Jim Cojones
Prophet
"Let it by all and sundry foreign nations be known
that Poles are no geese — they have a language of their own." - M. Rej, 1562
So I though it would be interesting to show my fellow Codexers that Poles not only have a language of our own but also have some nice computer games. Don't worry, this time it won't be about banging chicks in The Witcher (well, you know that because the name of the game is in the thread title, doh!) but about a point and click adventure game published in 1994 - Teenagent.
As the title suggests the story is based on the idea of a teen character named Mark (Marek in Polish version) being chosen to become a secret agent. Which also means the game was far more enjoyable when I was in the age of said character and such themes corresponded to my wishes of becoming an agent too. Nevertheless the game still defends itself with decent backgrounds (drawn by hand and later scanned), nice music, funny pop-culture refferences and absurd puzzles (well, the last one probably isn't a plus for everyone).
At it's time it was the biggest project in history of Polish video games, made by a huge team of 13 (!) people, the first Polish game with CD-ROM version, the first multiplatform title (Amiga, Amiga 1200 and PC version for both DOS and Windows), the first game with voice acting, the first game published all around the world (PC version mainly as a cover CD added to game magazines) after being translated to English and Czech.
Teenagent was one of two Metropolis Software's games I considered to be a good material for an LP with Ksiaze i tchorz (The Prince and The Coward) being the second one. Unfortunately, this game has been translated only to German* so it would mean:
1. Considerably more work for me to translate all the text on my own for the purposes of LP.
2. Game's writting (script was written by one of the most known Polish fantasy authors) would be damaged with my lame English skills.
But if you can deal with the second issue I can consider LPing The Prince and The Coward too.
* http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/GaladorPC/GaladorPrinceCoward.shtm:
that Poles are no geese — they have a language of their own." - M. Rej, 1562
So I though it would be interesting to show my fellow Codexers that Poles not only have a language of our own but also have some nice computer games. Don't worry, this time it won't be about banging chicks in The Witcher (well, you know that because the name of the game is in the thread title, doh!) but about a point and click adventure game published in 1994 - Teenagent.
As the title suggests the story is based on the idea of a teen character named Mark (Marek in Polish version) being chosen to become a secret agent. Which also means the game was far more enjoyable when I was in the age of said character and such themes corresponded to my wishes of becoming an agent too. Nevertheless the game still defends itself with decent backgrounds (drawn by hand and later scanned), nice music, funny pop-culture refferences and absurd puzzles (well, the last one probably isn't a plus for everyone).
At it's time it was the biggest project in history of Polish video games, made by a huge team of 13 (!) people, the first Polish game with CD-ROM version, the first multiplatform title (Amiga, Amiga 1200 and PC version for both DOS and Windows), the first game with voice acting, the first game published all around the world (PC version mainly as a cover CD added to game magazines) after being translated to English and Czech.
Teenagent was one of two Metropolis Software's games I considered to be a good material for an LP with Ksiaze i tchorz (The Prince and The Coward) being the second one. Unfortunately, this game has been translated only to German* so it would mean:
1. Considerably more work for me to translate all the text on my own for the purposes of LP.
2. Game's writting (script was written by one of the most known Polish fantasy authors) would be damaged with my lame English skills.
But if you can deal with the second issue I can consider LPing The Prince and The Coward too.
* http://www.justadventure.com/reviews/GaladorPC/GaladorPrinceCoward.shtm:
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