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Posted September 12, 2013
Brandon, I have your saw!

Legend of Kyrandia, an unforgettable, classic point-and-click adventure game packed with wondrous locations, mythical creatures, and downright evil sense of humor, is available on GOG.com for only $5.99.

[url=http://www.gog.com/game/legend_of_kyrandia][/url]Welcome to the wonderful kingdom of Kyrandia, a land of astounding beauty, home to countless enchanted creatures and spellbinding locations. Alas, dark clouds gather on the horizon: Malcolm, the court jester, has done something terrible and the magical realm will never be the same again. Unless you, Prince Brandon, can achieve the impossible and outfox the demented joker. Remember when adventure games challenged you to beat them, without cutting you any slack? Remember when you had to draw a location map not to get lost in the maze, or were wary of crossing a funny-looking bridge, in fear of falling to a terrible death? Legend of Kyrandia, in all its classic charm and glory, is the epitome of those games.

Legend of Kyrandia is one of the gems of the classic adventure games era. First in the series of three titles, it established the original setting of Kyrandia, a land of unparalleled beauty, and, at the same time, menacing dangers. Celebrated for its unique tone of mischievous humor and inventive quests, it has also been considered a milestone in adventure games evolution. The game introduced innovative elements to the genre, with extremely simple interface and creative use of inventory items. It also made you suffer and die in many imaginative ways (one of them including a particularly charming slasher smile and a very sharp saw).

Prepare for some old-school questing and lose yourself (literally) in a perilous kingdom of Kyrandia, get Legend of Kyrandia, for only $5.99 on GOG.com!
Posted September 12, 2013
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Ghorpm: I wonder if there were any 30+ floppies games? Because I do remember installing some software which used ~60 floppies. Man, that was time consuming...
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JudasIscariot: I don't remember any that large on the PC but I do recall some games having around 7 floppies or so, I think Ultima VII did although my memory is hazy about the details :/
My original (updated) retail version of Darklands has 10 disks plus one update disk, I thought it was hudge for a game.
I remember installing Mac System 7.5 or so with more than 15 disks, but I have to research them under tons of dust :D

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JudasIscariot: Man, I don't remember games on a floppy weighing in at around 53 megs :P

Yes, it's the talkie CD version :)
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JMich: Raptor on 3 floppies came out at ~30 MB. Re-compressing it required 10 floppies, so there was some trickery going on with it.
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Ghorpm: Because I do remember installing some software which used ~60 floppies. Man, that was time consuming...
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JMich: MS Office 97 or so was at 47 floppies. And since it was a good practice to first make a backup of the original installation media, it was even more time consuming...
Whoa !
Post edited September 12, 2013 by Huinehtar
Posted September 12, 2013
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JudasIscariot: Man, I don't remember games on a floppy weighing in at around 53 megs :P

Yes, it's the talkie CD version :)
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damien: thanks! btw, there is even an Amiga version ;)
The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes needs almost 30 MB on HD - as Floppy version! (By the way: Would be a very welcome addition to GOG's catalogue...)
Posted September 12, 2013
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JudasIscariot: Man, I don't remember games on a floppy weighing in at around 53 megs :P
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Ghorpm: I wonder if there were any 30+ floppies games? Because I do remember installing some software which used ~60 floppies. Man, that was time consuming...
Duke Nukem 3D was 65 MS Backup disks, if you were so desperate to use that tool, to share that game with your buddy who had no cd rom drive back then ... I mean: it would have been, I heard ;)
Posted September 12, 2013
Great release but I want my WC Prophecy and Privateer 2!
Posted September 12, 2013
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misfire200: Great release but I want my WC Prophecy and Privateer 2!
Mmm, that would be nice but I'm glad Kyrandia is here as well.
Posted September 12, 2013
Great game, thanks!
Posted September 12, 2013
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RS1978: For French and German speaking people: You can play the game in the respective language if you change the command line on the launcher from "kyra1-cd" to "kyra1" (French) or "kyra1-cd-de" (German).
Is this also true for the GOG version? If so then many thanks for the tip and then I would wonder if the GOG guys care for languages at all?
Posted September 12, 2013
Let's not forget the awesome fact that this uses SCUMMVM, so anyone can purchase this and play it on ANDROID as well!
Posted September 12, 2013
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JMich: MS Office 97 or so was at 47 floppies. And since it was a good practice to first make a backup of the original installation media, it was even more time consuming...
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Huinehtar: Whoa !
Hm, my memory seems to have been faulty.

11.If you're installing Microsoft Office 97 from diskettes, have all your diskettes available.

Microsoft Office 97 Standard edition is provided on a total of 45 diskettes. Microsoft Office 97 Professional edition is provided on a total of 55 diskettes. Depending on the options selected during Setup, you may not be prompted for every diskette.
From Office 97 FAQ
Posted September 12, 2013
Very very awesome addition.
Posted September 12, 2013
For christsakes GOG please finish off EA backlog, I don't know how you can talk of new publishers when you haven't finished with the ones you've got, meaning Westwood, Bullfrog and Origin remaining backlog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDV9Am5AlYY
~~*bring remaining Westwood games to GOG*~~
Posted September 12, 2013
Hell yes! This series is one of my favorites, and the third game was the second game I ever bought with my own money (tender age of 10). I hope this means you'll be adding the second and third book of Kyrandia as well? Malcolm's Revenge is such an awesome game, I mean you could solve the first objective alone in 6 different ways!

I've actually played this first one on my Nintendo DS all the way through :) Some homebrew magic was involved but it seemed to work quite well, I wonder why they only ported Broken Sword on the DS and not other adventure games? oh well, rant over
Posted September 12, 2013
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Nickcronomicon: It HAS it?

I already own the game on CD but I never got the MT-32 to work, well I'll have to buy it then lol :p
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Crosmando: Well... you'll need to *cough* acquire the Roland roms, but yes ScummVM emulates MT-32 fine
And if you don't want to *cough* acquire the original Roland roms, you can always use others soundfonts in ScummVM. I'm using Shan's soundfont and maybe it doesn't sounds exactly like MT-32, but it's doing a fine job.

I hope to see Hand of Fate soon. It was this game (along with Teenagent) that hooked me into adventure games!
Post edited September 12, 2013 by pykman
Posted September 12, 2013
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Zacron: Let's not forget the awesome fact that this uses SCUMMVM, so anyone can purchase this and play it on ANDROID as well!
I'm wondering why any of GOG's recent DOS/ScummVM releases have all been Windows, I don't pretend to know anything about Macs but isn't it just a matter of using the OSX version of Dosbox/SVM?
Posted September 12, 2013
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RS1978: For French and German speaking people: You can play the game in the respective language if you change the command line on the launcher from "kyra1-cd" to "kyra1" (French) or "kyra1-cd-de" (German).
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Trilarion: Is this also true for the GOG version? If so then many thanks for the tip and then I would wonder if the GOG guys care for languages at all?
Yes, I'm speaking of the GOG launcher. You can play it in English, French or German for sure, I've bought the GOG version and tested it. :)

Edit: Rechtsklick auf das "Legend of Kyrandia"-Symbol auf dem Desktop, [Eigenschaften] auswählen, dort den Reiter [Verknüpfung] ansteuern und in dem Feld [Ziel] den letzten Eintrag [kyra1-cd] ändern in [kyra1-cd-de]. Das Spiel hat dann deutsche Untertitel und Menüs.
Post edited September 12, 2013 by RS1978
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