I finished Mystery of Mortlake Manor.  I'm glad I stuck with it because it was very good.  It also was a very long length, longer than some CE's.  Since there is 13 days left in month I am going to add another oldie.  Next up Robinson Crusoe and the Cursed Pirates bought 4./17/11

I have Shaolin: Tale of the Jade Dragon Staff as yet unplayed.  It comes later in my purchase history so must have gotten it as a DD. 

I never noticed how it was alphabetized.  How strange and one has so many that start with mystery anyhow.  Easy to not find it.

Next 3 games in Oldest HOPA challenge to be completed by 10/31/14:

4. Hidden Mysteries: Civil War (5/25/09) - finished 10/5/14 - enjoyed it but glad it wasn't very long.
5. Haunted Hotel (7/22/09) couldn't finish - wouldn't save player name.
6. Forgotten Riddles: The Moonlight Sonatas (7/30/09) - finished 10/9/14 - ok, different take on HOG.

I'm taking the liberty of skipping Syberia (6/1/09) and Flower Paradise (6/20/09) since one is a LFG and the other an M3.  I know Syberia is a great game but don't have the mental toughness right now to devote the time needed and M3's are exempt from this challenge.

My next MCF game is MCF: 13th Skull CE (finished 10/4/14) and may try to work in a new game if I get the chance.  I have enjoyed playing and getting the older ones completed .

Last edited by teeitup46ok (October 9, 2014 7:56 pm)

Congrats on AZADA and DIRE GROVE Tee!  I played the 1st AZADA but didn't particularly like it.  I tried DIRE GROVE but got totally lost -- even with the SG.  I so wanted to like HM: CW but the items were so tiny and the hints so few I never even bought it.  I've played your other two (and enjoyed them).

I'll be lucky to get 2 games finished this month -- and none are my oldest., 

As oscar said, how are you doing Tee?  {{{HUGS}}}

I think Dire Grove is my alltime #1 game.  My husband showed me BFG in the fall, and Dire Grove was the new game that Thanksgiving.  CEs were still 19.99 and there was no way I was paying that, but I saved my GCC for the SE.  I didn't realize how good it was since it was one of my first games.  When I replayed it this year I liked it even better than the first time.
It's for sure not my oldest unplayed game, but they're scattered between 3 computer and a portable drive, but I bought it quite some time ago.  Love Chronicles(?) The Sword and the Stone.  It's not doing much for me so far.  All the water is frozen, when you find some you have to put your rose in it and it unfreezes and you get another rose petal, so it's like a collectible but the scenery is all black and grey so the red roses really stick out, and they're always in the water so it's not much of a challenge.  It's easy to miss an inventory piece in the dark scenery and the hint isn't much help, it shows you a picture of a scene and advises you to go there.  For some reason I had to use a twig to get bark beetles onto some bark.  But the stick I had wouldn't work, it had to be a twig.  Then I put them on the trees that had a giant spiderweb between them and I guess they ate the trees but the spiderweb was still there so I had to use flint on a firestone to light my stick (guess the twig wouldn't suffice)  to burn the spiderweb.  Why did I have to kill the tree?  There was one delightfully creepy thing, though.  The witch's house had spider legs and it moved around.  I kept saying "Ewwwww" the whole time I was in that scene.  Really creeped me out.
I also started Adelantado Book 1.  Not liking it, either.  Unfortuneately I have the other 2 games, also.  There's 10 scenarios in the game, I've got the first 3 done.  I'm playing easy mode, I ran out of time about 20 seconds before I finished but it still kept going, let me finish, and it's letting me play the next scene.
I've played Syberia, I was pretty much totally lost the entire game.  I lived in the walkthrough.  If anyone plays LFA games there's a great walkthrough site called Universal Hint System, it's the kind that just reveals one (text) hint at a time.