Comments on: Mystery House Taken Over

By: Trapezo

Trapezo — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 13:41:01 +0000

Those Sierra antiquarians among you may wish to visit eBay and search for MYSTERY HOUSE GAME. A copy of the original MYSTERY HOUSE package, signed and inscribed by Ken and Roberta Williams, has just appeared there.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:28:16 +0000

I should have mentioned this earlier, but better late than never: Jess Knoch, as part of the Non-Comp Review Project 2005, admirably took on the work of reviewing the entire Mystery House Taken Over project, playing everything and mentioning at least a bit about each piece.

By: nick

nick — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:37:18 +0000

An update: All games are now available for online play, thanks to Jon Alfred Zeppieri (the author of Zag) and the magic of Java Web Start.

When you download a file now, it will be sent as mhto-##-Author-Name.blb or mhto-##-Author-Name.z*, so the files will be easier to identify than they used to be.

And hopefully the instructions are now a bit more clear for those not familiar with IF.

By: nick

nick — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:16:28 +0000

I would love to reach them but their email addresses are (wisely, no doubt) not easily found on the Web. While thinking again of how to contact them, I realized that I should definitely get in touch with the folks at Sierra Planet, both because they might be able to pass the message along and because they might like to know about the project. We’ll see if the news can reach Roberta and Ken this way…

By: andrew

andrew — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:43:05 +0000

This project seems super-cool. I’m looking forward to checking out all the pieces when I have some free time!

Have Ken and Roberta Williams (the original creators 25 years ago) found out about it, and if so, any reaction from them?

By: josh g.

josh g. — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 06:09:22 +0000

Having grown up on Sierra games but never having played Mystery House, this is just plain excellent. There’s something wonderfully ironic in enjoying the results of the effort the MHTO team put into remaking this classic … and then seeing it all completely violated by the l33t-h4X0r3D version. I laughed very hard. (Then I played Dan’s version, and laughed more. Then I played Michael’s version and started seeing aphids everywhere.)

By: noah

noah — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:08:53 +0000

Looks great. Congratulations, Nick & co!