[B]Who doesn't remember the scariest first-person puzzle game from 1995?[/B]
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Shivers, released in 1995 from Sierra On-Line, was a first-person exploration and puzzle-solving game, set in an abandoned old museum of strange artifacts. The museum was closed 15 years prior to the events of the game, due to its curator - one Professor Windlenot - reportedly going insane and kidnapping two teenagers. Your cheesy, mid-'90s American teenage friends have dared you to spend the night in the museum, making sure you don't bottle it by locking you inside the gates. It turns out the true reason behind the disappearences of the two teens and of Windlenot himself is that the mysterious "Ixupi" - mischievous spirits collected by the professor on one of his expeditions - had been released, wreaking havoc throughout the museum and literally "sucking the life force" from the three victims.
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The goal of the game is to find all 11 Ixupi vessels (which have been separated into lids and bodies) scattered about the museum, and use them to capture each Ixupi. However, each vessel must have the correct lid and body, and must be used to capture the correct spirit type (such as water, oil, wax, etc.). An incorrect combination will cause the Ixupi to drain some of your life force and steal the vessel, once more scattering it across the museum.
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Although it wasn't massively successful commercially, this game pretty much shaped my childhood. I started playing it roughly twelve years ago (my older brother and I would stay up late into the night trying to solve that god-damn wire puzzle), and if it wasn't for me using a 64-bit operating system and having a lack of motivation to emulate it, I would probably still be playing it today. I have never completed it, but my inner child's curiosity has prevented me from simply looking up what happens at the end. When I get my laptop working again, I am installing it and I am completing it.
And if all this talk of Ixupi and Windlenot hasn't made you nostalgia yet, perhaps this will:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shGSaR9394I[/media]
edit: hotlinking to those images appears to have broken them, as they're not even showing up properly on mobygames itself anymore
mobygames.com?
Never heard of it.
[QUOTE=Cheryl Cole;21083336]mobygames.com?[/QUOTE]
Result of google :v:
[editline]09:58PM[/editline]
[QUOTE=feloix13;21083356]Never heard of it.[/QUOTE]
:(
Sounds awesome. I'll look for this on Ebay or Amazon.
I ain't saying shit until you get those pictures up, slugger.
But what you wrote made me interested.
Don't hotlink, rehost.
-snip, nevermind, on it-
[editline]10:43PM[/editline]
i broke mobygames because the images aren't even showing up on the main site anymore
oh well, re-hosted
I still have this.
I remember playing it when my brother got it and not knowing what the fuck to do.
I still don't. :downs:
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