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Article #349277Re: Best Sherlock Holmes game?
From: undert0w
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:12
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:12
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"Mary" <non@invalid.ddd> wrote in message news:hi53ap$7er$1@speranza.aioe.org... > "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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From: "undert0w" <d0wn_underDELETEt0w@yahoo.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure References: <4b442194@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <hi2k9s$830$1@speranza.aioe.org> <4b457f77$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> <hi53ap$7er$1@speranza.aioe.org> In-Reply-To: <hi53ap$7er$1@speranza.aioe.org> Subject: Re: Best Sherlock Holmes game? Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 18:12:58 +1000 Lines: 60 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6001.18049 NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.241.45.36 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.241.45.36 Message-ID: <4b46e922$1@dnews.tpgi.com.au> X-Trace: dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au 1262938402 60.241.45.36 (8 Jan 2010 19:13:22 +1100) Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder.news-service.com!feed.xsnews.nl!border-2.ams.xsnews.nl!usenet.hanse.com!nntp.gblx.net!nntp3.phx1!dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au!not-for-mail Bytes: 3757 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit