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Re: Best Sherlock Holmes game?

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From: undert0w
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:12
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"Mary" <non@invalid.ddd> wrote in message 
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> "undert0w" <d0wn_underDELETEt0w@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message 
> news:4b457f77$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>>
>> "Mary" <non@invalid.ddd> wrote in message 
>> news:hi2k9s$830$1@speranza.aioe.org...
>>> "undert0w" <d0wn_underDELETEt0w@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message 
>>> news:4b442194@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>>>> Hi there!
>>>>
>>>> Seeing that justadventure and quandary don't seem to exist anymore, can 
>>>> anyone recommend their favorite sherlock holmes games?
>>>>
>>>> Also if anyone knows of any websites that review adventure games only, 
>>>> please let me know.
>>>
>>> I just checked and www.justadventure.com is still there.  They have a 
>>> lot of adventure game reviews and maybe some action games. They seem to 
>>> have made a few changes on their site, but its still there. I have a few 
>>> favourite Sherlock Holmes games, some being quite old. My favourite is 
>>> probably SH and The Rose Tattoo and Serrated Scalpel made in mid 1990's. 
>>> They would be hard to find now. In the newer SH games I like SH Nemesis 
>>> best. Silver Earring wasn't bad. The Awakened was OK. Haven't played SH 
>>> vs Jack the Ripper. Check justadventure above for reviews of some SH 
>>> games. Also, check http://www.adventuregamers.com/ for adventure game 
>>> reviews.
>>>
>>> Mary
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Cronos and Mary,  I will try SH vs Jack the Ripper and I will also 
>> try to find SH & the Rose Tattoo.  I just tried JA again and I still 
>> can't access the site in firefox or explorer.  I miss that site...  Maybe 
>> you are accessing a cached version or perhaps it can only be accessed in 
>> the U.S.?
>
> I'm in Canada same as Cronos, and I just tried JA and no problem getting 
> it. I'm not sure why you are having a problem connecting to it. Do you run 
> a pop-up blocker that could be preventing you from accessing JA? or could 
> you by mistake have blocked JA in your blocked list?  What country are you 
> in? If you try to get Rose Tattoo and Serrated scalpel, you would probably 
> have to try Ebay. I don't know how much they would be.  They are both on 
> CD though started out on floppies, but Serrated Scalpel is older than Rose 
> Tattoo, and SS was mainly text and not speech. Rose Tattoo was all speech 
> on the CD.
>
> Mary

I'm in Australia and firefox and ie say 'server not found'.  However I just 
used a proxy server and it loads just fine!  I just hope this doesn't have 
anything to do with the web filter our government has placed on our entire 
country without our permission...

Ezra
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