The Ecoquest Series

[Shodan]

Did anybody play this back in the day? I loved this series so much, the second game in particular. I was just a kid, but it established my now undying love for the genre.

I also believe it has some of the best music ever composed for a game, of any genre and platform. Now if I could only find a working copy of the first game. :(

[wildcat]

I picked up an original copy recently of Search for Cetus for a few quid and I must admit it's a lovely little game. Wish I had discovered it earlier.

[Phantom]

I played them both back in the days. I still have them, and I've replayed them both not so long ago. EcoQuest 1 works flawlessly, but there's something weird going on with EcoQuest 2. It crashed after the indian village and I couldn't fix it. Gave some strange memory error.

They're both very enjoyable games, especially for kids. Now that I've replayed them at a later age, I find them a bit too pedantic, but overall they're still a lot of fun.

[Kolzig]

I played them both back in the days. I still have them, and I've replayed them both not so long ago. EcoQuest 1 works flawlessly, but there's something weird going on with EcoQuest 2. It crashed after the indian village and I couldn't fix it. Gave some strange memory error.

Yeah, Eco2 does that with modern computers, you need MoSlo or something like that to make it work, I succeeded in getting through that problem last year.

I'd love to own a cd version of Ecoquest 2 The secret of the rainforest but dang, it was never made. All the cool voice samples in the game lead me to believe that Sierra was planning to do a cd version of it, but something propably happened and they didn't do it. "This place is a sewer."

The cd version of Eco1 is great, perfect voices and such.

[Skinkie]

The first time I ever played Search for Cetus I beat it in about 4 hours, never played too much of the other one.

[Cellardoor]

EQ2 was the first Sierra VGA game I ever played, back in the early games of the 486. Even though I was very young back then I still managed to beat the game in a week... Anyway; besides having a young target audience I still find this game quite enjoyable today. It even has a fairly interesting plot. :)

[Iguana]

Shodan you read my mind, Just yesterday I was thinking of posting an almost identical thread.

I played the first one when I was younger and I liked it alot then, It wasn't untill yesterday when I was looking through random adventure game titles on the web that I came across the title, and was all I remember that game.

Very good game, I can't for the life of me remember where I got my copy from, and its long gone now too ;(

[Kolzig]

Did you know that Jane Jensen, the creator of Gabriel Knight, was a game designer on the Search for Cetus?

[PILMAN]

I picked up an original copy recently of Search for Cetus for a few quid and I must admit it's a lovely little game. Wish I had discovered it earlier.

So your the one who outbid me on ebay!! (J/k)

Yes I played the first game when I was like 5 or 6 years old I think. We bought it when it first came out at some computer store in Chicago. My dad bought the one with the voice so you could hear them talk and I loved that game. I could never get past the cruise ship for some reason but I finally beat the game 2 years ago and I was happy to relive a classic. I felt the ecoquest series was great for kids and even today would be as you actually learn a thing or two about the environment (in a user friendly matter). Ecoquest 2 I never played as a kid, the first time I played ecoquest 2 was at school in our technology lab during middle school in 8th grade. That was about 5 or 6 years ago.