[tigger89]

I realize that this is a long shot, but I'm looking for an old(late 80s or early 90s) graphical adventure game that I used to own and have forgotten the title of. I believe the title had "shadow" in it, but I might be misremembering. I've been trying to look up and recollect all the old adventure games I played(or watched my mom play) when I was a kid, and this is one of the first ones I remember.

I believe it was part of a series of three games, or at least a planned series. It came on either a 5 1/4 or a 3 1/2 floppy, I think it was a 3 1/2 but my memory of it is a bit fuzzy. I remember there was an easy mode and a hard mode. In the opening scene, you were in an alley and you could find a few items, one of them was a pair of underwear. In the next scene, you could walk into a store/bar, and there was a door at the top of the stairs that you could talk to a man inside. Then you could explore a city at night. In another scene, you were in a shack and you placed something in a beam of light to open a portal to a someplace outside(a different world, I think).

I found this forum via a google search, and it looked like older games were discussed here, so I thought someone might happen to remember the game I'm thinking of. Any help on this would be appreciated.

[Kurufinwe]

It seems rather unlikely, but could it be Monkey Island 2? Some elements you mentioned remind me of it.

[GarageGothic]

Sounds very much like Dare to Dream by Epic MegaGames. I was actually thinking about that game a while ago, but for the life of me I couldn't remember the title - today it popped up the moment I read your description. The mind works in mysterious ways.

Interestingly, Dare to Dream was developed almost single-handedly by the then 17 year old Cliff Bleszinski who later went on to game designer stardom with the Unreal and Gears of War franchises.

[DustyShinigami]

That's an interesting bit of information GarageGothic. I didn't know Cliff Bleszinski made an adventure game.