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Tex Murphy fans a-GOG at series re-release

Many longtime adventure gamers have a special place in their hearts for Tex Murphy, the affable private detective in Access Software's acclaimed series. Newer adventure fans wonder what all the excitement is about, mainly because the five Tex Murphy games are just too hard to find or get running these days. Today, the good news for all concerned is that the series is now being offered on GOG.com, a DRM-free download portal that specializes in XP and Vista-compatible older games.

For the time being, it's the first three games that are available for purchase. In one bundle for only $5.99 comes Mean Streets and Martian Memorandum, the two third-person games produced before the significant series switch to first-person FMV format for the final three titles. One of those is also being offered, as Under a Killing Moon can be purchased from GOG as well for a cost of $9.99. The remaining two games, The Pandora Directive and Overseer, are expected to be added shortly, with release targets simply listed as "soon".

For the uninitiated, Tex Murphy is a lovable but down-on-his-luck PI, highly reminscent of 1940s noir protagonists, but living in a futuristic, post-WWIII San Francisco. Always in need of a new case, Tex continually finds himself drawn unwittingly into far more than he's bargained for. Designed by Chris Jones (who plays Tex in the FMV titles) and Aaron Conners, who recently returned to the genre with the casual title 3 Cards to Midnight, the games are renowned for their rich character portrayals, complex storylines, and progressive design that many of today's releases are only starting to implement, with such features are difficulty settings, hint options, and branching plot paths.

You may have some luck finding used copies of the later Tex Murphy games on eBay, but this will be the first opportunity for many to play the first two games, and GOG's compatibility updates should help ensure they run smoothly even on newer computers. Along with LucasArts' upcoming re-release of Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition, this is a good time for vintage games, it seems. They may not make 'em like they used to, but re-releasing the best ones they used to make isn't such a bad alternative.

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