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Pshaw, that's some wild conjecture! But what's your inference, sir? 

Awesome choice Crimson! Loved that game - stunning graphics for that time (and still are, kind of)...

Sorry for only half a screen-shot. If I'd posted the whole one it wouldn't be much of a challenge.
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Future Wars

They share the same genre. The only difference being that Cruise for a Corpse takes place on the open ocean, while for this game rather 'the opposite' is true.
If you know 'where' you've almost got the name of the game. 

Not based on a book, but it does 'borrow' from a few (in particular Christie):
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You're on the right track, it's C64.

Additionally: Your first 'guess' is veeery close...

  Hehehe, you've to read the small print in that particular post.

This game already featured the 'combining notes' function. Only it's execution in-game was so particular and at the same time so random (you had to guess which
words were important and which ones weren't) that it drove you nuts! Still, a great game...

OK, I hope Babar doesn't mind that I post the next one alreay to keep the game rolling...(and Gribbler happy! )

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Ponch means the old one. Ilyich means this one.

Way to go, Eric! Staying away from the forum for "eons" and then instantly topsy-turvifying the whole thread and wreaking havoc! No, no, Mister!


This is the mad cow's HOLY ANSWER (...in reflection ):
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...also, that's some horrible piece of information, Eric, just horrible!
I feel like a fond childhood memory has been tainted after the fact -
and I was so ready to believe in teh Hollywood machinery again. No more, I tell ya!

But...but... that's...that mad cow's HOLY ANSWER!

Who dares to mess with that one?

NOT me!!

[Fish!]

It's Fish!. A wacky graphically enhanced text adventure about a goldfish secret agent on vacation(!),
involuntarily forced to foil the plan of a group called the "Seven Deadly Fins" who're trying to take over the (water-)world.
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It was all the rage when it came out and even 'Game of the Year' in most computer magazines. Also one of the
most discussed games that year throughout various magazines' hint sections, coz people kept on getting stuck...

Ah, nice one Babar! That games was awesome! Subaquatic twist and all that.

Can't guess though, really have to go to sleep or I#llbe wasted tomorrow...

...And Gribbler continues his guessing spree (almost) unchallenged!
(just realised myself that I chose a screen-shot with the mausoleum mouse-over -
that wasn't too clever, I admit )

It might be... . What's your guess?

Sweet! Hopefully somewhat more obscure this one and not that well known I hope.

Black Mirror?

2nd part was published in the same year as Eternam, but can't go again...

Wow, man, you are on a roll! (Dang, and Ascovel too! I knew I should've removed that
GUI! )
You guys must be 'freakishly' old to know those titles!*

*Tramp, takes proverbial pot & kettle and annihilates his own glass house...

Your go Gribbler...

The second game that caused me a considerable amount of discomfort & a feeling of nausea due to 'motion sickness' upon my very first try
(...the first game being Wolfenstein 3D). Nudge, nudge!

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I'll be honest: too much hassle to make this one google image search safe
Stay fair peeps, though the choice is yours, obviously...

The other "The Birds" movie...

Spoiler

Ahh, George...Stark?
Then it's probably 'The Dark Half'.

Admittedly, I would've never guessed it without your hint.
Never played the game, only read the novel during my Stephen King craze, a long,
looong time ago.

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