Unofficial Tex Murphy

I saw it at a used video games store for 3 bucks a few years ago (actually it was probably more like 10 years ago) and thought what the bleep, I'd liked MM and Mean Streets and it was by Access so why not.

I didn't notice until I got home that the box didn't have a manual. Unfortunately the manual was necessary for the game.

Due to one distraction or another (thousand), I never really got back into it.

Anyone actually play this game? If so, were Jones/Connors/the Carver brothers etc. involved in its production, and would a fan of Tex Murphy like it?

Thanks
DTXCF

Interesting - never heard of this one! Quick googling finds

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/535/Crime+Wave.html
with screenshots - it's a side-scrolling shooting game apparently. (At first glance looks like building on the gun fight bits in Mean Streets?)

As to credits - all I can find is http://www.goodolddays.net/hotud/index. ... me&id=1880 which says the designer was Bruce Johnson. It also says "Without a doubt, Crime Wave has the appeal of a cheap shareware game, and a low point in Access' long career. No wonder the company didn't return to the action genre at all after this Real Dog." - which might explain why few people mention it!

Crime wave was a heavily marketed clone of an arcade hit called "Narc."

It was all over the PC magazines at the time and the reviews were quite positive (in fact, I don't remember reading a bad one and I subscribed to just about all the mags).

Yes, it was cutting edge with its 256 color graphics, but now it's tough on the eyes. You're much better off with a Mame version of NARC.

The box cover was atrocious, though. The lead "actor" looked like something out of a crappy eighties porno.

Was there something called good eighties porno?

Actually, you may consider that a rhetorical question.

Now I'm just intrigued to find out who the Crime Wave guy was Was it Chris Jones in a moustache? Give me a screenshot please!

-Fred

Here's the only (small) image I can find - http://www.classic-pc-games.com/thumbs/ ... ave_03.jpg

Perhaps looks more like an 80s porn actor who plays a lot of rugby. (Equivalent of American Football without all the silly helmets and padding. )

I've played Crime Wave and Countdown, both came on a Private Eye Mysteries CD with Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum... All 4 are good games, well worth the 8 bucks I paid for the CD back when I got it...

Here it is:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/crime-wave/cover-art

Sorry about the redundancy (crappy and eighties porn are synonymous).

Check out the karate kick.

I finally got around to actually playing it and I think it's terrible. The actress who plays the president's daughter is (*#@$*(#@ hot but other than that I see zero redeeming qualities. It's nothing but a side-scrolling shooter and not a very good one at that. And yes, they're basically just a slight improvement to the gunfight scenes in Mean Streets.

I'd recommend staying away from this one - don't waste your time. But play Amazon (I posted another thread about it) - that'll give you a perfectly good Tex fix.

I saw there were a few copies for sale on ebay, but decided against it from what I've heard.

Tuco wrote:Here it is:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/crime-wave/cover-art

Sorry about the redundancy (crappy and eighties porn are synonymous).

Check out the karate kick.

Hahaha love it...

anyone notice the similarities:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/crime ... Id,107271/

AND...

http://www.mobygames.com/game/amiga/mea ... rId,62261/

I can imagine the design process:

Guy 1: Crime wave cover design: Lets go for diagonal nighclub caprice font, cityscape background, serious looking guy holding a gun! Winner!
Guy 2: Brilliant

Few months later.

Guy 1: Mean Streets cover design: Lets go for diagonal nighclub caprice font, cityscape background, serious looking guy holding a gun! Winner!
Guy 2: We've already done that.
Guy 1: Okay, replace gun with girl.
Guy2: Winner!

-Cub. =o)

How great is that the Crime Wave box cover doesn't even have the same actress used in the game?

Crime Wave is *fabulous*!!! I don't know if I just got lucky or what, but Crime Wave and Mean Streets came in a pack, if I recall correctly, way back when I first played them, which was probably about when Mean Streets first came out or not much thereafter. (It could just be that we got both of them at the same time, though, maybe they weren't in a pack, I don't know...I was about 9 or 10 at the time, all I knew is we had two awesome games that used *ooh ahhh* VGA graphics! And were a *blast* to play as well!)

I don't have Crime Wave anymore, but I would get it again if I found it. Tex Murphy adventures are superior, but Crime Wave is still wonderful!

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sdbutler80 wrote:I don't have Crime Wave anymore, but I would get it again if I found it. Tex Murphy adventures are superior, but Crime Wave is still wonderful!

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