Dust: A Tale of the Wired West (1993)
Genres:Adventure, Puzzle, Point-and-click
Themes:Fantasy, Historical, Comedy
Game modes:Single player
Story:Dust is a point-and-click adventure game with integrated full-motion-video characters. Players explore the town of Diamondback, New Mexico in the 1880's solving mysteries and enacting vigilante justice.
This was the first computer game. My dad and I spend days playing it. We wrote and compared notes on all the different interactions and items. Once we learned there were different paths and endings we bought the stragey guide. I used to play it once every year, but the disk is not working with newer hardware. My fear is the disc becoming unusable or the oldest PC I have breaking down. I would love to play a GoG version that will last forever.
Really enjoyed playing the game way back when -- one of the very few games I played with dad, even. Interesting setting, concept, and so on -- and I bet that middle-aged me can get further in the game than twelve-year-old me could.
Would love to just get in and play, without all the hassle of the space and cost and noise of an old computer and raiding for pirated versions and all that. This is one of those games that was quite overlooked to begin with, and quickly became a lost gem.
When I was 8 my father and I played this game for months. We loved the story and the interactions you had with NPCs in the town. The medicine mission took us weeks to complete but it made us so excited to finally pass the test. The game is both hard and fun and makes you want to finish it. I have been wanting to replay this game for years and would love it if GOG brought it on their platform.
In have played this many times (and finished), even installed a retro windows98se computer last year so I could play it. Doesn't seem to work with my newly built retro win98se though (gfx card to new i think)
It is an amazing adventure game and I would love to be able to play it without original hardware!
I still own the box and the cd.
I love this game.
I played the Titanic: Adventure Out of Time game for YEARS before I knew this game existed prior to it. I bought a disk for it in 2013 but sadly was not able to play it. I would love to see this game given a place in GOG.
Myst, SimCity 3000, and Dust: A Tale of the Wired West were my introduction to gaming on a PC (it was actually a mac but whatever). To this day I can still picture the entire town of Diamondback in my head and can still "feel" what it was like to play poker at the saloon or do target practice next to the Mayor's house. I need to play this game again. Please add it to GOG. I mean you already have Titanic: Adventure Out of Time on GOG why not Dust?
Got this when it came out. Hilarious. This was the period when they started cramming real life videos into all the games. All that cheesy acting. Super Fun! Never beat it either.
We already have Titanic, which is the same engine (later, even). We need this and Redjack! Most importantly, while not every line of dialogue lands perfectly well in modern times, it *is* a story about giving back to those that have been stolen from. Let's go back, collect the Yunni Artifacts, return them to Sonoma, Kill the Evil Man, and walk back off into the sunset a good man.
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