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)You know what's funny too?Peter Piers wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2026 1:10 pm You know the funny thing? No one's mentioned BlackStar Agent of Justice, which was a staple of shareware games as much as TeenAgent, or Amber: Journeys Beyond, which is allegedly very good and very hard to run on modern systems (I say allegedly because I tried it and wasn't very impressed, but I keep hearing great stuff about it).
It doesn't fall within the scope of ScummVM, but someone should totally create some modern interpreter/conversion for CivNet, the expanded and upgraded version of the original Civilization game. I have managed to get it running with some third party tools, but the colours are messed up and there are issues. The original game runs fine in DOSbox, but CivNet would need some kind of reimplementation.
I wouldn't label that as a joke. The game is an adult-themed point-and-click adventure!
Never heard of it, but now I wanna play it! And you reminded me of "The Scoop", also an important percursor to current P&C adventuring!You know what's funny too?
No one mentioned The Detective Game, the Commodore 64 game from 1986 that was years ahead of its time with action icons and NPCs that moved in the house and even locked an unlocked doors.
Ah, but there, I think, lies the thing! ScummVM had an "adventure" rule. Heck, it had a "SCUMM" rule.I wouldn't mind CivNet being the one exception to ScummVM's adventure/RPG rule.
Then when RPGs came in... wham! Precedent! Now we're wishing for RPGs too, and ScummVM now has an adventure/RPG scope! Mostly narrative adventure-y RPGs, to be sure. But this would have been totally unheard of before. Crusader: No Remorse was an incidental addition because of Ultima, and bam, now there are requests for No Regret (I almost wonder there being no requests for Alone in the Dark and Bioforge. Ok, those are full 3d). Another World is in ScummVM; bam, precedent (wonder no one's asking for Flashback or, hey, Prince of Persia).
Not my judgement, it was the original poster.I wouldn't label that as a joke. The game is an adult-themed point-and-click adventure!
I suppose you might be thinking about Sex Games, which is a parody about Epyx olympics/sports games (Summer Games, Winter Games) for Commodore 64.
The last sentence made me think he wasn't really serious. Plus, he ends the post with, "So these won't enter the SCUMMVM stable until pigs fly -- but hey, you just got introduced to a dozen games you never knew about before!" Which to me means all his suggestions go into the middle category: "the person who suggested this thought it was unlikely but still wanted to mention them". As it happens, though, a number of them were moved to the main list anyway!Pseudo_Intellectual wrote: Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:07 amMidway between the AGI kind of game and the more traditional icon-based ones SCUMMVM loves the best is a game many love to hate, the adaptation of the movie Psycho. More scary is a property whose owner has recently expressed interest in keeping alive, the Last Half of Darkness trilogy, and in its wake other games with similar interfaces -- GrailQuest, Plan 9 from Outer Space, and for a change of pace, the final Brad Stallion game -- Sex Olympics! Okay, well maybe not that last one.
I'll edit it accordingly, and I'm impressed you picked up on that! You're right, I didn't quite get the feeling from your reply that you were expressing interest in the sense of "I'd like it too" (or if there was interest I may have missed it; it happens, there's a lot of lovely discussion in this thread), so I didn't count it. I deffinitely will.blam666 wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 7:52 am @Peter Piers: Hey, thanks a lot for all your work with that updated list, very nice to have!
Let me just nitpick one tiny detail I still remember from the thread/conversation last week: Faery Tale Adventure 1 should get a little upgrade to +2. Feisty requested it and I speculated about some theoretical issues with that game the devs might or might not have after that. But I still definitely meant to "+1" it.
That one's available on GOG and Steam, so at the very least it's not hard to get. I only played it for a little bit, though. Looked interesting, but I remember getting really annoyed by the way it handled saving. I think you were under a time limit, but to save you had to travel back to your office, or something like that?Zhuravl2000 wrote: Wed Mar 18, 2026 5:15 am I also mentioned the rare adventure game The Dame Was Loaded.
That's an external link. Gimme a break, I'm not going to crawl external links. Post here about the games you want to see added on ScummVM.[/quote]Zhuravl2000 wrote: Wed Mar 18, 2026 5:15 am No one noticed that I later added a rare Swedish game to my list of requests.
