Heart of Darkness

[Blood-Pigggy]

I'm not sure about this one, but it was a fantastic side scroller, you played a character named Andy (I think) and your mission was to save your pet dog from the supposed "Heart of Darkness" which mistook him for you.

Something like that.

[Stroggy]

I remember that game, I played the demo... I wasn't very good at it.
I think it is still too new and still up for sale (I think I remember seeing it in a shop here in Antwerp)

[tazzy_s]

Is it some type of vampire game??

[swiss]

if you like to try it : http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/heartofd...ess/review.html (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/heartofdarkness/review.html)

there is also a download link for the demo.

It's from Interplay -> ESA (?)
Released August 1998 -> too new to be abw ...

nice game anyway. Let's wait a few more years. :max:

[Quintopotere]

The game was on the magazines covers when it came out because of its very good grafic!
I've never played it but many told me they liked it... well i'll wait...

[Rogue]

I've both, PC and PSX version of this game. Great game and also great game play. Only I'm not sure if E (everyone) is right rating for this game, as kids get easily scared with this game. (I liked the humor in the game)

Game is too big for Abandonia (1-2 disks) because of cut scenes.

[Bobbin Threadbare]

Hmm... I have this. Not that good. Great graphics for that time though.

[Tom Henrik]

Interplay is ESA, yes.

[Swiebertje13]

Also still sold:
http://www.cdaccess.com/html/quick/heartdkpr.htm

And could somebody tell me why interplay is ESA-protected
(in other words who bought them)?

[A. J. Raffles]

According to Beef's list of ESA companies, it would belong to Vivendi now.

[BeefontheBone]

Not my list I'm afraid - Tom made it when the ESA slapped us about a bit and loads of threads started springing up, I just copied it because it was in a slightly daft place to start with.

[Tom Henrik]

Yeah... I'm the ESA authority on the site :P

[Frodo]

Originally posted by Tom Henrik@Jul 6 2005, 10:05 PM
Yeah... I'm the ESA authority on the site :P
Sould we call you Mr ESA now? LOL :bleh:

[A. J. Raffles]

Nah, that just doesn't have the same ring to it as Zuppah Duppah Whatever Smurf.:P

[semose]

So I've been on a nostalgia trip lately, most recently with Crystal Caves. Now my mind has turned to a game that I thought was called Alone in the Dark for almost a decade. Seems the only thing the game I'm thinking of shares with that game is a genre or two.

Anyway, I looked through Abandonia's entire action and adventure sections, and couldn't find it, judging by the names and thumbnails. The game was 2D and mostly side scrolling, though one of the things that made it cool, especially for it's time was that the camera sometimes took a fixed perspective other than the standard one from the side.

The main character was a young boy, maybe 10 or something. The title screen was his tree fort. I'm not sure if the world in which you played was entirely from the main character's mind, but imagination played a strong roll in the story line. Save/load/options/exit were each their own wall in the tree house. The only bad guys I can remember were little gooy looking black creatures. They had very fluid movement. The art style was very cartoony. The theme of 'light vs dark' was prevalent. Maybe the gooy guys were shadows. A flashlight might have been a weapon. Or you're classic 1950's ray guy, or both, can't quite remember.

That's pretty much all I can remember, I didn't play it very much because it was quite hard for me back then. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Hummm...
The closest match I can recall is Heart of Darkness (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/heart-of-darkness), but I never played it so can't be sure.

[Geezer]

I think Horseman is correct. I played the game 5-6 years ago and relly enjoyed it. I remember the treehouse aspect.





Wikipedia description (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness_(game))

[semose]

Hummm...
The closest match I can recall is Heart of Darkness (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/heart-of-darkness), but I never played it so can't be sure.
[/b]

Wow, right on the first try! Thanks a million!

[The Fifth Horseman]

Unfortunately, we cannot add it to Abandonia because the game is still sold (http://www.cdaccess.com/html/pc/heartdk.htm).

[bobson]

cdaccess - sold out.

[Paco]

Heart of Darkness (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/heart-of-darkness)

[APPROVED]

[bobson]

I'll upload it to Cellar in the near future :)

[Ampee]

i can upload it for tommorrow with soundtrack included if interested.

[The Fifth Horseman]

Great. :)

[Ampee]

well im uploading right now the game and the manual (pdf) to 4shared if thats acceptable. If you want i can upload the soundtrack as well but in a seperate set of rar files.

Finished uploading it

http://www.4shared.com/dir/32036804/f2d3b6f6/HeartOfDarkness.html

here it is. I've uploaded the soundtrack as well (seperate rar)

[arete]

Hey, is this in the cellar yet? :)