[ecky]

About year 2000 my daughter introduced me to an adventure? game that you had to search an area/room to find/collect objects that could be used to further progress to next room/level. She had internet at the time and I did'nt and I couldn't keep up.
Can anyone recall titles of that game?
Ecky

[Lardman]

That's an entire genre of gaming and could be any one of thousands of titles. Can you remember any more about it ?

There's still a thriving community of gamers playing most of the big names classics so as long as it was too obscure you should still be able to find it.

[ecky]

I don't recall it being a famouse/headlining game. I remember a desert level, an aztec theme and pirates on galleons. I know it's a long shot but wondered any way. Thanks for anyhelp.

[Snowboar]

Monkey island , myst any of them doesn’t exactly sound like but the were quite popular

[Growster...]

This may help...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_graphic_adventure_games

I never cracked 'Myst', it was on a laptop and also is still on an iPad, but - nope!

I like 'The Room' series though, especially the last one!

[Plot 1 Problems]

Monkey island , myst any of them doesn’t exactly sound like but the were quite popular

It's not Monkey Island, Myst was my first thought. It had a ship but no pirates as I recall and I don't think it had an Aztec level either.
Unfortunately there were so many of these types of games in the early 2000s it's hard to think what it might have been.

[ecky]

Thankyou for your replies especialy Growster for the Wiki link. It's going to take a while to look through. I'll let you know if and when I find what I want.

[grinling]

look for HOG, was it Big Fish games as they did 100's

I like the MCF

loads availble on phones for free

[Snowboar]

Another good en was broken sword

[Growster...]

When we bought our first ever computer, an Amstrad 464, back in the eighties, there was a fabulous adventure game called 'Rigel's Revenge', which was mostly typed narrative, but quite complicated! We spent hours on it, until one day, we saw the answer in the form of several pages of narrative, which I dutifully typed in to get the result - it took me ages!

Back then, you loaded the computer via a cassette, then the programme afterwards, but when you turned off the machine, you lost all the work you'd done, as there was no internal memory...

Guess what...

Yup, a daughter did just that!

But 'The Devil's Crown' was fantastic, so was 'Fruit Machine' and a PC version of 'Trivial Pursuit'! I even bought a music composer which was rather like a very basic version of Garage Band! You could even write your own stuff using 'Basic' programme language, and I really was hooked on that particular job!

Happy days!

[Snowboar]

I remember the noise aswell when it was loading game would load about 1 in 10 lol

[Glosterboy]

My first computer (well Christmas present for the kids) was a ZX81 with a 16kb RAM pack. No cassette, so manually typed programmes. Line 1, Line 5, Line 6 etc. Got to Line 1499 (one to go!!) and it would CRASH. Progressed to a ZX Spectrum 128kb. Again a Christmas present for the kids. And finally a cassette. The bees knees. I still possess the computers and games. Yes loading games was a squawking, shrieking affair. As was if I remember correctly connecting to the internet prior WIFI?

[Yorkie]

My first computer (well Christmas present for the kids) was a ZX81 with a 16kb RAM pack. No cassette, so manually typed programmes. Line 1, Line 5, Line 6 etc. Got to Line 1499 (one to go!!) and it would CRASH. Progressed to a ZX Spectrum 128kb. Again a Christmas present for the kids. And finally a cassette. The bees knees. I still possess the computers and games. Yes loading games was a squawking, shrieking affair. As was if I remember correctly connecting to the internet prior WIFI?

Yes I remember the ZX81 - we didn't have the 16kB pack to start with!

We used it on an old B+W TV, which had a habit of going snowy after a while ...

And there was a flight simulator game. I once managed to land the plane (but forgot to put the wheels down, so crashed anyway  )

[Snowboar]

Yeah I forgot the modem lol they don’t know there born now lol

[Growster...]

Anyone remember 'Harrier attack'?

We spent ages on that one, and the real joy was getting to the buildings at the end and realising that you could start all over again!

It was best with a joystick too...