Unofficial Tex Murphy

I'm new here and was looking around for a post where I could let the forum know that I've joined and to let
you all know a little bit about me. Not that I assume you'd find it interesting. I couldn't find one so that's
why I posted this and if someone else has any info they'd like to share feel free to do it here.

My name is Jonny and I live in southern Sweden. The first time I came in contact with Tex Murphy must have been
back in 1995 or 96 while I was living in a boarding school. A group of friends and I solved UAKM together and
even though there were a whole bunch of us the amazing story of that game came across. So when I found
Pandora I quickly bought it. In short, the best game that I have ever played.

Other information that might be interesting. I'm in my early thirties, married and I have a daughter who's
turning two in august. I collect Star Wars action figures and I still enjoy playing text adventure games.

Thank you for reading.

Verry welcome to the bourds.

Welcome aboard, Sponny.

Indeed, always good to see a new name on the board.

Welcome to the most diverse, most dedicated fanbase there ever was. We have people from all over.

I'd like to personally welcome you aboard, and wish you many posts

Welcome aboard, söta bror

-Fred

Good to see (in the mind's eye) a new face.

You mentioned that you played UAKM with a group. I think that group play is fun because it allows one to share the experience with someone else, and that makes it seem more real, or at least more a part of your real life. But when you play a graphic game with a group, there is the problem of who controls the mouse. How did you do this? Did one person control the mouse? Did you take turns? Did you play individually but in parallel? I'm curious about that and how you found the experience.

You also mentioned that you like to play text adventures. Do you have a preference between the classic games or the modern ones? Do you ever play these with a group or a partner?

Hello, Sponny! Stick around - we're glad to have you.

Speaking of Sweden, I finally saw Det sjunde inseglet (the Seventh Seal) a couple days ago. I can see why it's such a classic - Bergman was obviously a gifted filmmaker. It was fun trying to extract a little meaning from the Svenska audio using what I know of the Íslenska and Deutsch languages. Unfortunately, it is spoken so quickly and effortlessly that it sounded like mumbling. One scene I really liked was the scene in the church that ended with Block saying (I think I have it right), "Jag spelar schack med död!"

Welcome to the board... you share the same opinions with many other members having Pandora as your favourite Tex game, which is also, in my opinion, the classiest of the series.

Either way, welcome to the community and we look forward to your input.

-Cub. =o)

First of all, thanks for the warm welcome everyone.

DrPaul wrote:Did one person control the mouse? Did you take turns? Did you play individually but in parallel?

One person had control of the mouse, the owner of the game, not me. But that didn't really matter since the story of the game and the humour was so strong that I, as an observer, still got sucked into the game. Getting that effect from a shooter? Nah, has to be a really good adventure game for that.

DrPaul wrote:Do you have a preference between the classic games or the modern ones?

Back in the day when text adventures was the coolest thing around I was living in a small hut in the middle of the forest. So I'm mainly playing modern free stuff made with TADS and Adrift.

Jerry Dan wrote:Unfortunately, it is spoken so quickly and effortlessly that it sounded like mumbling.

Well, I think that Swedish might sound quite weird considering the wide use of the three Scandinavian letters: Å, Ä and Ö. The quote was great but Death ends with -en, Döden, otherwise it's just plain dead.

I knew there was something wrong with that. See, I understand the vowels just fine - it's the consonants that seem to not be clearly enunciated. For instance, that's why I heard Död, not Döden. Do Swedish or Norwegian (Fred) capitalize nouns like German?

We don't capitalize nouns, but I think Döden was also his name and job title, so.... Uhmm...

Oh look, free cake! *Runs off*

-Fred

::looks up:: Free Cake?!? Where?!? I want free cake! Is it chocolate?! Will there be punch? And pie? More people will come if there is punch and pie!!!!

Well that's a great big "duh" on me! Thanks for making me look stupid, Fred...

Do you want to have it or eat it? You can't do both, you know.

Great to have a new member of the club.

Olofström huh? That's way up north if you ask me.

Ok so not quite. About 120 kilometers to the north east from where I am.

Anyways, welcome to the board.

Btw, should you wish to discuss adventure games in general with fellow swedes, just google Deltér Adventures.