Trying to remember some old adventure games

[PJ O'Mahony]

Hi guys, I'm trying to work out the name of two obscure adventure games that I played sometime in the mid nineties.

The first was one that was themed about toxic waste and was generally quite dingy looking. It was first person, and you moved around with the arrow keys, picking up and combining items in the usual adventure way. The graphics were quite mad looking, lots of pixels and over-sized items. The box for the game had a big picture of a cartoon person on the back with a description of the game-playing interface. There is a chance the name might have begun with 'n'...


The second was to do with 'Around the world in 80 days' (and was probably named something similar). The graphics were quite conservative, and it was a serious sort of game, but with the odd joke in here and there. It closely followed the story of the book, and at one point you end up going underwater in a sub (maybe the 'nautilus').


Its wrecking my head lads, can anyone help me to remember the titles? I'd love to play through them again for a bit of nostalgia...

[Guybrush Threepwood]

http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/adventure/80days/index.html?tag=result;title;4 ?
You wouldn't have played that in the mid-ninties though.

It was probably this: Mac (http://uk.gamespot.com/mac/adventure/aroundtheworldin80days/index.html?tag=result;title;2)/C64 (http://uk.gamespot.com/c64/action/in80daysaroundtheworld/index.html?tag=result;title;3), but there is hardly any details on those games.

[Badwolf]

For the first one, the closest thing I can find to your description is this: http://www.allgame.com/cg/agg.dll?p=agg&sql=1:13555

[AllenB]

Was it something to do with the Paintbox Pals or something to that effect? http://cgi.ebay.com/Around-the-World-in-80-Days-5-8-CD-Mac-Retail-BOX_W0QQitemZ260170851617QQcmdZViewItem
I remember playing a demo of this game about 10-15 years ago.

[ShaggE]

Though Badwolf is probably right about the first one, your description also reminds me of Maabus. http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/maabus

EDIT: Nevermind, Maabus didn't have a character on the back of it's box.

[Pvt._Public]

First one is definitely Normality. I started playing it a few days ago.

[PJ O'Mahony]

Thanks for the replies everyone!

Yes its Normailty, thanks for remembering that one for me. It really is a strange game, but I enjoyed it when I was 15 or so, and I might give it a try again sometime. How are you finding it PVT?

For Guybrush and AllenB - thanks lads but its not either of the two that you suggested. Through some other searching I'd found the first one, but its too recent (and I don't remember my one being quite so "mediocre" either). The other one is too old I'm sure. If Normality was released in 1996, then I'd say the other one was about the same sort of time...