"rain, quiet - still - comforting.. thunder, distant.. decay... population decreasing, outspread, centered, the core... the only grouped part of mankind - the city.. death, greed, white wine... you - a private eye.. in need of peace, searching for a case... in lack of clients hire yourself, the death, selfmurder...? solve, the classic case, murderers, a p.i, no clue... the essence... the essence of solving... is not work nor logic... but beliving the work is logic... classic, yeah, it's classic"

- Classic

Version History

Latest version: 1.3 (2000-01-01) - - - First release: 2000-01-01 (00:00 GMT! :)), Version 1.3 (first released version)

Download

-1- Classic.zip, Version 1.3 PC-DOS 8MB

A meaning?

What is the meaning of all this? Who knows, the question is, how is this next paragraph related to the Classic:

every human has the right to think for himself

the lack of imagination on the designers side should not be allowed to affect the human experience of an adventuregame

the experience is one of visiting another world, visiting trough the eyes of yourself, because you if allowed to think for yourself will be there

the surroundings of life is all in your mind, why shouldn't a ficitonal life be yours let adventuregames live and kill the classic

kill the designers who lack the imagination, the IT which is needed to create the adventuregame of all times

adventuregames have died, it's the fault of history and the meaning of the word classic but once again shell IT be found and with IT shall the experience return

soon IT will be time, time to kill the classic and time to RISE again let adventure games live

hit key to begin

An analysis?

An analysis of the above paragraph then? First of, yes, we're all a poet (which should be obvious by the ending of the paragraph). Anyway, let's for the sake of it argue with the screen, that glass covered rectangular shaped coloss you'r staring at, or simply the thing this text is appearing on. Isn't it really so that the adventure is more about the story, the story from which it emerges, in the novel Classic the story is told and experienced so differently than in the adventure Classic, in the adventure fragments of the novel exists which if put put together will formulate the essence of the novell, somewhat at least, but yes there is a walkthrough, but don't read it, still the experience of the adventure is something so different, you'r walking there, you'r seeing it, not making it up, there is a world inside, inside there... behind the glass covering the screen, you are there, and it is late and I'm tiered of writing this text since I've forgotten what it was all about.

Troubleshooting

No "classic.exe" in zip: In case your download of classic.zip contains no "classic.exe" but a "city.exe", don't worry, you have all files. In the first zip distribution the distributor (me) simply forgot to change the name of the file "city.exe" to "classic.exe". City for that part is an alternative/working title for Classic.

Running Classic under Win2k: If you are trying to run Classic under win2k (windows 2000), I'm afraid you'r on your own. Win2k has very little dos support, if you by an offchance manage to get a dos game running under win2k you'll probably notice you have no sound (which can perhaps be solved by searching the net for some third-party drivers). I'm afraid I can offer no help on getting Classic to run under win2k, but if someone manages to get the game to run under win2k, by all means, please let me know so I can add some how-to instructions to this page!

The future

Interested in the future? A sequel? Who knows, I'm most eager to write one, some encouragment wont hurt! :) The truth is I have some other idea I wish to bring to life too, but a sequel of Classic will be made (perhaps not a sequel in the traditional terms). I have a novel written (which isn't a sequel to Classic, but to me it's all about the mood, and as such it is also different, still I think it can - if one wants to - be seen as a sequel, though it wont be neccessary). It will be interesting to attempt to realize it as an adventure, perhaps even impossible. Clear? Perhaps I sound arrogant and traditional, but hey, have you seen Classic? If so perhaps you understand it's all just an cliche, an ironic gesture if you so wish.