Apologies for being gone so long from this great black and white, good looking game! Buncha stuff happening in my actual life took me away from gaming.
However! I remembered that I had loved this game so much when I first played it that I wrote my own solution for it at the time. I called it a "solution" instead of a "walkthrough," because actually those didn't exist then. (Must have played it mulitple times.) Also, there was no internet. At all. So I did it all myself!
I'm really amazed that I solved this thing 30 years ago. This is not an easy game. Probably what saved me was the fact that it's inventory based, so that at least allows options. Keep trying stuff and eventually you get there.
But I looked in the garage where I was pretty sure I had stored the game, and there it was, and there in its original box was my walkthrough! I decided that I would just follow that to see how I did.
I even mapped the maze (of course there was a maze), but didn't need the map because I had written out a step-by-step solution.
Ran into lots more monsters. Got eaten by the dogs because had a typo in the spell I'm supposed to speak to them. (How did I figure that out all those years ago?) Got eaten by the vampire because I didn't "operate" the cross on him, but operated him on the cross.
Still, this is a nifty, fun little game. A highly worthy beginning to graphic adventures. This version is exactly the old game, athough it isn't centered perfectly in the screen, but who cares? Everything is there. The sound often is a bit delayed.
But anyone who wants a not too easy walk down memory lane to the very beginning of graphic adventures really ought to try this little gem.
Some screenshots:
Can you get past the doggies?
If not, they will eat you
The chapel—entryway to . . . somewhere . . .
Helpful hint: Operate the cross on the vampire, not the vampire on the cross.
The game never disappoints in its fun texts
Your goal is this screen
You even get a certificate for winning! Note that you could print this
on your dot-matrix printer!
I blame Uninvited for my point-and-click adventure game hobby. This game really did start me off, and later I played Shivers and then bought the second Gabriel Knight game, knowing nothing about it but because I though it might have German in it (it did). Those three games really did it for me.
Every time I start a new adventure I'm trying to re-create the fun I had with Uninvited.
