Topic: Shadowgate

[ShyGuy]

Just helped my cousin play through this old game on the NES. I really liked the style and it was different from the console games of the day, having its roots in the point and click adventure games on the PC. On the downside the puzzles were hard and often had to be solved by trial and error. Anyone else ever play it?

[ReverendNoahWhateley]

Actually, I still have it, though it's more for decoration than for playing.  There's a story behind it, actually: back in the day, I traded a kid my copy of DuckTales for his Shadowgate.  Right now, it's sandwiched between Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Links and a broken copy of Hydlide.  To be honest, I think the Shadowgate/Uninvited interface is for people more clever than myself.

And to think, I could be looking for Green Cheese on the moon with Unca Scrooge right now. 

[Chozo Ghost]

Those types of game piss me off. I had one for my SNES titled "Eye of the Beholder" that was just like that. It was cool setting up characters, but I got lost in the dungeon and I just didn't really have the patience to crawl through all of it and figure out every little thing in order to win.

[ThePerm]

i had a similar game called Dejavu

[ShyGuy]

I have wanted to play DejaVu for twenty years.

[UltimatePartyBear]

Shadowgate is great.  So is Deja Vu.  I assume Uninvited is.  I'd snap them up on the VC.

[Sundoulos]

Yep, I played this as a rental when I was a kid.  Something about the mood the game established, just captivated me.  I would like to see a resurgance of these games if they could make the experience more robust;  a pure point-and-click adventure game doesn't last very long anymore.  I would like to see another Professor Layton game that had puzzles relating to the plot.  That's not an intended knock on Prof. Layton, by the way. 

I wish that adventure games would make a comebackThen again, I was a sucker for the point and click adventure games as a kid, from Sierra's various Quest series (King's, Space, and Quest for For Glory) to LucasArts stuff (Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, etc).  I think I often enjoyed these (at the time) because the games were often the cutting edge for graphics, music, and story telling, at least at one time.
 

[Kairon]

Deja Vu, never played it, want to SO BAD.

Also, Princess Tomato in the Vegetable Kinbgdom, or something like that.

[ReverendNoahWhateley]

USE....TORCH.

USE TORCH ON WHAT?

*click on the darkness in window*

YOU USED TORCH.  NOTHING HAPPENED.

Situations like these are what make Shadowgate so intimidating.

[Sundoulos]

Deja Vu, never played it, want to SO BAD.

Also, Princess Tomato in the Vegetable Kinbgdom, or something like that.

Has anyone played the other sequel, Uninvited?  I didn't even realize that there was another game in the Macventure series until today.

[ThePerm]

iv played univited, but never for long. we rented it back in grade school, then i played it on an emulator years later.

[Deguello]

I remember this one kid in elementary school that played the hell out of Shadowgate.  He got into some other hobbies later.  furry

[Bill Aurion]

Ferny also loves Shadowgate and is a furry!  DUN DUN DUN!

People who love Shadowgate = furries!

[ShyGuy]

I bought Deja Vu as a birthday present for my cousin.