| Darashiva said: The only game not guessed yet, so here's a second hint: |
Trails in the Sky?
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| Darashiva said: The only game not guessed yet, so here's a second hint: |
Trails in the Sky?
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| #15 | Day of the Tentacle |
|---|---|
| guessed by | The_Liquid_Laser |
| platform | DOS |
| release year | 1993 |
| developer/publisher | LucasArts |
| genre | point-and-click adventure |
| links | Wikipedia |
| past years | 2019: #16, 2018: #13, 2017: #14 |

And there we have another one of these excellent LucasArts adventures. This is a point-and-click adventure, but you play three different characters, Bernard, Laverne and Hoagie, which are transported to different times and have to work together to stop purple tentacle from taking over the world. This is sort of a sequel to Maniac Mansion, it reuses some of it's whacky characters and locations. As with many LucasArts adventures, the fun even baked into the puzzles.

The story is set in motion, after purple tentacle drinks from the river which is filled with toxic waste from Dr. Fred Edisons laboratory and grows arms. With this he decides to take over the world. Green tentacle asks his old friend Bernard for help. Bernard takes his two roommates and goes to Dr. Edison. His roommates and the other playable characters are: medical student Laverne - who has apparently arrangements with her psychiatrist - and hardrocker Hoagie. Dr. Edison has a plan to send the three of them back a day with his time-traveling toilet named chron-o-john and let them turn off the machine producing the toxic waste. But this fails and so Laverne lands 200 years in the future ruled by purple tentacle, Hoagie 200 years in the past and Bernard stays in the present. From where you have an insane ride, with puzzles that have changing things in the past to change the future and sending stuff through time.
The characters are so great. Between purple tentacle, Dr. Edison and the three protagonist you have so much strange and quirky behaviour, this is hilarious. They interact with the gameworld in often unexpected but hilarious ways and comment on the actions. This is an all-time classic in the point-and-click adventure genre.

The game got a remaster a few years back with updated graphics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6v-zGTzNCE
Last edited by Mnementh - on 20 December 2020At the moment @The_Liquid_Laser and @Jpcc86 are leading with 10 and 9 points respectively. Battle it out with these hints:
#14
Deep in the labyrinth is a ... waterfall?
Combine materials gained from slaying monsters to get magical stones.
#13: Baldur's Gate guessed by The_Liquid_Laser
You can be joined by a mighty warrior who talks to his miniature giant space hamster.
The series this game started got a new entry this year.
#12: Breath of the Wild guessed by The_Liquid_Laser
#11: Star Wars: Dark Forces guessed by The_Liquid_Laser
This DOS game set standards for the time with voice acting.
This shooter takes place in an universe well-known from movies.


UnderwaterFunktown said:
Trails in the Sky? |
Correct.
UnderwaterFunktown said:
This feels like a stretch but Dark Souls? |
8. Correct!
| Mnementh said: At the moment @The_Liquid_Laser and @Jpcc86 are leading with 10 and 9 points respectively. Battle it out with these hints: #14 #13 #12: Breath of the Wild guessed by The_Liquid_Laser #11 |
14. Dragon Quest Builders 2?
13. Baldur's Gate?
11. TIE Fighter?
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| mZuzek said: Well, this time I can't blame anything else for having skipped a day here. Guess the way this is going, I'm gonna have to make a whole page mine, since I've yet to make a post on any of the top 20 #16 - You're a beetle flying on a track in a weird trippy dimension fighting against bizarre cosmic beings. #12 - This game brought a major new addition to the series: the ability to stop everything you're doing to read a wall of text every 5 seconds! #11 - Apparently, the alter-ego of a castle is a pyramid. |
11: I feel obligated to guess other people’s Zelda entries. This is surely A Link to the Past.
| mZuzek said: Well, this time I can't blame anything else for having skipped a day here. Guess the way this is going, I'm gonna have to make a whole page mine, since I've yet to make a post on any of the top 20 #16 - You're a beetle flying on a track in a weird trippy dimension fighting against bizarre cosmic beings. #12 - This game brought a major new addition to the series: the ability to stop everything you're doing to read a wall of text every 5 seconds! #11 - Apparently, the alter-ego of a castle is a pyramid. |
Is #16 eventually Thumper? I wasn't aware the thing you control is a beetle, but that may well be the case.
The_Liquid_Laser said:
14. Dragon Quest Builders 2? |
#14: Nope
#13: Yes!
#11: No, but you got the right universe.
Mnementh said:
#14: Nope #13: Yes! #11: No, but you got the right universe. |
Is 11 Dark Forces?
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My Threads:
Master Thread, Game of the Year/Decade
Switch Will Be #1 All Time
Zelda Will Outsell Mario (Achieved)
How Much Will MH Rise sell?
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The_Liquid_Laser said:
Is 11 Dark Forces? |
Indeed it is.