THE DIG! I'd love to see the LucasArts point and click adventure on the iPhone. Hell, I still want to see a film adaptation of it.
sewer shark!! I kid, I kid.. lol I second grim fandango and the dig, and add tie fighter (and xwing).. and the neverhood.. I finished tie fighter and it's expansion disc with only a mouse and keyboard, so I'm sure the iphone could do it with the accelerometer and on screen controls. old adventure games seem like an easy fit for the iphone, what could be more point and click than a touch screen?
=) I seriously think i would pay you just to have that clip on a loop in my phone-background for a day. I lolled so hard when the dude got more n more drunk and then fell / died(!) on the floor. Very strange music and sounds to. Omg i must watch again
It's the lighting a match at the end that gets me! *wipes away a tear* I'd love to see the SCUMM games on the iPhone/Touch, as well as a modernised Syndicate (not Wars, although that was pretty fun), maybe with support in the shape of new maps and scenarios. There are a ton of old games on Abandonia that are free to download and play, many of which are decent.
There's a bunch of "Return to Zork" videos on YouTube. The best being the reviewer who whines about how unfair the game is in three 20 minute videos. The truth? It was deliberately unfair. We had a prior game, LGOP2, get slammed by the critics for being too easy ... Activision was in Chap 11., so we just decided to put out the hardest adventure game possible. Some of the insane puzzles (bonding plant, bra box, slide puzzle, swamp, mine car) were my sick and twisted ideas. William Volk CEO, PlayScreen P.S. The Return to Zork Team: I'm the big guy. I lost over 100lbs in 1996.
I just love the fact that someone on a team for a game so well known still keeps up with the industry. One of my relatives worked with companies to port arcade games to home computers (Amstrad, Spectrum etc), and now he hates games and refuses to even play them. I remember watching him with so much envy as he sat there with the arcade machine in his living room, drawing out levels and pseudo-code, never actually enjoying the game.
Haha fun facts! When I read this I actually realize that im old enough to "should have" played this game but i haven't. The name def rings a bell for me but i just must have missed this one for some reason. Anywho.. I dont think there is a big chance that i play this today with all other (good?) games existing. The vid was hilarious though! As an old time gamer, fun gamefacts is always nice to hear. =)
ooh, just remembered a couple others... from the old cyberpunk days back when Trent Reznor was still a genius and William Gibson was still a novelty... - Syndicate - Syndicate Wars (the better game, in my opinion) - Hell (a weird adventure game, for anyone who remembers it) All three have a fond place in my heart, largely because I'm a sucker for cyberpunk.
Remember the early fallout games? Those were the days. I have a very hard time seeing apple aprove those though. Lol
-Old school Resident Evil -Monkey Island 2 and 3 -The real Metal Gear Solid -Final Fantasy 4 (The super nintendo one with updated graphics) -Chrono Trigger -Secret of Mana -Clock Tower -Mortal Kombat 3 and 4 -Final Fantasy VII -Half Life (Doom Res had nicer graphics and ran smoothly on a 1g iPod so this should work fine) -Quake 3 -Unreal Tournament -System Shock 2 (Again, it could work) -Fallout 1 and 2
recently discovered this (and no, I have no affiliation to the site) http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/ honestly, I don't ever see myself re-buying any of these for PC... but it's neat that someone's thought of it. and btw, another game I'd LOVE to see on iPhone... Homeworld. it'd be so perfect on that platform.
I totally agree on that list. Except maybe the fps-games because i dont think games of that kind make out good on mobile devices. Fps = PC with keyboard and mouse. Clock Tower would be a healthy add to the iphone platform. I dont think i've seen any game of that type an the appstore. I remember that title as really creepy and über-hard. =) Should play out nicely on the iphone, in bed at 12 o'clock in the night. I also would add FF VIII-X on that list. Primarily bec a really like the titles, not bec a think they would work superduper on the idevices. If they ever makes a version of these games for the iphone, i think that we that already have played them on the PS etc should probobly be disapointed due to necessery graphical/"soundical" cutbacks.
Oh, whatever, I was in high school when I played those. Actually, I may have even been starting college around then. haha.
And by the way, that is really AWESOME that you worked on those. Syndicate Wars, in particular, was an amazing game in so many ways.
You sir are my personal god. I bought Syndicate (and the addon pack), and spent so many hours trying (and finally succeeding) to finish them. I eventually picked up Syndicate Wars, after adverts in 2000AD, because I wanted to see 'animated Judge Dredd'... but then stayed for the game. I loved the sounds, the voices ("minigun!") and, although I prefer Syndicate, S-Wars was a good replacement. I still play Syndicate now, although through dos-box, so an iPhone/Touch version would be really neat. If it came out and worked well, i'd pay good money for it!
