Anyone remember Tex Murphy games

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Feeling a little nostalgic I was looking through my old PC games from many years ago and came across - Under a Killing Moon, Pandora Directive and Overseer.

The boxes themselves bring back so many memories so I thought it would be nice just to be able to play them again. After a quick google search I came across this excellent site that guides you through playing tham all in XP or even Vista. I'm running Vista 64 here had no probs with either of the first two. Perfect sound too.

What's even better is you can copy all the CD's to your hard drive and avoid CD swapping completely.

They are 640x480, which is not too good on a 20" widescreen TFT, but they are playable and still really good.

Here's the link for Pandora, which links to the others
http://www.fourthlaw.com/2007/03/20/tex-murphy-rides-again-dosbox-wo-cds/

For a 30 year old like myself and in a world of Counter Strike, Warcraft and Bioshock it's quite memorable to sit down to an evening of Tex Murphy.

By the way Bioshock is fantastic, so I'll be back on that tomorrow, but I sometimes get these nostalgic moments. Maybe it's because my daughter is now 9 years old, which is abouts when I was playing Chuckie Egg and Jetsetwilly in the 80's. She plays the Sims mostly, but it was great to see her take an interest in those speccy games I setup via an emultaor. (still got the originals in my mams loft I think)
 
I really enjoy adventure games myself as well. Tex Murphy games were cool when i found em. I have UAKM and Overseer i think. Fiddly to get to work tho in modern computers. Gabriel Knight 2 was fmv as well over 6 discs so you may want to have a peek at that.
 
yeah fiddly is what I was expecting. Turns out it's pretty much straight forward with that guide. I'd say once you've copied the CD's to your hard drive it takes less than 5 mins of editing a config file to be up and running.

GK2. Thanks for the reminder. I never actually played this back in the day. Probably a DOS config annoyance reason or something, but if I stick with Tex I'll probably take a look on ebay for it.

My interest in Tex lead me to a few Adventure gaming sites and I'm shocked they are still so many adventure games in development. Even point and click style games too. I know they dont get the coverage they once did, but it's nice to know they are still out there for those dedicated adventure gamers.
 
Good xp compatible site for getting games to run on xp.

http://home.earthlink.net/~angeldancer27/XpGameList.htm

Gabriel Knight 2 xp setup to hdd installer is located here incase you need it if you get the game later on.

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/gkpatches/

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Adventure games are definatly not dead, recently there has been syberia, the longest journey, still life, and many many more. Its starting to thrive again in my opinion. Heres some great adventure game only sites you might like.

http://www.gameboomers.com

http://www.adventuregamers.com/

I recommend the forums for each too, great adventure game talk on them as well as helpful communities especially on gameboomers, if u need help they will and even send you save games over if needed.
 
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Pandora Directive - great game. I never played any others in the series. i cant really remember how it goes now tbh, something to do with the wife? and a murder case? and aliens? somethign to do with area51 was it? with laser trips? hmm, when was the game made? - it came on about 4 cds didnt it?
 
Theguy said:
Pandora Directive - great game. I never played any others in the series. i cant really remember how it goes now tbh, something to do with the wife? and a murder case? and aliens? somethign to do with area51 was it? with laser trips? hmm, when was the game made? - it came on about 4 cds didnt it?
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From what I remember you've pretty much summed it up
Was 1996 I think, possibly 95 and it was on 5 CD's. fortunetly new methods of playing the game involved copying all the CD's to your Hard Drive
 
There were five games in the series in total:

Mean Streets
Martian Memorandum
Under a Killing Moon
The Pandora Directive
Tex Murphy: Overseer

The Pandora Directive was the best in the series although they all were great games. Overseer never finished properly however. As Tex and Chelsee were were kidnapped at the end of the game and thanks to Access deciding to shelve the sequel before being bought by Microsoft we will never learn how the story finishes, which is very disappointing.
 
RumbleBee said:
From what I remember you've pretty much summed it up
Was 1996 I think, possibly 95 and it was on 5 CD's. fortunetly new methods of playing the game involved copying all the CD's to your Hard Drive
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next time iam home I might have a sort through from the old games, see if I can find it! - iam sure its one of those games which you have rose tinted glasses to, and once you play it again, you go ahhh. hehe
 
if someone is willing to sell Under a Killing Moon (preferably) or any of the other Tex Murphy games please contact me in trust, i am willing to pay a decent price.

Xionic
 
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