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Posted September 20, 2013
It came from the jungle!

Flight of the Amazon Queen, a classic point-and-click adventure that takes you through a story taken straight out of 1940s pulp magazines, full of witty humor and top-notch pixel-art graphics, is available on GOG.com as a FREE download!

My name's Joe King, and this is my story. Unbelievable as it may seem, it is a true story. You might not believe me, that's OK. I don't care much. You wanna know why? That's because when you get to tell someone your story, chances are there won't be any Hollywood stars in it, no mad scientists, now ancient temples lost in the jungle, and no plots of world domination. Sure, your story might be exciting too, maybe even weird at times just like mine, but I'm well damn sure your's won't have a super-scientific dino-ray in it! Well, mine has one. So, grab a cold one and let me tell you the tale of a certain journey. It all began with the girl...

Flight of the Amazon Queen is a point-and-click classic sporting traditional, beautiful pixel-art graphics, funny writing, a grand story based on many prolific pulp fiction clichés, and lots of full-speech in-game dialog. You will instantly fall in love with the story's mood and pacing, and the brilliant puzzles will keep you entertained for many hours. To read a story like that in the 1940, you'd have to pay whole 10¢. Today, as a part of GOG.com 5th birthday celebration, you can play for it absolutely FREE!

Find out what mysteries the jungle holds, foil the plot of an evil genius, present great bravery, let your wit shine, and--finally--get the girl in Flight of the Amazon Queen, available free of charge on GOG.com!
Posted September 20, 2013
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tomimt: While looking at this thread, I do have to ask, you people do know that Amazon Queen has been available for free for ages through ScummVM's official site?
Was surprised to see the reaction myself; I'm first to slobber over any good ol' adventure, and it's nice to have it here (although it would've nicer to have it here when the acronym still meant something) but not sure if wrapping them files in pardonmyfrench gog's junk is so praise worthy :p

That may be because, for some very odd reason, I'm not that fond of this game though. I mean it looks nice and sounds nice and theoretically has everything a solid adventure needs, but I just remember being completely underwhelmed, the humour, writing, puzzles felt like cliche/rehashes, everything seemed predictable. It's weird because I usually end up enjoying even the (by popular vote) worst examples in the genre. I suppose this might be a good opportunity to give it another chance...
Posted September 20, 2013
Thank you, GOG! Happy 5th!
Posted September 20, 2013
From the 'making of' booklet:

We even created an interactive interview using the game engine that came on the cover
disk of some magazines. Readers could play the role of a magazine journalist and visit us
on the set of Flight of the Amazon Queen to ask us questions about the game – after
solving a few adventure game puzzles of course!
Does anyone know whether anybody's ever tried to get this working in ScummVM? (Assuming the files are obtainable in the first place.)
Posted September 20, 2013
Flight of the Amazon Queen...long time no see.

For free? - Thank you GOG!
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Smannesman: Now release Dreamweb.
Oh yes...please!
Post edited September 20, 2013 by BreOl72
Posted September 20, 2013
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MoP: Was surprised to see the reaction myself; I'm first to slobber over any good ol' adventure, and it's nice to have it here (although it would've nicer to have it here when the acronym still meant something) but not sure if wrapping them files in pardonmyfrench gog's junk is so praise worthy :p

That may be because, for some very odd reason, I'm not that fond of this game though. I mean it looks nice and sounds nice and theoretically has everything a solid adventure needs, but I just remember being completely underwhelmed, the humour, writing, puzzles felt like cliche/rehashes, everything seemed predictable. It's weird because I usually end up enjoying even the (by popular vote) worst examples in the genre. I suppose this might be a good opportunity to give it another chance...
Pretty much same for me. It's rather mediocre game all in all. It feels like it's kind of a paint by the numbes game, where all the elements are in place, but the execution isn't very exciting.
Posted September 20, 2013
Thank you GOG.

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Smannesman: Well that took forever.
Now release Dreamweb.
This!
Posted September 20, 2013
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Accatone: Btw, I noticed that the cover art of the game does not include the usual green banner that says, "Free". It's been forgotten, I guess...
Thankfully. A banner would have covered part of the title and sullied the artwork. I'd like to see GOG nix the banners on the other free games as well.

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/add_the_ability_to_move_the_free_banner_that_shows_up_on_free_games_in_your_library
Posted September 20, 2013
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Accatone: Btw, I noticed that the cover art of the game does not include the usual green banner that says, "Free". It's been forgotten, I guess...
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Barry_Woodward: Thankfully. A banner would have covered part of the title and sullied the artwork. I'd like to see GOG nix the banners on the other free games as well.

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/add_the_ability_to_move_the_free_banner_that_shows_up_on_free_games_in_your_library
In saying that though, why is there no banner on this one? Do they plan on removing the banners on others? Or did they just forget?
Posted September 20, 2013
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Gortchak: I think thats because they put possible essential drivers into the pack which makes it bigger
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JamesBond007: Yeah, ScummVM itself for this game and other basic stuff (icons, place is game explorer, etc.), like with every game on GOG. But even without this, my version is smaller. My theory - GOG has the unmodified original and I have version with MP3-compressed audio.
And you have all four languages downloaded? ;) I haven’t tried but I think GOG just put every language into the same archive and the installer lets you choose.

But overall I am not pleased about this release. It has been free for years, it is one of the advertising games for ScummVM and it is quite cheap to celebrate GOG’s birthday with this. A really new free game would be something to be overly happy about, or a big one-day-sale. But this? Very cheap.
Post edited September 20, 2013 by ZivilSword
Posted September 20, 2013
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JamesBond007: Yeah, ScummVM itself for this game and other basic stuff (icons, place is game explorer, etc.), like with every game on GOG. But even without this, my version is smaller. My theory - GOG has the unmodified original and I have version with MP3-compressed audio.
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ZivilSword: And you have all four languages downloaded? ;) I haven’t tried but I think GOG just put every language into the same archive and the installer lets you choose.
There are separate installers for all 4 languages.
Posted September 20, 2013
Thank you GOG ! Happy birthday !
Posted September 20, 2013
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Another free "gift" that was free for years anyway. Thanks, I guess.

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BreOl72: Oh yes...please!
I don't get it. Why don't you just download it? It's free anyway. You have to wait until GOG hands it to you on a silver plate or what?
Post edited September 20, 2013 by keeveek
Posted September 20, 2013
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keeveek: Another free "gift" that was free for years anyway. Thanks, I guess.
Holy shit, this really is whiniest forum on the internet.
Posted September 20, 2013
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keeveek: I don't get it. Why don't you just download it? It's free anyway. You have to wait until GOG hands it to you on a silver plate or what?
You could say that about almost every old game that isn't on GOG. You know, abandonware and such.
Posted September 20, 2013
Point & Click..1995..for free...BIG THX :-)
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