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What are Archive Reviews? Archive Reviews are of products released long before this web site's origins in 1999. They are meant as reference, both to the games loved by those of us at Techtite.com in the "good old days" of gaming, and as a source to link to whenever we mention these "classic" games in a more recent review.
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Escape From Monster Manor
(Animated Gif of actual game screen!) (Electronic Arts, 1994, 3DO)A Techtite "Archive Review"To be fair, 3DO was hardly a stellar system upon launch. With so much promise and too many errs, who could not expect Techtite.com to cover the system, in this site's most favorite column, What Went Wrong? Yet there were many times the system still delivered a fun experience or two, and among them all was Escape from Monster Manor; a haunted house game whose largest flaw was that it was a Wolfenstein 3D clone, released just moments (literally) after a little game called...Doom. Be that as it may, if I were to list my favorite Wolf3D clone of all time, this Manor would win the grand prize. It may not have been 3D accelerated, and yet its graphics were as good as a 1994 game could get, including Doom (sorry but it's true), which may have had elevator lifts and staircases and whatnot, but was still very "blocky" at the time. Add to this an array of background mood music and sound effects that make this far more amusingly creepy than many haunted house games at the time. The interesting story here is how 3DO Studios wanted to make a sort of sequel to Escape from Monster Manor, albeit with a Doom sort of edge. The end result was Killing Time, whose largest flaw was that it was released too late in the game for anyone to take major notice. Yet for those few of us who actually played either game, it was fun, making both games two of the most fun times I had in the 1990's.
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