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Anyone remember Shivers?

I've spent the last day and a half downloading this game at 5 KB/s. FIVE. There's four minutes left.

I'm so tired, but I want to relive my wonderful memories of this game. I last played it... 9 years ago I think? Maybe that was the sequel. Loved the music in that.

Next up I'm trying to find Lost in Time.

>> No.616353

in b4 torrent doesn't work

>> No.616361

>>616353
Joke's on you, I'm not using torrents. Found a direct download.

I know the company is dead and everything (RIP Sierra), but I've gotten DMCA notices for simply ancient movies so I'm paranoid now.

>> No.616371

>dat Man's Inhumanity to Man exhibit

that fucked me up as a kid yo. Scary shit.

>> No.616382

>>616371
Sharing for prosperity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zlJhedCr4w

>that agonized scream at 0:10

>> No.616408

>5KB/s

Why the load speed?

>> No.616413

>>616408
Crappy website for old games which limit your speed unless you're a subscriber.

>> No.616415

>>616413
Why not just use Underground Gamer or Emuparadise? I am sure that game would have been on either of those sites at far better speeds.

>> No.616417

so weird. It's done, and it's an exe, but it's about the right size and it wants to be opened with 7zip. I can extract the exe and get a bin and cue file from it

>> No.616419
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>>616417
OP don't do it.

>> No.616423

>>616349
I remember playing that briefly. My cousin had it I think. That was... probably more than a decade ago. Maybe I should try it again.

>> No.616432

>>616413
Or because they're bouncing it off a satellite geopositioned between Shanghai and Moskau.

>> No.616549
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616549

OP here. I'm alive! I was worried because the file was a little suspicious, so I went offline and started up all my protection software.

It's the real deal though. It won't run under my Windows 7 64-bit, so I had to start up the Windows XP Virtual Machine, but it installed and runs great.

How I've missed the Sierra logo and chime...

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616557

>>616549
For some reason I'm always intrigued by how these games have their file structure set-up. Each "demo" (read: trailer) has its own folder in the main directory, and all that's in there is an AVI file

>> No.616569
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616569

>>616557
>Lighthouse
>Hoyle
>TIM
>Earthsiege 2

Oh the time I've sunk into each of you. Earthsiege 2 in particular is still one of my favorites, along with Starsiege.

>> No.616576

That damn checkers puzzle...
What were the kid's names? Beth and Merrick?
Also at what point did Windelnot die?

>> No.616601

>>616576
That checkers puzzle was a bitch. A bunch of the puzzles were. These were games where'd I'd sit down with my non-gamer sister and mother and we'd make notes on a big yellow pad to figure out puzzles.

I can't remember when Windlenot died, but pretty sure it was before the start of the game, along with the two kids. I remember finding him and their bodies. I want to say like a year had passed between his disappearance and the start of the game.

>> No.616635

>>616417
the fuck
that's just regular winzip extraction exe

are you new with computers

>> No.617948
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617948

Beware the Ixupi!

I swear once 3D printing kicks up, I'm printing ALLL of these damn things and putting them on a shelf next to my computer.

>> No.618020

I fucking love this game, every time I post it in those "games only you played" threads, no one replies.

I wish you could play it 64-bit. It even works in 32-bit Windows 8 (a game from 1995 on an OS from 2012). I hope to see it on GOG someday.

>> No.619121

>>617948
Oh fuck. I didn't recognize the title or art at allbut I know I've seen these little things before

maybe I have played it

>> No.619470

>>616569
What was the whole point of Lighthouse? I read a preview of it but never got to play it.

>> No.619513

I recall getting this as a demo on I think Torin's Passage.

Scared the crap out of me when I was younger, do you remember the painfully bad intro? Bunch of kids dare someone to go into the scary building etc etc.

Nice thread.

>> No.619741

>>619470
It was an Adventure Puzzler, riding the Myst bandwagon basically.

You lived on the oregon/washington coast and your inventor friend owned a lighthouse. You get an erratic message from him on your answering machine about him needing you to get there as soon as you can and watch over his baby daughter. You drive there at night through the rain and find the door open and the place a mess. The girl is fine so you set about figuring out what happened. As you investigate and fix the lights, the girl starts to cry. You hurry back and see this tall, thin, nearly naked tattooed man standing over the crib, a portal behind him. Once he sees you he grabs the girl and jumps through the portal. You can then follow him and try to get the girl back. or not go through, let it close and look around your friend's workshop, figuring out that he worked out portals himself, and even has information about the tattooed man

Once on the other side, you find a nearly abandoned world with almost no people and advanced steampunk-ish machines mindlessly wandering the deserted streets and rooftops.

You have a mystery of a fallen civilization to unravel and a little girl and (presumably) her father to rescue.

Fun game. Not fantastic, but really nice at times. I liked the atmosphere most of all.

>> No.619771

>>619513
> Torin's Passage
That was the shit man. There were so many references I must have missed at the time I'd love to go back and give it another go. It was just *fun.*

My young self back then and even now though, still can't figure out if that DAMNED giggling grass pixel hunt to climb up a hill was a deliberate parody of adventure game pixel hunts or a legitimate pixel hunt. Given that game, it could be either.

>> No.619819

>>619771

>That's not iiiiittttt

I believe if you go on Sierras website they have their own setup ini for TP in order to play it perfectly on newer OS's. In fact I'm pretty sure they did it for most of their games, that company is far too nice.

The voice acting was quite wonderful aswell, I'd like to know how many VA's they actually had working on that 'cause there are a number of characters.

>> No.619830

>>619819
>Sierras website
it's long gone man :(

>> No.619837

>>616349
Still the best myst like imo.
The sequel was good but too bizarre.

>> No.619848

>>616349
The musics were so great.

>> No.619869

>>619837
>set them up
>just to knock them down
>you may think you're too for words
>but let me spell it out
>let me spell it out ~out
>let me spell it
>let me spell it ~out ~out ~out ~out, ~baby

I literally have all of the music from shivers 2 memorized. Twisted Cyclone man. Loved them.

>> No.619886

>>619869
>too cool for words
>Trip Cyclone

god damnit. I need to go to bed.

>> No.619929

>>619869
>the music in the cofee

>> No.622847

>>619741
Anything more spoileric about the plot? :3

>> No.622870

This thread needs more Planetarium music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxaOYyqFCZc