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I was wrong, did a quick Google search and found the bundle MacGyver was talking about.
Quote from: Bigfootman on March 24, 2025, 12:57:09 PMhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nancy_Drew_video_games
You can see every book that inspired a game here. Pretty much every Files and Supermystery book was discontinued by the time their game came out. Most of the digests under 100 were as well.
Interestingly, both of the Pilot books for the Files got made into games.
It's possible that if I wasn't mistaken that they were planning on putting the Final Scene book with the game. (I can tell you that what I saw looked nothing like the book they ended up including) But S&S wanted to promote the digests instead of a series that already ended. It's probably the same with the Secret of the Scarlet Hand bundle.
It is funny the Final Scene bundle mentions the book included being First Edition, like any kid buying the game would actually care.
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And here's another bundle with a book not connected to the game.
Quote from: tomswift2002 on March 24, 2025, 12:47:30 PM"The Final Scene" from 2001 was based on 1989 Files #38 "The Final Scene" (so the box set that was released with "The Case of the Lost Song" is odd, and make zero sense to include).
Quote from: MysteryFan89 on March 23, 2025, 07:48:58 PMWhat stories have been discontinued that are in the games?
Quote from: Bigfootman on March 23, 2025, 06:58:50 PMI sadly have no proof, and it might be a case of the Mandala effect, but I remember seeing a bundle for The Final Scene that came with a new version of the book. It had a digest like cover (resembling the Digest cover style from #129-159) that Nancy spying on some people in fancy costumes. I saw it once on Amazon or Google images then never again.That may be right. It was definitely one of the Digests- not the Files.
The bundle MacGyver saw I believe came with "The Case of the lost Song" (despite it not inspiring any games)
Quote from: tomswift2002 on March 23, 2025, 09:18:44 AMUnfortunately, when the game series launched, a lot of the titles adapted were "Nancy Drew Files", which had been cancelled a year before. So the stock on those books might've been non-existent. But still it's funny how the games used stories that had been discontinued.What stories have been discontinued that are in the games?
Quote from: tomswift2002 on March 23, 2025, 09:18:44 AMUnfortunately, when the game series launched, a lot of the titles adapted were "Nancy Drew Files", which had been cancelled a year before. So the stock on those books might've been non-existent. But still it's funny how the games used stories that had been discontinued.
Quote from: MacGyver on March 22, 2025, 07:39:00 PMI have seen at least one Nancy Drew PC game packaged with a physical copy of one of the Nancy Drew books. (I don't remember which one right now.) But I do know it was a thing.
Quote from: Bigfootman on March 22, 2025, 04:47:06 PMIt's other way around, the game is based off the book.Written way before the game. And Nancy and Ned (mentioned anyway) were together in both games, but not in the books.