[Community game] "Franklin's friends": guess the games and win the prizes! šŸŽ

Don’t worry about me: I already had submitted, without knowing the game referenced by the image # 3.

The game has ended and I’m counting the correct answers. I’ll announce the correct answers and the winner in about an hour. :slight_smile:

A prayer for the future: please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, don’t publicly comment about the images while the competition is still running.

It’s not about me, it’s about the person who might not get the prizes because someone else was helped by the public comments.

Correct answers and the winner

First of all, thanks to all the 8 people who have officially submitted their answers. :slight_smile:

There are also two additional people who didn’t officially join the competition but wanted to submit some answers anyway, just for the fun of it. That’s the spirit! :slight_smile:

This has been so far the community competition with the highest number of participants.

The correct answers

(by default, I’ll link Steam pages but you can find many of these games on GOG.com as well)

Game number 1: Haunted

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Game number 2: King’s Quest 4

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Game number 3: Indiana Jones and The Fate Of Atlantis

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Game number 4: Sanitarium

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Game number 5: A Vampyre Story

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Game number 6: Legend Of Kyrandia III

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Game number 7: The Curse of Monkey Island

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Game number 8: Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun

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Game number 9: Blackwell Unbound

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Game number 10: Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island

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Game number 11: 5 Days a Stranger

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Game number 12: Lost Horizon

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Game number 13: Anna’s Quest

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Game number 14: The Book of Unwritten Tales

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Game number 15: The Dig

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Game number 16: Goodbye Deponia

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Game number 17: Return to Mysterious Island

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Game number 18: Dark Fall: Lost Souls

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Game number 19: Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space: What’s New, Beelzebub?

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Game number 20: The Lost Crown

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Game number 21: Midnight Scenes: The Highway

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Game number 22: The Darkside Detective

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And the winner is…

Click HERE to reveal the winner!

The winner is @Sushi ! :trophy: :tada:

Congratulations!

Sushi won with 10 correct answers, he was also the only person who got ā€œ5 Days a Strangerā€ which is, storywise, one of the best horror PnC adventure games I’ve played in the past. :slight_smile:

I will send to him a link to get the prizes! :gift:

Fun facts

There wasn’t a game that was correctly guessed by everybody, not even the super-popular Lucas games.

These were the games that nobody correctly recognized:

  • Legend Of Kyrandia III [which surprises me a bit]
  • Anna’s Quest
  • Return to Mysterious Island
  • The Lost Crown [which surprises me a bit]

The PnC adventure game by Octavi Navarro was recognized by 50% of the contestants. [which surprises me a bit]

Thanks for participating, folks! :slight_smile:

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On a personal note, let me tell you that not joining these competitions sucks a bit, because I have the impression that I might be a decent contender. :stuck_out_tongue:

The funny part of creating one of these competitions, though, is that I don’t necessarily know the games that I add to the list, because of the methodology that I use to find/select the games.

So, I’ll try to participate in some way, listing the games that I might have guessed. :stuck_out_tongue:

Games I’m sure I would have recognized:

  • Indiana Jones and The Fate Of Atlantis
  • Blackwell Unbound
  • Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island
  • Lost Horizon
  • Anna’s Quest
  • The Book of Unwritten Tales
  • Dark Fall: Lost Souls
  • Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space: What’s New, Beelzebub?
  • Midnight Scenes: The Highway
  • The Darkside Detective

Games that I know but that probably I wouldn’t have recognized:

  • The Curse of Monkey Island
  • 5 Days a Stranger
  • The Dig
  • The Lost Crown

Games that I know but that for sure I wouldn’t have recognized:

  • Sanitarium
  • A Vampyre Story
  • Return to Mysterious Island
  • Legend Of Kyrandia III
  • Goodbye Deponia

Games that I don’t know and I wouldn’t have recognized:

  • Haunted
  • King’s Quest 4
  • Agatha Christie: Evil Under the Sun
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I was wondering when you had the time to play all those games, but now I know that you don’t necessarily have played them to create the contest! :smiley:

It’s fun how memory works.

The only one I knew for sure because I remembered it vividly was the one from MI3.

However the one from Indy Atlantis popped into my head as an animation. I remembered that ghost moving around on a stage and I thought ā€œif I remember this scene, I played it, so it must be a classic Lucasā€, and the sprite size and style helped me reduce the number of candidates.

And The Dig… I recognized the background style. The colors, the shading, I was 100% sure it was The Dig even if I can’t remember at all what the hell that was supposed to be or where it happens.

I’ve played the game but I haven’t recognized the ghost either. For me it isn’t surprising because I played the game 1994 (when it was released) and the ghost was a minor important character. You forget these characters much quicker. And I think this is the reason why this community game was more difficult. :slight_smile:

Congratulations to @Sushi!

Yes, it’s interesting that each game has it’s very own style. So you can guess the game just from the visual style. :slight_smile:

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Weren’t goldfishes renowned for their LACK of memory?

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Congratulations to @Sushi!

I was reminded of The Dig (of which I only watched a Let’s Play up to now), too, due to the color palette, but I didn’t remember that particular animation. :grin:

I participated and out of those I havenĀ“t guessed I actually played Lost Horizon and Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space…whoops! :hushed:

I really don’t know which contests were more difficult but if I focus on the percentage of games that were correctly recognized, then the ā€œSidekick gameā€ was apparently tougher for the people who decided to submit answers.

That’s how I approach it. And then I google to check for consistency if it is a game I never played.

Although I did play KQ4 just a couple of years back and got that wrong (although it was one of the creepiest moments ever) - I went with the colonel’s bequest, which is also Sierra in my defence.

So if you would have played, YOU would have won. Congratulations!

Perhaps I should host the next round, so you can participate as well!

Well, it would have been a draw. :slight_smile:

Participating would be nice!

I have already some material for a new game and I should be able to publish it the next week, but feel free to create another game whenever you want. The more the games, the more the fun! :slight_smile:

That“s some heavy existential stuff right there!

I can only second that. :slight_smile: These games are really fun, thanks @LowLevel! (And create more games :smile: ).

Nothing a TWP player can’t take! :ray: :franklin: :delores:

An update about this contest: Sushi already had the first three games of the Blackwell series, so he asked me to give them to the runner up.

The runner up was @ZakPhoenixMcKracken , who was the first person (on Nov 6, 10:31 AM - CET) who sent to me 8 correct answers! :trophy:

Congratulations to him as well ! :slight_smile:

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