Need to find an old DOS based adventure game...

Post » Tue Oct 27, 2015 5:37 am

It was a puzzle solving adventure game

I'm pretty sure you play as a female protagonist

The game has a form of copy protection where it comes with this paper magnify glass where the glass area is a piece of red film, and some piece of red paper with white dots (or is it white paper with red dots??). you look through the film over a piece of red and white paper to reveal fingerprints and input the number corresponding to the fingerprint displayed on the screen when you start a new game

There is a way you can get a game over by attempting to walk over (or stand too long) over a certain part of a bridge, have it collapse, and plunge into the water.

That is all I remember.

There is also another game: a first person RPG from the old days where the character creation screen had a blue wireframe background, and the character outlines for male and female (when choosing your gender) are completely green. And there is female narration for things like "Select the (blank) of the first/second character"

There is also a third game: another classic first person RPG, this one was available on either the genesis, 32X, sega cd, or PS1. It had mummy enemies that made a loud roaring sound when they hit you, that echoed. And they did quite a bit more damage than most enemies. Every time I came across one (occasionally), I ran the heck away. Unfortunately that is all I remember.

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Post » Tue Oct 27, 2015 12:50 am

Was it "The Colonel's Bequest"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colonel%27s_Bequest

I found an article describing old forms of copy protection, and this game apparently used the fingerprint thing you described. No clue about the other two games, though.

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