{"id":1082,"date":"2011-02-11T10:54:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T18:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2011-02-11T10:54:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T18:54:48","slug":"tex-murphy-sale-on-gog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/?p=1082","title":{"rendered":"Tex Murphy Sale on GoG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Tex Murphy Sale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/promo\/tex_murphy_games\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1083\" title=\"Tex Murphy Sale on GoG.com\" src=\"http:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Tex_on_GoG-300x258.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Tex_on_GoG-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Tex_on_GoG.png 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I just received word that the Tex Murphy series of games are <a title=\"Tex on GoG.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gog.com\/en\/promo\/tex_murphy_games\" target=\"_blank\">on sale at GOG.com<\/a> (sale ends Monday).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Mean Streets on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mean_Streets_%28video_game%29\" target=\"_blank\">Mean Streets<\/a> was one of the first PC games I ever played.\u00a0 My friend had a copy for his 286.\u00a0 This was before sound cards were common, yet the game was still able to output speech using the PC speaker.\u00a0 Pretty amazing at the time.<\/p>\n<p>I then received a copy of <a title=\"UAKM on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Under_a_Killing_Moon\" target=\"_blank\">Under a Killing Moon<\/a> for my 16th birthday.\u00a0 To this day it is still one of the best games I ever played (amazingly <a title=\"PD on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pandora_Directive\" target=\"_blank\">Pandora Directive<\/a> was even better).<\/p>\n<p>If you have never played or even heard of these games you are missing out.\u00a0 That is if you enjoy a game with an excellent story, fantastic music, memorable characters and enjoyable gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, they are pretty dated now and if you don&#8217;t like point &amp; click adventure games, you may not care for these either, but for under $15 you can get the whole series (DRM free) which is a pretty sweet deal.<\/p>\n<p>ComputerAbuser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received word that the Tex Murphy series of games are on sale at GOG.com. <\/p>\n<p>Mean Streets was one of the first PC games I ever played.  My friend had a copy for his 286.  This was before sound cards were common, yet the game was still able to output speech using the PC speaker.  Pretty amazing at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[65,204,63,64,13],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-drm-free","tag-games","tag-gog-com","tag-sale","tag-video-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11UM6-hs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.computerabuser.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}