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The 11th Hour {the five stages.}

Source: Next Generation 13 (January 1996)

Scan Source: RetroMags

from page 48: https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_13/page/n47/mode/2up

1. Shock: You finally figure out The 7th Guest, only to hear that its sequel, The 11th Hour is going to be released.
2. Disbelief: This can't be true! You read the articles, memorize the reviews, & talk incessantly about The 11th Hour. Friends shun you.
3. Resentment: They said it would be out, and you believed them. Where is it?! Why would they lie to you?!!
4. Acceptance: It's out!!! Finally! It's everything they said it would be & more. Now, if you could just figure out what is behind the....
5. Death.

You can stop grieving now. The 11th Hour has finally arrived. This PC CD-ROM game fuses incredible 3-D graphics and mind-numbing challenges with a full-length psychological thriller. It's also 12 times bigger and two CDs longer than its predecessor, The 7th Guest. So, is The 11th Hour really worth the wait? Well, we think it's totally killer.

The infamous controversial part starts at 33:40

If you also need The 7th Guest cutscenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd36KUgAyxQ

My band Error 47 performed a live concert in conjunction with the Portland Retro Game Expo of music from The 7th Guest, Gabriel Knight, Space Quest, and... Putt-Putt?!

The Fat Man appears at 29:05

Written by Matthew Costello years before he was hired for The 7th Guest. I don't actually own this book, but Darkshoxx said he found Coins, Cards, Canals on Mars/Library Telescope, Maze Grate Sliding puzzle from before the maze, and the bathroom spiders from The 11th Hour.

As much as I like puzzles, I like stories more. And that is what this book is all about - the story of puzzles and the tales of the puzzlers who created them.

"But have no fear. There are puzzles aplenty in this boo, some of the greatest ever designed. There are classics from unknown sources as well as puzzles that are brand new. There are important firsts, such as the first crossword puzzle and mechanical puzzles from the turn of the century. There are puzzles that dangled the lure of easy money before a staving nation's eyes and puzzles whose solutions saved thousands of lives and helped win a war.

"And there's murder, mystery, and magic. You'll be tricked, and then given the chance to figure out how it was done. Puzzling crimes will be presented for you to test your sleuthing ability.

"I've also interviewed important people in the world of puzzles - people such as Martin Gardner, the Dean of American Puzzlers - and found out how they came to puzzle design (and just what their favorite puzzles are).

"All this, and, as they say, much more. It's a book to read. And it's a book to play with. For these are The Greatest Puzzles of All Time."

--from the Introduction

MATTHEW J. COSTELLO is a contributing editor at GAMES magazine and a feature editor at Analog and Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. He covers film and video regularly for the Los Angeles Times. His first horror novel, Sleep Tight, was published in 1987, and he will have two new novels out in 1988.

https://archive.org/details/greatestpuzzleso0000cost_i3e4

And if you want more, apparently this also includes the telescope/Canals on Mars puzzle https://djm.cc/library/Cyclopedia_of_Puzzles_Loyd.pdf

From the 2016 Halloween-themed compilation "Danse Macabre V", released by Viking Guitar Productions.

https://vikingguitar.bandcamp.com/album/danse-macabre-5

This is a medley from the 1993 PC puzzle-adventure "The 7th Guest". Originally composed by George Sanger, aka: The Fat Man. I remember being obsessed with this game as a kid because of the 3D graphics, the music, and the crazy puzzles. I was never any good at it, and I probably never beat it. But it was high on my to-do list of games to cover. In fact, I had decided I was going to do it after Danse Macabre IV if there was to be another one, so funny enough Erik had it on a list of songs he was suggesting for people that he wanted to hear.

"Danse Macabre V" was co-directed by Brenna Wilkes and Erik Peabody.

Mastering (as well as toy-piano samples in the intro) by Erik Peabody (http://vikingguitar.com/). Artwork by Nate Horsfall (http://lightningarts.com/).

Hey, there's still a couple more hours in October, so this still counts as a holiday appropriate release, right?

https://vikingguitar.bandcamp.com/track/crazy-sick-and-mean-the-7th-guest

In a thread on Bluesky about Uncle Henry's Playhouse, Graeme says...

I've no idea where the "only 27 people own this game" thing came from. We sold a bunch of copies, unfortunately it was the same month/quarter we were going out of business (Trilobyte) and we didn't recoup against our distribution advance from EA.

EA gave us a large check to distribute both Clandestiny and Uncle Henry's Playhouse (and the doomed 7th Guest III). Both those games together did not make that advance back. In retrospect we were foolish to break from Virgin and I should have trusted Martin Alper.

But I was young and foolish in those days and mistakes were made that cost me, and everyone at Trilobyte, the company. It's a shame since we were almost done with 7th Guest Deluxe which was a remake of 7th Guest with 11th Hour technology. UHP uses some of those puzzles from that version.

While Uncle Henry's Playhouse was a commercial failure, I wish people would celebrate it as a unique artifact of the time and a precursor to games such as "The Room" which would years later improve on the design and be a mega hit.

So I'm not going to watch the video, but I really appreciate you taking up the mantle and calling it out.

SQH asks: No problem. Hey, I wasn't aware you guys were remaking T7G at Trilobyte. Does that mean you had the video redigitized in 30 fps and stuff? 'Cos that would have been awesome.

We were done with a bunch of the remake, and it looked great with the 11th Hour tech, 24 bit color etc. The biggest issue was actually going through and getting the old assets, both finding them, and then making them work in a significantly improved 3D Studio.

Is this related to the unreleased game Dog Eat Dog from Trilobyte?

It sounds absurd enough to fit the style of the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-7XOVXrO_Q

https://web.archive.org/web/20250525015601/https://lostmediawiki.com/Dog_Eat_Dog_(lost_builds_of_cancelled_PC_adventure/simulation_game;_1992-1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7qL95KT__I

This is the Teaser Trailer for the upcoming Darkstone Entertainment / Trilobite Games creation 7th Guest: The Series. Based on the cult Video Game Series.

This is the Teaser Trailer for the upcoming Darkstone Entertainment / Trilobite Games creation 7th Guest: The Series. Based on the cult Video Game Series.

Not sure what happened to this project, seems to have been abandoned long ago.

I never saw Knightmare, but here's one of their credits sequences lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asPCaxquWEQ

Daniel Albu sits down with George “The Fat Man” Sanger to trace his legendary career as one of the pioneers of video game music, from the early days of the industry to his enduring influence on its soundscape.

They discuss his breakthrough work on iconic titles like The 7th Guest, Loom, Wing Commander, and Maniac Mansion, and how he helped shape the identity of game audio in an era of technical limitations and creative possibilities.

source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1508196223903874/posts/1600893087967520/

Please enjoy some never-before-seen concept art.

stream: https://twitch.tv/uksg_marathon

schedule: https://oengus.io/marathon/uksgred25/schedule/schedule

it's just painted black I guess?

http://www.calcuseum.com/SCRAPBOOK/BONUS/48558/1.htm

https://youtu.be/MsiOue7vP1k?t=175

https://youtu.be/oSoYenJ7mkY?t=169

as seen in the game: https://youtu.be/9WcD7ZDTYyo?t=84

notice the pattern of the arrow keys, the up and down keys to the right of the main arrow keys, and the top row is somewhat visible too but much darker, you can see the last 3 keys on the top row are spaced apart from the rest

just use ScummVM to play T7G and T11H

This was streamed live before but unfortunately had audio issues. This version of the video has fixed audio.

Animatronic skeletons make jokes and sing Skeletons in my Closet from The 7th Guest soundtrack!

The soundtracks to the seminal CD-ROM titles "The 7th Guest" and "The 11th Hour" by George "The Fat Man" Sanger, reimagined as industrial rock. A project over 2 years in the making, made with the full support of The Fat Man himself, and appreciative nods from the founders of Trilobyte Games, Graeme Devine and Rob Landeros. Featuring album artwork by Trilobyte's original 3D artist Rob Stein III (RIP).

Free download on Bandcamp: https://error47.bandcamp.com/album/soups-on-selections-from-staufs-infernal-jukebox

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3021sM-1lY&ab_channel=Error47

Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6i414HkXlPmgZD2rRV2qwv

Listen to the original soundtracks on The Fat Man and Team Fat's Bandcamp page: https://thefatmanandteamfat.bandcamp.com/

A recent let's play from someone who knows the game pretty well!

The 1990s was a time of rapid change in the tech powering video game graphics. From pre-rendering, to ray casting, to texture-mapped polygons, it seemed that a major innovation was around every corner.

However, the pathway towards graphical realism hasn't always been clear. Let's explore one such forking path: full-motion video. With CD-powered consoles and home PCs arriving in the 90's, FMV-powered games became viable at last, promising the world... but only delivering oddity after oddity.

• 00:00 - Introduction
• 7:19 - Night Trap
• 23:50 - The 7th Guest
• 31:07 - Frankenstein: Through the Eyes of the Monster
• 36:12 - Corpse Killer
• 41:12 - Phantasmagoria
• 1:09:29 - Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within
• 1:42:45 - Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
• 2:11:36 - Bad Mojo
• 2:28:14 - Harvester (Revisited)
• 2:47:39 - Conclusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Eg52o7Yp0

In 1995, George "The Fat Man" Sanger composed this tune for The 11th Hour. It was supposed to be the main theme, like "The Game" had been for The 7th Guest, but George couldn't get the lyrics to work. So he scrapped it and wrote "The Final Hour" instead, which became The 11th Hour's theme song. This tune instead became the music heard during the train puzzle in The 11th Hour.

For our album "Soup's On: Selections from Stauf's Infernal Jukebox," George went back to his old notes and finished the lyrics. Here, for the first time, is the original theme song to The 11th Hour, with vocals by our very own Jackie Stewart.

Listen to the original on The Fat Man's Bandcamp page: https://thefatmanandteamfat.bandcamp.com/track/train-the-lost-puzzle-piece