The Gameological Society has posted a great new interview with Chris Jones and Aaron Conners. It covers Tex's history and the development of Tesla Effect. It's an interesting read with some nice new tidbits of info. Other than the trailer embeds, this one is spoiler-free for Tesla Effect. Check it out here!
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I thought I'd take a moment to share with you how I found Tex, what led me to starting this site and my feelings on Tex's future post-Microsoft takeover.
My discovery of Tex happened quite randomly. My dad went to Las Vegas for a convention (not sure what, but maybe it was the Consumer Electronics Show if its been around long enough). Intel was at the show, and as part of the tie-in with their new powerful Pentium chips, they were giving away free copies of Under a Killing Moon. My dad was lucky enough to get one. At the time, my family didn't have a computer quite powerful enough to run it, but a few months later my dad got a Pentium 100MHz. Once it was setup, one of the first things my dad did was install the game as a test. I remember waking up that morning, walking into the computer room/office and found my dad playing it. He let me play a bit and that was that. I was hooked. That was sometime in 1995, when I was only 11. Tex has been part of my life for nearly as long as I can remember. In August of 1996 I was browsing through a gaming magazine at the store and discovered Tex was coming back in a new adventure - what I thought at the time was The Pandors Directive. I went to the store shortly thereafter asking about it, and found a copy at the second one I visited. Though I started Pandora in August, I didn't finish it until February - I was so scared of the part where you need to defeat the Black Arrow Killer that I just could get past it. I'm glad I eventually got over that! Overseer I discovered online. I don't recall the site, but I do remember it had an all blue background and a large font with no images - it was 1997. It told me that not only was Overseer coming out, it was going to be released on something called "DCD". I had no idea what that was, it was only later I found out it was supposed to be DVD and that it was the future of storage media. Overseer was a day one purchase... Actually it was a day -1 purchase. I had read on the Unofficial Tex Murphy message board from a fellow Canadian that a store here - Compucentre - had released the game early. I got my parents to take me to the mall and I got my copy, complete with blinking red light. That light still works with the original batteries. I completed Overseer in about two weeks. It was around this point that I had started playing with Microsoft Front Page, and I started building my Tex Murphy site. On April 15, 1998 I opened my GeoCities account and launched the site. Everything went well for the first year in the world of Tex Murphy. There were delays expected due to Links Extreme and Access's new project, Black Pearl, but it seemed things would eventually happen with Tex's next adventure. But in April of 1999 Microsoft purchased Access Software and things changed. Next time I'll discuss my various feelings, ups and downs during the time between 1999 and 2012. In the meantime, how did you discover Tex? Discuss. I've had this new and improved Pandora Directive references section sitting on my harddrive for nearly a year now, so I've finally decided to put it up. Click here to get to it.
The following is the article from MSNBC.com:
LOS ANGELES, April 9 — John Agar, an Army sergeant whose 1945 marriage to Shirley Temple launched him on an acting career that began with classic John Ford Westerns and ended with schlock horror films, has died at age 81, friends said Tuesday. The actor died of complications from emphysema at St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, his longtime friend, film producer A.C. Lyles, said. Agar was a 24-year-old Army Air Corps sergeant when he married a then 17-year-old Shirley Temple, whom he had met through his sister who went to the same high school as the child star. A movie contract soon followed and John Ford cast him opposite Temple and John Wayne in the Western classic “Fort Apache” in 1948. He appeared in four films with Wayne, Ford’s ”She Wore A Yellow Ribbon” and “Sands of Iwo Jima” as well as ”Chisum” and “Big Jake.” Agar’s marriage to Temple ended in divorce in 1950 and his acting career went from Westerns and war films to science fiction and horror films, The latter group including “Revenge of the Creature,” “The Mole People” and “The Brain from Planet Arous.” Critic Leonard Maltin said that Agar’s “outrageous overacting” in “Planet Arous” made it into a cult classic. In recent years, Agar appeared in bit roles in TV shows and films and made frequent appearances at fan shows where science fiction devotees gave him star treatment. He is survived by two sons and two daughters, two brothers and four grandchildren. ------------------- John Agar played Thomas Malloy in The Pandora Directive. The Internet Movie Database lists his date of death as Sunday, April 7, 2002. He will definitely be missed. Some sad news for the Tex Community as well as Hollywood: John Agar, who played Thomas Malloy in The Pandora Directive, died on Sunday at the age of 81. For the full story visit AID.
I've added a new Cool Thing to Try to the Pandora Directive section I call "The Time Traveling Detective". Thanks to Blair Yeany for discovering it. I've also revamped the Pandora Directive Cheats and Cool Things to Try section to make it look a bit better.
Big update day! Plenty of new stuff, so check it all out!
NEW Pandora walkthrough up. This is the one I promised you back in August and it includes a thorough walkthrough of all 10 days, and it helps you to better understand the storyline. Also it incorporates all the sections in the Pandora site, puzzle solutions, cheats, endings and everything else! There are also screenshots for everyday! Check it out! New poll to the right. Please vote. Also, I've decided that I'm not going to change the look of my site, but the majority voted to keep it the same anyhow. New quote of the week. Added a link to The Tex Murphy Memorial at Autotech. Added a link to an after Overseer choose your own adventure in Brew and Stew. Added Chris Marsland's after Overseer fanfic (part 1) to the Brew and Stew. Added an interesting fact to Pandora Interesting facts.
Subdirectoried the Overseer section. Fixed up a few things. I've added a link to CARP International, a Tex site which includes scenes from Tex (the singing cowboy's) first adventure, Plan 10 From Outer Space. The UAKM Trailer will be posted soon as well, and there is also a Tex petition and a message board. Check it out from Autotech!
New poll, this one will determine the new colour and font scheme for this site. Which ever is voted most popular will most likely be what I change the look to, unless for whatever reason it doesn't seem to work out well. Also you voted overwhelmingly in favour of new walkthroughs, so I'm going to work on those. Pandora will come first, with separate versions for Mission Street, Lombard Street and Boulevard of Broken Dreams. I'm not in a rush to get them finished, however so don't expect it until at least October. Also, there's a new fanfiction at the Brew and Stew called Tex Murphy vs. The Snatchers. Check it out! New! Adrian Carr interview by Adele, with information on Tex and his film career. Click here to go to it.
Also, you may have noticed some small changes to the Pandora and UAKM sections. I've changed the titles on the sections (not the names, but how they're set up) and I've also put those two sections into subdirectories. Look for some more changes coming soon. |
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