Name the Game - Part 7

[Buck Birdseed]

Yes, alright, I'll give that to you.

Clue #6: The genre of this 1996 PC game is indeed the graphical adventure. As far as I know it's the only graphical adventure done from the "Doom" perspective, with a Doom-like engine. There were a couple of adventures around the same time that were Myst-style first person puzzle-floaters with full 3D movement, but they generally tended to feel a lot like those **** "multimedia" "virtual" environments that some early CD-rom products had. This was a heavily LucasArts-inspired humorous adventure game from a different viewpoint.

[Pythagoras]

Pyst?

[Buck Birdseed]

Whaddat? Never heard of it.

No.

[Spaced Cowboy]

full throttle?

[Pythagoras]

Pyst (at least thats how I think you spell it) is a parody of Myst.

[CapTVK]

Hmm....I do recall a game with some sort of cyberpunk humour in it, mid 90's. It had some sort of voodoo doll control interface .... Normality?

[Buck Birdseed]

Dat's der bunny.

I'm always surprised when it doesn't turn up on lists of greatest adventure games of all time, I hugely enjoyed it myself. I still think that together with Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, it's the best attempt at doing an adventure game interface in 3D. Not that Grim Fandango wasn't a better game, but the control system left a bit to be desired.

[Arnelos]

Never heard of it. As I said, my knowledge of 90's adventure games is pretty slim.

Anyhow... who's up next?

[DrSpike]

Cap of course.

[CapTVK]

Hahaha! That game is mine. Once again it's riddle time!

[CapTVK]

Another late 80's 16-bit classic this time, Amiga and ST.


It won't be found on many a list
but it has a sweet kind of a twist
Not too violent but with a touch of slaughter
What this game has is plenty of water!

[DrSpike]

Pirates?

[Spaced Cowboy]

speedboat racing

[Standup]

Swords and Galleons ? Although calling it a classic might be ambitious IMHO.

[Arnelos]

Cap, you're going to have to get more specific than that.

For my guess:

Populous