[Christian IV]

Anyone know what happened to the venerable A for Adventure.com website? are they gone with the wind? it appears so but I thought to ask here to see if anyone knew...

[zobraks]

Originally Posted by Christian IV

Anyone know what happened to the venerable A for Adventure.com website? are they gone with the wind?

I don't know what hit them, but with their 'our-screenshots-are-so-precious-so-you'll-never-get-to-see-them-well' policy I'm (almost) glad they went down.

Their screenshots were so teeny-tiny you could only guess what's on them.

[Fien]

That would be good old Gravedigger. Haven't seen him around in ages. I didn't know his site was gone, must be fairly recent. It hadn't been updated in years but last time I looked it was still there. He's left gametz too.

EDIT:

Their screenshots were so teeny-tiny you could only guess what's on them.

You could click on the thumbnails and they became large enough so see what was on them.

[diego]

I'm more bothered of Adventure Archiv not updating the site for a while... at least the archive is still there

[Fien]

Slydos' Adventure Archiv will be back. At least, that's what I read at the forums at the German site Adventure-Treff.

[Agustin]

What a shame... A For Adventure featured some truly rare games. As far as I know, Gravedigger has one of the most exclusive collection of games anywhere in the world.

[zobraks]

Originally Posted by zobraks

Their screenshots were so teeny-tiny you could only guess what's on them.

Originally Posted by Fien

You could click on the thumbnails and they became large enough to see what was on them.

Oh, really? Clicking on thumbnails never occured to me.
Now seriously - even when I clicked on (extra tiny) thumbnails only something this size would pop:




A For Adventure screenshots were only good for avatars.

[Fien]

Originally Posted by zobraks

Oh, really? Clicking on thumbnails never occured to me.

I know... just like you lost the original of your avatar.

Now seriously - even when I clicked on (extra tiny) thumbnails only something this size would pop:

By all means, let's be serious.

1. Your pic is smaller than the A-for-adventure ones.
2. Even a notoriously bad pic recognizer (hm, I don't think that's good English, but what the hell) like me can see that your screenshot is from Culpa Innata.
3. Ergo: you didn't have to guess what's on Gravedigger's pics.

[diego]

Ok since we're here - A for Adventure was always like a mysterious site to me - once in a while i would stumble on a link, whether on Mobygames or somewhere else, that (supposedly) leads to AfA, but whenever i clicked it the site has never worked for me

Then, i noticed in last two years or so, that when i click the link i got that - "The document has moved here" and i was able to access the site, but never really had a chance to give it a thorough read.

Because of THAT, and to settle the screenshots size war once and for all i'm happy to see that the site time machine works - http://web.archive.org/web/201102021...adventure.com/

no pictures it seems but you can see the approximate size

[Fien]

Originally Posted by diego

Because of THAT, and to settle the screenshots size war once and for all i'm happy to see that the site time machine works - http://web.archive.org/web/201102021...adventure.com/

no pictures it seems but you can see the approximate size

Doesn't work for me.

[diego]

It has to work. Did you wait a couple of seconds when it says loading the site?

OR, go here - http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/htt...-adventure.com and click on February the 2nd

[Fien]

Yes, I waited. But I found it now. And yes, let's settle this pic war. Just look at the size of the Ozzie pic, compared to its thumbnail (second to the left).



EDIT: changed pic size.

[diego]

*adding oil to the fire Hey! You cheated, it says 115%

[Fien]

How can I cheat when the 115% is in plain view. But I have changed it to 100% now.
(You said there weren't any pics... did you wait after clicking the thumbnail? )

The point is, you can clearly see what's in the 100% pic.

[zobraks]

Adding more oil (and a huge pile of wood) to the fire:

The proper resolution of a screenshot (for me) is the one from the original game (640 x 480, 800 x 600, 1024 x 768, ... whatever). A For Adventure screenshots were always resized (they were afraid someone would steal their 'precioses'?) and were (very) tiny (for me) - it would be a shame (for me) to use them in a 'guess a screenshot' game.

That's all.

[diego]

I agree that the proper screenshot is always the one with the game resolution - but on the other hand, AfA maybe had server restrictions and difficulties where in such situation smaller size picture is welcomed.

On a different note - i was more devastated to see adventure-eu go a few years back, as well as Adventure music radio on http://planete-aventure.net/ They play some lousy RPG music now

Originally Posted by Fien

Slydos' Adventure Archiv will be back. At least, that's what I read at the forums at the German site Adventure-Treff.

Neat!

[Christian IV]

So it looks like Gravedigger and his site are gone? that is sad new, thanks for the replies and the lively chat about screen shots

[Lady Kestrel]

A for Adventure was the first place I discovered some of the more obscure adventure games. The size of the expanded screenshots was not great but adequate to see the pics. However, a couple of the thumbnails, like Amerzone, never got bigger, and that was frustrating.

[Collector]

Originally Posted by zobraks

they were afraid someone would steal their 'precioses'?

This does, indeed, seem to be that case when you look at the script for the popup.

[Christian IV]

Hi Lady K, so there we have the info on A for Adventure. Looks like the lights have gone out.