Good Old Games Calls in Tex Murphy, Private Dick

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Vintage video game digital distributor GOG has hired hard-boiled future gumshoe Tex Murphy, adding the adventure game series by Access Software to its catalogue.

Set in a post-World War 3 San Francisco and overflowing with noir cliches infused with humour, the Tex Murphy series saw five entries--the first three of which are out now.

A pack containing 1989's Mean Streets and 1991's Martian Memorandum is available for $6, while you can pick up 1994's FMV-tastic Under a Killing Moon for $10.

Good Old Games will round out the dystopian adventure series with The Pandora Directive and Tex Murphy: Overseer set to arrive on the store in the coming weeks.

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    June 16, 2009 8:04 AM

    Wow I remember playing these. I guess I was about 10 or 11 at the time, and they were really hard to figure out at that age. I believe it was one of the first games that used speech in game (through the internal speaker too I think, or maybe it was just really bad audio).

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      June 16, 2009 1:50 PM

      Yeah, RealSound and it was also like the first game to have 256 color VGA graphics! We had an EXPENSIVE VGA card in our computer at the time and the EGA 16 colors in the games out at the time were just not realizing its potential. So many cool Access Incorporated games were released.

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