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Posted February 16, 2017
Night at the museum.


<span class="bold">The Dagger of Amon Ra</span>, Laura Bow's sophomore adventure as an intrepid journalist/crime-solver, is now available, DRM-free on GOG.com!

A year after dealing with the Colonel's Bequest, Laura attempts to take a bite out of The Big Apple when assigned a story about the prized Egyptian dagger that just became part of the Leyendecker Museum's collection. Of course, the night of the grand opening will be riddled with bloody murder, shocked aristocrats, and many many clues.
Posted February 16, 2017
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F4LL0UT: And speaking of forgotten Sierra adventures, I hope we will get Woodruff and the Schnibble (of Azimuth) soon. It was possibly my favourite adventure game back in the day. Would love to finally play the English original version of that one.
Uh ? Woodruff is a french game. Same designer as Gobliiins. Awesome voiceovers, too.
Post edited February 16, 2017 by Erich_Zann
Posted February 16, 2017
Original as in "not pirate"?
Posted February 16, 2017
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eiii: Does the "Audio and text: English" mean the GOG version has voice over?
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keviny01: It does not have audio speech, only audio sound f/x and music. One of the screenshots shows on-screen text for the dialog. As you may know, only the non-speech version has on-screen text for dialog. The speech version doesn't. The two versions used to be sold as two separate games. The Activation people may not even know there is a speech version. It is pure laziness not to dig up both versions. No surprise here.
BTW you are way off the mark. Only the second game had speech.

This version includes the CD-speech version, look at the size of the game, just under 300 megabytes. There is a toggle in the game to switch between speech or no speech and/or both IIRC though.

The floppy no speech version was only about 8 megabytes give or take.

However, I would definitely love to get my hands on the floppy no speech version just to see how the copy protection system worked in it, and it had a nice pack in manual with back history for the museum, and Egyptology lore.
Post edited February 16, 2017 by Baggins
Posted February 16, 2017
Nice to see another batch of classics here :)
Posted February 16, 2017
About fucking time... again! Thanks GOG!:)
Posted February 16, 2017
Oh my YES! Thanks for adding this game! I am sure PUR is going to be quite pleased more people will get a chance to play it.
Posted February 16, 2017
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F4LL0UT: And speaking of forgotten Sierra adventures, I hope we will get Woodruff and the Schnibble (of Azimuth) soon. It was possibly my favourite adventure game back in the day. Would love to finally play the English original version of that one.
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Erich_Zann: Uh ? Woodruff is a french game. Same designer as Gobliiins. Awesome voiceovers, too.
these were all coktel vision. coktel vision was a development house in france that sierra bought way back when. some of their stuff is SUPER weird [inca comes to mind.]

but that was basically the norm in france a the time. [captain blood, anyone?]

it's sad that we've lost that level of weird in the modern games industry :(
Posted February 16, 2017
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lostwolfe: some of their stuff is SUPER weird [inca comes to mind.]
Ha ha, I saw this video just last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Deqzy_tifRU
Posted February 16, 2017
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Baggins: This version includes the CD-speech version, look at the size of the game, just under 300 megabytes. There is a toggle in the game to switch between speech or no speech and/or both IIRC though.
Even if there's no such toggle in the game, you can do that in ScummVM. At least for games which have both options available. But running Simon the Sorcerer in ScummVM allows text and speech versions to be shown/played simultaneously, even though they were completely different releases and in some cases the dialogues don't match. I guess this could work for other games as well, but Simon is the only one I have tried.
Posted February 17, 2017
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Erich_Zann: Uh ? Woodruff is a french game. Same designer as Gobliiins. Awesome voiceovers, too.
Not trying to take any credit away from the French game industry but as lostwolfe pointed out, Coktelvision was bought by Sierra the year Goblins 3 was released. Woodruff was part of Sierra's catalogue all along and I actually got my copy from a "gaming mag" (rather a glorified brochure, really) called Best of Sierra which was distributed in Germany for several years and always included one to three Sierra titles which were past their shelf life. In terms of licensing and digging up classics it's a Sierra title as far as I'm concerned (unless Sierra's license to Woodruff was limited and the ownership remained with Coktelvision which would explain why it still hasn't been released digitally).
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lostwolfe: some of their stuff is SUPER weird [inca comes to mind.]
but that was basically the norm in france a the time.
Couldn't have said it better myself. To this day I think of France (at least in the 90's) as the Japan of desktop computers. Back then France created an impressive amount of really original high quality titles many of which came with a level of wackiness that one normally associates with Japanese titles.
Post edited February 17, 2017 by F4LL0UT
Posted February 17, 2017
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F4LL0UT: Woodruff was part of Sierra's catalogue all along and I actually got my copy from a "gaming mag" (rather a glorified brochure, really) called Best of Sierra which was distributed in Germany for several years and always included one to three Sierra titles which were past their shelf life. In terms of licensing and digging up classics it's a Sierra title as far as I'm concerned (unless Sierra's license to Woodruff was limited and the ownership remained with Coktelvision which would explain why it still hasn't been released digitally).
I've got Hunter Hunted, 3D Ultra Minigolf, Woodruff and a few other games that still didn't make it to GOG from those mags, hopefully they'll arrive here some day.

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/hunter_hunted
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/3d_ultra_minigolf
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=woodruff
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=3d%20ultra%20pinball
Post edited February 17, 2017 by Klumpen0815
Posted February 17, 2017
Thank you so much!! I was hoping this series might make it to GOG, when new Activision games started to appear!!
Posted February 17, 2017
Still have the original floppy disk version on my shelf. I loved this game back in the day.

I'd always wondered what the version with speech was like. Found a copy of it a couple of years ago, at which point I was reminded that game voice acting in those days usually involved grabbing whoever was walking past the sound guy's office at the time and getting them to read the script into a microphone.

Couldn't reconcile the voices coming out of the speakers with how I imagined them to be when playing the floppy disk version. Icepick-through-the-eardrum levels of bad. Didn't get far enough into it to see how they (presumably) murdered Wolf Heimlich's and Yvette Delacroix' accent...

(I also preferred the Adlib-synthesised version of the soundtrack over the MIDI one; maybe I'm just weird that way. :) )
Posted February 17, 2017
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draenan: (I also preferred the Adlib-synthesised version of the soundtrack over the MIDI one; maybe I'm just weird that way. :) )
ditto

Thanks GOG!
Posted February 17, 2017
I have so many fond memories of this one in particular. I can't instabuy these fast enough. After 10 days on the road for work this is the best way to come back to my hotel. :D
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