The developer of Titanic: Adventure Out of Time was based in my home town of Knoxville, TN. I dated the girl who ran the call-in hint line for the game!
I paused to read each panel too, that was so funny! I remember reading a review of Last Express; she was so offended that it forces her to treat Robert's friend that way. But, in truth it was pretty surreal design. You didn't actually post that up on WikiHow did you? I couldn't find it, but I'd love to read more.
I'm almost surprised you didn't mention the irony of having Christopher Lloyd as a hero in a sort of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" kind of game. Since... you know, he played Judge Doom in that movie. It's just kind of a funny contrast between that game, and the movie you mentioned.
Never played Toonstruck, but heard "WHIP MY CREAM" and immediately recognized the voice of Suzi, the leader of the Vultures in Full Throttle. One search later and I'm astounded by Tress MacNeille's career in voice acting. She'd make a hell of a podcast guest.
I think my favourite adventure game not Sierra or Lucas is The Longest Journey which was developed in my home country, Norway. It's pretty heavy on dialogue (and monologue at times) but to me it felt like an incredibly well developed game with a really well thought out universe inside it. Or... dual universes if you will. I'm also fond of Westwood's Blade Runner game even though I've never finished it.
I played that with the Norweagian audio, and was surprised how many well known actors were there. Well, for Norway at least. Geir Kvarme is just great :D
Yeah, they all do a great job too. I was really disappointed by the Norwegian voice performance in Dreamfall by contrast... though I kinda hate that entire game so let's not get into that ^^'
Oh my gosh that Titantic game is such a nostalgic trip for me. I and my brother played that a lot when I was little. It was such a hard game for me at the time. It was such a interesting concept to go back in time and knowing the Titantic is going to sink, and getting to walk around and see all the beautiful backgrounds and things. That game wa s amazing
The Last Express is a really good adventure game that should’ve more popular, I’m a fan of Hercule Poirot Murder on the Orient Express. And it was made by Jordan Mechner!
Funny Thing the First time I heard about the Last Express a few years ago. Then 1 week later I went to a flea Market and found a complete in Box Copy for 2 € in great shape. Coincidence or destiny?
Josh Jacobs Brøderbund is one of the best developers in the early PC gaming, they made Carmen Sandiego, Prince of Persia, they were as big as Sierra and LucasArts.
Toonstruck will be my most favourite point & click adventure for all time. Thanks for including it on the list. There is/was a fan project to bring the cancelled continuation to life!
Have you played / how did you like the following adventures? Would love to know people's opinions. Runaway (1-3) the Blackwell series the Deponia series Critter chronicles Simon the sorcerer
The Critter Chronciles becomes "The Book of Unwritten Tales" franchise which is amazing. I also love Runaway and Deponia. However, some people can't get past how terrible of a person Rufus is, ha ha.
Blackwell is great. I played the first Runaway game and it was so-so. I couldn't get through Deopnia because I hated the characters and didn't find the game funny at all.
Titanic Adventure Out of Time is one of my most nostalgic games, I remember seeing my mother play it when I was 2-5. I recently replayed it, it was really cool to see it through the eyes of an adult, after all these years of my mind warping it to my vague memories.
Oh man, I loved Toonstruck. Fluffy Fluffy Bun Bun made me laugh out loud when I first met her. Anyway, amazing video. VERY entertaining. 22 minutes that felt like 5. ^^
Oh my god, Toonstruck.... You just unraveled a 20+ year old mystery in my head with this one. I vaguely remember seeing screenshots of this game in EGM or some other magazines that I would read while my mom dragged me around during our trips to the grocery store. I just remember seeing Christopher Lloyd's face with some cartoons and a brief description. Thank you, I will have to play this ASAP!
I remember that Titanic game. Unfortunately, the copy I played was one of a former friend's mod projects, and the part when the Titanic starts sinking always glitched out, leading to a system crash (requiring a restart of the computer). I don't recall what he was trying to mod, but apparently it coincided with the timer data because it was when the timer itself showed up, the crash occurred.
Awesome vid Roses. The last game mentioned was a nice surprise in my opinion (as I have said before I loved that game too!). Can't wait to see what other games you have listed for part 2!!
Thanks for pointing out Eric the Unready! I remember watching my uncle play that game a bit when I was a little kid. I never knew what it was called, but I distinctly remember the UI and some of the images. I'll have to play that sometime now that I know the title.
Recently I started playing "Inherit the earth" and it's my first adventure game in a long time. It has pretty decent voice acting and it has a good story! Plus it's available on GOG
I don't know how I just found this channel! I think I vaguely remember some of your content from TGWTG. You've fulfilled my desire for snarky FMV content that I was so craving after Spoony stopped making stuff. Thank you so much
I've only played one on the list so far (Return of the Phantom), I've played very few adventure games but this was one of them. One of the others is the Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity by Spectrum HoloByte.
Great idea to spotlight adventure games other than the usual obvious picks! I've played a couple of these myself and some of the other ones are definitely going onto my wishlist to try out some time.
Thank you so much for sharing this video! It just came across my feed, and I found three items to add to my Steam Wishlist. As a big fan of Sierra and LucasArts adventure games, I look forward to exploring some of this genre from other studios!
My sister had an obsession with both Phantom of the Opera and Titanic when we were kids. I bet she would've appreciated known about Return of the Phantom back then, but I do know we played that Titanic one. I'll always remember the elevator operator's way of saying, "Where to?" any time I think back on it. Thanks for that trip down memory lane 😺
Fingers crossed Simon the sorcerer get's some love in the future, if not here then in time. The first game is a wild ride, but the second felt they changed the main character too much; like they never played the first. But the first still stands with it's somewhat 4th breaking wall charm. Although i'll admit, some jokes draw out too long.
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Having watched both parts 1 and 2, I like most of your picks, but I'd like to throw out some good ones not mentioned: The Tex Murphy series (Under a Killing Moon by personal fav of the series) Rex Nebular (this was like a cross between Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry, made by Micropose I believe) Noctropolis (don't know what to say about this one....it's really different, some hate it, but I liked it a lot)
A couple of my favorite non Sierra adventure games, that I can remember from back in the 90s. Viel of Darkness, which I didn't beat until many years later, when I had internet and went back to it. And Amazon Guardians of Eden. Which I really liked because it was possible to beat the game without a walkthrough. There are a few others, as far as non Sierra and non Lucasarts adventure games. But they're really obscure and hard to remember the names of them. Well Hugo's house of horror but everyone had that. Personal Nightmare is the last I can remember. I had so many great games back then but it wasn't easy for me to get new games, most of them were copies given to me by friends and then bargain bin games I'd convince my mother to buy me... my parents hated video games. So it was up to my brother and myself, and my grandparents were awesome and understood it. That's why we had our PC back then.
Some of my fondest gaming memories stems from adventure games.. some of my nostalgic favorites not mentioned here is simon the sorcerer 1&2 (2 being my very first exposure to the genre) the tex murphy games, harvester, the riddle of master lu and the longest journey.. i would be in almost a dreamlike state playing those games! the memories :-D
I've found so many new old favourites through this list! And you got me SO hyped for Black Dahlia, particularly because of the acting and the investigation. It was such a shame to hear that it's not very widely available. But I'm determined to find it and play it, wish me luck!
i love playing Day of the tentacle its so much fun and i never knew there was this many adventure games and Titanic adventure out of time had such amazing music.
So happy to see these more unsung classics getting some love. Can also recommend Presto Studio's Journeyman Project trilogy for a solid FMV experience, especially Legacy of Time.
Omg I had Titanic and some other really creepy educational game where you explore different surgery’s from a First-Person Perspective and walk through a silent hallway representation of a body. This game still haunts me because of the association 😅
I’m SO glad you had Black Dahlia - I frighten loved that game. Need to get a copy to replay ASAP. Thanks so much for bringing back some weird and wonderful memories!
Return of the Phantom was amazing. You can tell there was alot of thought put into setting the right mood. Sanitarium and I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream were the other games that reached that same level of tension for me.
I appreciate the personal story on this one. Early on I found myself sensitive to creepy and jump scenes in games and discovered watching my older sister play them was enough "protection" to enjoy them. Probably no longer being responsible for the protagonists survival I imagine. Watching the review was kind of nostalgic that way; never realized how much time I spent watching our family's shared screen while someone else drove the action. SUBSCRIBED for that. ;)
Great video. I recognized a few of those like Toonstruck and Titanic, but the rest are completely foreign to me. Always nice to see stuff I haven't heard of before!
It's not a secret, but I do prefer to be addressed by fans as Roses. It's not a big deal here, but for future reference, Roses is the name I use online and am more comfortable that way.
In case you weren't aware, I do prefer being addressed by Roses, even though my name is out there. No biggie this time around, but I call myself Roses/PUR for a reason. Thanks in advance. :)
Loved these kinds of games as a kid/teen. Thanks for this! Toonstruck was one of my first purchases for my first PC. NEVER could get it to run, was so disappointed. Nice to see it in the list, lol.
I always found the animations in the Titanic game oddly charming. It's so adorable how cartoonish you can make real people look. You really make me wanna do a review of the Kyrandia games. There is so much to talk about. It'd be so much fun.
@PushingUpRoses I have a few reccomendations from my childhood of adventure games I played with my grandparents. The Blackstone Chronicles: An Adventure in Terror Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy Lightbringer (Also known as Cydonia - Mars - The First Manned Mission) The Secret of the Nautilus & Aztec: The Sacred Amulet
The Last Express is one oh my favourite games. I was so invested in the story, the gameplay, the style. My copy came with a guidebook which helped a lot though.
I'd like to hear you talk about the Kyrandia games. It's just... after that cave maze, I kind of need to know there are other people who survived it and aren't completely insane now.
If the Tex Murphy games are not in part 2, you're going to want to play them. The FMV titles (Under A Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive, Tex Murphy Overseer and the fairly recently Kickstarted Tesla Effect) are all tremendous ambassadors to the adventure genre, but Pandora is especially amazing with great film direction, performances, puzzle design, and the multiple endings with a few drastically different story paths add a ton of replay value. Many will scoff incredulously at this, but I'll say it anyway: it's even better than Grim Fandango.
I have a vague hope I'll see Timelapse on part 2. That's a game that I never see *anyone* ever talk about but it was such a part of my childhood. Mostly for the puzzles being hard as balls to my tiny child brain. But you got to go to all these cool ancient civilizations and it was just mega awesome to me.
This is a great list! I'd never heard of Black Dahlia before, and I remember you streaming Toonstruck back in the day. :) I know that the list isn't complete yet, so I apologize if you cover these in the second part, but for other super cool adventure games, I recommend Blazing Dragons, a legitimately funny point-and-click on the PS1 and Saturn, and The Bunker, a new game on PS4 and I think Steam, which manages to be serious and not corny. The acting is on point.
Blazing Dragons was always so weird for me because I saw advertisements for the game and it looked fairly interesting... But I never got to play the game. What I did get to do is watch the TV show... Which is extremely typical.
I love your videos on adventure games, it makes me sad I missed so many of these titles growing up. Though I am thankful that adventure games definitely seem to have made a revival.
1:36 When I was in college when Black Daliah came out I remember they had a contest of who could answer the most questions correctly based on "researching" the events of the case. It was mostly done by scouring the internet and/or a few specific pages they had set up with "evidence". Anyway, I got in the top 100 in the USA and go a T-Shirt. Which is probably around somewhere to this day but probably at my parent's house.
Watching the first suggestion of the Black Dahlia, made me immediately think back to one of the best fmv experiences I ever had as a kid, which was Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland (1996) , looking back at a play through it looks like it really really still holds up. Would love if you could look at the goosebumps games - or just that one specifically x
Ooh! I played Eric the Unready! At first I struggled, but after finding some hints... or a little bit of "so crazy it might work", I was able to beat that game!
Ive been subbed to you for I wanna say about two years now. watched almost all your videos released in that time, as well as most of your back logged videos. I had NO IDEA you were into murder mystery! 😂
I loved "The Last Express". I loved the art, the style, the music, the characters. The only thing that annoyed me back then was the non-linear storyline and the realtime events. I just don't get warm with games that punish me for forgetting stuff hours ago (and forcing me to replay stuff).
Cool list, remember several of these. Wanted to get Toon Struck for years, but I could never find it. Finally picked it up on Steam, just to have it join my neverending list of games I have to play but can never get around to. I did love some Kyrandia, though, especially part 2, Hand of Fate. The first one had some really bad ways where you could make the game unwinnable, and the third one, while fun, didn't feel as tight as the second game.
I love "Toonstruck"! So, so thoroughly underrated, and it has some of the best voice acting the genre has to offer. Glad it made it on the list. Would've loved to see "Sanitarium" and "Woodruff and the Schnibble" on that list too. Those are some other very unique and enjoyable non-Sierra/Lucas games.
I remember being so happy when Toonstruck came out -- only because there was finally a videogame character named "Drew" and that he was played by one of my favorite character actors. I always thought the adventure game "Blazing Saddles" was underrated. You had Terry Jones, Jim Cummings, Cheech Marin as cast members, and more people remember the cartoon that the game.
Nice list. I never even heard about Black Dahlia but it sounds great. Hope it gets added to GOG sometime. Part of the list already is so I guess i'll go shopping soon enough again when they have a sale again. (I loved the Legend games too btw. Yep. Even the infuriating Spellcasting games). Wish you'd cover Simon the Sorcerer sometimes.
Titanic has always been one of my favorite games. Have you ever tried Dust: A Tale of the Wired West? It was made by the same company as Titanic but as it came before it is a little less refined but it also has some great characters and world building as well as some fun mysteries to solve.
Black Dahlia was hard as hell and had the biggest downer ending I have ever experienced in a video game. But man it really sticks with you, I think about that game a lot and I haven't touched it in decades. Quit a haunting and intense experience.
One Adventure I have enjoyed alot that I never hear about is the Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes (published by EA?!). It captures the mood of the novels and short storys by Doyle perfectly! It looks really nice, the puzzles are (somewhat) logical and fun and the story is just what you want out of a Holmes game. I really don't know why nobody talks about that game.
Zork Nemesis was pretty cool. A bit of fmv and no text adventure. Compelling story, creepy environments and great puzzles. Overall atmosphere rocked. I still play it on occasion.
Haha, I had a shadowy figure scare me away from a game in my childhood, too! It was Detective Barbie! I didn't go back and finish it until I was 13 or 14. It's a cute little game, and I now find it hilarious that the shadowy figure running away scared me that much.
Awesome list! I am definitely going to try some of these out. A friend and I are finishing The 11th Hour, and I think after that, it's Tex Murphy time. Toonstruck looks amazing!
Best voice acting ever; Mustavio, Keepsake. Timeless I say. Timeless. That said, looking forward to the final part in the series. Also, thanks for being the best presented DOS-centric channel on youtube. This post ends here. RESTORE RESTART QUIT
I really enjoyed toonstruck back in the day, especially the spanish dubbing, it was very well done (or at least i remmeber it that way) for the time. Guess I'll have to check some of these out, thanks for the list Roses!
Played a lot of Black Dahlia! I still have all of the CDs! Never managed to go very far as the puzzles were very obtuse, but the game always intrigued me a lot in the best way possible!
I remember Broken Sword, my mom got it on the Wii. It was the first I'd heard of it. It was pretty good, especially because I now know it wasnt just a Wii shovelware.
You got like a minute into talking about ToonStruck before I realized it wasn't Stay Tooned!, the other cartoon-based PC adventure game from that era, which was the one I played so I was confused
Yayyy, Return of the Phantom!!! I always thought I'm one of the 5 people that know this game... The other 4, are the friends I copied the disks, so they can play it too... I loved the game, it had great atmosphere that reminded me of the silent movie era and nice puzzles. Maybe you have already filmed the next part, but some non Sierra-Lucasarts adventures I remember are the Gobliiins series, Hook, Shadow of the Comet, Prisoner of the Ice, Beneath a steel Sky, Simon the Sorcerer, Lure of the Temptress, etc. Great era for videos games in general, right before 3d graphics dominate most genres.
Last Express, Rise of the Dragon (ten floppies!), The Pandora Directive, Flight of the Amazon Queen ... Goblins series was fun but probably more puzzle game than adventure I guess.
