Classic PC Game 7th Guest Coming to iOS
Trilobyte is back with a port of its classic CD-ROM game, The 7Th Guest.
Wednesday Trilobyte Games announced that it is bringing the classic horror PC game The 7th Guest to Apple's iOS in early December. The game will join a plethora of classic PC titles from other developers already available including Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Myst, Duke Nukem 3D, Rise of the Triad and more.
"I’m excited to bring this ground-breaking classic title to new platforms and a new generation of gamers," said Rob Landeros, co-founder of Trilobyte and Trilobyte Games, LLC and art director/designer on all projects. "The port has been seamless, and our team has optimized the code for a full-range of mobile devices."
The 7th Guest was one of the first games to be published for CD-ROM, dating back to 1993 and originally costing $79.99. At the time Microsoft's Bill Gates called it the "new standard in interactive entertainment," selling 60,000 copies overnight at launch and around 2 million units overall. The game also noted for its use of full motion video, most of which was filmed with a $35,000 budget.
The 7th Guest threw players into the role of an amnesiac (Ego) wandering the halls of a creepy mansion in a first-person perspective. The full motion video was used to advance the story and reveal clues regarding the player character's origins. Twenty-one varying puzzles of increasing nature were set in place by the game's main antagonist, Henry Stauf, owner of the mansion.
In addition to "porting" The 7th Guest, Trilobyte Games said that it will publish a re-engineered version the game's sequel, The 11th Hour, optimized for the platform. Also in the works are mobile versions of Psych, Let's Go Diddley, POV and a new version of TLC.
The 7th Guest will be priced at $3.99 when it becomes available on iTunes next month.
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These games were great when pc's were unable to create 3d environments, what am i saying. Still are great
Retro............ is Back.............
not bad four bucks.
This brings back some memories. I remember seeing 7th guest running as a demo in a computer shop in London's Tottenham Court Road and it was the first time I ever considered the PC as a potential gaming machine to replace the Atari ST that I was still using back then.
Fantastic, iOS is proving it's gaming credentials by pushing out gaming titles that were huge when Bill Clinton took office, David Koresh burnt 76 followers to death at Waco and Microsoft releases Windows 3.11 For Workgroups.
Magical and revolutionary my ass!
Fantastic, iOS is proving it's gaming credentials by pushing out gaming titles that were huge when Bill Clinton took office, David Koresh burnt 76 followers to death at Waco and Microsoft releases Windows 3.11 For Workgroups.Magical and revolutionary my ass!
Two words - "Epic Citadel". Now quit raging because Android isn't getting these games first (if ever).
Two words - "Epic Citadel". Now quit raging because Android isn't getting these games first (if ever).
Who cares about that either?
Try to get games that were at least made in this millenium and I may have my interest level rise above it's current status of "apathy"
Fantastic, iOS is proving it's gaming credentials by pushing out gaming titles that were huge when Bill Clinton took office, David Koresh burnt 76 followers to death at Waco and Microsoft releases Windows 3.11 For Workgroups.Magical and revolutionary my ass!
Cause Mist or the 11th hour were too graphic intensive.
Two words - "Epic Citadel". Now quit raging because Android isn't getting these games first (if ever).
All ''portable'' revolutionary device are equally useless for gaming. Go play Angrybird or farmville would you.
I still have this games, 7th guest, 11th Hour, Phantasmogoria, Clandestiny, and tons of other great games, saddly they won't run on windows 7.
What I would like is an OS that could be trully compatible with ALL games/software all the way back to DOS, win95, win98 and XP.
I hope it plays just like the first; endless load times for very brief video cutscenes and annoying disk swapping when you get about half way into the game... Ah the good old days.
Two words - "Epic Citadel". Now quit raging because Android isn't getting these games first (if ever).
What are you talking about? iOS releases one classic PC game, so what? The are thousands of classic PC games available for android via Flash.
I still have this games, 7th guest, 11th Hour, Phantasmogoria, Clandestiny, and tons of other great games, saddly they won't run on windows 7. What I would like is an OS that could be trully compatible with ALL games/software all the way back to DOS, win95, win98 and XP.
You do realise that this is not the original 7th Guest, it is a port.
If they wanted to put 7th Guest on Windows 7 they could do it, even without a port, using Dosbox.
The reason why they don't is because even though it was a "great game" back in the day, the fact is 17 years later it is just shit.
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Good, modern games, either iOS and it's hardware can handle it or not.
What are you talking about? iOS releases one classic PC game, so what? The are thousands of classic PC games available for android via Flash.
When is epic citadel (or whatever the game is going to be called) coming out for android? Rage? That's right, they aren't
Have fun pirating classic games on a half-functional version of flash.
i remember buying this game with another game "The 11th Hour"
i donno where the CDs are so... *looking for a torrent*
This is a great game, very enjoyable.
Bring it to Steam please, I want to replay it.
call me when it can play halo in the next few years. otherwise don't bother, 7th gate sucked, oregon trail was more fun and x-wing and descent came about not long after. but ea sports games for the super nintendo were where it was at in the early to mid 90's
It was a great game and I normally dont play that type of games. The audio-side was very well made also and game included on a CD you could play. alot of wierd mood-setting digital music but also a great singing piece at the end :-)
the first time i saw that game was on a Tandy DX-2 66 in Radio Shack. I was drooling.
I still have this games, 7th guest, 11th Hour, Phantasmogoria, Clandestiny, and tons of other great games, saddly they won't run on windows 7. What I would like is an OS that could be trully compatible with ALL games/software all the way back to DOS, win95, win98 and XP.
I still have this games, 7th guest, 11th Hour, Phantasmogoria, Clandestiny, and tons of other great games, saddly they won't run on windows 7. What I would like is an OS that could be trully compatible with ALL games/software all the way back to DOS, win95, win98 and XP.
DosBox does wonders for playing old games on newer OS's. Its can be a little tricky to setup sometimes, but once you have it down pat, its a breeze for playing these old classic.
And if thats not for you, you never know, GoG might release an updated version.
Ack. The double quote strikes again. Can I get a mod to do an edit for me please?
I still have this games, 7th guest, 11th Hour, Phantasmogoria, Clandestiny, and tons of other great games, saddly they won't run on windows 7. What I would like is an OS that could be trully compatible with ALL games/software all the way back to DOS, win95, win98 and XP.
Phantasmogoria is available at Good Old Games (gog[dot}com) and reworked for Windows XP,Vista and 7 (both 32 bit and 64 bit versions).But I do agree I would like it if the current version of Windows or any future version worked for all the old gaming titles (or even applications).
Using DosPad you can run all the classic DOS games on the iPad, if you still have the disks or can find a torrent.
http://www.theevilboss.com/2010/11 [...] opers.html