Unofficial Tex Murphy

I visited a local thrift store today and much to my surprise found a boxed version of UAKM and PD still in the shrinkwrap! It is one box with both games and it got me wondering...how many retail versions of the tex murphy games were there?

Good question. Kixx and Eidos had British/European versions of UAKM and PD and Eidos had a TMO version as well. I also have versions in French, german and Chinese (not all games, can't remember which ones just yet).

There were several versions of MS and MM too. When I get done with my personal inventory I will take pics and post them along with a complete list.

That would be really cool. I saw a Eidos version of TMO on eBay and thought that was weird. I didn't know they published the game in the UK. There were also demos of all the games. Now that I think about it, a complete Tex Murphy collection would be awesome!

I know I've got the Kixx version of UAKM.
I probably have the Eidos release of PD and Overseer.

Kix, like the healthy breakfast cereal that kids love?

No offense, but I think you've had too much free pizza. (Ooooh! Bad pun!)

Down here in the land of Oz we were never privellaged enough to be able to walk into any old game store and find copies of Tex Murphy games lying around.

Although, I remember when they released UAKM it was a huge thing. The pretty much had a whole wall dedicated to copies of the game. Not to mention posters, cardboard stands, and the trailer playing on almsot every monitor (some in 9 monitor 3 X 3 arrays).

But since Pandora, you would be lucky if game store owners here know who the hell Tex Murphy was. I gave up looking through old bargain bins years ago. And so I cherish the one and only copies of each of the games I have... I pretty much burn a copy of all the sames an play Disc images instead of the Discs themselves.

They are too prescious... but then again, what am I saving them for!?

-Cub. =o)

You sleepy, Cub? You are of course saving them because if they BREAK... (knock on wood...) ...you're boned! So take care of them and you will be able to replay them for ever.

The alternative is hideous and gruesome, not unlike the concept of sitting through a Paulie Shore movie-marathon.

-Fred

Fred Buer wrote:
The alternative is hideous and gruesome, not unlike the concept of sitting through a Paulie Shore movie-marathon.

I'll be good... I PROMISE I'll be good!!!




-Cub. =o)

Cubase wrote:Down here in the land of Oz we were never privellaged enough to be able to walk into any old game store and find copies of Tex Murphy games lying around.

Perhaps not nowadays, but that's exactly how I purchased UAKM, PD and TMO back in the day. Got my UAKM and PD bundled together from a newly opened EB Games store, and TMO from a small independant games store a couple of years later.
The UAKM and PD pack was just the regular/large boxes strapped together with a yellow cardboard strip with something like "Two Tex adventures" written across it. I should still have it tucked away somewhere.

I bought the Kixx version of UAKM in some kind of bargain bin I think... in some dinky corner store in an indoor market (doesn't exist anymore), don't know how long after release that was. I looked at the back and wasn't sure whether to get it, glad I did. The others I bought brand new upon release although not exactly sure where....

Bren wrote:Perhaps not nowadays, but that's exactly how I purchased UAKM, PD and TMO back in the day. Got my UAKM and PD bundled together from a newly opened EB Games store, and TMO from a small independant games store a couple of years later.
The UAKM and PD pack was just the regular/large boxes strapped together with a yellow cardboard strip with something like "Two Tex adventures" written across it. I should still have it tucked away somewhere.

That's exactly how I got mine. I remember bringing them home and hiding them from my wife for a week because money was tight and I thought she'd be ticked at me for buying the games. I was completely wrong. When I finally fessed up and showed her the boxes she said, "Cool," and dove right into the games with me.

The first Tex game I purchased was Mean Streets for a C64 through mail order.