my sleepless nights. I cannot remember the name; I only really remember the first puzzle. A first puzzle that I couldn't, no matter what I tried, solve.
The first puzzle was set outside a mansion. You needed to get inside the mansion. The only way in was through the front door, but when you clicked on it a rude little man poked his head out and said you weren't allowed to enter without permission or something. To your right was a payphone, which I assumed you needed to use to get permission to enter the building. No matter what numbers I dialed I couldn't get anything.
It was back in the day when I didn't realise the true potential of the interwebz as a source of hints and cheats. Go figure.
I'm pretty sure it had the same feel and graphics as the old Myst and Zork games.
Any ideas?
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I did a search on Google however, and this is what I found:
[URL="http://www.justadventure.com/Walkthroughs/MOTD/mystery.shtm#Coins for the phone"]"Let's check out the phone booth to the right of the entrance-gate."[/URL] It also says something about how to get in. But I doubt this is what you're looking for, as this is not the first location or puzzle.
Hopefully there's a member here with an excellent knowledge about old adventure games.
Good luck, and welcome to the forum!
Sounds pretty much to it, but i dont remember the payphone...There was the doorbell, and then the mailbox...
By the way, in the case Maniac Mansion was the game, the door key is under the rug.
Probably not. There was no payphone outside the mansion.
I'm having a lot of trouble remembering the title of this game, let alone a copy of it online.
Lego Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_Island
Not quite. I was playing Lego Island yesterday, it's a blast! But it's not the game I'm thinking of unfortunately.
I don't think that's the one, I remember this one having a very distinct Myst feel to it - kind of like you click to move forward, there is a short cinematic of you moving forward etc. The art style was very photographic.
I have no idea about your Lego game - I googled 'Pepper lego pizza' which just brought up Lego Island and Lego Island 2
Thanks Sid!
Only play this if you owned the original game! (This means you 16BitMario1)
Although, I do posses fond memories of Hugo's House of Horrors - which also really, really frustrated me as a child :P
Just read every game on that list and I'm sure it will come up!
(If you still remember the title)
For a split second there - I thought Shivers might be the one. The synopsis seemed kind of similar (it was about your guy exploring through a huge mansion, or museum). I remember on the back it had a picture of some weird looking guy flying in a kind of miniature toy airplane. I think maybe you had to pick things up and put them in the right place?
I'm not completely sure, I couldn't get past the first puzzle
No! I don't think so... unless it was the one with a room where you had to dodge those bats? Stupid impossible bat-room. And when you finally got past them, some mummy thing would run up and kill you straight away anyway.
A lot of these Serria games you are mentioning seem like they have the same kind of feel as this game, so I can feel it getting closer. No luck with Lighthouse, though
And Myst is really difficult. When it gets to a point where you have to read a million books in the library in order to figure out a puzzle, it's just crazy. Probably the most hard-core puzzle games I've seen.