Wonderful adventure game. If this is your first Legend adventure, you will love it.

Is anyone else having trouble getting the mouse to work in the game? I can't seem to be able to use the mouse and keyboard at the same time and switching between them seems to mess up the sound in the game.

Probably in license hell...

Seem like an obsolete UI for a 1993 game.

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It's actually the fifth Legend Entertainment game on GOG after Pure Pinball 2, Star Control 3, Unreal 2 and Death Gate. :-)

Well, I have searched for other Legend Games, and I vaguelly remember Death Gate being released, but it is not in the store anymore...

The game sadly got pulled from the store within days. My guess is that Piko Entertainment (who owns the copyright of most of the games from Legend Entertainment now) failed to realize that the game was based on a book and the licence to use this intelectual property has expired. To sell the game again they would need to renew the licence with the current holder of the rights to the book.

GOG doesn't tell any specifics, of course. Someone already asked support and postet the reply here in the forum. The gist of it was that GOG had to pull the game and they don't know when or if it can be sold again.

I've been wanting this for years. Please, PLEASE release the Spellcasting 101 series!

So Death Gate was removed from Gog? When was this?

As for Eric the Unready, I dimly remember playing that one, but I seem to recall I very much enjoyed it. I probably should revisit it at some point :)


Eh, from what I remember (and again, it's been years at this point) there's hardly any typing necessary, clicking on stuff will work just fine :)

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/game_catalog_count_is_down_by_onewhat_happened_to_death_gate/page1

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_bdeath_gateb_18b63/post101

- - - Good one, GOG!

Thank you! I'm really not keeping up with stuff, didn't know there had been so many losses recently...

Well, I guess you need a bit of space to keep all of those savefiles ;)

This game looks f@%$ing hilarious. NEVER heard of it. Especially love the bit with "Mr. Zulu" plotting a course by point with his spear LOL.

Gotta be Amiga right? Man it's amazing how games that early look so gorgeous. Not really my type of game but I may have to pick this one up.

VGA and EGA had a hi res mode with the tradeoff of having less colours: 640x480x16 is the resolution used in this one. Other games with hi res mode are the Maxis ones (Simcity, Simant) and generally games that required very few animations.

Games looked gorgeous if the guys behind the graphic design were good and had a lot of time to either draw by hand or scan and carefully retouch. Also the colour correction (you know, from A LOT to 16 colours) took a lot of time.

EDIT: though the game is funny by itself, it is better if you know the many, maaany references it has, which are basically fantasy book tropes, some bits of the Zork saga and adventure/rpg narrative in general. And the 80s.

These games were abandonware for decades. Played this several times, when you could just get it from Abandonware sites on the net. Propably one of the best Text-Adventures out there in my opinion.
That said, it is still a Text-Adventure. Makes even ancient point and click games look like high tech.