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Posted August 27, 2019
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retrorealms:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_graphic_adventure_games
Posted August 27, 2019
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retrorealms: This will be a difficult one to crack: I'm looking for a text-based adventure game that I played on my Atari ST, probably from the early 90:s but could possibly also be from the late 80:s (in any case, released prior to 1994), which contained occasional nice-looking illustrations - which made it quite an atypical text-based adventure game as they usually either lacked illustrations altogether or had really bad and rudimentary ones.
This was actually not so seldom.

Here's a list of Atari graphical adventures (it barely counts as text adventure if there are graphics involved):
http://www.atarimania.com/list_games_atari-st-adventure-text-graphics_genre_9_S_G.html

Maybe you find what you're looking for there.

Your description of someone without memory and a rope as the first thing to pick up, doesn't really help - loss of memory was an all too often used trope...and ropes? Well, what self-respecting adventure could afford to pass on the inclusion of a rope? ;)
Posted October 17, 2019
Hi.

In the game you could impersonate a god. You could pick from a set of predefined ones, for example holy syllable which perk is being noncorporeal thus undestructable. It's most probably DOS game.

What's the name of the game?
Posted March 17, 2023
I'm trying to remember a game I saw on GOG sometime last year. Here are the details I remember:

- Point and click adventure
- Digitized graphics
- Mid 90s to early 2000s
- In one of the screenshots a kid is blowing the main character's arm off with a gun (lol)
- Looks very cheesy-bad
Posted March 17, 2023
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SuplexJackson: I'm trying to remember a game I saw on GOG sometime last year. Here are the details I remember:

- Point and click adventure
- Digitized graphics
- Mid 90s to early 2000s
- In one of the screenshots a kid is blowing the main character's arm off with a gun (lol)
- Looks very cheesy-bad
Harvester?
Posted March 17, 2023
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SuplexJackson: I'm trying to remember a game I saw on GOG sometime last year. Here are the details I remember:

- Point and click adventure
- Digitized graphics
- Mid 90s to early 2000s
- In one of the screenshots a kid is blowing the main character's arm off with a gun (lol)
- Looks very cheesy-bad
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Random_Coffee: Harvester?
That's it! Thanks. That screenshot is just as great as I remembered it. lol
Posted March 17, 2023
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retrorealms: This will be a difficult one to crack: I'm looking for a text-based adventure game that I played on my Atari ST, probably from the early 90:s but could possibly also be from the late 80:s (in any case, released prior to 1994), which contained occasional nice-looking illustrations - which made it quite an atypical text-based adventure game as they usually either lacked illustrations altogether or had really bad and rudimentary ones. I vaguely remember it starting with some guy either not knowing where he was or not knowing who he was, or both. The game felt a bit like a text-based version of Myst where you explored a landscape but did not (at least initially) interact with any living beings. I also vaguely remember a rope being one of the very first items you could find and pick up (maybe at a beach or shoreline). If I remember correctly, the game was released by a legit game publishing company of the time, it definitely did not seem to be an amateur project but I cannot exclude the possibility of it being a shareware project as text-based adventures (barring the professional-looking illustrations) were pretty easy to make even back then. I may be completely off on this particular detail but I very vaguely seem to recall its name (or part of its name) starting with either an "S" or a "V" - but that's an extremely vague recollection that may well be a false memory... I've looked at lists of retro adventure games and text-based adventure games but I've found nothing matching these fragments of memory that I have about this game. Any ideas?
Possibly "Guild of Thieves" by Magnetic Scrolls; published by Rainbird?

Their games stood out at the time with their occasional very nice-looking illustrations. The name has an S and a V in it (at the end rather than the beginning, though!) and (iirc) the very first thing you interact with is a rope, albeit just to pull your rickety boat closer to shore. The first illustration is of a riverbank in a countryside setting. The game was originally published on the Atari ST in 1987 but was also re-released as part of a compilation in 1992.

On the flipside, you do interact with some living beings quite early, and your character does know who he is - although there's no name or backstory given for him in-game, just a bare-minimum set-up that amounts to "You are an aspiring member of the Guild of Thieves, now go ransack the surrounding area."
Post edited March 17, 2023 by ghostgate2001
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