The Dame Was Loaded

The Dame Was Loaded is a first-person point-and-click adventure game for MS-DOS and Macintosh created by Australian developer Beam Software (now Krome Studios Melbourne). It was published in 1996 by Philips Interactive Media.

The Dame Was Loaded
Developer(s)Beam Software
Publisher(s)Philips Interactive Media
Director(s)Cameron Brown
Designer(s)David Giles
Writer(s)Mark Morrison
Platform(s)MS-DOS, Macintosh
Release1996
Genre(s)Adventure game
Mode(s)Single-player

Gameplay

The game is a detective film noir set in the 1940s and combined live action cinematic's with pre-rendered point-and-click gameplay much like previous games in the genre like Under a Killing Moon and Myst.[1] The live action was produced by Vixen Films, director Jo Lane, and was at the time the largest multimedia production ever made in Australia.

The game is nonlinear, having nine possible endings featuring over thirty fully acted and voiced characters to interact with and over one hour of fully performed cinematics.

Reception

A reviewer for Next Generation panned the game, citing the use of still shots instead of FMV for most of the character interactions, the low difficulty, and the "cheesy, ersatz Maltese Falcon story". He scored it one out of five stars.[2]

Quandary wrote "In the end, the real time nature of the game prevented me from enjoying this outing...Timed puzzles are anathema to many adventure players".[3]

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gollark: That ignores the horrible, horrible electricity cost versus newer more efficient hardware.
gollark: English has no consistent general rules so it's fine.
gollark: Would you prefer me to say viros or virorum?
gollark: Apparently me.

References
  1. Hall, Mike (10 September 1996). Deckert, Rod (ed.). "Extra goodies make Dame a challenge". Albuquerque Journal. 116 (254). Albuquerque, New Mexico: Journal Publishing Co. p. B1,B3 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. "The Dame Was Loaded". Next Generation. No. 19. Imagine Media. July 1996. p. 87.
  3. Ramsey, Steve (March 2003). "The Dame Was Loaded". Quandary. North Fremantle, Western Australia: Quandary Computer Game Reviews. Archived from the original on 27 May 2008.
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