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Flight of the Amazon Queen

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Introduction



Flight of the Amazon Queen is one of those little-known titles that managed to slip through production while people still thought graphic adventure games had a future. (Before the long gap between Sierra folding and Lucasarts giving up, and the recent revival, anyway.) It might as well have been made by Lucasarts - it's got the traditional Lucasarts humor, a very SCUMM-like interface (and I think they even use exactly the same font as Monkey Island-era Lucasarts games), and the familiar and very welcome no-death, no-dead end approach to game design. There are times when Indiana Jones himself would have fit right in. Unfortunately, Interactive Binary Illusions (Halloween Harry) had the game published by Warner Active, the video game distributor of Warner Music Group, which is the same Warner as Warner Bros. Never heard of them? Well, that's why so few people seem to know that this game exists.

gschmidl posted:

Oh, and if you want to play along at home, the game is freely available and runs on ScummVM

Our hero on this epic adventure is Joe King, a pilot for hire who always seems to find trouble wherever he goes. There are always beautiful women at the center of that trouble, and he's got an eternal friend in his mechanic, Sparky, to help get him out of the worst situations. He's also got a pretty tough punch. Those things may help him when, during the titular flight, the Amazon Queen is struck by lightning, dumping Joe, Sparky, and movie star Faye Russel in the Amazon jungle with few supplies and no way to contact the outside world. Oh, there's some civilization, but...



And then there's an evil scientist plotting to turn all the Amazon women into dinosaurs to create an army in the secret underground laboratory hidden within a lederhosen factory. There's something about a Crystal Skull, too, but that wouldn't be a Lucasfilm reference until about a decade after this game came out. His inventions may not be perfect, but you can tell he's the final boss because he's got a giant portrait of himself in his office.



And that's not to mention the pygmy tribe, the legendary lost temple, the imaginary gorilla... we're going to need a bigger stick.

Videos

Part 1: Escape from the Copacabanablip.tv YouTube
Part 2: The Last Flight of the Amazon Queenblip.tv YouTube
Part 3: Welcome to Trader Bob'sblip.tv YouTube
Part 4: Joe King: Fumigator for Hireblip.tv YouTube
Part 5: In the AMAZONS' DUNGEONblip.tv YouTube
Part 6: I'm sure the pun works in both languagesblip.tv YouTube
Part 7: The Depths of Flodablip.tv YouTube
Part 8: Escapes are more thrilling when there's a challengeblip.tv YouTube
Interlude: Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sloth Island?blip.tv YouTube
Part 9: Knight Bote two Chiroblip.tv YouTube
Part 10: It's a Trap! Actually, Everything's a Trap!blip.tv YouTube
Part 11: When I said there was no death in this game... I lied.blip.tv YouTube
Part 12: Who Didn't See This Betrayal Coming?blip.tv YouTube
Part 13: Dinosaur vs. Robotblip.tv YouTube
Bonus Video: Cheesing it, without the cheeseblip.tv YouTube
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