Re: Longshot: A couple of old games

[heuser.marcus@freenet.de]

awdish@hotmail.com schrieb:
>
> I can't remember the name of the other game, but it was a side-
> scrolling adventure/mystery game in which you played a reporter for a
> London newspaper. You had a week or something to get the scoop on a
> mystery regarding something's disappearance or someone's death, but
> the main things I remember are that the game had its own internal time
> clock (meaning you needed to get 8 hours of sleep each night and that
> things could happen in one area of town while you were in another).

This sounds like the game "The Scoop" by Telarium (the company was
later renamed to "Trillium"). I never played through this not too well
known
title so I don't know if this:

> Also notable was the fact that as a kid, it was the first time I'd
> ever seen the subject of domestic abuse suggested in a game. (You
> would find that one of your contacts got into an argument with her
> emotially abusive boyfriend/husband which finally gets physical).

applies to it.

You can find these images here:
http://www.apple2.org.za/mirrors/ftp.apple.asimov.net/images/games/adventure/scoop/

bye
Marcus