Old game

lalala · Post by **lalala** » Fri Jun 27, 2003 9:03 pm

Looking for the name of an old game that used to be on school computers. It had robots, and a detective; you tried to find clues; you were in a castle, and the opening scene was a view of the castle at night. Any suggestions of what this game could be?

Post by **wardrich** » Sat Jun 28, 2003 9:02 pm

Sounds like one of those Old skool MEC games... was the main character a teenager kid with a red baseball cap?

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 7:10 pm

It was a TLC game... Midnight Rescue by name. You can buy it from TLC as of yet I believe... get one of their catolouges and see if it's there. If not, I still have floppies for the original game in my attic...

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 7:14 pm

Just a note, Wardrich: MECC, a company my uncle helped build and programmed for (he wrote and still writes the "Oregon Trail" games along with Amazon Trail and Yukon Trail... if you've ever been in one of the hunt scenes in OT 2/3 many of those photo backround locations are real... flimed on my grandpa's farm) was bought out by TLC a few years back.

Post by **wardrich** » Sun Jun 29, 2003 9:52 pm

wow, are you serious DB... thats amazing!

Post by **Dogbreath** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 11:48 am

Yes, I am serious. As a side note, he also knows Bill Gates... well, he's met with him for lunch a couple of times. (He used to be the VP of TLC so I would assume it has to do with advisory/business transactions)

Unfortunately, he has yet to carry through with my assassion plots...

ada · Post by **ada** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 2:04 pm

Yes! get him to kill Gates........put on his tombstone "this man has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down"

Homz · Post by **Homz** » Mon Jun 30, 2003 2:33 pm

Wow, that's sweet! Those games are pretty good.

And, you know, I'm really getting tired of this pointless Win bashing.

Splodginator · Post by **Splodginator** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 12:16 am

Do we really have to kill him? Can't we just do something to his vocal cord and his hands (so he can't type). He'll eventually suicide from helplessness.

Post by **wardrich** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 4:19 pm

the games weren't that bad, but the main problem was that they were soo frustrating at times... My fav was Museum Madness or w/e it was called...

Post by **Dogbreath** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 4:32 pm

http://www.smartkidssoftware.com/cdmcc19.htm

Post by **Dogbreath** » Tue Jul 01, 2003 4:33 pm

http://www.cybercitysoftware.com/supsolmidres.html <-online store where you can buy Midnight Rescue... only $7.99.

John The Ax · Post by **John The Ax** » Thu Jul 03, 2003 9:05 pm

Is it just me, but I find 3, 4, and possibly (haven't played it yet) of OT extremely lacking as compared to the complexity of 2?

Post by **Dogbreath** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 8:45 am

3 and 4 were made as "big cash cows" for TLC while 1 and 2 were serious, hard worked and very well developed projects made back when MECC was a small, rather close-knit company. It's like the difference between the old super solver TLC games (some of the best games ever made) and the modern TLC games. (utter polically correct, cutzy, dumbed down trash)

Homz · Post by **Homz** » Fri Jul 04, 2003 10:20 am

What games <i>does</i> TLC make nowadays? I am aware that more recently they have been straying from their purpose of Learning with games like Tomb Raider....