Cult Classics - The Neverhood

Posted by Dodongo on Saturday, April 3, 2004

First in my recent quest too seek out and complete cult classic adventure games is The Neverhood, a Dreamworks Interactive title from 1996. As I said before, my wife and I completed it back in ‘96, but gave away our copy unbeknownst of it’s future cult status and high auction prices. It’s a very innovative game done almost entirely with claymation. Even the menu system is made of clay! Check out:
http://www.dreamworksgames.com/Games/Neverhood/

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This mailbox gives you hints on how to solve various puzzles throughout the game. You can keep coming back whenever you get stuck. It’s a great way to widen the learning curve, but perhaps that $.99 a minute hint line fee would’ve helped to save the company!

Many thanks to Jeff for lending this to me. We’re hoping to have a game trading page soon that lists games we all own so as to better share the love.

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Comment by Ryan

4/3/2004 @ 8:20 pm

My favorite is when he ate the little ball and burped for 17 consecutive minutes. Sucks that I’m only on the Mac.

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Comment by TimF

4/3/2004 @ 9:47 pm

Jeff,
You were right about the load game problem. I’ve been researching some application compatiblity toolkits and other utilities and so far I’m very confused. Has anyone here tried a Dos emulator? Has anyone here gotten this game to work with XP? I’ve told XP to run the game in 95 compatibility mode, but no dice.

This guy says he played Neverhood on XP with no problems:
http://home.earthlink.net/~infernoj13usa/ComputeSpecs.htm

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