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Gold Rush! (Video Game)
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Gold Rush! is an adventure game from Sierra, initially released in 1988. The game chronicles the adventures of the main character Jerrod Wilson, a Brooklyn journalist in 1848 who, upon receiving a letter from his long-estranged brother, embarks on an adventure to California, to seek his fortune and reunite with the only family he has left.Like most adventure games released at the time, Gold Rush! uses a text parser to allow the player to guide Jerrod's actions. Unusually for a Sierra adventure game at the time, the game offered multiple paths to completion, and each path, when fully completed, offered a chance at getting full points. Naturally, the game featured a surprisingly long list of deaths, all of which expounded on your inability to make the hazardous trip from New York to Sacramento, a trip that historically was fraught with incredible danger.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The game doesn't bother too much with historical accuracy (or rather, it doesn't come up very much), but the manual, which was required for the Copy Protection, held a great deal of information on the time surrounding the 1848 gold rush, from the discovery of gold in California, to the eventual abandonment of the boom towns that sprang up after the gold rush ended.Gold Rush! gathered a few high-profile good reviews, but never sold very well, most likely due to using the outdated AGI engine, when Sierra's new SCI engine was already in use by then. It's a rather drastic departure from other Sierra titles that were vastly more popular at the time, but is still well worth a look today if you want to try something different.In 2014, 26 years after its original release, a Fan Remake titled Gold Rush! Anniversary was released for Steam with an updated point-and-click user interface, voice acting, and improved graphics. You can purchase the game here.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); }) | |
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Bag of Spilling: An in-game version. Regardless of which path you take, you will eventually shed a large amount of inventory in order to save weight (or appease some cannibals). The only things you will always get to keep are your bible, your gold coin, and your brother's letter. | |
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Captain Obvious: Oh room 11 in Green Pasteur's Hotel was next to room 12? You don't say Hotel clerk. | |
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Copy Protection: Of the "X word on Y page" variety. If you fail to enter the correct word, you get treated to a scene of Jerrod being hanged before a rather unceremonious force-quit to DOS prompt. | |
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Guide Dang It!: It's a Sierra game. Examples include the importance of fresh fruit, the correct path through Panama (which is not the same as the safe path), and exactly what you're supposed to do with that mule you buy, something that's barely even alluded to in the game. | |
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Badass Beard: Jerrod grows one when he gets to California, or to Independence on the overland route. The miners in California sport them too. | |
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