Help me identify this PC adventure/RPG from the 90's

[James]

I don't have much to go on, I'm afraid. I remember I got it for Christmas one year, and had to retrun it because it wouldn't work on my computer for some reason.

I THINK it was a first-person view. I remember it came on 6 or 7 CDs, each one used for a new area you'd visit. I remember little mushroom monsters that would attack you early on.

[Helm]

I think I know every pc adventure game there is and this probably aint one. Although I do admit on the multimedia craze I kinda slipped out so maybe it is an adventure game. Doesn't even ring the slightest bell, sorry.

[FS]

The only adventure games I know that came on so many CDs were Gabriel Knight 2 and Phantasmagoria 1.

Was it Shivers maybe? I never played that one, but I remember from reviews that it had both video material and animated creatures like wood-ghosts or something.

[Mad Melvin]

Realms of Haunting? That was more like a FPS/Adventure though.

[McMock]

From the amount of CD's I'd be inclined to say Baldurs Gate, but that's definately not a first person game. Try using mobygames to find it.

[Perndog]

Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure.

[Ninjavenom]

You're not thinking of Riven, are you?

[AChimp]

Riven didn't have monsters. :(

[Supafly345]

Christ you guys, it was SMB:FPS. After all of those "strafe, jump, strafe, coin" jokes that littered every damn game magazine, who could forget that travesty? Hopping was never meant as a pick-up weapon.

[James]

Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure.

Holy fucking shit, that's it. I couldn't think of the name, but as soon as you said that, I'm all like "Holy fucking shit, that's it."

Now if only I could find it for download. Not that I even know how to do emulation for CD games, especially one that came on so many CDs.

I wish I could say "You all should check out this awesome game," but I hardly got a chance to play it, so it could very well suck. And I don't even know where to find it. Underdogs doesn't have it.

[AChimp]

Perndog used his devil magics to divine that name for you. You owe him one infant.

[Perndog]

I have the game. It does suck. Never, ever play it, except as a taste of revolutionary cutting-edge graphics from 1996. And if cutting edge mid-90s graphics are what you want, stick with Myst.

Alternately, if anyone really wants to play it, I will burn you a copy for five bucks plus shipping.

[AChimp]

He'll still take the infant. :|

[James]

k, so how exactly do you play CD games on emulation? Particularly if I want to play them solely from the hard drive?

I have a few old games (legit) that I'd like to install and play, but my computer's too high-performance for them. I know you can play Dos games on a dos emulator, but how do you emulate an older computer if the games use Windows?

[executioneer]

right-click/compatibility/run this program in compatibility mode for/windows 95?

[executioneer]

ps wizardry: crusaders of the dark savant is bettar you should get that :'(

[James]

right-click/compatibility/run this program in compatibility mode for/windows 95?

Does that work when trying to run a game from the CD?

[executioneer]

yeah, it should- if it doesn't, make a shortcut to it first and do it to the shortcut maybe :/

but if the problem is it's going too fast, you might want to try some sort of slowdown program for windows, i think i remember getting good results with one called TURBO when i was trying to get Quest for Glory 4 to run

-willie

[executioneer]

in case you need it (you prob. wont but w/e)

http://home.blarg.net/~mobbswm/turbo.zip

[Marine]

I don't have much to go on, I'm afraid. I remember I got it for Christmas one year, and had to retrun it because it wouldn't work on my computer for some reason.

I THINK it was a first-person view. I remember it came on 6 or 7 CDs, each one used for a new area you'd visit. I remember little mushroom monsters that would attack you early on.


i think i could be able to identify it with more information.

[James]

i think i could be able to identify it with more information.

Read thread, k thx. I'm still really amazed that Perndog was able to help out with that. I really had very little memory to go on, and he just nailed. it. :(

And thanks for the help, Willie. Now I need to find my 7th Guest CD.

[Perndog]

I don't think any other adventure games exist with such an ungodly number of discs.

[executioneer]

never played phantasmagoria eh

[Helm]

Or some of the Tex Murphy games.

And Wizardry is not an adventure game.

[Perndog]

This wasn't Wizardry. It was something entirely different by the same developer who thought they could sell a few extra copies by tacking the name Wizardry on it.