Tajemství Oslího ostrova
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Tajemství Oslího ostrova (often appreviated to Too) is a 1994 Czech graphical point and click adventure video game. It was distributed by Petr Vochozka through his company Vochozka Trading in June 1994. It is the first nationwide distributed PC game in the country and one of the first Czech commercial games.[1] A parody of the successful Monkey Island series, the story plays out as if it were a direct sequel to The Secret of Monkey Island, ignoring the continuity of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.
The game was created by Jarek Kolář and Petr Vlček form 1992 in their free time on school computers in the gymnasium of Slovanské náměstí in Brno where they studied.[2] They wanted to practice their own game-making tools apart from the ZX Spectrum tools they had been working with. Meanwhile, by 1993 Vochozka had sold the first ever Czech commercial adventure for the Amiga entitled Světák Bob. Later that year, he founded Vochozka Trading, based in Polička, and Tajemství Oslího ostrova became their debut title. Originally, Kolář and Vlček had no plans to make the game commercially available, but after seeing an ad by Vochozka in Excalibur (the only Czech game magazine at the time), they joined Peter Vochozka under the Pterodon Software brand, and managed to sell 2000 copies for 240 crowns each, which was an impressive feat at the time, given that Světák Bob had only sold a few hundred copies.[1] The retail version of the game was originally wrapped only in a plastic bag, while a paper box edition was not available until November of the same year, at which point the second Pterodon Software game was released entitled 7 dní a 7 nocí.[2] The game was released only five years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, when only a small fraction of Czech society understood English.[3]
The player takes control of the Guybrush Threepwood parody Gajbraš Trípvůd who is after an unsuccessful pirate raid is on the run from LeChuck parody LeGek.[2]
According to Games.cz, the game changed not only Vochozka's life, but also the entire Czech gaming scene.
References
- ^ a b Tiscali. "České a slovenské hry pod koly času - Games.cz". Games.cz.
- ^ a b c Tiscali. "Historie adventur #4: česká stopa - Games.cz". Games.cz.
- ^ "Rozhovor o Tajemství Oslího ostrova: Nechápu, jak to někdo mohl hrát". iDNES.cz. 21 August 2014.
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