Today we're taking a look at the Dagger of Amon Ra, a whacky murder mystery adventure title from Sierra. Twitter: / pushinuproses Facebook: / pushinguproses Patreon: / pushinguproses Instagram: / pushinuproses
I loved this game as a kid. We weren't allowed to have any video or computer games in our house but I could go down the street to my aunt's and help her play this and other games like Myst even Leisure Suit Larry.
Nope. In my last year of highschool my brother and I got a PS2 together and kept it hidden under the TV cabinet. But I think missing out on those formative years is why I don't really play video games now; I prefer to watch other people like my wife play story-heavy games (I get to do all the character creation).
It's not just old titles though, they have new titles too! I bought The Witcher III on there because it's freaking DRM free over at GOG. Yaees! In addition to that they have a nice programme where if you live in an area where the regional pricing might be overcharging you, you'll get credits back you can use on subsequent purchases. It's common for Steam games to go for like, $49.99 £49.99 and €49.99. 50 euro is actually 53 dollars, and 50 pounds is actually 62 dollars. As a result you end up getting overcharged quite significantly. But GOG has an answer. Hazzah for GOG!
FanfareT.Loudest There's SCI-like engines available, and general classic adventure game engines too. Can't remember the names, but if you search for fan adventure games you'll surely find some
If you have the time, skill, and drive you might look at the free tool Adventure Game Studio. I tinkered around with it about 10 years ago for fun and it was more than capable of making a game like this. I understood programming well enough to make it do what I wanted. I don't have the skills to design the graphics so there is no way I could have made a game by myself. I believe there are other free to cheap toolsets out there as well that could accomplish this.
I know the reply is two years late but... I think it's because Josh also voices other 4 characters in the game, so they didn't want him to sound the same. So they put a heavy filter and possibly slowed down his voice, which sounds unnatural, instead of getting another voice actor.
Is it possible that PushingUpRoses is more of a Laura Bow fan than I am? Only one way to find out: This calls for a trivia contest of obscure facts and details about the games.
This is the first video game I ever felt immersed in. I remember being in the middle of class excited to get home and try different solutions to progress in the game
Watching you play the Laura Bow series is what compelled me to buy it off gog so I could experience it myself. So thank you for making these fun videos that introduce me to games I wouldn't have played otherwise!
I played this game at your suggestion Roses and i wish i could unplay it just to play it again for the first time. Its so incredible. It makes me so sad that murder mysteries are essentially extinct as a game genre nowadays.
I literally gasped when you said "J.C. Leyendecker". Such an underappreciated artist! I don't hear about him as much as I feel he deserves. He often gets overshadowed by the much-less-classy-much-more-cheesy Norman Rockwell. I'm going to go watch your playthrough now. Your sexy growl intrigued me.
I remember calling the sierra hotline when i got stuck in this game lol. Absolutely absurd in retrospect that there was a person i could talk to to help me figure out a puzzle in a video game haha.
Here's another video topic you could do: Your dream Lara Bow sequel. How would it be? Would it work nowadays? Also, thanks for clarifying on the black backgrounds! It's a strange design decision (It makes the game look unfinished) but at least that gives it a justifiable reason.
I played this game on your recommendation just now and I loved it! I was SO disappointed to find out that this was the last Laura Bow entry. I hear they are working on one now slated to be released in 2022.
You are one of my favorite youtubers! I watch all your videos even though I don't play video games and don't know anything about them. I've learned so much from your videos, and you are so knowledgeable and entertaining. Your videos are incredibly well done. Thank you so much!
This was an exciting game in ’92 and still is. I always thought Steve’s voice sounded like that phone gag from Home Alone 2. ”Credit card? You got it.”
great video i found this because i'm doing a bit of a "museums in video games" deep dive at the moment and those reviews are absolutely invaluable, especially since i've never played this before
Your videos are my whole childhood. Every time I check to see if you've played something, I see that you have. Solidarity! Finally, someone has played the same adventure games as me. I never finished The Dagger of Amon Ra, because the chase part toward the end was too stressful for me lol.
Roses, I would like to thank you for introducing me to this series, because, as of now, I am AAAAAAAALL about Laura. Seriously. Curly red hair, bright blue eyes, the whole classy southern belle thing, and MMMHMM that ACCENT! I am in LOVE!
This was by far my favorite game growing up. I used to run out of the room when I got caught by the black robed person and wacked. I LOVE that you cover this game. Ever played Prophecy? Gotta do a video on that!!
This (the disk voice-less version) and The Colonel's Bequest, along with the first Gabriel Knight, will always be 3 of my favorite games. Ahhh nostalgia!
Longtime fan lurker, here! While I'm a fan of point-and-click adventure games, I haven't player any Laura Bow games, but I'm sure I'll try them out in the future :) Despite hearing you talk about them several times, I never grow tired of hearing it because your enthusiasm and love for these games is noticeable and contagious! Oh, and if possible, try to be a little lighter on the spoilers :P
I've been sitting on the fence about this game until I watched your video, but now I'm convinced it's worth a buy. Thanks for helping me make the decision. Great video, entertaining and very well spoken.
Hot Damn Thank you for bringing up that end of the game test , I spent so much of my childhood getting thru this game , years of playing (pre internet age) finally to arrive at the end game test and be told, I still lose. All because I kept taking all evidence. So let that be the one lesson you learn here, dont take all the evidence from a crime scene. Just what you need!!
Great. Now I feel the urge to finally purchase it. Thank god for GOG. Also...I really hope you'll cover some more modern adventure games sometime too. Plenty of great stuff the last couple of years and its always a pleasure to listen to your opinions!
You have made me have a great appreciation of point & click adventure games, specifically Sierra's games & more specifically Laura Bow. I absolutely adore Laura Bow, & it's all thanks to you, PUR!
That's so funny that the art was inspired by Leyendecker, when I first saw Laura and Steve together I even mentioned it out loud. Bur really, Steve sounds.... unnerving. Give him some helium or something, he's reaching demonic levels!
I'm glad to see that I'm not the only Fan of this game. I was always a fan of adventure gaming, and this was a fun one. I never even knew it existed until it got dropped on as part of a CD-ROM bundle with (I think) police quest collection. Now i'm going to be down a youtube rabbit hole of adventure games. Thanks
Adventure games (as they were called) provided me with plenty of entertainment and pleasant escapism back in the early 90s, and among my favourites were this one and the Lucas Arts Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (both of which I played several times). It was probably the great cover art for The Dagger of Amon Ra and the subject matter (I've always been big into archeology--and Egyptology in particular) that drew me to this game and I can honestly say I wasn't disappointed. Laura Bow enthralled me for many an hour, even if at times I was frustrated by certain aspects of the gameplay. Of course, by today's standards it all seems rather primitive, but at the time of its release this was cutting edge stuff, made all the more appealing by Sierra's consistently good graphics. They were THE game company back then if your jam was adventure games. Of course, that came at a price, because as I recall each game cost $40 (CDN) and upwards, which was actually quite expensive if you translate that into today's prices. But as far as I was concerned, they were worth every penny. Looking back on them now, there's a certain charm about them that is lost in the games of today--though doubtless that's a bit of nostalgia on my part. If they were to remake The Dagger of Amon Ra, I would hope they would try to retain some of that charm--especially the lush (for the time) background graphics (and, of course, the fabulous cover art for the box). My big regret is having sold my copy long ago--even if I couldn't play it on my current computer (my copy of the game having been on 3 1/2 inch floppies). Just having that box on my bookshelf would be a nice reminder of fun times had and period when my life seemed far less burdened than today.
Laura's voice and personality are the best thing about this game. I have a personal fiction that Laura is Gabriel's Knight grandma, just because she has a 1920's hat in her attic and they're from New Orleans.
>Wolf Heimlich Are they serious? The dudes name is Wolf Heimlich? Please don't tell me this guy does evil stuff in secret or I don't know how to handle that.
One of my favourites and I regret selling my copy when I moved. I still remember having nightmares after playing this at a neighbours house after seeing that first death
YAY I'm so glad you did an "official" review of Dagger of Amon Ra, I did enjoy the game a lot, but the only issue I had was that my version of the game was buggy as hell (it was the Roberta Williams' Anthology version), and at one point it wouldn't let me even LOAD my save file. >< So I unfortunately had to give up on playing it myself and watched a Let's Play of it, cuz I wanted to know how it ended so badly.
I love this game too! My favorite Sierra adventure after the Space Quests. I also played it as a kid and somehow managed to solve it without a walkthrough, being pre-internet and all. I didn't have the talkie version so I never heard the voices.
8:21 OMG! HAHAHA! I love how he casually goes at her and stabes her like it's a polite thing to do. ''And now, without further adue, if you allow me, I'm going to stab you madam. Yes? Here you go.'' I know its partially due to the hardware limitations but still, VERY FUNNY.
This game as a preteen also terrified me. I played it before Colonel's Bequest and I remember how excited me and my brother were for it. I can't remember why we chose it but I always assumed it was a bit hit. I admit though I was stuck early on for months because at the party there was something I hadn't done that triggered the scene change.
I don´t know if you ever played or even heard of the Ben Jordan: Paranormal investigator games? I loved those. Especially the 3éd one: The Sorceress of Smailholm. I would love a video on that series if you are familiar with it. If not I think that it would be right up your alley
