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#1 User is offline   Mysteryman1313 Icon

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Posted 15 June 2009 - 07:31 PM

I have been trying to remember the name for an older computer game that was based in a monster's mansion and the point of the game was to find a certain amount of keys for a grandfather clock before "Thirteen O'Clock."

If you have any idea what this game is please reply.
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Posted 15 June 2009 - 07:50 PM

View PostMysteryman1313, on June 15th 2009, 06:31 PM, said:

I have been trying to remember the name for an older computer game that was based in a monster's mansion and the point of the game was to find a certain amount of keys for a grandfather clock before "Thirteen O'Clock."

If you have any idea what this game is please reply.


What kind of timeframe are we talking about here - early 90's/Mac LC, B&W 80's Mac Plus, etc...?

Was it an action game or adventure game?
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Posted 15 June 2009 - 09:16 PM

Thinking of the World Builder-esque game (as in it was like a World Builder game, but it wasn't World Builder) "Vampire Castle" maybe?
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Posted 15 June 2009 - 10:07 PM

I remember it was from the early-mid 90's and it was a more child friendly adventure-type game than an action game.

I also vaguely remember that you were able to build/ create monsters in a frankenstein themed laboratory, but aside from that I dont remember much else
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Posted 19 June 2009 - 03:30 AM

I think this is the game you are looking for:

http://en.wikipedia....i/The_7th_Guest
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Posted 16 July 2009 - 06:14 AM

My brother recently bought a game and I am curious if there is some way to run the game without actually having the physical disk in the system. I have tried creating disk images with both the Disk Utility, and Toast Titanium but neither worked properly. I am running Mac OS X 10.5.7
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Posted 16 July 2009 - 07:26 AM

View Postchander, on July 16th 2009, 05:14 AM, said:

My brother recently bought a game and I am curious if there is some way to run the game without actually having the physical disk in the system. I have tried creating disk images with both the Disk Utility, and Toast Titanium but neither worked properly. I am running Mac OS X 10.5.7

If Disk Utility and Toast can't make a playable disk or disk image, then you have to wait for the developer to release a patch that doesn't require the disk in the optical drive. We can't help you hack your game.
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Posted 16 July 2009 - 08:18 AM

What game is it? sometime if you mount a disk using Toast instead of just double clicking it to open through the system, then itll work. This is generally for older games, so 2006 and before. Newer games dont work that way any more.
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Posted 17 July 2009 - 11:56 AM

What came to mind was either "The 7th Guest" as IceMac said, or its sequel "The 11th Hour."

I did them both back in the day. Bought them as part of a mac game pack :) Good stuff.
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Posted 31 July 2009 - 07:39 AM

I'm sure it's not 7th Guest (which had no clock objective) and I never played 11th Hour but I read about it at the time, and it doesn't sound like what you describe.

(one google search later...)

This it?
http://en.wikipedia....e_Haunted_House
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