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FREE: The 7th Guest (was US $4.99) - iOS

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FREE: The 7th Guest (was US $4.99) - iOS
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OldBugger on 03/01/2018 - 22:01 itunes.apple.com (1626 clicks)
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"Welcome to my … house!" Old Man Stauf built a house and filled it with his toys. Six guests were invited one night, their screams the only noise…

The house of The 7th Guest is filled with 19 devilishly clever puzzles that will test your wits and scare you out of them as well. To complete the game you must solve every puzzle in the house - only then will the secrets of the madman Henry Stauf be revealed to you.

To help you get started, you might want to check out the pyramid in the lower right corner of the Sphinx board.

  • "My father purchased The 7th Guest for me as a child and it terrified me to the point of having him return it. With my increase and courage and the scary images being smaller, I think I can handle it now." - Geek Tyrant

  • "Many gamers won't remember The 7th Guest, either because they didn't have the groundbreaking technology of a CD-ROM drive in 1993, or they hadn't been born yet. We remember The 7th Guest being an incredibly creepy game that snared our young imaginations and helped shape our minds as gamers." - Slide To Play

  • Bill Gates called this game “The new standard in electronic entertainment.”

Awards
1995 Interactive Academy/Cybermania Awards - Best CD Game
1994 Multimedia World Readers' Choice Award - Best Entertainment Title
1994 Computer Game Review - Golden Triad Award
1994 New Media Invision Awards - Award of Excellence
1994 New Media Invision Awards - Gold-Creative Excellence for Best Animation/Graphics
1994 PC World Class - Best CD-ROM Game / Adult
1994 Electronic Entertainment 1st Annual Editors' Choice - Breakthrough Game
1994 Computer Gaming World Readers' Poll - No. 1 Rated Game

Features
Engaging, rich-graphics gameplay
Stunning, original images look even better on new platforms
Ghostly, full-motion video and supernatural animated sequences
Award-winning soundtrack by “The Fatman”

Download Notes
The 7th Guest is a big file, about 650MB. It is best downloaded to iTunes then synced with your device.

Cheers HUKD

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  • lostn on 03/01/2018 - 22:40
    +1

    I remember this game on PC when I was a kid.

    I was floored by the graphics. They look real! It doesn't get more realistic than that.

    The FMV craze eventually died out though and now a game using FMV is normally maligned.

    At the time though, the industry had an obsession with them, and I was very impressed by them myself. I saw it as the pinnacle of gaming tech.

    I don't think this game has aged well. If I take off the nostalgia goggles, I don't think I would want to play it again.

    I remember a kickstarter for a sequel. They even got the Stauf actor to record some video as promo material. It failed to get funded. This is pretty much an indictment against FMV games in the 2010s. No one wants them anymore.

    • conan2000 on 04/01/2018 - 00:23
      +1

      It had a sequel called The 11th Hour. I remember the puzzles being extremely difficult, but then again. I was 12 when it came out!

      • lostn on 04/01/2018 - 10:05

        I had that game too. But it felt very different and more 'modern' at the time. I think it was the setting. It felt very disconnected from the first game, aside from Stauf.

    • morini on 05/01/2018 - 10:12

      The music was fantastic.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLP6gqaXRJw?t=20m40s

  • trippyfoo on 03/01/2018 - 23:24

    Lol .. for its time though. Pretty spectacular.. I remember as a kid being blown away when watching it run on a double speed cd drive. A Panasonic something 7502 model..lol

    • OverBought on 03/01/2018 - 23:46

      Yep, this was the game that made me buy our first CD drive on our 486 PC. It was split over 2 CD's!

      And now, it can be played on a mobile phone…

    • lostn on 04/01/2018 - 10:06

      Yeah, the FMV games at the time were leaps and bounds beyond what else we were playing.

  • vovka on 04/01/2018 - 01:18

    "Feeling… LONELY?"

  • justtoreply on 04/01/2018 - 01:24

    Didn't like it when it first came out. But i was too young and dumb to solve the puzzles so maybe that's why

    • lostn on 04/01/2018 - 10:07

      There was a built in hint system which eventually gave you the solution the more times you pressed it.

  • okwombat on 04/01/2018 - 08:20
    +1

    The new version of iTunes no longer allows you to download apps. Have to download direct to phone,

  • KJA on 04/01/2018 - 09:46
    +1

    MEMORIES!
    I remember researching my pocket dictionary and thesaurus for days, maybe weeks, to FINALLY reveal "shy gypsy, slyly, spryly, tryst by my crypt"

    (For those who don't know what a dictionary and thesaurus are - they were the early 90's version of Google) - Google them for more info :P

    • fenric on 04/01/2018 - 14:53
      +2

      Spoilers…if someone actually wants to play this your just ruined one of the hardest puzzles.

    • lostn on 05/01/2018 - 10:38

      Quite a clever puzzle. It's a sentence without vowels.

  • MoneyPincher on 04/01/2018 - 12:39

    Thanks!
    I never did finish this game on the Sega Megadrive CD.

    • OldBugger on 04/01/2018 - 14:33

      Thanks, no probs.

    • lostn on 05/01/2018 - 10:40

      Wait.. that game came out on Mega CD?

      I seem to recall Nintendo bought the exclusive rights to release this on CD based consoles, not because they ever had one, but to prevent Sega from getting it on theirs because the game was that big a deal.

      • MoneyPincher on 07/01/2018 - 10:10

        Ahh, you are right on that and I was thinking of Mansion of Hidden Souls on SegaCD.
        I think I actually got 7th Guest bundled with my first ever CD drive for PC.

  • waverock on 04/01/2018 - 12:54

    I played this game about 20 years ago. I probablly still have the CD-ROM at my parents' house.

  • Meconium on 04/01/2018 - 13:54

    This is so awesome - I was hanging out to play this over the holidays but couldn't bring myself to pay money for such an old game. Didn't even realise it was on iOS. Thanks OP!

    • OldBugger on 04/01/2018 - 14:34
      +1

      Good stuff. Cheers.

  • fenric on 04/01/2018 - 14:56
    +1

    I remember getting stuck for ages on the red and blue blob puzzle. Probably don't want to ruin my rose tinted recollection by replaying it though.

    • lostn on 05/01/2018 - 10:41

      There was a built in hint system that helped you with the puzzles and if you used it enough times it gave you the solution.

  • jamesvdm on 04/01/2018 - 15:54

    The 7th Guest is a big file, about 650MB. It is best downloaded to iTunes then synced with your device.

    Why…?

    • reubot on 04/01/2018 - 19:24

      All the video probably.

    • AustriaBargain on 05/01/2018 - 01:17

      The game came on a CD originally and CDs are about that size. If you don't have nostalgia for this game btw then you probably won't get much out of it, it's worth checking out though. Landmark game.

      • jamesvdm on 06/01/2018 - 13:32

        I meant why download it with iTunes.

        • AustriaBargain on 06/01/2018 - 17:10

          Feels like outdated advice back when 650mb was considered huge for an app. You can download it atraight to your device like normal, through the App Store.

        • jamesvdm on 09/01/2018 - 17:46

          @AustriaBargain:

          Exactly

  • causeimbatman on 05/01/2018 - 06:24

    Thanks OP, in it for the nostalgia.

    This and Microcosm were my first CD-ROM games.
    Microcosm was especially bad……but those FMV’s!

    • lostn on 05/01/2018 - 10:42

      I think my first was Wing Commander 2 and Sherlock Holmes (this one used video also).

    • OldBugger on 05/01/2018 - 20:11

      Ha. Good ol' CD-ROMs. Cheers

  • Kontiki on 05/01/2018 - 08:31

    Memories!

    I persuaded my dad to buy a CD-ROM drive so we could play this on our 486 DX 33Mhz.

    How annoyed I was when the neighbour kid got a 486 DX 66mhz with a DUAL speed CD-ROM drive the next week. And that same twat got a Pentium 2 years later.

    I remember dialing into some random BBS to find solutions for it.

    • lostn on 05/01/2018 - 10:43

      Haha. I remember back then a PC cycle was 18 months. If you haven't got a new set by then, your PC is too obsolete to play the latest games. Nowadays you can keep a PC for 4-5 years easily because of stagnation by Intel, and PC game development being dictated by the standards of the console generation, which doesn't get new hardware for 7 or 8 years.

      In the 90s it was really hard to keep the same PC for more than 1.5 years. When you bought a top of the line PC, you could run everything at max. Within 12 months, you're turning them down to minimum, and beyond that it wouldn't meet the system requirements at all. They were also much more expensive back then.

      Good times.

    • AustriaBargain on 06/01/2018 - 17:12

      There’s always someone with a faster cpu and more disc drives. Your neighbor kid probably spent every night wishing he had the 132mhz and quad disc drive model.

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