How did you meet Tex?

I still remember that very well. Nearly each year I go to denmark, to visit my family. My uncle is a big adventurefan since many years and he and my aunt are huge Gabriel Knight fans ( The only computer series my aunt ever liked). So because I enjoyed Gk1: Sins of the fathers more than anything before, I couldn´t wait to get my hands on the second part which was FMV ( And my uncle and aunt were so much in love with GK2 , they couldn´t stop talking about it and were telling the whole family about it, so everyone in my family knows what GK2 is about ). At the same time ( or probably a bit earlier) my uncle completely fell in love with FMV games in general and it happened to be that the Tex games were ( and probably still are today) his favorites behind Gabriel Knight, so when I was in Copenhagen a short time after i purchased Gabriel Knight II : The beast within, my uncle bought the pandora directive and what can I say. It was love at first sight and one of the first things I did after I came back to germany, was to buy the pandora directive. My uncle and me finished a big part of the game together and so when I came back I immediately started to play Pandora on my own and a very short time later, I bought Under a killing moon. Still today when I´m in Copenhagen my Uncle and myself still talk about the glory Tex and Gabriel Knight days regulary. So I got in touch with both of my favorite series because of my uncle, even though I would have gotten in touch with them sooner or later anyway. But yet it is really cool if you share that passion with one of your favorite people out there.

I was 12 or 13 I believe and I receive UAKM for a Present, can't remember if it was X-Mas or B-Day... But then I came across Pandora a couple years later in the store, so I bought that myself and then later I saw Overseer and ended up buying that...
The thing that caught my Eye with Overseer was the Flashing Light they had on the Box... Came to find out later that the Flashing Light was only on a Limited Number... I still own the box, but it is packed up somewhere, so I can't say for certain if the Light is still working... I have some serious doubts about that though, after all these years...

Shortly after acquiring Overseer I did a little research online about Tex Murphy and learned that there were 2 games before those 3, so I went out of my way to get my hands on them and finally did after about a year of searching and whatnot... I also ended up buying something called Private Eye Mysteries that has both Mean Street and Martian Memorandum on a CD along with 2 other games...

And so ends my little story... Not exactly a spectacular story... Just after playing UAKM, I knew I loved the game and the characters, every time I went into EB Games, I would ask about it and finally one day they said, "Yeah We Have This Game Called Pandora Directive"... They showed it to me, I saw it was the same just a different Game/Story, so I had to have it...



I can't wait for the 6th Edition to the Series... Still have hopes about there being a 6th anyway...
If they are unable to continue the story from Overseer, then maybe they could do the same thing as in Indiana Jones IV, warp into the future with a 20+ year older Tex... Give us a little background about how his life has been going and then dive into another World Saving Adventure...

Just some random thoughts, you can ignore the last couple of sentences...

Pandora Directive Demo Disc that was lying around. They got that one right.

Walked into the local software store and there was a whole wall with boxes of UAKM, and they also had 9 monitors interlinked as one giant screen playing the UAKM trailer on loop. It was a huge campaign here in some stores, and I just had to buy a copy to see what the hype was about. I was so excited I bought my copy 3 months before I bought my first computer!

It was my first PC game I ever played, and still one of the best.

Then I was lying in bed reading and had the radio on when I heard the announcers give a min-review of a new game called The Pandora Directive (if of course heard no news of it prior as this was before I had the internet), and the minute they said it was the next Tex Murphy game I went to the store and bought my copy knowing full well that my computer would not be able to run it properly (as you can see I had a bad habit of buying Tex games before I had the right hardware to run them! lol).

It became the best game I have ever played on PC. Even though at the time my 486 DX2-50 made the video stutt-utt-utt-utt-er a lot.

Then of course Overseer came out, and once again I was under spec on the hardware side but decided to wait this time until I was up to speed and able to run in properly. By that time it was discontinued and I needed to order a copy off Ebay and get it shipped here from the US.

That's how my Tex saga began and ended (with of course a few tinkerings with MS and MM long the way).

-Cub. =o)

It all started with my Apple ][e and the old Infocom Interactive Fiction text adventure games in the mid 80's. A few years later at college I met a friend with a 386 which had Links386 and Police Quest 3. Links386 introduced me to Access Software, Inc and Police Quest 3 introduced me to graphic adventure games.

Finally, in the Early 90's, I purchased a 486/66. Thanks to either Computer Gaming World and/or PC Gamer, I saw "Under A Killing Moon". Since I liked adventure games and recognized Access Software, Inc from playing Links386, I bought the game and was hooked.

From the beginning of the FMV era of Tex for me. I got an issue of Australian PC Gamer which had the UKAM demo on it which included gameplay and a trailer. I just had to have the full version after that!

It was late '97 (or thereabout it seems) when I signed up to Columbia House to get a Star Trek game my unenlightened mom wouldn't let me order from a respectable company. As part of CH's not honoring the order (they wouldn't sell me the ST game despite their commercial still having another three months of being in date), they set me up to receive a monthly game for me to either buy or send back (which my mom wouldn't let me send back), so I got stuck with a few games I didn't want before she wised up.

Among the games I received were Fallout 2, Zork: Grand Inquisitor, and Tex Murphy: Overseer. I played FO2 because I liked Mad Max. Zork never interested me. I may still have it in its original packaging somewhere for all I know. And Overseer I played because it looked interesting. And I liked it. So, I went to my more enlightened dad with the UAKM/PD bundle coupon & ordered them over the phone with his credit card. Played them. Loved them. Then a year later, Access was acquired by M$.

Hammerhead

On a side note further to my post above, it was in 1997 when I was looking up info on the then 'upcoming' Overseer game on my friends computer I scored my place in the Tex Murphy community for the first time. And who was the first person to welcome me to the Tex Murphy community all those years? JimTOG of course! (but back then he was just known as 'Jim the not so old guy' and he could still breakdance like nobody's man). That makes me a member of the Tex Murphy community for over 11 years! That's almost half my life!

...and you know what; I've loved every minute of it. The only thing that surpassed meeting Tex was meeting the community.

-Cub. =o)

Cubase wrote:That makes me a member of the Tex Murphy community for over 11 years! That's almost half my life!

My God, You Are YOUNG!!!

I actually lived the first 20 years of my life Tex free. It was one of my flat mates during my university days who introduced me to both Tex and Gabriel Knight. And I'm eternally grateful to her for that!

Like SansGUI, it started with Infocom and the Zork text adventures.

At that time, (around 1980) I didn't have my own computer, but a friend used to let my wife and I into his robotics lab after hours and we would play Zork late into the night on the PDP11 they had there. (Some of my fondest gaming memories.)

Years went by and I was eventually introduced to Myst at a Physics Conference in San Francisco. I immediately fell in love (with Myst) but my wife lost interest in computer games while I became more obsessed and played other Myst-like games. But I sure missed those days of playing computer games with my wife, so I tried to find something that I thought would interest her.

While looking for games at CompUSA, I saw a bundled set of UAKM and Pandora. Since my wife is a big fan of detective novels and mysteries, I figured that this would be perfect for her.

She gave it a try and we started playing Pandora first. But graphic games arent' as well suited for playing with a partner as text games are, and she lost interest while I kept playing (like 'till three in the morning every night,) and that's how I got hooked on Tex.

I was looking for a new game at the EggHead Software in my home town and bought it just looking at the box and then taking a chance. I was about 13 I guess at the time. My friend lived on a street that was a dead end and after climbing through some woods and a huge boulder it connected right to my back yard. He walked over night after night and each time we pulled all nighters and got hooked on the series from then on. I kind of wonder now what it would be like if I had put UAKM down and chose a different game instead. I think it was destiny as the series had a big effect on me as a gamer and is missed even a decade later.

My dad brought home UAKM sometime in 1994 or 1995. I was only 10 years old at the time, so my dad did all the computer and software purchasing. We had played several adventure games together at the time, but he generally picked them out. Sometime about five years after that we played Pandora together. It was in 2001 that I played Overseer for the first time, yet by myself. It was also around that time I discovered the old Tex Board, and I've been here ever since.

It was the Pandora Directive demo, provided with several other demos on a PC Gamer disc. The Pandora demo got the cover art for the disc case, and the demo was a lot of fun. Technically I was introduced to Tex by a friend of mine, showing me Under A Killing Moon, but I didn't follow up and buy a copy for myself, so that doesn't count so much.