DOS mystery text game [Murder in the Museum]

kris6336 · Post by **kris6336** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:22 am

OK, I have not been able to find this game on my own and I have been looking for years, so I have finally admitted that I need help.

I had a game that I accessed on a Windows PC in the late 80s (Windows 3.1 I believe) that was entirely text and was a mystery game. It is NOT Mystery Manor!

I don't want to say it was a murder mystery but I think it was. What i do remember is a few things:

You move around a house
You needed to get a combination
You needed to look at an urn to get info (may have been the combination)
There was a point where you had to inspect a femur
You could fall and die

I don't remember being able to "speak" with other characters, but maybe I just never got far enough in it.

I am pretty sure it was a one word title, but I don't know...

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would like to finally finish the game!

kris6336 · Post by **kris6336** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 11:23 am

I am sorry, i thought I was logged in!!

Post by **Wally** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:16 pm

Humbug?

kris6336 · Post by **kris6336** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 4:55 pm

I wish it was that game, but it isn't. In this game you don't interact with other characters, you just explore the house and items. I thought it was called "Mystery!" or "Murder!" or something like that...

katelee19@ · Post by **katelee19@** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 2:40 pm

I've been looking for this game too! for a couple of years now. It had a rack, and an adze and all different coLored doors, right? The closest i've come, is that it looks VERY similar to a game called the black mirror, so I was thinking it was an early version of that game, but I would like to find the original.

If you ever find out the name, please post it.

Thanks!

kris6336 · Post by **kris6336** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:25 am

It is possible, but I don't remember any colored doors. I am hung up on the femur, because I distinctly remember the part about the thigh bone and knowing that femur was another name, and using that word instead to get it to work. So until I find a walkthough with femur in it, I won't be able to know 100% that I found it!

Henglong · Post by **Henglong** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:50 pm

It sounds like Blue Murder. I played that game in the 80's. It is still one of my favorite text-based games.

In Blue Murder you inspect a femur and are tracking down a murderer. I was in a museum though. You do look at an urn and you also can fall and die. I know that I did a few times.

Henglong · Post by **Henglong** » Thu Feb 19, 2009 1:12 pm

To be honest, if you could find that one to download I would be eternally grateful.

kris6336 · Post by **kris6336** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:57 am

That is it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It HAS to be it! I fell so many times...

OK now we have to find it!!

kris6336 · Post by **kris6336** » Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:56 pm

It's been over 14 years but if any of you thought I forgot about this you thought wrong!

The game is Murder in the Museum and a link to a desktop emulator is here:

https://classicreload.com/murder-in-the-museum.html

Woohoo!!

Rwolf · Post by **Rwolf** » Fri Sep 22, 2023 8:46 am

Good job finding it; it seems to have had a C64 release too:
https://gamesdb.launchbox-app.com/games ... useum-1987

For DOS it came out on the Big Blue Disc #16:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/97065/big-blue-disk-16/

(I have submitted a short entry for it at Mobygames)

This game now has an entry here; feel free to add some spoiler-free screenshots etc.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/209036/m ... he-museum/

kris6336 · Post by **kris6336** » Sat Sep 23, 2023 11:19 pm

Thank you! I solved it this morning! And drew a map and made a walkthrough too

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