Please Port More Old Games Like The 7th Guest To My Phone [Video]

While I was testing The 7th Guest for iPhone, the single thing I couldn’t help but think was: Why is this so much faster now than after I played it 17 years ago on a PC?

It’s entirely possible that my computer was insanely slow back then. It’s also possible that they’ve speeded up the animations, because people can’t be bothered to look at a five-second transition to get from the kitchen to the foremost staircase. Or, it may possibly just be that the iPhone 4 is essentially an assload faster compared the machines that ran this game back in 1993.

The 7th Guest is notable because it was it was among the first games to be on CDROM, and among the many first ones to be comprised almost fully of FMV sequences, with CG puzzles. And it was really, really scary. I believe 12-year-old Jason, playing this game at midnight, had to prevent on a couple of occasion to only not get freaked out.

The game translates well to the iPhone, except that typically the puzzles are just a little hard to click on, because they’re slightly tiny for the screen. Otherwise, man, playing this game again brings back a considerable number of memories. It’s just $3 for the iPhone version (seriously!?) and $6 for the iPad version. You probably have an iPad, you need to go for that one, for the increased size. I don’t think I myself finished The 11th Hour, so I’m waiting eagerly for that to hit iOS. [ iPhone via iPad ]

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