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The Dame Was Loaded

1996 video game

Summary

1996 video game

Field	Value
title	The Dame Was Loaded
image	thedamewasloaded.jpg
developer	Beam Software
publisher	Philips Interactive Media
designer	David Giles
director	Cameron Brown
writer	Mark Morrison
released	1996
genre	Adventure game
modes	Single-player
platforms	MS-DOS, Macintosh
producer	Beam Software, Philips Interactive Media, Vixen Films

The Dame Was Loaded is a first-person point-and-click adventure game for MS-DOS and Macintosh created by Australian developer Beam Software (now Krome Studios Melbourne). It was published in 1996 by Philips Interactive Media.

Gameplay

The game is a detective film noir set in the 1940s. It combines live action cinematic's with pre-rendered point-and-click gameplay much like previous games in the genre like Under a Killing Moon and Myst. The live action was produced by Vixen Films, director Jo Lane, and was at the time the largest multimedia production ever made in Australia.

The game is nonlinear, having nine possible endings featuring over thirty fully acted and voiced characters to interact with and over one hour of fully performed cinematics.

Plot

Innocent-looking dame Carol Klein hires down-on-his-luck hardboiled private dick Scott Anger to find her brother, since she hasn't heard from him for some time. Anger learns that his case is connected to some murders and a bank robbery.

Reception

A reviewer for Next Generation panned the game, citing the use of still shots instead of FMV for most of the character interactions, the low difficulty, and the "cheesy, ersatz Maltese Falcon story". He scored it one out of five stars. Scott Gehrs of Computer Game Review wrote, "The Dame Was Loaded has an interesting premise, but unfortunately I can't recommend it even to mystery lovers".

Quandary wrote "In the end, the real time nature of the game prevented me from enjoying this outing...Timed puzzles are anathema to many adventure players".

References

(10 September 1996). "Extra goodies make Dame a challenge". Journal Publishing Co..
Lane, Jo. (1996-04-30). "The Dame Was Loaded". Beam Software, Philips Interactive Media of America (PIMA), Vixen Films (I).
Gehrs, Scott. (July 1996). "''The Dame Was Loaded''". [[Computer Game Review]].
(July 1996). "The Dame Was Loaded". [[Imagine Media]].
Ramsey, Steve. (March 2003). "The Dame Was Loaded". Quandary Computer Game Reviews.

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