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Posted February 16, 2017
Murder, she'll write.


<span class="bold">The Colonel's Bequest</span>, a character-driven adventure full of twists and turns, is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com!

As an aspiring journalist and amateur detective, Laura Bow can't say no to a fascinating story involving family feuds, hidden treasure, and gruesome murders. Not that she has a choice: she's now stranded on an island with the scheming relatives of the mysterious Colonel Dijon and her only way out is to explore, observe, and hopefully unmask what's hiding in the shadows of his estate.
Posted February 16, 2017
I knew a girl in highschool so pale that the sun shone lustrously, I mean, she was so damn white that her skin glistened sun rays upon us. We called her Amon-Ra.

For 3 years.
Oh, and great release, GOG!

edit: she loved it, non-offensive at all by any means ;P
Post edited February 16, 2017 by vicklemos
Posted February 16, 2017
Instabought. Thanks GOG, now please the "Manhunter", "Conquest" and "EcoQuest"-Series. :)
Post edited February 16, 2017 by Anime-BlackWolf
Posted February 16, 2017
I got the Laura Bow games in a King's Quest collection I bought ages ago... good games, though I admit I died a *lot* trying to get through The Colonel's Bequest. The fact that time passes when you see more or less anything can be both frustrating, and a reason to replay the game... you never know what you might have missed when you check through these peepholes in the secret passage and see someone sleeping, but 15 minutes still go by.
Posted February 16, 2017
tis is old game. a Good Old Game. :)
Posted February 16, 2017
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toxicTom: Nice release. Wish that one had got a VGA remake though. I find EGA graphics sometimes hard to stomach on today's big ultra-sharp screens, especially when they rely a lot on rasters to create intermediate "colors".
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lostwolfe: this was a weird period for sierra. the remakes were experiments and the experiments sort of failed. the prevailing sentiment at the time was:

a) if i wanted to play king's quest 1, i'll just stick the disks in the drive and play it! i don't need a newfangled version with better graphics and sound!
b) lots of folks felt that the remakes were a desecration of a sort. you were taking the intent and spirit of the original and then mangling it through the process of remaking the game. most felt it was a case of "the cover isn't nearly as good as the original..." [one very interesting article i read at the time talked about the "silent era" of film and how colourizing those movies and modernizing them all but extracted the charm out of those movies. their theory was the same would happen here.]

so, while they kind of started at the back end of their catalogue [kq1/sq1/pq1] and "modernized" those, the experiment kind of fizzled by the time they were due to do the second round of "updates."
Keep in mind that Colonel's Bequest was still in store shelves throughout their whole VGA remake fad, and when they started with their remakes and released KQ1 they were still using the SCI0 engine Colonel's Bequest uses. It's also around the time they started with talkie/non-talkie versions. Technology just blitzed them.
Posted February 16, 2017
Very cool. These were fun games back in the day. While the first hasn't aged too well, it is still quite fun.
Posted February 16, 2017
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Andremop: Gog, you guys are amazing!

Sierra complete adventure catalog is on lock to happen this year!
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lostwolfe: i dunno. disney sort of disavows anything related to their brief foray with sierra [the hundred acre wood/donald duck's playground] - so activision might have a problem getting those to gog since maybe [?] disney owns the rights to those games now. or something?

i sincerely hope that's not the case/how it works. because that means we /are/ inching ever closer to a complete sierra adventure catalogue.
I doubt we'll get *everything*, but I think we'll see most of those that are nostalgic for many people, sold well, run easily in DOSBox, are reasonably high on the wishlist, etc.
Posted February 16, 2017
This is my favourite Roberta Williams title. I might get this one from sale at some point, but as I already have this one and Laura Bow 2 on CD, I'm not in a hurry.
Posted February 16, 2017
WOW! I never thought this would make it to GOG. I own the original already but may buy this for backup purposes. Very nice! :D
Posted February 16, 2017
Cool! I liked LB2.
How's LB1 instead?
Posted February 16, 2017
I love the fact that Activision keeps up releasing their Sierra titles here, and at mostly reasonable prices, too. But in this particular case, I'll have to pass for now. $6 for an EGA title from the late Eighties is pushing it a bit too hard. Wishlisted it, I'll wait for a discount.
Posted February 16, 2017
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kbnrylaec: This one using ScummVM 1.9.0.
How is the music? Is it possible to get the Roland MT-32 music with it (using e.g. the MUNT emulator)?

I kinda like DOSBox versions of games as there I at least know how to enable genuine Roland music... ScummVM has always been a bit obscure for me in that sense, there are so many different options there.

And the same question to Amon Ra.
Post edited February 16, 2017 by timppu
Posted February 16, 2017
About fucking time! Thanks GOG!:)
Posted February 16, 2017
Didn't instabought FREDDY PHARKAS but now I just have to support GOG, Sierra and Activision.
Pity those game aren't bundeld together fot $6 ;)
Posted February 16, 2017
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Impaler26: One... i have never heard of. ...
Neither have I. Seems like the series wasn't very popular in Germany. I've only heard about the successor "The Dagger of Amon Ra" because of ScummVM.
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