A sarcophagus seems like a fairly normal place to find a corpse.

@rawmilk905

6 жыл бұрын

An ancient mummified one, not a fresh one...

@madisonstoner7405

4 жыл бұрын

I mean...

@hayeslorenzo8624

2 жыл бұрын

Instablaster

@mikecairns6571

2 жыл бұрын

That corpse will be a museum piece in 1,000 years. We’re already 5 years down from the original comment. Only 995 to go! 👍

"All 12 of you." There are dozens of us! Dozens!

I think Roses can get maybe another... 17 videos out of Laura Bow based content. I'm all for it.

@pushinguproses

7 жыл бұрын

Don't tempt me.

@fanfaretloudest

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah seriously. I'd watch all of those too!

@spookerredmenace3950

7 жыл бұрын

if we all fight club chant Laura Bow.. over and over.. perhaps she will :D PLEASE!? !!

@bearmasksenpai1391

7 жыл бұрын

Do it

@bearmasksenpai1391

7 жыл бұрын

Laura bow!

The death scenes are "unrealistic"? MY PARENTS WERE KILLED BY FALLING ON PORCUPINES.

@redshirtveteran5688

4 жыл бұрын

At the same time?!

@everythingpony

Ай бұрын

Huh? How?

Oh that flapper at the end is FULLY Alaska doing Mae West for snatch game.

Wow, that flapper at the end. Kinda progressive to have a lesbian in the 1920s act so brazenly.

@GiygasStarman

5 жыл бұрын

Or for ANYONE to act so brazenly.

I loved this game as a kid. We weren't allowed to have any video or computer games in our house but I could go down the street to my aunt's and help her play this and other games like Myst even Leisure Suit Larry.

@woodencoyote4372

7 жыл бұрын

Nope. In my last year of highschool my brother and I got a PS2 together and kept it hidden under the TV cabinet. But I think missing out on those formative years is why I don't really play video games now; I prefer to watch other people like my wife play story-heavy games (I get to do all the character creation).

I wish this would get a remaster treatment like Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle.

@predabot__6778

6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely agreed! = ) The art nouveau -style of this game could really shine with modern technology.

Steve's voice is so deep. It's actually kinda scary?

@pushinguproses

7 жыл бұрын

It's SO bass-y that sometimes he's hard to understand. Not sure what kind of filter they used but it's crazy.

@hemangchauhan2864

7 жыл бұрын

Imagine someone speaking like this, IRL

@zayaannashrid1374

7 жыл бұрын

I agree with Scarfulhu for this one. It's way too unsettling. Just imagine spending nights with him.

@offkilterstudios6739

7 жыл бұрын

"King Graham rubs the woman's shoulders"

@elsie8757

6 жыл бұрын

It's so weird. Why couldn't they just use Josh's regular voice, it's fine??

Oh - I didn't know the background influence on the art before. It's clear now that you mention it!

"You join salvation army then I give you unclaimed laundry......HAHAHAHAHA!" XD

Thanks for the info about JC Leyendecker, I love this art style

All hail gog.

@michaelbuehler3897

7 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be playing some of these old games without them.

@Horzuhammer

7 жыл бұрын

It's a paradise for a retro pc-gamer. Even just browsing the site makes me happy every time.

@notmegaming9038

7 жыл бұрын

gog's simple installers that preset 95% of games to work without messing with dosbox is worth buying old pc games from them alone

@Gasoline85

7 жыл бұрын

GOG is a godsend to anyone with a passion for classic PC games.

@Dojan5

7 жыл бұрын

It's not just old titles though, they have new titles too! I bought The Witcher III on there because it's freaking DRM free over at GOG. Yaees! In addition to that they have a nice programme where if you live in an area where the regional pricing might be overcharging you, you'll get credits back you can use on subsequent purchases. It's common for Steam games to go for like, $49.99 £49.99 and €49.99. 50 euro is actually 53 dollars, and 50 pounds is actually 62 dollars. As a result you end up getting overcharged quite significantly. But GOG has an answer. Hazzah for GOG!

I'd love to see someone make a third Lara bow game.

@fanfaretloudest

7 жыл бұрын

I wish if I had the tools to do so I could at least make a fan Laura Bow game on Newgrounds. Again if only I had the tools!

@pablovillarreal2182

7 жыл бұрын

FanfareT.Loudest There's SCI-like engines available, and general classic adventure game engines too. Can't remember the names, but if you search for fan adventure games you'll surely find some

@serin20

7 жыл бұрын

If you have the time, skill, and drive you might look at the free tool Adventure Game Studio. I tinkered around with it about 10 years ago for fun and it was more than capable of making a game like this. I understood programming well enough to make it do what I wanted. I don't have the skills to design the graphics so there is no way I could have made a game by myself. I believe there are other free to cheap toolsets out there as well that could accomplish this.

@fanfaretloudest

7 жыл бұрын

Pablo Villareal Ok. Thanks. I'll look into that!

@Romans8-9

2 жыл бұрын

This year apparently.

Holy crap, why does Steve's voice sound like that? Why not just use Josh Mendel's regular voice, it would've been deep enough I think...

@Mantis47

5 жыл бұрын

I know the reply is two years late but... I think it's because Josh also voices other 4 characters in the game, so they didn't want him to sound the same. So they put a heavy filter and possibly slowed down his voice, which sounds unnatural, instead of getting another voice actor.

The Dagger of Amon Ra sounds like it would make a decent movie

Is it possible that PushingUpRoses is more of a Laura Bow fan than I am? Only one way to find out: This calls for a trivia contest of obscure facts and details about the games.

@Ivegotwormsinme

Жыл бұрын

Please say you're still into this. Try to stump me. I promise I won't look anything up, but go for it and ask me a question.

This is the first video game I ever felt immersed in. I remember being in the middle of class excited to get home and try different solutions to progress in the game

I want you to keep the Asian guy's laugh around as a reaction.

Here's another video topic you could do: Your dream Lara Bow sequel. How would it be? Would it work nowadays? Also, thanks for clarifying on the black backgrounds! It's a strange design decision (It makes the game look unfinished) but at least that gives it a justifiable reason.

7:02 "I was just rubbing her neck." "OH SURE STEVE, I JUST HAD THIS GLASS IN MY PURSE BECAUSE I WAS THIRSTY..." _ Me internally: "OOOOOHHHHH GET REKT"

I literally gasped when you said "J.C. Leyendecker". Such an underappreciated artist! I don't hear about him as much as I feel he deserves. He often gets overshadowed by the much-less-classy-much-more-cheesy Norman Rockwell. I'm going to go watch your playthrough now. Your sexy growl intrigued me.

I played this game on your recommendation just now and I loved it! I was SO disappointed to find out that this was the last Laura Bow entry. I hear they are working on one now slated to be released in 2022.

Great video as always. Also, Roses - you do a helluva "grrr" sound. Fantastic!

Watching you play the Laura Bow series is what compelled me to buy it off gog so I could experience it myself. So thank you for making these fun videos that introduce me to games I wouldn't have played otherwise!

Such a great game and a really fond memory of my early gaming days. Thank you for doing this!

I played this game at your suggestion Roses and i wish i could unplay it just to play it again for the first time. Its so incredible. It makes me so sad that murder mysteries are essentially extinct as a game genre nowadays.

I remember calling the sierra hotline when i got stuck in this game lol. Absolutely absurd in retrospect that there was a person i could talk to to help me figure out a puzzle in a video game haha.

The box art is simply gorgeous. Shame big box releases aren't a thing anymore.

Zen riddle: if you find a corpse inside an empty sarcophagus, is the sarcophagus _really_ empty?

@schadenfreudebuddha

7 жыл бұрын

I don't get how finding a corpse in a sarcophagus is a shock...isn't that what goes in there?

@jasonblalock4429

7 жыл бұрын

Well, you wouldn't be likely to have been chatting up the occupant of the sarcophagus just a few hours earlier. Not unless you have a TARDIS anyway.

@schadenfreudebuddha

7 жыл бұрын

clearly, you underestimate the extralegal creativity of my personal life.

2:53 got me because of her facial expression. newcomer and fucking digging it

Perfect timing, considering GOG.com just re-released both Laura Bow games today!

Now I get the jokes you make in your current vids! Love it. -Matt

This was an exciting game in ’92 and still is. I always thought Steve’s voice sounded like that phone gag from Home Alone 2. ”Credit card? You got it.”

It's $5.99! It's on GOG! It's DRM free! It's... It's... It's... ...the Dagger of Amon Ra!

@redshirtveteran5688

4 жыл бұрын

It's not stamped "Made in Pittsburgh"!

This was my favorite point and click back in the day! Awesome review!! Thanks so much for bringing back the good memories!!

You have made me have a great appreciation of point & click adventure games, specifically Sierra's games & more specifically Laura Bow. I absolutely adore Laura Bow, & it's all thanks to you, PUR!

This (the disk voice-less version) and The Colonel's Bequest, along with the first Gabriel Knight, will always be 3 of my favorite games. Ahhh nostalgia!

You are one of my favorite youtubers! I watch all your videos even though I don't play video games and don't know anything about them. I've learned so much from your videos, and you are so knowledgeable and entertaining. Your videos are incredibly well done. Thank you so much!

Damn PUR has a hell of a community not one dislike

Pleeeeeeease never stop making LB videos. We few, we happy few LB lovers have no one else to turn to!!!!!

Sierra made some awesome stuff! It's nice seeing kool ones I missed out on :D

Thumbs up again to Roses for providing such comforting and warming nostalgic entertainment :) Thank you

I'll never forget this Sierra classic! Great video, PUR!

Roses, I would like to thank you for introducing me to this series, because, as of now, I am AAAAAAAALL about Laura. Seriously. Curly red hair, bright blue eyes, the whole classy southern belle thing, and MMMHMM that ACCENT! I am in LOVE!

Roses, have you heard of the indie game A Matter of Murder? If you like murder mysteries, you should check it out! It's very Agatha Christie!

Great. Now I feel the urge to finally purchase it. Thank god for GOG. Also...I really hope you'll cover some more modern adventure games sometime too. Plenty of great stuff the last couple of years and its always a pleasure to listen to your opinions!

2:00 The Blackwell series lets you do this as well. If you haven't you should play those. They are quite good and pretty creepy but not very quirky.

@MadameChristie

3 жыл бұрын

Love the Blackwell games

great video i found this because i'm doing a bit of a "museums in video games" deep dive at the moment and those reviews are absolutely invaluable, especially since i've never played this before

How sublimely odd that you posted this during the moment that I was looking over this game on Amazon..... I love it.

Hot Damn Thank you for bringing up that end of the game test , I spent so much of my childhood getting thru this game , years of playing (pre internet age) finally to arrive at the end game test and be told, I still lose. All because I kept taking all evidence. So let that be the one lesson you learn here, dont take all the evidence from a crime scene. Just what you need!!

fantastic video as always.

As usual, a great video about an awesome game. Thank you for your awesome work PushingUpRoses.

That laugh is so great

Your videos are my whole childhood. Every time I check to see if you've played something, I see that you have. Solidarity! Finally, someone has played the same adventure games as me. I never finished The Dagger of Amon Ra, because the chase part toward the end was too stressful for me lol.

That's so funny that the art was inspired by Leyendecker, when I first saw Laura and Steve together I even mentioned it out loud. Bur really, Steve sounds.... unnerving. Give him some helium or something, he's reaching demonic levels!

great review, i thoroughly enjoyed it

Any review by you is great!

"to finding a corpse in an empty sarcophagus". If you found the corpse in the sarcophagus, then it wasn't empty, now was it?

Your videos always highlight my day, Roses. Great as always. I think I'll check these out on GOG.

This was by far my favorite game growing up. I used to run out of the room when I got caught by the black robed person and wacked. I LOVE that you cover this game. Ever played Prophecy? Gotta do a video on that!!

I really like your videos. Please keep up the good work!

I loveeeeed this series as a kid!!

I've been sitting on the fence about this game until I watched your video, but now I'm convinced it's worth a buy. Thanks for helping me make the decision. Great video, entertaining and very well spoken.

Hey, I'd watch a dozen more videos about this game... it's one of my all-time favorites!

yes! Laura Bow! your playthrough was so much fun!

The rotoscoped character animations have always given me the uncanny valley creeps.

Longtime fan lurker, here! While I'm a fan of point-and-click adventure games, I haven't player any Laura Bow games, but I'm sure I'll try them out in the future :) Despite hearing you talk about them several times, I never grow tired of hearing it because your enthusiasm and love for these games is noticeable and contagious! Oh, and if possible, try to be a little lighter on the spoilers :P

Laura Bow II is my favourite retro game, and I love this video! 💙

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only Fan of this game. I was always a fan of adventure gaming, and this was a fun one. I never even knew it existed until it got dropped on as part of a CD-ROM bundle with (I think) police quest collection. Now i'm going to be down a youtube rabbit hole of adventure games. Thanks

This looks gorgeous for a game from 1992

I always got stuck as a kid playing this game. But loved everything about it especially all the goodies that came with the game!

I love your work

Nice! Have you watched Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries? The main character reminds me of Laura Bow. =)

I am really diggin this content gurl.

Adventure games (as they were called) provided me with plenty of entertainment and pleasant escapism back in the early 90s, and among my favourites were this one and the Lucas Arts Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (both of which I played several times). It was probably the great cover art for The Dagger of Amon Ra and the subject matter (I've always been big into archeology--and Egyptology in particular) that drew me to this game and I can honestly say I wasn't disappointed. Laura Bow enthralled me for many an hour, even if at times I was frustrated by certain aspects of the gameplay. Of course, by today's standards it all seems rather primitive, but at the time of its release this was cutting edge stuff, made all the more appealing by Sierra's consistently good graphics. They were THE game company back then if your jam was adventure games. Of course, that came at a price, because as I recall each game cost $40 (CDN) and upwards, which was actually quite expensive if you translate that into today's prices. But as far as I was concerned, they were worth every penny. Looking back on them now, there's a certain charm about them that is lost in the games of today--though doubtless that's a bit of nostalgia on my part. If they were to remake The Dagger of Amon Ra, I would hope they would try to retain some of that charm--especially the lush (for the time) background graphics (and, of course, the fabulous cover art for the box). My big regret is having sold my copy long ago--even if I couldn't play it on my current computer (my copy of the game having been on 3 1/2 inch floppies). Just having that box on my bookshelf would be a nice reminder of fun times had and period when my life seemed far less burdened than today.

I really like you reviewing this game, all of this is overall awsome.

The mousetrap sets off a machine gun? What sort of mice are in this museum anyway?

This game is what I think of when I ponder the fun games of Sierra.

Never played any of this series of Sierra games. Might have to check it out! Also, I really love Leyendeker's and Rockwell's art from this period! :D

My fav kinds of videos

You can never have too many vids on this game. 🙂

8:21 OMG! HAHAHA! I love how he casually goes at her and stabes her like it's a polite thing to do. ''And now, without further adue, if you allow me, I'm going to stab you madam. Yes? Here you go.'' I know its partially due to the hardware limitations but still, VERY FUNNY.

>Wolf Heimlich Are they serious? The dudes name is Wolf Heimlich? Please don't tell me this guy does evil stuff in secret or I don't know how to handle that.

That test simile was perfect.

YAY I'm so glad you did an "official" review of Dagger of Amon Ra, I did enjoy the game a lot, but the only issue I had was that my version of the game was buggy as hell (it was the Roberta Williams' Anthology version), and at one point it wouldn't let me even LOAD my save file. >< So I unfortunately had to give up on playing it myself and watched a Let's Play of it, cuz I wanted to know how it ended so badly.

My new past time is drinking to ur videos Wow I didn't know at 8:42 is now a reference to joker and Harley The black background looks rlly good

This game as a preteen also terrified me. I played it before Colonel's Bequest and I remember how excited me and my brother were for it. I can't remember why we chose it but I always assumed it was a bit hit. I admit though I was stuck early on for months because at the party there was something I hadn't done that triggered the scene change.

One of my favourites and I regret selling my copy when I moved. I still remember having nightmares after playing this at a neighbours house after seeing that first death

I love this game too! My favorite Sierra adventure after the Space Quests. I also played it as a kid and somehow managed to solve it without a walkthrough, being pre-internet and all. I didn't have the talkie version so I never heard the voices.

@Thatruth4dst

4 жыл бұрын

I was stuck in a few places so I had to write Sierra for a hint. lol

the editing in this video is hilarious

Next, Roses should review all Clara Bow movies.

I don´t know if you ever played or even heard of the Ben Jordan: Paranormal investigator games? I loved those. Especially the 3éd one: The Sorceress of Smailholm. I would love a video on that series if you are familiar with it. If not I think that it would be right up your alley

the use of a notebook of a game mechanic reminds me of la noire

to this day I say "Don't touch it. You don't know where it's beeen."

So a museum, just happen to have flesh eating beetles in it, without a big warning sign saying "Warning, these f-ers will eat you!"? XD

Great classic. They don't make 'em like this anymore.

new subscriber here been watching videos for a while now though love your content roses

You join salvation ahmy, then I give you unclaimed laundry. Hahahahhaaaa.

Strange coincidence or fate that this just came out on gog? :) Either way noticed you took out the line about it not being available!