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Top 9 Killer Old School Adventure Game Tunes

12 Comments Posted by Old School Game Blog on August 27, 2012

Old school adventure games frustrated the hell out of me. This was before the internet, so it was simply down to you (and your friends - if you had any) to figure out just how to win that ridiculous pirate spitting contest

There was simply no other way to advance the story - you sat there, hour after hour, just trying random (sometimes logical in hindsight) things like

Hi everyone! Today I read an interesting blog post written by Jiksun (he maintains a blog called Desk of Jiksun). His article is about music in classic adventure games, like Leisure Suit Larry, Monkey Island and Sam & Max. I'm a big fan of such games, so it was great fun listening to the old tunes again. I thought you might like to read the post as well, I asked him if I could reblog it on Old School Game Blog. He agreed, so here it is! Hope you'll enjoy it! :)

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12 Responses to Top 9 Killer Old School Adventure Game Tunes

Jiksun August 28, 2012 at 10:08
Thanks for the reblog OSGB! Will let you know when I do another old school game-related post!

Cheers,
Jiksun

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- Old School Game Blog August 29, 2012 at 17:32
  Hi there Jiksun,
  
  No problem mate. Please keep me posted!
  
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Coder August 31, 2012 at 17:25
For me it was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

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- Old School Game Blog September 1, 2012 at 18:49
  That is a good game. Still got the hintbook and the original here. Did you play the next one, Fate of Atlantis?
  
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  - Coder September 1, 2012 at 19:00
    I am not sure but I think I did a quick try at some point. Can’t really remember what I thought. I should fire it up again to see if it impresses me.
    
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    - Old School Game Blog September 6, 2012 at 16:59
      It was quite a large game back then. Received good ratings as well if I remember correctly. We should try it on ScummVM in AROS.
      
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      - Coder September 6, 2012 at 21:58
        Ah yes of course. I just noticed that even The Vague 1+2 are available for Aros.
        
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        Old School Game Blog September 9, 2012 at 18:05
        Those issues are quite good. Hope more will be released in the future. How’s your own diskmag going by the way? Any progress?
        
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        Coder September 9, 2012 at 21:14
        Seeing as Amos is well sort of working on Aros (real Amos) and there is a “remake” (right?) of Amos to run native I might start doing some work on Aros in Amos. I even remember seeing something about Ace Basic going Aros? My biggest enemy is time.
        
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        Old School Game Blog September 10, 2012 at 18:27
        Hi mate,
        
        Time is always an issue unfortunately.
        
        I’ve read about the AMOS re-make and it sounds interesting. Do you know how complete it is? I’m interesting in giving it a go myself.
        
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        Coder September 10, 2012 at 20:13
        I have no idea but for sure I will install it and give it a go asap.
        
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        Old School Game Blog September 11, 2012 at 16:57
        Looking forward to hear about your experience with it. Please keep me posted.