Secrets Can Kill Remastered

[tomswift2002]

Her Interactive has announced that they are, in celebration of Nancy Drew's 80th anniversary, Remastering the first Nancy Drew PC game.

http://www.herinteractive.com/Mystery_Games/Nancy_Drew/Secrets_Can_Kill_Remastered/pc

Original Specs:

Windows 95/98 (the game also worked on ME and XP with no updates)
166 MHZ Pentium Processor
16 MB RAM
42 MB Hard Disk Space
16-bit Color Graphics Card
8x CD-Rom Drive
16-bit Windows-compatible Stereo Sound card
DirectX Compatible

Remastered Specs as per Her Interactive:

Operating System:
Windows? XP/Vista

Minimum System Requirements:
1 GHz or greater Pentium or equivalent class CPU,
256 MB of RAM,
1 GB or more of hard drive space,
32 MB DirectX 9.0 compatible video card,
16 bit DirectX compatible sound card,
24X CD-ROM drive, mouse, and speakers

[MacGyver]

Cool!

[tomswift2002]

I just got another email from Her Interactive that once Pre-Orders for the Remastered verison start on August 1, then the Original version will no longer be available.

[Olivia]

I got Secrets Can Kill in a package with Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon. I wish I would've been able to get the remastered one.

I haven't opened the package in the year and a half I have owned it

[MacGyver]

I saw this game at the store just the other day. I don't have the money to buy all the Nancy Drew video games out there, but it is interesting to know that the game was remastered to give it a new ending. I don't know how that compares with actual Secrets Can Kill book- but I don't know that I've heard of that being done before with video games. (Well, maybe new versions to improve on the graphics or something- but not usually to change the actual storyline.)

[tomswift2002]

But, still, I can't understand why Her Interactive hasn't started to put out the New Nancy Drew games (or even this one) on DVD, but are putting them out on CD.

[MacGyver]

I guess it's cheaper for them that way?

[tomswift2002]

CD's and DVD's cost about the same nowadays, plus for the games that have had to have 2 or 3 discs, how is it cheaper when they could just put it on one disc?

[MacGyver]

I don't know- just a guess.

[tomswift2002]

And I don't think it would be a matter of them being afraid that people wouldn't have a DVD-Rom drive in their computer nowadays, since most people have probably upgraded to computers that have DVD-Rom's.