LGR - Hocus Pocus - DOS PC Game Review
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This HAS to be the 1st pc game I ever played, Solitaire and Minesweeper notwithstanding. I only had a passing memory of it and didn't remember what it was called.
So many memories just came flooding back. I'd almost cry.
Thanks for the nostalgia, man, it's amazing!
Date: 2022-04-14
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Comments and reviews: 9
Astfgl
This is actually one of the first PC games I ever played. When we got our first PC in 1993/94, a Compaq Presario 486, my sister and I were each allowed to pick one shareware CD to go along with it. I chose the one with Raptor: Call of the Shadows, my sister chose the one with Hocus Pocus. Both turned out to be excellent picks, despite neither of us knowing the first thing about playing PC games yet.
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This is actually one of the first PC games I ever played. When we got our first PC in 1993/94, a Compaq Presario 486, my sister and I were each allowed to pick one shareware CD to go along with it. I chose the one with Raptor: Call of the Shadows, my sister chose the one with Hocus Pocus. Both turned out to be excellent picks, despite neither of us knowing the first thing about playing PC games yet.
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Yellowblanka
Saw this on sale for $1 at GoG and thought -eh, why not, add another Apogee game to my collection-, and yes, it's charming, but it's also the very definition of -mediocre-. Only one weapon, monsters that are just re-skins of previous monsters, levels that tend to blend together. It's not a -bad- game perse, but it could have been much better with a few tweaks/additions.
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Saw this on sale for $1 at GoG and thought -eh, why not, add another Apogee game to my collection-, and yes, it's charming, but it's also the very definition of -mediocre-. Only one weapon, monsters that are just re-skins of previous monsters, levels that tend to blend together. It's not a -bad- game perse, but it could have been much better with a few tweaks/additions.
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Sandya
I played the heck out of this game on my father's DX4 PC back in 1995-1996 and completed all the episodes and the difficulty levels! It has its charms, though it's difficult to explain now that I haven't played it in more than 20 years! Thanks LGR for making me feel nostalgic and miss the old DX4 (which eventually became mine in 1999. Keep up the good work!
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I played the heck out of this game on my father's DX4 PC back in 1995-1996 and completed all the episodes and the difficulty levels! It has its charms, though it's difficult to explain now that I haven't played it in more than 20 years! Thanks LGR for making me feel nostalgic and miss the old DX4 (which eventually became mine in 1999. Keep up the good work!
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David
Another one of those titles that I played extensively, but just the shareware version. Only years later did I delve into the next three episodes but I never actually beat it. Fun game though. I never played Clyde's Adventure but I DID play Clyde's Revenge which was kind of like Hocus Pocus without enemies. Fun times!
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Another one of those titles that I played extensively, but just the shareware version. Only years later did I delve into the next three episodes but I never actually beat it. Fun game though. I never played Clyde's Adventure but I DID play Clyde's Revenge which was kind of like Hocus Pocus without enemies. Fun times!
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MightyWolve
Used to have this game and alot of other games in one big box. I got it for christmas but I do not what the box was called again? It contained several DOS games around 50-100 DOS games I guess. I was 6-7 at that time. Any idea what the name of that collectors box was LGR? I remember it also had Dr. Riptide
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Used to have this game and alot of other games in one big box. I got it for christmas but I do not what the box was called again? It contained several DOS games around 50-100 DOS games I guess. I was 6-7 at that time. Any idea what the name of that collectors box was LGR? I remember it also had Dr. Riptide
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theblocksays
Wow this takes me back, speaking of Apogee, any chance you'll do a review of Mystic Towers? That was one of their more complex fantasy adventure games they made, like if you took the arcade games Xybots and combined it with Crystal Castles isometric layout puzzle solving.
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Wow this takes me back, speaking of Apogee, any chance you'll do a review of Mystic Towers? That was one of their more complex fantasy adventure games they made, like if you took the arcade games Xybots and combined it with Crystal Castles isometric layout puzzle solving.
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Jerico
Thanks for you post! I now remember that this was the game I played in the win 3. 1 dos window that cause my family's computer to crash when I was a kid. When I reset it, I read in the readme file that they do not recomend playing it inside win 3. 1
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Thanks for you post! I now remember that this was the game I played in the win 3. 1 dos window that cause my family's computer to crash when I was a kid. When I reset it, I read in the readme file that they do not recomend playing it inside win 3. 1
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David
I remember having the shareware and playing it for about 5 minutes. It was cool, but there were probably other games I was invested in during that time. There were many sharewares I skipped do to all the in-betweens we do prior going back to gaming
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I remember having the shareware and playing it for about 5 minutes. It was cool, but there were probably other games I was invested in during that time. There were many sharewares I skipped do to all the in-betweens we do prior going back to gaming
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LotoTheHero
This definitely reminds me a lot of Clyde's Adventure and Clyde's Revenge. Speaking of which, you should totally get around to reviewing those games at some point. I had a lot of fun with them back in the day. :D
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This definitely reminds me a lot of Clyde's Adventure and Clyde's Revenge. Speaking of which, you should totally get around to reviewing those games at some point. I had a lot of fun with them back in the day. :D
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