[Esterlin]

26.

Spoiler:

King's Quest V, in Mordack's Dungeon

I'm beating my head against the wall to remember what #3 is and it's killing me.

[Shany]

28

Spoiler:

Vents (on Quirk's ship I guess) from Space Quest 5

[Kurufinwe]

Both guesses are correct (isn't that maze in SQ5 the most stupid mood-killer ever?).

I'm providing more hints below and lifting all restrictions on the number of guesses (not that people were fighting to guess more stuff...).

03. Older French game. You have to telepathically ask for help to progress in the maze.
09. Not exactly a maze, just the most convoluted city map you can think of.
13. The most obnoxious maze in history. Save. Make a step in complete darkness... Oops, you fell into a hole, restore. Make a step in another direction. Oh, you survived this... but a monster has randomly decided to appear and kill you, restore. Etc.
14. And now the hardest maze in history. Vents, rats and lots of awful memories.
17. Older game, recently re-released for free. Everyone should play it, it's actually pretty good. You see a hedge maze, but you can actually just walk straight to your goal... after you've solve a puzzle, of course.
18. Deep beneath the city lie the paths to the tomb...
19. Obscure version of a very old game with small mazes in basically every location.
24. Timed maze wit finicky controls... Run before the base blows up!
29. Second-most recent game in the selection (after Machinarium). Pick the right numbers to get out of the maze.


Track list:
(00:00) 01. The Legend of Kyrandia, The Dragon Grotto [Esterlin]
(00:34) 02. Gabriel Knight, The Bayou [kate me]
(01:08) 03.
(01:38) 04. Leisure Suit Larry 3, Patti in the jungle [Esterlin]
(01:55) 05. The Legend of Kyrandia 3: Malcolm's Revenge, Cat Island jungle [Trunkyo]
(02:21) 06. Shivers, Subterranean maze [ollie]
(02:53) 07. Shadow of the Comet, The Crypt [diego]
(03:20) 08. The 7th Guest, Basement maze [ollie]
(03:46) 09.
(04:13) 10. King's Quest VI, The catacombs [Esterlin]
(04:42) 11. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Lava maze [Esterlin]
(05:13) 12. Keepsake, The Dragonvale Oracle [ollie]
(05:43) 13.
(06:04) 14.
(06:29) 15. The Neverhood, Wall maze [SpeedBo]
(06:55) 16. Escape from Monkey Island, Mysts o' Tyme Marshe [SpeedBo]
(07:26) 17.
(07:56) 18.
(08:22) 19.
(08:49) 20. Conquests of the Longbow, St Mary's hedge maze [SpeedBo]
(09:22) 21. The Secret of Monkey Island, Melee Island forest [SpeedBo]
(09:45) 22. Quest for Glory I, The Mage's Maze [Esterlin]
(10:06) 23. Machinarium, The brain game-thingie [Fien]
(10:32) 24.
(10:57) 25. Monkey Island 2, LeChuck's fortress [Shany]
(11:22) 26. King's Quest V, Mordack's dungeon [Esterlin]
(11:47) 27. The Pandora Directive, The Mayan temple [ollie]
(12:16) 28. Space Quest 5, The Goliath's vents [Shany]
(12:42) 29.
(13:09) 30. Loom, The Dragon's tunnels [Shany]

[Shany]

From the hints is #17

Spoiler:

Dragonsphere

[harald]

#13 is

Spoiler:

KQ3, in the cave behind the waterfall. Yes, that maze is weird. If the troll appears, you're dead: there's no way to escape him. You just have to keep saving/restoring until you get through without him appearing.

Whew! That's the only one I know that hasn't been guessed yet. Close call. Thanks for the quiz, Kurufinwe. I'm going to replay Shivers now, thanks to you.

[Oscar]

Total guess for 18

Spoiler:

Indy and the Last Crusade

[Kurufinwe]

Oops... I had completely forgotten about this thread. Sorry.

Originally Posted by Shany

From the hints is #17

Spoiler:

Dragonsphere

That's right. The 'maze' part of it is pretty straightforward...

Originally Posted by harald

#13 is

Spoiler:

KQ3, in the cave behind the waterfall. Yes, that maze is weird. If the troll appears, you're dead: there's no way to escape him. You just have to keep saving/restoring until you get through without him appearing.

I'm going to assume that you meant KQ4, since clearly you know exactly what awful maze we're talking about.

Originally Posted by Oscar

Total guess for 18

Spoiler:

Indy and the Last Crusade

That's right. For the medley, I used the original orchestral version from the movie soundtrack.


We only have six games left, and pretty much all the tough ones (except for #29, which I thought someone would have recognised by now). I'm going to give a few last hints in case anyone still wants to try to guess something, and will give the remaining answers in 24h:

03. A temple.
09. Adventure/RPG hybrid.
14. Somewhere in a spy base.
19. Sierra or LucasArts.
24. Older game about aliens and space travel.
29. Fairly recent first-person game.



Track list:
(00:00) 01. The Legend of Kyrandia, The Dragon Grotto [Esterlin]
(00:34) 02. Gabriel Knight, The Bayou [kate me]
(01:08) 03.
(01:38) 04. Leisure Suit Larry 3, Patti in the jungle [Esterlin]
(01:55) 05. The Legend of Kyrandia 3: Malcolm's Revenge, Cat Island jungle [Trunkyo]
(02:21) 06. Shivers, Subterranean maze [ollie]
(02:53) 07. Shadow of the Comet, The Crypt [diego]
(03:20) 08. The 7th Guest, Basement maze [ollie]
(03:46) 09.
(04:13) 10. King's Quest VI, The catacombs [Esterlin]
(04:42) 11. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Lava maze [Esterlin]
(05:13) 12. Keepsake, The Dragonvale Oracle [ollie]
(05:43) 13. King's Quest IV, The troll cave [harald]
(06:04) 14.
(06:29) 15. The Neverhood, Wall maze [SpeedBo]
(06:55) 16. Escape from Monkey Island, Mysts o' Tyme Marshe [SpeedBo]
(07:26) 17. Dragonsphere, The Fairies' maze [Shany]
(07:56) 18. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Venice Catacombs [Oscar]
(08:22) 19.
(08:49) 20. Conquests of the Longbow, St Mary's hedge maze [SpeedBo]
(09:22) 21. The Secret of Monkey Island, Melee Island forest [SpeedBo]
(09:45) 22. Quest for Glory I, The Mage's Maze [Esterlin]
(10:06) 23. Machinarium, The brain game-thingie [Fien]
(10:32) 24.
(10:57) 25. Monkey Island 2, LeChuck's fortress [Shany]
(11:22) 26. King's Quest V, Mordack's dungeon [Esterlin]
(11:47) 27. The Pandora Directive, The Mayan temple [ollie]
(12:16) 28. Space Quest 5, The Goliath's vents [Shany]
(12:42) 29.
(13:09) 30. Loom, The Dragon's tunnels [Shany]

[SuperEdy]

Just from the hints I would say:
3.

Spoiler:

Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess

9.

Spoiler:

Circuit's Edge

19.

Spoiler:

Labyrinth

24.

Spoiler:

Future wars

29.

Spoiler:

Dracula 3: the path of the dragon

I love that maze

[Kurufinwe]

And you would be right!

[SuperEdy]

Sorry for editing while you were posting, I didn't notice

[Kurufinwe]

Well, my post only applied to #24 and 29 --- and still does: the other three are wrong.

There's actually a game called Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess?!

[SuperEdy]

Originally Posted by Kurufinwe

There's actually a game called Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess?!

It's most known as Kult

[harald]

Originally Posted by Kurufinwe

I'm going to assume that you meant KQ4, since clearly you know exactly what awful maze we're talking about.

Right, thanks for that. I have no idea why I typed KQ3, I must have been very tired.

[Kurufinwe]

The end! 26/30, that's almost 90%: good job everyone! The four remaining ones were:

03. Ween the Prophecy, the maze in the temple of the Revuss.
09. Quest for Glory II, wandering in the streets of Raseir (which admittedly are not as hard to navigate as those of Shapeir, but I thought the music was easier to recognise). I keep using music from the QfG series, thinking they'll be quickly recognised, and most of the time they aren't --- am I the only one who loves those games?
14. Operation Stealth. That maze in the dark in the bad guys' base. The one with the rats...
19. Zak McKracken, in the Egyptian pyramid. From the rare FM-Towns version, which had audio CD tracks. ATMachine used that exact piece of music in this thread long ago, and I was very proud of myself for figuring it out, and so I decided to use it here.


In case people are interested in completing their collections (or, much more importantly, in getting ammunition for making a medley of their own for this thread), here are the sources used in this medley:

• The composer's site (the jukebox) for the 2 Kyrandia games
• CD audio tracks on certain games: Operation Stealth, Future Wars, Zak mcKracken (Zak's soundtrack can also be found on Soundtrack Island)
• Official soundtrack CDs: The Sierra Soundtrack Collection (for Conquests of the Longbow; tracks from this CD can be found at QuestStudios), The Neverhood, Machinarium; for Indy 3, I used the movie soundtrack
• Fan-made digital recordings: Sierra Music Central (Gabriel Knight, SQ5), QuestStudios (Larry 3, QfG2, KQ6, KQ4, QfG1, KQ5), Soundtrack Island (Indy 4), Mat Tyler's site (Pandora Directive)
• Music extracted from the data files: directly (Keepsake), with Monkey Island explorer (MI1 and MI2 remakes), or with Game Extractor (Shivers, MI4, Dracula 3)
• Mirsoft has a big collection of game MIDIs; that's where the music for The 7th Guest is from
• For Loom, I used an unofficial soundtrack CD made by some Russian guy and some Japanese guy
• The rest are personal in-game recordings: Ween (AdLib), Shadow of the Comet (AdLib), Dragonsphere (MT32)

And that's it! Thanks for playing, everyone!


Track list:
(00:00) 01. The Legend of Kyrandia, The Dragon Grotto [Esterlin]
(00:34) 02. Gabriel Knight, The Bayou [kate me]
(01:08) 03. Ween: The Prophecy, The Temple of the Revuss
(01:38) 04. Leisure Suit Larry 3, Patti in the jungle [Esterlin]
(01:55) 05. The Legend of Kyrandia 3: Malcolm's Revenge, Cat Island jungle [Trunkyo]
(02:21) 06. Shivers, Subterranean maze [ollie]
(02:53) 07. Shadow of the Comet, The Crypt [diego]
(03:20) 08. The 7th Guest, Basement maze [ollie]
(03:46) 09. Quest for Glory II, Streets of Raseir
(04:13) 10. King's Quest VI, The catacombs [Esterlin]
(04:42) 11. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Lava maze [Esterlin]
(05:13) 12. Keepsake, The Dragonvale Oracle [ollie]
(05:43) 13. King's Quest IV, The troll cave [harald]
(06:04) 14. Operation Stealth, The rat maze
(06:29) 15. The Neverhood, Wall maze [SpeedBo]
(06:55) 16. Escape from Monkey Island, Mysts o' Tyme Marshe [SpeedBo]
(07:26) 17. Dragonsphere, The Fairies' maze [Shany]
(07:56) 18. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Venice Catacombs [Oscar]
(08:22) 19. Zak McKracken, Egyptian pyramid
(08:49) 20. Conquests of the Longbow, St Mary's hedge maze [SpeedBo]
(09:22) 21. The Secret of Monkey Island, Melee Island forest [SpeedBo]
(09:45) 22. Quest for Glory I, The Mage's Maze [Esterlin]
(10:06) 23. Machinarium, The brain game-thingie [Fien]
(10:32) 24. Future Wars, The alien base [SuperEdy]
(10:57) 25. Monkey Island 2, LeChuck's fortress [Shany]
(11:22) 26. King's Quest V, Mordack's dungeon [Esterlin]
(11:47) 27. The Pandora Directive, The Mayan temple [ollie]
(12:16) 28. Space Quest 5, The Goliath's vents [Shany]
(12:42) 29. Dracula 3, The path of the Immortals [SuperEdy]
(13:09) 30. Loom, The Dragon's tunnels [Shany]

[diego]

Great stuff Kuru, as always, although i obviously suck with these "older" ones.

So, what's your next medley about? Action sequences and fighting?

[Kurufinwe]

A history of pixel hunting throughout the ages.

More seriously, I wanted to do a French-themed medley to celebrate Bastille Day, with pieces of music more or less (probably mostly less) related to France. I hesitated last week-end when I was preparing the new one, but ultimately I had already given much more thought to the mazes, so I did that one --- and the Bastille Day medley will have to wait until next year. (Then again, the last time I promised something a year in advance, that was the 2007 instalment of Anniversaries in AdventureLand, and that never materialized, so don't hold your breath!)

Anyway, I think I'm done with medleys for now. When I made the first one 5 years ago, I kept adding and adding more music because there was just so much stuff that I liked and wanted to use --- now I feel like I've gone through my collection three times over and I have to think of "thematic medleys" to find new ideas. So don't expect anything from me for a while.

Hopefully, we'll soon have a new medley from somebody else!

[zobraks]

Originally Posted by Kurufinwe

I wanted to do a French-themed medley to celebrate Bastille Day, with pieces of music more or less (probably mostly less) related to France.

Vive la France! Toujours l'amour!

Allons enfants de la Patrie, le jour de gloire est arrivé!
...
(you know the drill)

[diego]

And now something completely different...


I thought to do a little spin-off - video games music is often heard even before the official release, with trailers and previews. Here's a collection of 6 music pieces from 6 upcoming games. Since it would be too hard to rummage through all the upcoming titles, i will present you those 6 games and all you have to do is match the songs with correct titles.

Rules:

You must make all matches AT ONCE. So, six matches in one answer. Don't cheat too much Spoiler or no spoiler, what suits you best. After a while, i will reveal the answers.


"UPCOMING" MEDLEY (or listen to it online)

And the titles:

1. Haunted
2. Memento Mori 2
3. The Second Guest
4. J.U.L.I.A.
5. The Testament of Sherlock Holmes
6. The Book Of Unwritten Tales






Playlist:

1. 00:00
2. 00:40
3. 01:28
4. 01:53
5. 02:28
6: 03:05

[Oscar]

Great concept.

Spoiler:

1-6
2-1
3-4
4-2
5-3
6-5

[Kurufinwe]

Here are my completely random guesses:

Spoiler:

1. The book of unwritten tales
2. Haunted
3. J.U.L.I.A.
4. The Second Guest
5. Sherlock Holmes
6. Memento Mori 2