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Member Retired Gumby Posts: 1092 | Feel free to share anything about Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion (1991) here! |
Posted at 21:14 on June 11th, 2014 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Baby Gumby Posts: 8 | First ever game on my PC. ![]() |
Posted at 06:04 on July 20th, 2014 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
![]() Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3879 | For some reason this game never really excited me... it was too dull to be honest, and just shooting monsters endlessly and going somewhere would bore me too quickly. ----- [i]Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get.[/i] |
Posted at 09:23 on July 20th, 2014 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
![]() Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11573 | Yes… I'm afraid this game – like many of these shareware pieces on the IBM – is just subject to severe fuzzy nostalgia attacks for many. ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! ----- Edited by Mr Creosote at 09:23 on July 20th, 2014 |
Posted at 19:24 on July 20th, 2014 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
![]() Member Zombie Gumby Posts: 3879 | Yep, exactly... ![]() ![]() ----- [i]Cheer up! Remember the less you have, the more there is to get.[/i] |
Posted at 20:32 on July 21st, 2014 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
![]() Moderator Deceased Gumby Posts: 1413 | It might be said fuzzy nostalgia, but I do have some rather fond memories of this (and similar games, mainly from Apogee). It was hard as hell, yet the setting was cool enough to keep me motivated. ----- [color=darkblue][i]The known is finite, the unknown infinite.[/i] - Thomas Henry Huxley[/color] |
Posted at 06:34 on July 22nd, 2014 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
![]() Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11573 | Well, I wouldn't say it's a bad game. It's just hard to understand the big buzz around it. ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! |
Posted at 17:37 on July 22nd, 2014 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
![]() Moderator Deceased Gumby Posts: 1413 | I think like with most Shareware titles the buzz was mainly because of two things: The games were free and had next to no competition (on the PC). ----- [color=darkblue][i]The known is finite, the unknown infinite.[/i] - Thomas Henry Huxley[/color] |