Can Anyone Identify This Adventure Game Please?

[Frodo]

I'm trying to remember this old adventure game, but I only remember parts of it.

Can anyone remember the title of it?

You play a bald man, and you are looking for your friend who has gone missing. I think the friend turns out to be a baddie though.

I remember there was a train station, and you used trains to travel from place to place.

I also remember an area with dinosaurs, and I think there was a volcano as well.

Any ideas? :)

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I'm trying to remember this old adventure game, but I only remember parts of it.

Can anyone remember the title of it?

You play a bald man, and you are looking for your friend who has gone missing. I think the friend turns out to be a baddie though.

I remember there was a train station, and you used trains to travel from place to place.

I also remember an area with dinosaurs, and I think there was a volcano as well.

Any ideas? :)

I know nearly all adventure games but this one doesn't really ring a bell. Some more info perhaps? Was it VGA? Point & click?

[Frodo]

Sorry, yes it was vga point & click. Kinda similar to Blade Runner. :max:

I remember at one point, you had to scare woman in the wine celler with a rat (poor woman). :omg:

The train station was used to travel, like a map screen, but you had to find coin before you could get into the station.

There was also an electric fence you had to get over.

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Very odd - it rings no bell at all yet I know nearly every adventure of note. It didn't have 3D rendered screens did it?

EDIT actually the game might be Future Wars. You do travel by train, you travel back in time as well and you wear a round hat that may have made you think you were bald.

[Frodo]

It's not Future Wars. :(

The screens in my game are more advanced, and more colourful. There is also speech in my game, and you don't travel back in time. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Maybe if I describe the train station more? There is an esculator going up and down. Then there is a security forcefield. It is here that you must buy a train pass \ ticket. You only have to do this once - after that, you can just walk through the forcefield, and it detects that you have the ticket already. Then you walk right into the train. For some reason, I think the brick wall in the train station is important, but I can't remember why. :omg:

Any other ideas? :oh:

EDIT: He (the bald man) wears dark shades, as well.

[Fubb]

Beneath the Steel Sky? Sorry, just wingin that on out there.

BTW Future wars is fun, you should try it

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It's not Future Wars. :(

The screens in my game are more advanced, and more colourful. There is also speech in my game, and you don't travel back in time. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Maybe if I describe the train station more? There is an esculator going up and down. Then there is a security forcefield. It is here that you must buy a train pass \ ticket. You only have to do this once - after that, you can just walk through the forcefield, and it detects that you have the ticket already. Then you walk right into the train. For some reason, I think the brick wall in the train station is important, but I can't remember why. :omg:

Any other ideas? :oh:

EDIT: He (the bald man) wears dark shades, as well.

So it's futuristic? If it has speech it must come on CD, hmm. Was it a DOS game?

[Frodo]

Fubb, it's not Beneath A Steel Sky, although that is excellent game. :)


Red Avatar. Yes, it's futuristic. It's all dark and atmostpheric, like Blade Runner. I'm guessing it was mid-late 1990s, so it must have come on cd, and it was probably not Dos.

These questions are helping me remember more of it. I can see the bald man clearly in my head. He has a brown jacket.

I think at one stage, you have to get through a horror \ haunted \ abandoned theme park.

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Hmmm let me look around a bit - it does ring a little bell.

Was it in VGA or SVGA? Did it have pre-rendered graphics?

[Ermuli]

DreamWeb? :laugh:

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DreamWeb? :laugh:

Nah can't be that - you're not bald and I don't recall a train or a theme park.

I thought it might have been Sanitarium but that doesn't fit half the things you said.

[Frodo]

Definately not Dreamweb or Sanitarium, althrough graphics style is similar to Sanitarium. So that's SVGA then? :whistling:

Not sure about pre-rendered graphics. Can you give an example please? :oh:

It was more sci-fi, than Sanitarium-like-horror. :max:

I think the bald man was called Jeeves, or something similar.

[arete]

:max: Jeeves? not Wodehouse of Horror? :p

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Definately not Dreamweb or Sanitarium, althrough graphics style is similar to Sanitarium. So that's SVGA then? :whistling:

Not sure about pre-rendered graphics. Can you give an example please? :oh:

It was more sci-fi, than Sanitarium-like-horror. :max:

I think the bald man was called Jeeves, or something similar.

Pre-rendered = computer graphics. Most older games were drawn by hand but a lot of the later ones were 3D backdrops.

I'll have another look later - I'm curious as well which game it could be.

[TechnoSpike]

I would guess the game is "Gadget: Invention, Travel, & Adventure" , also known as "Gadget: Past as Future".

http://www.mobygames.com/game/gadget-invention-travel-adventure

TechnoSpike

[Frodo]

I would guess the game is "Gadget: Invention, Travel, & Adventure" , also known as "Gadget: Past as Future".

http://www.mobygames.com/game/gadget-invention-travel-adventure

TechnoSpike

That's not it :(, although it looks like an interesting game. Thanks for your suggestion.

The train was only used to get from place to place. Most of the story took place outside the train.

I remember a nightclub, with a big flashy sign outside it (Blade Runner style), and a woman with dark hair was inside the nightclub.

EDIT: If I could only put these pieces together, and remember what it is called. :notrust:

[TechnoSpike]

Hum, sci-fi, bald guy, night club blade runner style, then I guess it can be this one "Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy" (although I don't remember trains in it).

http://www.mobygames.com/game/nightlong-union-city-conspiracy

TechnoSpike

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Ahah yeah that will be it! Crap game but ah well ;)

[Frodo]

Hum, sci-fi, bald guy, night club blade runner style, then I guess it can be this one "Nightlong: Union City Conspiracy" (although I don't remember trains in it).

http://www.mobygames.com/game/nightlong-union-city-conspiracy

TechnoSpike

THAT'S IT!!! :nuts: *hugs TechnoSpike*

Thankyou TechnoSpike. :thumbs:


Here's the train station I was trying to describe, but they call it a subway - http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/nightlong-union-city-conspiracy/screenshots/gameShotId,19203/
And the bald man is called Joshua, not Jeeves. Where did I get Jeeves from? :doh:


Thanks also Red Avatar for your help. :)


*goes searching through eBay for a copy*

[Luchsen]

Do you know, why I didn't propose that game?

:doh: (http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=15836#post306017) <- it's a link

Found it two seconds after encountering this thread, using the search with Key Word bald and User Name Frodo.

You see, I know my request threads. And now prepare. :butcher:

Joshua Reev = Jeeves

[Frodo]

Gah, I don't even remember that. :notrust:

*feels very foolish* :embarassed:

[Luchsen]

*feels very foolish* :embarassed:

Me too. Too stupid to see non-coincidence. Also: I read old adventure, saw the screenshots, and dropped it. But: screenshots -> vulcano (descriptions -> remaining characteristics).

But what rankles me most: I missed the chance to directly answer you by quoting you. That would've been so cool.

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Yeah, 1999 is pretty late for an adventure game - the reason I didn't find it was because I really only looked up to 1997-1998. Grim Fandango would be classed even older then :p