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Modern Maniac Mansion

Posted by Zonk on from the purple-tentacle-for-teh-win! dept.

Wired.com is reporting on a Modern remake of classic adventure game Maniac Mansion. From the article: "The new game is almost identical to the original, except for the graphics and sound. Like the original, it has seven characters you can assemble in groups of three to play the game, and the puzzle-filled adventure has eight different solutions, which vary based on which characters you choose."

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  1. Adventure games were fun by vasqzr · · Score: 4, Informative


    Typing got cumbersome sometimes, but the later games where you could point/click were a great improvement.

    Police Quest? Gold Rush?

    Check out the older stuff here:

    http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/Sierra_On-Lin e,_Inc.html

    Even independent games like Hugo were a ton of fun.

  2. Re:If this is going to be like leisure larry... by MemoryDragon · · Score: 5, Informative
    Ah yes commercial pure adventure games with good to excellent production values released this year:
    • Syberia 2 (although the game is supposed to stink the production value is good)
    • Broken Sword 3
    • Dark Fall Lights Out
    • Tony Tough
    • Wanted a wild west adventure
    • Clever & Smart
    • Dark Mirror (Excellent, highly recommendable)
    • A Bad Mojo Remake
    • A Rerendered Runaway
    • Sherlock Holmes, the case of the Silver Earring
    • URU
    • Myst4
    • Return To Mysterious Island
    • Curse of Blackmoor Manor
    • Aura
    • Legacy: Dark Shadows
    • The Moment of Silence


    And from the Freeware side of things probably around 10-20 others many based on AGS (I am not even counting the text adventures in here) some of them with very good production values.

    Almost twice as many releases than in 2003 sounds like a dead genre to me. Adventure games are as dead as BSD.