The Case of the Cautious Condor

The Case of the Cautious Condor is an adventure video game in an interactive comic book style developed by Tiger Media, Inc. It was one of the first games made specifically for CD-ROM.

The Case of the Cautious Condor
Cover art, MS-DOS version
Developer(s)Tiger Media, Inc.
SeriesAirwave Adventure
Platform(s)FM-Towns, CDTV, MS-DOS
Release1989 (FM-Towns)
1991 (CDTV)
1992 (MS-DOS)
Genre(s)Adventure

Overview

The player controls detective Ned Peters, who has to figure out the identity of the murderer by wandering around the rooms, looking for clues and overhearing conversations between the other guests aboard the flying boat Condor on a cruise over the Atlantic. The game has no text: the dialogue is played only as audio and the interface is completely mouse-driven.

History

The game was first released for FM Towns in Japan in 1989, later also for CDTV (1991) and MS-DOS (1992). It won several awards, such as "Best Adventure 1989" in Japan. According to the game's developer, it had disappointing sales, in part because CD-ROM drives were not yet widespread at that time.[1]

Tiger Media released later a similar game called Murder Makes Strange Deadfellows.

Reception

Computer Gaming World in 1993 stated that "Though the story was manufactured in the Orient Express Murder Mystery machine, this interactive comic book is novel enough to warrant a serious look ... A multimedia diversion for the whole family".[2]

See also

References
  1. Iacta:Experience Archived 2006-03-25 at archive.today
  2. "Forging Ahead or Fit to be Smashed?". Computer Gaming World. April 1993. p. 24. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
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