Something is coming to GOG

[Jaesun]

http://www.gog.com/en/page/1801

Is that possibly Police Quest or possibly some Infocom game?

 

[Achilles]

Probably Police Quest, although an Infocom Collection would be very, very cool.

In before "you're paying for cracked abandonware".

 

[Sceptic]

The combination of police line and text makes me think of... was it Deadline? but there's a bit too much emphasis on the police thing to be an Infocom collection.

 

[Jaesun]

Did Infocom ever do a police like series though?

 

[trustno1code]

The forums there figured it out pretty quickly. The images in the header are Zork:
http://zork.wikia.com/wiki/Dornbeast
http://zork.wikia.com/wiki/Morgia_root

And (don't ask me how) some text has been unscrambled as well:
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/7333/a ... phxdnz.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5508 ... j1y8sk.jpg
Second one is Police Quest.

 

[Jaesun]

Nice find trustno1code.

 

[Sceptic]

Ah, so it's both Police Quest AND Zork. Nice.

Didn't even notice the Dornbeast image when I first clicked the link. The "maze of twisty passages" is a dead giveaway though, at least once you decode the text...

 

[Zeus]

Regardless of mystery game's title or actual release date, it was abandonware!

 

[Gragt]

Yeah, I just clicked the link and recognised the Dornbeat.

 

[asper]

Even though they are abandonware it still is pretty cool GoG is bringing these games to the attention of a bit wider public.

 

[deuxhero]

Wake me when we get Quest for Glory

 

[Gragt]

Kinda weird that they included Planetfall in the Zork Anthology. I would have replaced it with Wishbringer since that one takes place in the world of Zork and is damn good introduction to someone who never played that kind of game.

Kinda curious to see what interpreter they use. From the screenshot, it appears to be the original DOS interpreter.

 

[trustno1code]

Kinda weird that they included Planetfall in the Zork Anthology.

It appears to be a digital version of the old Zork Antology.

Kinda curious to see what interpreter they use. From the screenshot, it appears to be the original DOS interpreter.

Yep, DosBox it is.

 

[Andyman Messiah]

Even though I already own all five games,

Wake me when we get Quest for Glory

 

[Silellak]

Wake me when we get Quest for Glory

Please this.