Callahan's Crosstime Saloon

by Legend

Product Features

• A side-splitting comedy adventure based on the award-winning literary series by renowned sci-fi author Spider Robinson.
• Six adventures! From a castle in Transylvania to a Brazilian rainforest, the game unfolds in a series of short stories that add up to a grand quest.
• Written by the acclaimed game designer and stand-up comedian Josh Mandel (Freddy Pharkas, Space Quest VI).
• Hilarious bar games and puzzles.
• Atmospheric piano bar soundtrack.

Product Details

• ASIN: B00076PZJI
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #31,228 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional dialog make this outstanding, March 17, 2010

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Three if by Space (Mount Stucco, CA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Callahan's Crosstime Saloon (CD-ROM)

I bought this game again after years. Why? Because one sequence of conversation has stuck out in my mind as not only well-scripted, but outstandingly voiced. Imagine my surprise, after playing for an hour again, that the whole game appears to be exceptionally well written humor. Maybe the best, ever. (And I've played dozens of games a year, over decades.)

The conversation is so clever it stuns me, but the cleverness extends to descriptions of inanimate objects in the background -- that aren't used for gameplay at all. If all text-adventure-supported-by-graphics games were like this ... the obsession with 3D shooters would have been infinitely delayed.

The only con is that the music, while adequate, is not on a separate track. I don't listen to music in computer games, so I frequently need to turn the volume down, working through the intricate scenes.

If you like humorous games, this is a must. Not to set expectations too high, but there is *nothing* as amusing as this one.