I was poring over the review archives of Four Fat Chicks, one of my favorite humorous gaming sites, when I came across a review for a Science Fiction PC game called
Legacy: Dark Shadows. It was a sci-fi point-and-click game, not a genuine DS game, of course, but the author of the review did mention it.
Here's the link. The reviewer oddly refers to Vicki as [spoiler]Victoria Clark, which I suppose she technically was for her last few appearances.[/spoiler]
I also played one of my mother's point-and-click games tonight,
Nancy Drew: Message in a Haunted Mansion (the ND games are far better games than the ND books are books, just so you know). I'm pretty sure I came across a few DS references. For one, a book can be found in the game that has a few pages of a story about a woman named Carolyn Steubing (replace "eubing" with "oddard" and what do you get?) looking for her formerly old money family's treasure. Many, many mentions are made in the game to the phoenix, though in the game, it is presented as a fictional creature, stays a bird, and rises every 500 years as opposed to 100. I could have simply discounted this as a coincidence, until I found another paper, this one detailing bed and breakfasts in the SanFran area. One of the B&Bs was mentioned because it held a nightly mystery dinner show for its guests. The B&B is named the Dark Shadows Inn. *cough*
Just wanted to share these with my fellow DSF members.
