I Think I Finally Found It

For me, I'm pretty sure it was an issue of PC Gamer I got around September of 1994, a little before UAKM actually came out. I had just gotten a new computer and was looking for games.

I don't think that article is what sold me, though. A few months later I went to a friend's house and he had it, and I remember thinking it was just another Myst-like with pre-rendered graphics. And then I hit the space-bar and everything moved. In 3D. I had never seen graphics like that.

I don't remember actually going to the store and getting the game, but I know I must have not long after that. It didn't look as good on my system with only 4 MB of RAM, and would eventually motivate the first upgrade I made to that system.

I first discovered Tex Murphy in an issue of Gameinformer 2 years ago. It had LA Noire as its feature story. In the magazine was a list of Film-noir games, like Max Payne and UAKM was among them. So it captured my interest enough to check it out on GOG. Since then I was hooked.

I wish I was born earlier than I was so I could've played these games when they came out.
And I could've donated money for the Kickstarter.
But I am happy that Tex is coming back

Lucky you, I haven't seen this book in about 20 years. No wonder it was so hard to locate. My advice to you, find that issue of Gameinformer, don't wait 20 years to be nostalgic for it.

I actually have it! I save most of my old game magazines. I like to open them up and be like "Oh yeah I remember being excited for that game."

Hopefully that book is the one your looking for.

I am now almost 100% certain that it is.

post a pic! What prompted you to buy the book? What other games were you playing at the time and how have they stood the test of time? There are some classics out there.

Though I'm still on episode 4 of Telltale Games' Monkey Island - I play games so rarely these days. I'll move on to BTTF if I finish monkey island before Tex returns.

Sure, I'll post a pic later. I'm pretty sure that the reason I picked up the book originally was for the guides to The 7th Guest and 11th Hour(they're the first 2).

Quite a topic. How did I discover Tex Murphy? You know what, I have no idea now. The most likely scenario is my wife and I were playing some other adventure game (very likely Myst) and I went looking for others. Unfortunately, in those days the internet or, more specifically, the WWW didn't really exist yet, so most likely I found it in a store while browsing the shelves (I never really read game magazines, although I did read tech magazines like Byte, PC Mag, etc., so maybe it was in there, but unlikely).

Glad you were able to find it. Nice little nostalgia memento

I didn't discover Tex through a magazine or anything, just happened upon it by chance. I posted in these old threads where others told how they first discovered it:
http://www.unofficialtexmurphy.com/mess ... f=1&t=1710

http://www.unofficialtexmurphy.com/mess ... f=1&t=3553

http://www.unofficialtexmurphy.com/mess ... f=1&t=3786

Xander Hartigan wrote:I first discovered Tex Murphy in an issue of Gameinformer 2 years ago. It had LA Noire as its feature story. In the magazine was a list of Film-noir games, like Max Payne and UAKM was among them. So it captured my interest enough to check it out on GOG. Since then I was hooked.

I wish I was born earlier than I was so I could've played these games when they came out.
And I could've donated money for the Kickstarter.
But I am happy that Tex is coming back

Thats cool that Gameinformer included it in a more recent article (more recent than the 90s that is). Glad you were able to discover it that way. Of course the Kickstarter also introduced many to the series for the first time and when the new game comes out hopefully even more will enjoy the series as a whole.

I first discovered Tex through a magazine also back when UAKM first came out. Think it might have been PC Gamer or something. The cool thing about this magazine was that every issue came wrapped with a CD-ROM with computer game demos on it and one was Tex. After loading and playing, was hooked and had to find the full game.

Still have a bunch of those CD-ROMs from the magazine in the "when i get around to it" box. So much to do, so little time.... Recall the hardest part was getting the sound card and inturrupt settings to work on my old computer.

HANK wrote:I first discovered Tex through a magazine also back when UAKM first came out. Think it might have been PC Gamer or something. The cool thing about this magazine was that every issue came wrapped with a CD-ROM with computer game demos on it and one was Tex. After loading and playing, was hooked and had to find the full game.

The SAME EXACT thing, only I'm absolutely positive it was PC Gamer.

I too went back and bought the thing that introduced me to Tex-- the Links CD-ROM that came with my family's computer in 1995. It mysteriously disappeared some years ago (but I never forgot Tex even without it). So I bought another a couple years ago.

I can't think of anything else that would compel me to actually pay money for a demo of a game I own. Er, I mean, uh... of course I was also buying it to play Links!

I'm pretty sure the PC Gamer issue I read was a preview and that it was before the game actually came out, so there was no demo yet.

The ironic thing was that even though I knew about UAKM before it was out and got it within a couple months of its release, and I browsed the new releases regularly, I had NO IDEA that Pandora Directive existed until months after it was out and a friend told me about it. I probably walked by it a dozen times without knowing it was a sequel to one of my favorite games.

Access never really had much marketing sense. I hope they've learned a bit since then, I want to see the new game reach more than just surviving Tex stalwarts.

I walked into my house after work one day and #2 son says: "Hey dad! I got this new game and it's really cool. I think you'd like it." I sat down, started playing, and the rest is history. BTW, he never finished the game cause I'd tie up the PC for hours playing UAKM! Me? I've played it a hundred times!