Game 10 of the year completed (I know - bare minimum) - Colonels Bequest. First Laura Bow game, gonna try to do an 11 game before years end.

#gaming #sierra #colonelsbequest

'A Golden Wake' 🍸💸
A classic style point'n'click #AdventureGame.
- As if originating from somewhere in the cross space of #LucasArts / #Lucasgames & #SierraOnLine.
- Who said #LauraBow / #ColonelsBequest?

#PointNClick #PointAndClick #Adventure #AdventureGames

👉 www.grundislav.games/A-Golden-Wak...

A larger version of the early Colonel's Bequest cast screen from the previous post, this time from Joystick DE magazine's September 1990 issue. This scan is large enough that you can see the blue background behind the characters is a dithered field of light and dark blue pixels. The magazine also pasted two other screenshots of the game in the blank black areas (featuring Laura in the bathroom of the Colonel's house and Laura getting eaten by an alligator in the swamp) at the bottom left and bottom right corners.

Speak of the devil! I found an even larger version (with some extra screenshots pasted in the corners) in Joystick DE's September 1990 issue:
#colonelsbequest #thecolonelsbequest #laurabow #sierra #adventuregames

An early image of the Dramatis Personae screen from the intro in The Colonel's Bequest. Instead of a background drawn to look like a stage, all the characters in the upper part of the screen are standing against a solid blue background, with a stylized Art Deco border separating it from the black screen outside. A closeup of Laura Bow appears at the bottom of the screen, but it has a 1960s-style bouffant instead of a 1920s bob.

Tracked down a larger version of this early Colonel's Bequest screenshot where Laura has a 1960s Jackie Kennedy bouffant for some reason.

From Video Games & Computer Entertainment magazine, August 1990. #laurabow #colonelsbequest #thecolonelsbequest #sierra #adventuregames

The Main Gate at Misty Acres: Colonel's Bequest Demo (1989). 💾

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#SierraOnLine #ColonelsBequest #RetroGaming

Misty Acres' Dock: Colonel's Bequest Demo (1989). 💾

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Resolution: 320x190 / 16 color
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Ratio: 3.6∶1 | 📉 72.4%

#SierraOnLine #ColonelsBequest #SCI0 #DOSGaming

A scan of an early version of the cast screen in The Colonel's Bequest. Instead of a stage, the character sprites are shown on a blue background with an Art Deco border. Laura Bow's portrait at the bottom of the screen is different as well, and has a 1960s bouffant.

There was an even earlier version of Laura's closeup sprite in preview screenshots where Laura had a 1960s-style bouffant! #laurabow #colonelsbequest #thecolonelsbequest #sierra #adventuregames