Halo Wars, 7th Guest Dev Lands Job At Apple

@UptonEgonon:
aww - you're sad because your parents bought you CD-I instead of a real pc?
It's funny how you tried to mock this and made yourself look worse in the process - I should cut you in the face with a "free trial of AOL" disc.

tech-tard

@Wahrheit:

The maze, that maze was fiendish when I was a kid...I loved 7th Guest, never completed it though, and I don't think I ever did play 11th Hour at all, for shame.

Either way, I have great memories of playing 7th guest, it seemed pretty ahead of it's time to me, but I were just a nipper after all ;)

mikeck is too orangey for crows

@OGHowie: The 7th Guest was 2 discs (one just contained the attic, the rest fit on one disc) and The 11th Hour was 4 discs.

Fun fact, Graeme Devine was actually sort of a "compression pioneer." If he didn't figure out some (at the time) revolutionary video compression techniques then The 7th Guest would have taken up a shitload of discs (as evidenced by other games of the time period with less FMVs that used more discs)

T7G baby. I got it when I was 13, and didn't beat it until I was about 18, when the internet was around to help.

@abcFRAG: Nope, just sheer idiocy...

@aeonpulse: That was great. I remember the gore effects in that scene actually being pretty good. (Especially compared the the horrid effects in the rest of the game)

My kingdom for a new sequel.

@dptechblog:
Wasn't it the cake on the dining room table?

@rogXue:
2nd'd

11th Hour wasn't quite as good, but having played through T7G and then revisiting the familiar locations that have since burnt and decayed? Atmosphere +10

Brilliant music and puzzles though. Acting, not so much. But with a halfway decent budget you could hire real actors and bring back the blue-screen cheese with a slick modern polish.

@winshape: hah yeah, i haven't played it in years, but i recall the ending, being chased by a huge demon or something, and fucking up repeatedly, getting to see my face gruesomely ripped apart using some of the best cheesy b-movie gore. damnit, i gotta see if i can get it to run on vista now.

@NeoStarr: Uh, Phantasmagoria that is.

@DoktorSleepless: My mommy wouldn't let me play cause it had boobies in it.

True story.

@Wahrheit: Those were great. They were my 1st PC games I saw at Costco that I saved up for and made me shat myself. The puzzles were tough as well. I also liked the Phantasmagorias like puzzle of flesh when you find out your an alien.

@Brian Crecente:

Still shocked that no one has done an Advanced Wars clone. or really any game that can grab your attention for more than 15-20 minutes...

when that happens, then iphone might compete with DS and PSP. Until then, they are just games you play when you're bored and waiting for the bus/train/doctor/etc.

Noodle-Works

@Xone9

It would make sense, as the AppleTV is also using a varient of OSX, connect to the TV and of course iTunes.

Though a little improvement on the hw side would help to make it a more reaonsable game console. Ohhh and Apple strangely hire some key people on the hardware side from ATI hmmmm...

Apple TV will soon allow App support....

mark my words..

now they just need a 1tb hard drive in it and i might bite.

xone9

@aeonpulse: Yep. I also remember the ridiculously complicated series of events that had to be done in order at the very end and if you messed up it was truly game over. No restarting. I still don't think i've seen the ending.

winshape

@UptonEgonon: CD-i games? Both The 7th Guest and the 11th Hour are PC titles. If anything, they got ported to the CD-i.

@Quicksilver4648: I know, right? We need our Advanced Wars.

@Wahrheit: I still have that game...I never got to play it tho, for some reason it never runned on any of my computers at the time so I gave up but I might try it now.

Charlie Bronha

You forgot some TMs right there next to the magazine's name. Watch out for that lawsuit!

The name sounded very familiar for some reason, now I know why. I played The 7th Guest and some of the puzzles were completely nonsensical, but, the game was pretty good for its time.

@curly haired boy: PHANTASMAGORIA!

Awesome. Trilobyte was from my little hometown of Medford, OR. A small city on the Oregon/California border of 70,000 & by far the biggest city in any direction for 6 hours. It was so cool to have a video game company in our city.

I think it's plastic surgery office now. I don't go back too often, understandably...

Paul_Is_Drunk

@dptechblog: RAPE

:)

Man, I love halo wars. Very fun. Thought most people from Ensemble went over to robot Entertainment.

erockskop

Such classic PC gaming days. If only the guys who worked at Origin would make a new Wing Commander.

@Wahrheit: I loved those games too. They certainly scared the crap out of my as a kid.

@undefined:

I think Halo Wars stands as the best console RTS; the online is still kickin' too.

@UptonEgonon: Do I sense some sarcasm?

abcFRAG

@aeonpulse: A PUZZLE OF FLESH.

curly haired boy

@OGHowie: awww i loved these games!!! and yeah, they were like 5 or 6 discs, with all the video and stuff.

remember Phantasmagoria? i still have my copy buried somewhere, that was like 8 or 9 discs!

@Wahrheit:

Yeah, those games we're pretty cool for their time. Weren't they like 5+ CDs too?

I loved both the 7th Guest and the 11th Hour. I miss those games.

@dptechblog:

YES! Thanks...I've been banging my head trying to figure it out. :)

Hyperplasia

Ah 7th Guest, that brings back a lot of memories, I remember playing that with my cousin back when we were only about 7 or 8.

DaveStrife is replaying FFVII.... again.

@UptonEgonon: That's not true, there was a game called Dimo's Quest that was a lot of fun.

DaveStrife is replaying FFVII.... again.

From Microsoft to Apple. If it isn't a full blown RTS on an iPhone then I wont be impressed.

7TH Guest was the only good game for the Philips CD-I console.

UptonEgonon

@lolgreg: Much appreciated.

@lolgreg: you forgot: MCR$FT STOLE HALO FRM APPL IN TEH FRST PLACE ALL THEY DO IS BUY W/ THEER MONOPOLY MONIES THY DN'T INOVAT!

@lolgreg:

I LOL'D, Thanks For That!

I like Halo for the most part, I feel its bashing comes from its hard to fathom popularity (it isnt THAT great).

I consider it the Jerry Bruckheimer of video games, makes a killing at the box office, its fun worth the price of admission, its nothing artsy or meaningful, but thats not why we bought the ticket.

(Spoiler: I Feel The Same Way About Half Life and Killzone)

@Archaotic: He founded trilobyte. It was totally his baby.

WAIT. Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. The guy who directed Halo Wars also directed the 7th Guest?

Mind = blown.

Pretty cool news. I still own copies of the 7th Guest and 11th Hour.

Derangel

@Hyperplasia: PHANTASMAGORIA

:)

dptechblog

oh and who could forget.. PHANTASMAGORIA! It was like the ultimate hybrid of these.

dptechblog

@MyBigToe: or.. song

MyBigToe

lol I'm 23 now - I remember sitting and playing 11th hour when I was in grade 6 ? I had borrowed it from the neighbours and my mom thought it was too violent lol. I remember being mesmorized by it! I thought it was so cool for it's time, I'd sit for like an hour sometimes trying to find the next object in the house from the 'clues' I remember the one that really stumped me was when I had to find a 'Trilobyte' and I had no idea what it was and had to go online lol. Still took forever to find!

dptechblog

@merovak: yeah
same! and ive loved that sonog ever since

MyBigToe

@MyBigToe:

That with Christopher Walken right? That game used to freak me out! First time I heard "Don't Fear the Reaper" as well!

merovak

PLEASE PLEASE tell me 7th guest 11th hr are coming back in some form. I would even accept a remake. Those are by far 2 of my favorite pc games from back in the day.

Oh wow...that box shot brings back some memories.

I wish we still had a couple adventure games released these days that were like the adventures games of old... /tear

What was the name of that other original horror game that was set in a haunted house...Started with a 'P' I think...may have had a sequel...?

Hyperplasia

WWDC has become just as anticipated as E3 has been to me. I never thought gaming would become this big on the iPhone/Touch. I'll admit it has cumbersome controls, and lack of hard buttons, but with more development it can become a viable portable gaming system.

Woz

@CoatedTrout: HALO'S THE WORST IT'S NOT EVEN LEIK GROUNDBREKIN OR NETHING. ALL TEH GAMES R EXACTLY THE SAME AND NTO EVN GOOD.

lolgreg

I'm guessing he'll be supervising how the iPhone improves its game support.

PS.Cue halo bashing.

i loved those games, but none were as awesome as Ripper

MyBigToe

Whoo Hoo!!!! A person who helped make CD-I games is making iPhone games!!!!?? Sweet! I hope some Virtual Boy developers jump on this too!

UptonEgonon

I remember 7th/11th, they were scary for me when I was a kid..

Wahrheit