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* RomanceOnTheSet: Designer Bruce Balfour and voice actress Leslie Wilson met during production and would eventually marry.
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* MyRealDaddy: Creator/RobertaWilliams was only a consultant on ''The Dagger of Amon Ra'', which was designed by Bruce Balfour and written by Josh Mandel and Lorelei Shannon.

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* MyRealDaddy: Creator/RobertaWilliams Roberta Williams was only a consultant on ''The Dagger of Amon Ra'', which was designed by Bruce Balfour and written by Josh Mandel and Lorelei Shannon.
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* CreatorBacklash: Writer Josh Mandel felt ''The Dagger of Amon Ra'' got too difficult at the end, and was disappointed to hear many players struggled to successfully complete the game. Mandel felt the point-and-click game design was incompatible with the outmoded practice of taking copious notes for text adventures, but the complexity of ''Dagger’s'' story required note-taking to fully understand.


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* MyRealDaddy: Creator/RobertaWilliams was only a consultant on ''The Dagger of Amon Ra'', which was designed by Bruce Balfour and written by Josh Mandel and Lorelei Shannon.

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* WorkingTitle: Early publications for the game in [[http://sierrachest.com/gfx/Publications/IA/Newsletter_1_4/19.JPG Sierra's newsletter]] revealed the first game's working title was ''Murder on the Southern Quarter''.

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Early publications publicity for the first game in [[http://sierrachest.com/gfx/Publications/IA/Newsletter_1_4/19.JPG Sierra's newsletter]] revealed the first game's working title was ''Murder on the Southern Quarter''.Quarter''.
** As seen in the demo, the second game’s official title was originally ''Laura Bow II: The Dagger of Amon Ra''. This was changed to ''Laura Bow in The Dagger of Amon Ra'' for the final versions’s title screen (though ''[=LB2=]'' is usually the abbreviation for the installation folder).

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* ActingForTwo: Whenever Laura and Yvette interact in the second game. Both were voiced by Leslie Wilson-Balfour, who also served as the narrator.



* TalkingToHimself: Whenever Laura and Yvette interact in the second game. Both were voiced by Leslie Wilson-Balfour, who also served as the narrator.
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* CastTheRunnerUp: A very positive example: Leslie Wilson was initially cast just as Yvette, but when Bruce Balfour was unable to find suitable candidates for Laura and the narrator, he remembered Leslie’s knack for accents and handed her both roles in addition to Yvette.
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* WorkingTitle: Early publications for the game in [[http://sierrachest.com/gfx/Publications/IA/Newsletter_1_4/19.JPG Sierra's newsletter]] revealed the first game's working title was ''Murder on the Southern Quarter''.

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* WorkingTitle: Early publications for the game in [[http://sierrachest.com/gfx/Publications/IA/Newsletter_1_4/19.JPG Sierra's newsletter]] revealed the first game's working title was ''Murder on the Southern Quarter''.Quarter''.
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* WorkingTitle: Early publications for the game in [[http://sierrachest.com/gfx/Publications/IA/Newsletter_1_4/19.JPG Sierra's newsletter]] revealed the first game's working title was called ''Murder on the Southern Quarter''.

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* WorkingTitle: Early publications for the game in [[http://sierrachest.com/gfx/Publications/IA/Newsletter_1_4/19.JPG Sierra's newsletter]] revealed the first game's working title was called ''Murder on the Southern Quarter''.
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* TalkingToHimself: Whenever Laura and Yvette interact in the second game. Both were voiced by Leslie Wilson-Balfour, who also served as narrator.

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* TalkingToHimself: Whenever Laura and Yvette interact in the second game. Both were voiced by Leslie Wilson-Balfour, who also served as the narrator.
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* TalkingToHimself: Whenever Laura and Yvette interact in the second game. Both were voiced by Leslie Wilson-Balfour.

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* TalkingToHimself: Whenever Laura and Yvette interact in the second game. Both were voiced by Leslie Wilson-Balfour.Wilson-Balfour, who also served as narrator.
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* TalkingToHimself: Whenever Laura and Yvette interact in the second game. Both were voiced by Leslie Wilson-Balfour.
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* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Like many games of its era released on multiple formats, the MPC version of ''The Dagger of Amon Ra'' has been re-released digitally while the floppy disk version has not.
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* HeyItsThatVoice: [[Creator/JoshMandel Steve Dorian]] is [[VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder King Graham.]]
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Steve Dorian is [[VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder King Graham.]]
* WorkingTitle: Early publications for the game in [[http://sierrachest.com/gfx/Publications/IA/Newsletter_1_4/19.JPG Sierra's newsletter]] revealed the game's working title was called ''Murder on the Southern Quarter''.

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* HeyItsThatVoice: [[Creator/JoshMandel Steve Dorian Dorian]] is [[VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder King Graham.]]
* WorkingTitle: Early publications for the game in [[http://sierrachest.com/gfx/Publications/IA/Newsletter_1_4/19.JPG Sierra's newsletter]] revealed the first game's working title was called ''Murder on the Southern Quarter''.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Steve Dorian is [[VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder King Graham.]]

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* HeyItsThatGuy: HeyItsThatVoice: Steve Dorian is [[VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder King Graham.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Steve Dorian is [[VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder King Graham.]]
* WorkingTitle: Early publications for the game in [[http://sierrachest.com/gfx/Publications/IA/Newsletter_1_4/19.JPG Sierra's newsletter]] revealed the game's working title was called ''Murder on the Southern Quarter''.

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