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#81

Nancy Drew Games / Re: Old Nancy Drew Titles

Last post by MacGyver - August 05, 2024, 11:54:43 PM

Yeah- sometimes old games will still run on newer machines. A while back I was somehow able to get "Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis to run on Windows 11 - and that PC game was released in 1992!

#82

Nancy Drew Games / Re: Mystery of the Seven Keys

Last post by MacGyver - August 05, 2024, 11:52:55 PM

The last game came out in 2019.  However games are taking longer to develop now than the did years ago just in general, especially if it's a series.

Although I don't like how they discontinued the physical releases.

Okay- yeah, I guess that's why it seems like such a long gap. And I didn't realize the physical releases had stopped. That's a shame.

#83

Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: #59 Open Season (32nd Anni...

Last post by tomswift2002 - August 03, 2024, 08:45:04 PM

I can see why S&S used the cover art to Hardy Boys #152 Danger In The Extreme for the 2005 Aladdin Hardcover reissue of The Hardy Boys Casefiles Collector's Edition #3 that originally appeared in January 1999 with a reddish-orange cover with a magnifying glass on it.

Chapter 4 of Open Season has the Hardy's involved in a snowmobile chase.  I guess that's better than what some UK publishers did by using the covers for Casefiles #6 & #9 for omnibus's containing original series stories that do not even have any similar scenes to the artwork.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220528045530/http://www.hardyboys.co.uk/gallery/oother.php

#84

Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: #59 Open Season (32nd Anni...

Last post by tomswift2002 - July 30, 2024, 04:43:27 PM

Well Joe doesn't use any of the Survival tactics that the Hardy's learned/taught in The Hardy Boys Survival Handbook (1980), since he doesn't remember how to make a rough sled to transport an injured person.

#85

Hardy Boys Casefiles / Re: #59 Open Season (32nd Anni...

Last post by NZone - July 30, 2024, 01:06:07 PM

This one has a fourth-wall breaking quote.

Frank shot a look at his brother. "You've been reading too many cheap detective novels."

"They don't come much cheaper than us," Joe replied.

#86

Hardy Boys Casefiles / #59 Open Season (32nd Annivers...

Last post by tomswift2002 - July 29, 2024, 04:25:28 PM

Published: January 1992
Publisher: Archway Paperbacks (1992-1997, stand alone title), (1999-2001, part of The Hardy Boys Casefiles Collector's Edition #3), Aladdin Paperbacks (December 2005, hardcover) No Digital
Author: Rick Oliver
Other Hardy Boys by Author: Casefiles #33, 40, 45, 50, 69, 76, (possible) 77, (possible) 78, (possible) 80, 85, 88, 93, 98, 100

Plot: When you follow the call of the wild, danger is always on the prowl!

Manhunters!

Frank and Joe take off on a cross-country skiing trip into the Colorado Rockies and soon find themselves facing the greatest challenge of all: a test of survival! They've befriended a conservationist K.D. Becker, a woman dedicated to saving the endangered mountain lion. But K.D.'s been shot -- and now it's her life that hangs in the balance.

The boys discover that K.D.'s mission to create a wildlife preserve has stirred up passions as old as the frontier itself. Ranchers, hunters, and native Americans all want the land -- and K.D. stood in the way. The hunt is on, and the Hardys are hot on the trail of suspect. But the shooter's not about to give in without a fight, and now Frank and Joe have become fair game!

#87

Nancy Drew Games / Old Nancy Drew Titles

Last post by tomswift2002 - July 28, 2024, 09:44:52 AM

So last night I was playing some of the old Nancy Drew games on my Windows 11 laptop, and I was surprised that I could get them working.  Titles like "Message In A Haunted Mansion", "The Treasure In The Royal Tower", "The Secret of the Scarlet Hand".  I didn't try "Secrets Can Kill (2000)" or "Danger by Design", but I'm pretty sure they'll work if "Message In a Haunted Mansion" works.  But considering those games are now 23-24 years old, and were meant for Windows 95/98 it's surprising that they still run on Windows 11!

#88

Nancy Drew Games / Re: Mystery of the Seven Keys

Last post by tomswift2002 - July 28, 2024, 09:33:27 AM

I had gotten the feeling that Her Interactive had slowed down on the Nancy Drew video games, if not run out of steam altogether, but I guess the series is still moving along. Maybe I'm wrong but it just seems like it's been a while since the last game.

The last game came out in 2019.  However games are taking longer to develop now than the did years ago just in general, especially if it's a series.

Although I don't like how they discontinued the physical releases.

#89

Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys SuperMysteries / Re: "At All Costs" and "Surviv...

Last post by tomswift2002 - July 25, 2024, 07:07:23 AM

Over the next 10 years this book might become more collectible (At All Costs), since I just heard that Salt Lake City was awarded the 2034 Winter Olympics, 32 years after they hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics.

At All Costs is dated to the preparations for the 2002 Olympics, but it's still set in Salt Lake City, so people might want to read it in the lead up to the 2034 Olympics.

#90

General Hardy Boys Discussions / Re: What's the last book or it...

Last post by tomswift2002 - July 23, 2024, 07:26:16 AM

I picked up the Harold Hill edition of "The Shore Road Mystery" at a Salvation Army in New Zealand.  I compared it to the American OT version and see that instead of hiding in their car's "locker" and eating "crackers", they hide in the boot and eat biscuits.

In the UK & former British Empire/Commonwealth, Harold Hill was the only publisher of "The House Om The Cliff" and "The Hidden Harbour Mystery".  Of course the artwork they commissioned was pretty Picasso-esque I find.