Old computer game help
5I’ve been trying to identify an old computer game. It comes to mind randomly, but I can’t figure out what it is.
The game is 18-20 years old. This is why my memory is so foggy.
It was a horror game of some kind. I remember you play as a patient that maybe lost his memory, or something like that. I can remember walking around a town trying to figure out puzzles.
The most iconic thing that I can remember is eventually you are looking down at yourself in a medical gown, laying on a hospital bed, and your face is all bandaged up. There’s a chess board laying on your chest, and you go into the chess board to either play chess or some other puzzle.
I know this is a super long shot, but it drives me crazy when it pops into my head.
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I played one named 7th guest. It’s an old haunted mansion with games. I still have it, bought a win98 computer to play it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_7th_Guest
@lisaviolet Good news- the 7th Guest and the 11th Hour (the sequel) are both available on modern systems, so if that’s the only reason you’re keeping around the system, you don’t need to anymore. GOG.com has it for $5.99.
@dashcloud @lisaviolet
It (7th guest) was once temporarily available as a free app on the Play Store.
Fun game.
@dashcloud Thanks, I’ll probably get both of them. Another one I liked was Under a Killing Moon.
And they’ve got that one! Cool beans! I’m in for both of them, thanks for the heads up. I can put the old computer out to pasture.
@lisaviolet While I suspect @dashcloud is right about Sanitarium, 7th Guest was the first thing that came to my mind. Chess puzzle pops up out of the floor in that one, right? Maybe it was 11th Hour. Classics.
@brhfl Yes, there’s a chess set.
This is so cool, much more strategy than Candy Crush Saga.
@lisaviolet You may want to erase the drive, or just pull it out and destroy it if you ever had personal information on the computer.
@dashcloud Oh, I’ll just add it to the stack in the garage. In case I get a wild hair at some point in my dotage.
My best guess is Sanitarium.
You play as a guy who wakes up in a mental hospital without any memory, and the box art is of a guy who’s almost entirely bandaged up.
I can’t remember if there’s a chess puzzle or not.
If that’s not it, I can give you some other games it might be.
@dashcloud
@dashcloud ooh, that might be it. I’m currently watching cut scenes and some play through for something to jog my memory. The chess scene in my head is completely different than the one @cinolav linked above.
If this isn’t it, it would have to be an older game.
I’ll check back in later. I’ve got five hours of play through to skim through.
Thank you, thank you.
@dashcloud after scrubbing through 5+ hours of gameplay… I feel like I played the first part of that, but then everything else is fuzzy. The chess board looking thing is all the way at the end. I’m not sure that I ever got there… Unless I don’t remember a lot of the stuff in the middle. Watching all the cut scenes, none of them match up with my vision of the chess board sitting on his chest/stomach. I remember that so vividly. I wonder if I’m thinking of another game for that part. Maybe I dreamt that up.
@dashcloud Sanitarium was going to be my guess as well, though my “memorable scene” was a much different one and involved me finally realizing what I needed to do to find a kid’s sibling in the town full of children.
Are you sure you aren’t thinking of my life?
@Pantheist Have you considered being a horror short story writer? You seem like you’d have a promising future if your life resembles Sanitarium.
@dashcloud My wife’s the writer. I’m just the guinea pig.
@dashcloud Ok, just reread this after being awake for a little while. Didn’t mean it as in she makes my life that way- she actually makes it much more sane, just in that I’m not going to be the one to put it on paper.
How about that game where someone invites you to break into a museum in the middle of the night and the planetarium suddenly has a murderous AI and you have to solve science puzzles like creating a star?
@DrunkCat Museum Madness possibly?.
Should you have the urge to play it again, it’s available really cheaply on Amazon. Use DOSBOX to play it.
@dashcloud Holy shit it! It might be! Except I only remember it being 100% astronomy/space themed. Maybe I just really sucked at it.
@dashcloud Aww no. I remember distinctly that you sneaked into the museum at the middle of the night.
I refuse to accept that windows 98 was 20 years ago. When I saw the first post, I assumed we were talking about dos. Windows 3.1 maybe if @RiotDemon got the timeline a little wrong
@Pantheist I know, right? I only remembered how old the game was because my boyfriend at the time gave it to me (or shortly after we broke up and stayed friends). Makes me sad that it was so long ago.
Can we just talk about approximately-this-era video game nostalgia while waiting for an update? Because holy shit, Relentless and Twinsen’s Odyssey (or, Little Big Adventure 1 & 2) were the best. The friggin’ best. It’s almost on theme, because I think you wake up in a prison/asylum of sorts? Maybe it’s just a prison. It’s probably just a prison.
Phantasmagoria seemed like such a promising horror game, to be on theme, and it had to be good because it came on like 40 CD-ROMs… but there was just one… super… shitty… thing about it…
@brhfl
@dashcloud Hollllly shit I remembered it being bad but it’s so much worse than bad.