ADG Episode 144 - Hocus Pocus

[@dhoffnun]

It's always the music that brings back the memories... I remember playing this on my big, beige 486 desktop.

[@Pixelmusement]

David Hoffnung For me, it's the visuals that bring back the memories because the music usually sticks with me if the game doesn't. There's a number of game tunes I distinctly remember but can't for the life of me recall what games they come from. :o

[@fernandopenalva2680]

I discovered this game in my uncle's house. I was marveled by the music and the graphics.

[@nemtudom5074]

If you're reading this, check out hocus doom! Its a total conversion for doom, and frankly, i consider it to be the 3D remake of the original! Its AMAZING, and i'd HIGHLY recommend it to everyone! Its SERIOUSLY good! Its not even a mod at this point, more like a 3D port

[@nemtudom5074]

I think Tom Hall did well on writing the story, its fun!

[@nemtudom5074]

Oh man, my favourite DOS game! Its so good!

[@wardrich]

Whoa, I had no idea this game had sound and music... I only ever experienced it with PC Speaker noises.

[@Lachlant1984]

My father had a shareware game CD called Action 100, it had 100 games on it, many published by Apogee. I discovered Hocus Pocus on that disc and now I love this game, I have the full version now and I think it's probably one of the best games I've downloaded in recent times. Are you sure Hocus Pocus didn't support the PC Speaker? When I first played the demo version on my Dad's PC I played it directly from the Action 100 CD and the game was playing sounds through the PC Speaker, the same thing happened on my family's PC from memory, keep in mind that I played the game directly from the CD and didn't install it to the hard drive first. Damn this game is awesome.

[@Pixelmusement]

+Lachlant1984 Thanks for the info! I just looked into this and you're right, the game DOES have PC Speaker support... which you enable by selecting "None" as your sound card! No wonder I missed that... :P

[@AlexeiVoronin]

Coincidentally or not, there is a wizard named Terexin in the Catacomb series, which predated id Software's founding...

[@Pixelmusement]

+AlexeiVoronin Could be the same wizard; a lot of these old shareware devs talked to each other a bunch despite not all working under the same banner. :B

[@trevorc4413]

Also see "Clyde's Adventure" and "Clyde's Revenge", which are earlier games by the same developer.

[@ChaosPootato]

"YA-HOO!"

[@AlexeiVoronin]

This may sound weird... Hocus's sprite looks a bit like a kid in an astronaut suit to me :D

[@KubinWielki]

Necroing a 3 years old comment, but goddamn! Glad to know I wasn't the only one.

[@AlexeiVoronin]

@@KubinWielki Heh heh, nice. BTW, I've seen a beta version of Hocus Pocus, and there Hocus kinda looks like Duke Nukem as a child (he is blond).

[@StephanS]

WOW.... this is one nostalgic game. I think i first played it when it was shipped with my Gravis gamepad back then, but i never got the full version. I love the music, the sound effects and the graphic style. Too bad it doesnt run on computers above 200 MhZ...

[@emscape2]

we do have an original shareware disc at home :D

[@iAmCodeMonkey]

My mum's favourite game. :)

[@fernandopenalva2680]

Nice.

[@pamlucas5531]

Can anyone tell me how to save the levels. I keep going back to the start'

[@Pixelmusement]

This is intentional. The game remembers the state you entered a level in, thus when you go to save your game it saves THAT state, not the mid-level state. Restoring a game always puts you at the start of the level you were on.

[@eklipsegirl]

6 dollars for an abandoned game?? No, thanks. Just download it ANYWHERE, but DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT condone making money on abandonware!

[@Pixelmusement]

eklipsegirl Uh... wait... so you don't condone the people who MADE the game making money off of their own game? o_O

[@eklipsegirl]

***** Yes, because it's time to release it as a freeware and move on to make more games.

[@RetroDeathReviews666]

orrrr time to pay for a quality game and give developers the money they deserve for their hard work regardless of the game's age.

[@iAmCodeMonkey]

@@RetroDeathReviews666 Except, with lesser known abandoned software, you aren't paying the developers or publishers at all. More often than not, you are paying the person selling it.

[@RetroDeathReviews666]

@@iAmCodeMonkey true. But for Apogee games in specific at least, they are still making some profit to my knowledge.