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86.162.164.75
Since: Dec, 1969
14th May, 2011 06:01:15 PM
the Orion conspiracy? (the first game to use the word "homosexual" just a bit of useless trivia) hope that helps :)
bluepenguin
Since: Jan, 2001
14th May, 2011 09:07:39 PM
That's the one! Thank you.
Looking for a point-and-click adventure game from the early '90s. It was set on a space station and was a typical space-horror deal where the people on the station were being killed off one by one by... someone or something. It reminded me a lot of 7 Days a Skeptic, actually (though naturally this game came first by a good 10+ years). The graphics, I think, were side-scrolling and fairly simplistic and pixel-y. A little low-tech even for their day — I get the feeling it wasn't an incredibly high-budget game.
The protagonist was the father of a guy who'd been working on the space station and had recently died under mysterious circumstances. I want to say he either committed suicide or was made to look as though he had. The protagonist was just supposed to be there for the funeral, but then weird stuff started happening, and naturally the protagonist came under suspicion and had to figure out what was really going on.
The main plot had to do with aliens and some kind of government/corporate conspiracy, but I don't remember much about it. This is the part I do remember: in the course of going through his son's belongings, the protagonist learns that he (the son) had been in a relationship with another man working on the station. They'd had to keep it a secret due to the program they were working on having what amounted to a "don't ask, don't tell" policy (so they'd both lose their jobs if they were found out). The son's lover finds out that the protagonist knows about it and, assuming that he's going to be a jerk about it, kind of flips out on him; the protagonist assures him that he loves his dead gay son. ... Then in the following scene the lover turns up dead (of course!) and that's the end of that subplot.
Anyone know what this thing is called?
(On a side note, why is there no "Video Game" option in the "Media" menu?)
Edited by bluepenguin