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Tex Murphy (Video Game)
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In 1989, Access Software developed and published Mean Streets, a noir adventure thriller for several different platforms. The game starred Tex Murphy, who represented the epitome of an old-fashioned, black-and-white noir private detective.Access would go on to make five games; The sequel to Mean Streets, Martian Memorandum (1991), was released strictly for the IBM PC and was not terribly revolutionary. The third game, Under a Killing Moon (1994), was a whole different ball game: it introduced a 3D virtual world and made extensive use of full motion video cutscenes. The fourth game, The Pandora Directive (1996), included the same system and was Access' most ambitious effort. Number five, Overseer (1998), was essentially a replay of Mean Streets, but brought into the modern video game era with Access' usual movie work.Tex Murphy's setting is a post-apocalyptic America after World War III. Tex, a gritty Private Detective who lives in San Francisco, is genetically resistant to the effects of radiation but lives amongst numerous mutants. He tries to tiptoe along the dangerous fault lines between the world of the mutants and the world of the "norms".The plots of the five games can generally be summarized thusly: Tex is down on his luck, has no money and is largely reduced to eating dog food. A client appears and offers him a relatively simple job: Find a MacGuffin, track down my friend, etc. In the course of his investigations, Tex discovers that he is a pawn in a plot to bring about The End of the World as We Know It. He then saves the world, making sardonic quips along the way.The final three games were, as mentioned, notable for their "interactive movie" quality. They featured solid writing, sharp acting and some surprising celebrity appearances. (Russell Means, Margot Kidder, James Earl Jones, Barry Corbin, Tanya Roberts, John Agar, Michael York, Richard Norton, Joe Estevez, Brian Keith and Clint Howard)At least two additional games were planned, but they were binned when Microsoft bought Access in 1998 and sold it to Take Two Interactive. Take Two eventually shut down Access, apparently killing the Tex Murphy franchise. However, the original developers eventually formed Big Finish Games, acquired the rights to the series (via a clever loophole thanks to the novelizations that series creator Chris Jones had written), and teased fans with the announcement of "Secret Project Fedora".After years of speculation they finally confirmed that Fedora was indeed a new Tex Murphy game and eventually released it as Tesla Effect on May 7th, 2014 after a very successful Kickstarter project. It was published by Atlus in addition to the Kickstarter backing.A Fan Remake of Overseer called The Poisoned Pawn is in development, Access Software were initially working with them but this stopped due to creative differences (but the remake was allowed to continue.), the novelization of The Poisoned Pawn by the series writter Aaron Conners, however, was released in 2021.You can get the Tex Murphy games at GOG.com or (as of June 12, 2014) on Steam. | |
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Gaia's Lament | |
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Gaia's Lament: It is not prominent, but there are background details about how the environment has gone to hell and back. For example the government is mentioned to have instituted a "time reversal" so regular working hours are during the night and most people sleep through the day because of how much the ozone layer is gone. | |
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One Last Smoke | |
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One Last Smoke: Tex pulls this to arrange his escape after the NSA agents kill Malloy. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: This game is near-impossible without the leads first outlined in the manual. | |
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Roswell That Ends Well | |
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Roswell That Ends Well: The catalyst of the story. | |
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Graceful Loser | |
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Graceful Loser: At the end, after Tex destroys Overlord, a defeated Gideon graciously shares a final scotch and cigars with Tex, even giving him his lighter as a keepsake, before committing suicide. | |
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The Sociopath | |
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The Sociopath: Jackson Cross. | |
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Relationship Values | |
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Relationship Values: Tex's actions will determine whether he ends up with Taylor, Ariel, Chelsee, or none of them because he was too indecisive. | |
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Multiple Endings | |
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Multiple Endings: Eight unique endings. Well, for a given value of unique. In truth, there are six unique endings but two of them can be reached through multiple paths. One of the "neutral" endings is reached through the good path if you committed one major screw up that prevents the best possible ending. One of the neutral endings is reachable from the evil path if you tried to redeem yourself after falling from grace. And three the four "evil" endings end with Tex dying and pondering how horribly out of character he was acting. | |
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Take My Hand! | |
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Take My Hand!: Tex helps Regan to climb on the rising pole at the temple. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: In Mean Streets Klaus was just one of the 8 scientists working on Overlord. In Overseer he's an ally of the crypto-fascist Law and Order party and the mastermind behind the killings of the other scientists in order to obtain all 8 passcards to control Overlord. | |
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Ancient Artifact | |
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Ancient Artifact: The Oracle Stone. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Post-apocalyptic San Francisco ain't a pleasant place. The cause for this is revealed in The Pandora Directive as the US military using untested Imported Alien Phlebotinum to blow up a Middle-Eastern country, which results in WWIII. | |
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Karma Meter | |
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Karma Meter: A big part of the game. | |
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What Did I Do Last Night? | |
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What Did I Do Last Night?: What did Tex do for seven years leading up to Tesla Effect? | |
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Laser Hallway | |
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Laser Hallway: At the entrance of the Roswell bunker. | |
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Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee | |
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Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee: The pathologist at the morgue is "taking a long lunch break" so Tex can have the place for himself. | |
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Trial-and-Error Gameplay | |
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Trial-and-Error Gameplay: The cryo-tank puzzle where you revive Eva. In a hilarious subversion, Tex will complain to the Great P.I. In The Sky during the Have a Nice Death sequence if you fail to save Eva about how unfair the puzzle is and how there's no way to win except through blind luck. The Great P.I. will agrees with Tex and gives him a second chance without needing to reload a save game. | |
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Limited Wardrobe | |
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Limited Wardrobe: The classic depiction of Tex (established in Under A Killing Moon) is that his entire wardrobe consists of several of the same dress shirt and tie, pants, overcoat, Fedora hat and sneakers. By the time of Tesla Effect, Tex has a collection of fedoras of many colors hanging on the wall of his office. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: Mantus and the Morlocks, as a result of going mad from the cryosleep process. | |
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After the End | |
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After the End: World War III came and went, leaving behind radiation and a completely shot ozone layer. Due to the latter, governments have enacted a "time reversal": regular business hours are during the night while most people sleep during the day. It's much healthier that way. | |
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Collection Sidequest | |
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Collection Sidequest: The Mike and Ike Hammer Candy Comic books. Collecting all 20 comic books and finishing the game creates a post-game file that unlocks the storage room in Tex's bedroom that allows you to watch the game's cutscenes and listen to songs. | |
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HammerSpace | |
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Hammerspace: Being an adventure game character Tex often carries items that are either too large or too plentiful to keep on his person. Lampshaded in one short cinematic from TPD when Tex pulls a 10ft bamboo pole out of his trenchcoat pocket. | |
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The World Is Not Ready | |
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The World Is Not Ready: What Malloy thinks this of his discovery. | |
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Alignment-Based Endings | |
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Alignment-Based Endings: The game has multiple endings. There are a total of five endings, but only four unique endings (largely determined by whether you pursued one romantic interest, pursued the other one, stayed fixated on Chelsee's fate, or were too indecisive to stick to any one path) with the fifth being a slight variation of the fourth ending. | |
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Flying Car | |
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Flying Car: Called a speedster, it's a flying car that can quickly move from across the state in a short period of time. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: Tesla Effect makes lots of references to 2000's technology, yet Tex still has a fax machine. | |
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Trouser Space | |
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Trouser Space: Tex pulls a 4-foot long bamboo pole out of his pants. | |
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Climax Boss | |
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In Mean Streets Slade is just a hired goon and Tex kills him in a shootout about halfway through the game; in Overseer Slade has a more prominent role in the story, has a Climax Boss confrontation with Tex and Sylvia towards the end, and survives to menace Tex again in Tesla Effect. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The good/neutral ending. You save the world but fail to romance Chelsee. But hey - at least you're caught up on your debts for the moment. | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal! | |
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: An unusual case where this is delivered retroactively: Once Tex is done telling the story in flashbacks, he comments how the game's Well-Intentioned Extremist "was probably right". Chelsee's response: "NO. HE. WASN'T. You were!" | |
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Damsel in Distress | |
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Damsel in Distress: Sylvia Linsky. | |
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Actionized Sequel | |
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Actionized Sequel: Inverted. In Mean Streets, there are several combat sequences where Tex has to shoot his way past hordes of enemies. In Martian Memorandum, Tex has a gun, but it's only used one time, to kill a poisonous snake attacking him and after that he's out of ammo for the rest of the game. In Under a Killing Moon, Tex accidentally throws his gun out the window early on and spends the entire game unarmed. | |
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Utopia Justifies the Means | |
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Utopia Justifies the Means: The Translator wants to merge the living and dead realms into one. This would hedge into Blue-and-Orange Morality territory if every reliable source wasn't certain that all he'd accomplish would be blowing up the planet by accident. He doesn't even do much to directly harm Tex. | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can | |
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Sealed Evil in a Can: The Roswell base and the gaseous alien entity that killed everyone before the underground complex was sealed off. | |
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Death by Adaptation | |
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Death by Adaptation/Spared by the Adaptation: A few characters have different fates in Overseer than they did in Mean Streets. Most notably: In Mean Streets Slade is just a hired goon and Tex kills him in a shootout about halfway through the game; in Overseer Slade has a more prominent role in the story, has a Climax Boss confrontation with Tex and Sylvia towards the end, and survives to menace Tex again in Tesla Effect. In Mean Streets it's mentioned that Gideon tried to flee the country and was arrested by the authorities, while in Overseer he commits suicide after Tex gets the better of him. A number of characters die in the novelization who didn't in the games, mostly in Under A Killing Moon, namely The Colonel, Alaynah Moore, Eddie Chang, and Eva in Killing Moon, as well as Archie Ellis in Pandora Directive. Also, at the end of Tesla Effect it's strongly implied that Dalton Fiske and the Translator go down with the Immortal Coil, while in the game they're a lot further away when the explosions begin and possibly escape unharmed. Also, Mantus survives in the novelization of Tesla Effect. | |
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Race Against the Clock | |
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Race Against the Clock: A very common situation is that Tex has only a few minutes to do what he needs to do in someplace he's visiting before he'll be arrested or killed by poison, or some other instant game-over situation. | |
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Big Good | |
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Big Good: The Big P.I. In the Sky, played by James Earl Jones. He steers fate in Tex's favour and berates him during the Have a Nice Death sequences. | |
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Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_4a852458 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7 | type |
Improvised Weapon | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7 | comment |
Improvised Weapon: In the game's final puzzle, a bra is used as a slingshot. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_4de1a4f7 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: Mean Streets was scarcely in the same genre as the following games. Lampshaded in Tesla Effect, when Tex has a flashback to one of the combat sections from Mean Streets and says that he decided never to get into a shootout again. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_51dc66f6 | type |
Hardboiled Detective | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_51dc66f6 | comment |
Hardboiled Detective: Tex is an Affectionate Parody of the stock character. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_51dc66f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_51dc66f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_51dc66f6 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_53027509 | type |
Long-Runner Tech Marches On | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_53027509 | comment |
Long-Runner Tech Marches On: A few of the things that seemed impossibly high-tech when the series started are now obsolete, but preserved in the game for continuity. Okay, Tex still having a fax machine is a joke and entirely plausible, but the vidphones seen throughout the game are considerably inferior to any iPad. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_53027509 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_53027509 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_53027509 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5571b706 | type |
I Work Alone | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5571b706 | comment |
I Work Alone: Tex emphasizes this principle to Regan. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5571b706 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5571b706 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5571b706 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_55b1f9a1 | type |
Easy Amnesia | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_55b1f9a1 | comment |
Easy Amnesia: Subverted. At first Tex thinks his memory loss is caused by the bullet that grazed his head, but a doctor points out it doesn't work that way. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_55b1f9a1 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_55b1f9a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_55b1f9a1 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | type |
Dark Is Not Evil | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | comment |
Dark Is Not Evil: Tex Murphy wears darker colored clothing in contrast to the previous games. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_575fd5e2 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_57b80b45 | type |
Fantastic Racism | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: Allegedly there's no longer any discrimination against races. Genetic discrimination against mutants has taken its place, however, and is a recurring theme throughout the series. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_57b80b45 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_57b80b45 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_57b80b45 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5a4aa505 | type |
Government Conspiracy | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5a4aa505 | comment |
Government Conspiracy: The plot revolves around the supposed UFO crash at Roswell in 1947. The NSA makes sure it stays secret. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5a4aa505 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5a4aa505 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5a4aa505 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5c3206a | type |
Ransacked Room | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5c3206a | comment |
Ransacked Room: The cabin has been thoroughly searched and trashed by some other party before Tex arrives. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5c3206a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5c3206a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5c3206a | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7 | type |
Kleptomaniac Hero | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7 | comment |
Kleptomaniac Hero: Tex can take cash and valuables in the locations he searches. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5f930b19 | type |
Named After Somebody Famous | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5f930b19 | comment |
Named After Somebody Famous: Lowell Percival is named after Percival Lowell, a 19th century astronomer and mathematician who among other things observed canals on Mars and formed the first theories about the existence of Pluto. There is also a fitness instructor named Jane Mansfield. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5f930b19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5f930b19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5f930b19 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5fc3eff4 | type |
Time Bomb | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5fc3eff4 | comment |
Time Bomb: Tex must remove an implant from his skull before it kills him. Of course the plot requires that you remove it anyway (the entire game is a flashback, after all) so there's no danger of Tex dying. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5fc3eff4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5fc3eff4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5fc3eff4 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5fcb9ad1 | type |
Time Skip | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5fcb9ad1 | comment |
Time Skip: Seven years have passed until the beginning of Tesla Effect. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5fcb9ad1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5fcb9ad1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_5fcb9ad1 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6136e02f | type |
Brain Food | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6136e02f | comment |
Brain Food: Fresh off the grill at the Brew & Stew. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6136e02f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6136e02f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6136e02f | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | type |
Sequel Hook | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | comment |
Sequel Hook: Tesla Effect seemingly ends with the Big Bad and his Dragon escaping (although the Dragon is seemingly dealt with in the "bad" ending), and ends with a news report of the Nights Templar getting killed. There's also the sub-plot regarding J.T. Donnelly and Anastasia and the White Russians, which is indicated to be entirely separate from the Translator's plot and is never fully resolved. Tex mentions in the closing scene that it all seems to be part of something bigger, and he'd better be ready for it. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6293c185 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_631ef99 | type |
Shapeshifter Swan Song | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_631ef99 | comment |
Shapeshifter Swan Song: Your final confrontation with The Chameleon. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_631ef99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_631ef99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_631ef99 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_63d3ce1a | type |
Dismantled MacGuffin | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_63d3ce1a | comment |
Dismantled MacGuffin: Tex has to find five pieces to assemble the Pandora Device. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_63d3ce1a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_63d3ce1a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_63d3ce1a | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6602cad | type |
Permanently Missable Content | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6602cad | comment |
Permanently Missable Content: One of the collectible comic books is on top of a shack in the swamp. If you remove the ladder before grabbing it, there's no way to get it. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6602cad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6602cad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6602cad | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_66b90214 | type |
Optional Sexual Encounter | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_66b90214 | comment |
Optional Sexual Encounter: You can sleep with Regan on Day Eight, but doing so makes you unable to finish the game with any ending better than the Neutral one. You can bed Chelsee Bando in the good ending, but only if you treat her and everyone else nicely. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_66b90214 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_66b90214 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_66b90214 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_66c58f09 | type |
Starts with a Suicide | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_66c58f09 | comment |
Starts with a Suicide: Carl Linsky jumped off the Golden Gate bridge. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_66c58f09 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_66c58f09 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_66c58f09 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6a61050e | type |
The Only One | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6a61050e | comment |
The Only One: Tex is a textbook case. Unfortunately, his enemies tend to notice this quality about him, frequently resulting in him being turned into an Unwitting Pawn. Tex always manages to clean up his own messes in the end, though. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6a61050e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6a61050e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6a61050e | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6a79a4a4 | type |
MacGuffin Delivery Service | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6a79a4a4 | comment |
MacGuffin Delivery Service: NSA official Jackson Cross lets Tex do the dirty work, so he could reap the fruits by the end. It doesn't pay off for him though. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6a79a4a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6a79a4a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6a79a4a4 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: The fate of Carl Linsky, though as with most of Tex's cases, there's more to it than it seems. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6d332aea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6d332aea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6d332aea | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6d56cebf | type |
Chess Motifs | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6d56cebf | comment |
Chess Motifs: Pops up everywhere. Both John Klaus and J. Saint Gideon are avid chess players, though only Gideon goes as far as to decorate his entire mansion with chess motifs and use chess-related code names for each aspect of the STG Project | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6d56cebf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6d56cebf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_6d56cebf | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_733e007a | type |
Unwitting Pawn | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_733e007a | comment |
Unwitting Pawn: Tex Murphy, Once per Episode. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_733e007a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_733e007a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_733e007a | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_7919a45b | type |
Duel to the Death | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_7919a45b | comment |
Duel to the Death: Tex vs. NSA Agent Dag Horton posing as The Black Arrow Killer. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_7919a45b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_7919a45b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_7919a45b | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_79793ac7 | type |
"Save the World" Climax | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_79793ac7 | comment |
"Save the World" Climax: Somehow Tex always winds up having to save the planet from conquest or destruction. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_79793ac7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_79793ac7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_79793ac7 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_7c7589af | type |
Earth-Shattering Kaboom | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_7c7589af | comment |
Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Revealed to be the side-effect of the Translator's plan to merge Heaven and Earth. Fail the final puzzle of the game and you get to watch it happen in a pretty cool CGI sequence. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_7c7589af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_7c7589af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_7c7589af | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_88e7f8b8 | type |
Batman Cold Open | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_88e7f8b8 | comment |
Batman Cold Open: The first day involves Tex catching a serial burglar with no connection to the main plot of the game, apart from a minor-but-vital part later where Rook agrees to give Tex a much-needed vintage silver dollar as thanks for solving that case. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_88e7f8b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_88e7f8b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_88e7f8b8 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_895ec17 | type |
Only in It for the Money | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_895ec17 | comment |
Only in It for the Money: Regan is only concerned with the profit she could make of her father's discoveries. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_895ec17 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_895ec17 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_895ec17 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8ce7eec0 | type |
The Tunguska Event | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8ce7eec0 | comment |
The Tunguska Event: The event wasn't a meteorite impact, but the result of a trial run of Nikola Tesla's Death-Ray. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8ce7eec0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8ce7eec0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8ce7eec0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | type |
Non-Standard Game Over | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | comment |
Non Standard Game Over: Most deaths go to a quick RIP sequence and oftentimes the cause of death is not even explained. Some, however, have special FMVs. For example, if Tex throws the Tesla Egg out of the Coit Tower, instead of giving it to Slade. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8e5c862 | type |
Ancient Conspiracy | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8e5c862 | comment |
Ancient Conspiracy: The Brotherhood. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8e5c862 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8e5c862 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8e5c862 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8fcb1ef4 | type |
Pixel Hunt | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8fcb1ef4 | comment |
Pixel Hunt: The pixelated graphics of garbage on the ground make it difficult to tell the difference between random clutter and the objects you're supposed to pick-up. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8fcb1ef4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8fcb1ef4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_8fcb1ef4 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_901dbf9a | type |
Cliff Hanger | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_901dbf9a | comment |
Cliffhanger: The end where Tex's speeder is stolen and he and Chelsee get a ride from a stranger who, after a few moments of pleasant conversation...turns around and shoots them! The radio theater sequel reveals that Tex and Chelsee survived, but got wrapped up in a conspiracy, which also ended on a cliffhanger. D'oh! Finally, all is explained in Tesla Effect, although Chelsee only comes back if you put in a lot of effort throughout the entire game trying to determine what her fate was. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_901dbf9a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_901dbf9a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_901dbf9a | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_91e894b4 | type |
Apocalypse How | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_91e894b4 | comment |
Apocalypse How: A Class 4 biosphere extinction is prepared by the Ancient Conspiracy. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_91e894b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_91e894b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_91e894b4 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_95d5fa0e | type |
Area 51 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_95d5fa0e | comment |
Area 51: Tex has to search the facility at one point in the game. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_95d5fa0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_95d5fa0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_95d5fa0e | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Mean Steets: J. Saint Gideon Martian Memorandum: Thomas Dangerfield Under A Killing Moon: Lowell Percival The Pandora Directive: Jackson Cross and Regan Madsen Overseer: John Klaus and J. Saint Gideon Tesla Effect: The Translator | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_970c790a | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_9b610976 | type |
I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_9b610976 | comment |
I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: The bum behind Rook's place is addicted to chocolate syrup, as in "goes into withdrawals without a fix." | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_9b610976 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_9b610976 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_9b610976 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | type |
Interface Spoiler | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | comment |
Martian Memorandum has a "Help" option, which, when clicked, allows you to choose any object in the room (including ones you haven't found yet) and tells you exactly what you're supposed to do with it. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a1154544 | type |
Grumpy Old Man | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a1154544 | comment |
Grumpy Old Man: Rook Garner, a crusty old WWIII vet with a face like a raisin and a tongue like a butcher's cleaver. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a1154544 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a1154544 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a1154544 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a2cbad1 | type |
Half-Human Hybrid | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a2cbad1 | comment |
Half-Human Hybrid: Gordon Fitzpatrick turns out to be a partial alien. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a2cbad1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a2cbad1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a2cbad1 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a4be7043 | type |
Da Chief | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a4be7043 | comment |
Da Chief: Mac Malden comes off as this. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a4be7043 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a4be7043 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a4be7043 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a65288e2 | type |
Ascended Extra | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Chelsee Bando. So many Tex Murphy fans asked Access if there was any way for the comedic flirting in Under A Killing Moon to go anywhere that romancing Chelsea became one of the major subplots of The Pandora Directive. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a65288e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a65288e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a65288e2 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd | type |
MacGuffin | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd | comment |
MacGuffin: The bird statuette. Turns out the statuette doesn't actually even do anything, and the Ancient Conspiracy just wants it for religious reasons before they cleanse the planet. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd | featureApplicability |
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Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a7850fbf | type |
Only Known by Their Nickname | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a7850fbf | comment |
Only Known by Their Nickname: "Tex" is a nickname that he receives as a kid after crashing through the ceiling with the hole looking exactly like the state of Texas. His real name is rarely, if ever, used. In Tesla Effect, his given name is revealed to be James Tiberius Murphy. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a7850fbf | featureApplicability |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a7850fbf | featureConfidence |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a7850fbf | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a9de87d2 | type |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a9de87d2 | comment |
Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Tex Murphy is incompetent with technology, bad with people and generally denser than a dwarf star. Yet despite all that, he's a good detective with a talent for MacGyvering and logic puzzles. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a9de87d2 | featureApplicability |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a9de87d2 | featureConfidence |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_a9de87d2 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_aa07733b | type |
Hint System | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_aa07733b | comment |
Hint System: With the exception of Mean Streets, all the games in the series have a built-in hint guide. Martian Memorandum has a "Help" option, which, when clicked, allows you to choose any object in the room (including ones you haven't found yet) and tells you exactly what you're supposed to do with it. From Under A Killing Moon onward, the game has a more helpful hint system where each incremental hint cost a certain number of points (gained by solving puzzles) and the system was structured so that it was impossible to "look ahead". | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_aa07733b | featureApplicability |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_aa07733b | featureConfidence |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_aa07733b | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ac0827be | type |
Private Eye Monologue | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ac0827be | comment |
Private Eye Monologue: Tex is prone to give those throughout the series. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ac0827be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ac0827be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ac0827be | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ac8b2810 | type |
Concealing Canvas | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ac8b2810 | comment |
Concealing Canvas: The painting at the cabin hides a safe. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ac8b2810 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ac8b2810 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ac8b2810 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80 | type |
Apocalyptic Log | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80 | comment |
Apocalyptic Log: Tex watches a Video message of the last survivor inside the Roswell complex before that person gets taken by the evil cloud alien. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ad22fa80 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: As the series goes on, Tex becomes increasingly snarky, to the point that in Tesla Effect, he has about twice as much snark as normal dialogue. Then again, Tex is far more stressed than usual in Tesla Effect, having lost seven years of his memory and finding out he apparently became a total bastard in that time. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 | featureConfidence |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b0155044 | type |
Always Night | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b0155044 | comment |
Always Night: Part of the City Noir atmosphere of the game series. The Daylight Reversal Act mentioned in Under A Killing Moon, which came about because of ozone layer damage after World War III. Most everybody sleeps during the day, which is why it's always dark during gameplay. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b0155044 | featureApplicability |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b0155044 | featureConfidence |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b0155044 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b034d333 | type |
Film Noir | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b034d333 | comment |
Film Noir: Increasingly parodied as the series goes on. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b034d333 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b034d333 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b034d333 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b1a7cd14 | type |
Tap on the Head | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b1a7cd14 | comment |
Tap on the Head: Tex gets this on the first day, which takes him out for several hours and makes him miss his date with Chelsee. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b1a7cd14 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b1a7cd14 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b1a7cd14 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b707726f | type |
Hypocritical Humor | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: Tex comments on a book titled "Men are Imbeciles, Women are Erratic," saying "The author generalizes too much, and I think all people who generalize are idiots." | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b707726f | featureApplicability |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b707726f | featureConfidence |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b707726f | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b7b0c10d | type |
Phone-Trace Race | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b7b0c10d | comment |
Phone-Trace Race: Tex tracks down Elijah Witt with a tracking device from the electronics shop. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b7b0c10d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b7b0c10d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b7b0c10d | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b8dbe475 | type |
Blood from the Mouth | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b8dbe475 | comment |
Blood from the Mouth: The injured alien in the Alien Autopsy video footage at the cabin spits blood. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b8dbe475 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b8dbe475 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b8dbe475 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b983a56b | type |
Came Back Wrong | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b983a56b | comment |
Came Back Wrong: Tesla perfected cryogenic preservation, but the subjects are killed when they are frozen and revived after being unfrozen. This has some unfortunate side effects for most subjects. Most are turned into partially decayed, insane cannibals known as Morlocks. Charles Johansson avoided all of the more obvious side effects when he was revived by Gideon Inc., but came back with a dangerous dose of megalomania, turning him into the Translator. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b983a56b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b983a56b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_b983a56b | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bcdd0afa | type |
End-Game Results Screen | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bcdd0afa | comment |
End-Game Results Screen: Tesla Effect assigns you a rank based on your score at the end. Getting the highest rank after completing the "Somewhere I'll Find You" story path is an alternate means to unlock access to the storage room in Tex's Office if you fail to find all the Mike and Ike Hammer comics. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bcdd0afa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bcdd0afa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bcdd0afa | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bd79d896 | type |
Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bd79d896 | comment |
Minor Crime Reveals Major Plot: Mean Streets and Overseer: Investigating a suicide leads to stopping a Well-Intentioned Extremist and a corrupt political party from taking control of global politics. Martian Memorandum: A kidnapping leads to preventing a madman from destroying Mars by unwittingly unleashing a Sealed Evil in a Can. Under A Killing Moon: An art theft leads to thwarting an Ancient Conspiracy planning to wipe out all life on Earth. Pandora Directive: Tracking down a missing person leads to a race to recover functional alien technology before it falls into the hands of evil government agents. Tesla Effect: Tracking down whoever attacked you and gave you amnesia leads to stopping a Well-Intentioned Extremist from using the lost work of Nikola Tesla from accidentally destroying the Earth trying to open a portal to Heaven. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bd79d896 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bd79d896 | featureConfidence |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bd79d896 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bf298865 | type |
Alien Autopsy | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bf298865 | comment |
Alien Autopsy: The video at the cabin depicts one. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bf298865 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bf298865 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bf298865 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bfaff026 | type |
Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bfaff026 | comment |
Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: "Big Jim" Slade, as played by Australian-born martial artist Richard Norton. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bfaff026 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bfaff026 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_bfaff026 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c12f0c4 | type |
Outrun the Fireball | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c12f0c4 | comment |
Outrun the Fireball: How Tex escapes from the warehouse. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c12f0c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c12f0c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c12f0c4 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e | type |
Cutting the Knot | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e | comment |
Cutting the Knot: Can't get an armoire to open and there's no key for it? Use C4 Chewing Gum to blast it apart. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c2299d6e | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c25c7890 | type |
Fun with Acronyms | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c25c7890 | comment |
Fun with Acronyms: NSA now stands for National Surveillance Agency. And much more blatantly, C.A.P.R.I.C.O.R.N. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c25c7890 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c25c7890 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c25c7890 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c45237fb | type |
Dialogue Tree | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c45237fb | comment |
Dialogue Tree: The conversations allow for different options depending on which particular wisecrack you want to make. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c45237fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c45237fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c45237fb | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c54d550d | type |
Novelization | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c54d550d | comment |
Novelization: Two novels were written based on Under a Killing Moon and The Pandora Directive. A novel for Tesla Effect and The Poisoned Pawn have also been released. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c54d550d | featureApplicability |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c54d550d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c54d550d | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c676a2f8 | type |
Blah, Blah, Blah | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c676a2f8 | comment |
Blah, Blah, Blah: Used as a date dialogue option, which appears if you already chose one of the failing conversation tracks. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c676a2f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c676a2f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c676a2f8 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c7270d1c | type |
With This Herring | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c7270d1c | comment |
With This Herring: Largely averted. Tex's clients don't exactly overwhelm him with aid when they enlist his services, but they usually pay him a nice retainer and give him solid leads to begin the case. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c7270d1c | featureApplicability |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c7270d1c | featureConfidence |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c7270d1c | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The fact that Kevin Murphy voices the Exposition Fairy doesn't go uncommented upon. When examining a gum-ball machine, Tex muses that it would nice to have a talking one of the kind as a sidekick. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c83a589c | type |
Luke, I Am Your Father | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c83a589c | comment |
Luke, I Am Your Father: Chelsee is Margaret Leonard's daughter. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c83a589c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c83a589c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_c83a589c | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_cfbd1467 | type |
Never Suicide | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_cfbd1467 | comment |
Never Suicide: Sylvia Linsky doesn't believe the official story, and hires Tex Murphy to verify that the facts are correct. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_cfbd1467 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_cfbd1467 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_cfbd1467 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_cfd569ac | type |
Take Your Time | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_cfd569ac | comment |
Take Your Time: At one point, you have to light a stick of dynamite and throw it at a door. You can light the dynamite while in another building, go outside, over to the other building where you have to throw it, throw the dynamite, then just as lazily walk to a safe distance. The dynamite won't blow until you're out of reach anyway. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_cfd569ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_cfd569ac | featureConfidence |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_cfd569ac | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d001c42c | type |
Anti-Villain | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d001c42c | comment |
Anti-Villain: J. Saint Gideon who is also a Magnificent Bastard. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d001c42c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d001c42c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d001c42c | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d45ad2f5 | type |
Imported Alien Phlebotinum | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d45ad2f5 | comment |
The cause for this is revealed in The Pandora Directive as the US military using untested Imported Alien Phlebotinum to blow up a Middle-Eastern country, which results in WWIII. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d45ad2f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d45ad2f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d45ad2f5 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d500b978 | type |
Adaptational Wimp | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d500b978 | comment |
Adaptational Wimp: In the novel, the Chameleon is a French disguise artist rather than a Native American shapeshifter. This change may have been due to the somewhat oddity of having a mutant serving as The Dragon for a genocidal group of purists. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d500b978 | featureApplicability |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d500b978 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d500b978 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d68c925d | type |
Creator Provincialism | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d68c925d | comment |
Creator Provincialism: While Tex himself is firmly based in San Francisco, mentions of Utah pop up with unlikely frequency (Access Software is based in Salt Lake City). | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d68c925d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d68c925d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d68c925d | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d6fce123 | type |
The Future Is Noir | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d6fce123 | comment |
The Future Is Noir | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d6fce123 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d6fce123 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d6fce123 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d71d51fd | type |
The End of the World as We Know It | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d71d51fd | comment |
The End of the World as We Know It: Tex has to prevent this. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d71d51fd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d71d51fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d71d51fd | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d7d588c8 | type |
Lethal Lava Land | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d7d588c8 | comment |
Lethal Lava Land: In the Mayan temple, there is a long chamber with a narrow maze above several lava pits. Tex has to get to the other side and try to open one of the four doors (whichever one opens is random) — all while avoiding fireballs. This room is only in Game Player's mode, though. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d7d588c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d7d588c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d7d588c8 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d84a3beb | type |
Either/Or Title | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d84a3beb | comment |
Either/Or Title: The chapter titles within the games follow the Noir pattern. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d84a3beb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d84a3beb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d84a3beb | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d933263 | type |
Have a Nice Death | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d933263 | comment |
In a hilarious subversion, Tex will complain to the Great P.I. In The Sky during the Have a Nice Death sequence if you fail to save Eva about how unfair the puzzle is and how there's no way to win except through blind luck. The Great P.I. will agrees with Tex and gives him a second chance without needing to reload a save game. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d933263 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d933263 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_d933263 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_dbca2c99 | type |
Red Herring | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_dbca2c99 | comment |
Red Herring: There are plenty of false leads. One location even lampshades this with the suspect eating a red herring. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_dbca2c99 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_dbca2c99 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_dbca2c99 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_dc1761bd | type |
A God Am I | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_dc1761bd | comment |
A God Am I: The ultimate villain goes full megalomaniac in the finale, believing The Oracle Stone will make him this. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_dc1761bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_dc1761bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_dc1761bd | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e491684a | type |
Odd Job Gods | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e491684a | comment |
Odd Job Gods: The Big P.I in the Sky - the God of Private Investigators played by James Earl Jones - who appears in the Have a Nice Death sequences of Under A Killing Moon and some of the alternate endings of The Pandora Directive and The Tesla Effect At the beginning of Under A Killing Moon, this god hilariously bemoans that all the great private investigators of the past have died of old age, meaning they're stuck with Tex Murphy instead. James Earl Jones knows funny, people. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e491684a | featureApplicability |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e491684a | featureConfidence |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e491684a | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e6ce4b | type |
The Maze | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e6ce4b | comment |
The Maze: Day Nine in the Mayan temple, in Gamer Mode. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e6ce4b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e6ce4b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e6ce4b | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e7b0229a | type |
Laser-Guided Amnesia | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e7b0229a | comment |
Laser-Guided Amnesia: The Trance Inducer chemically erases selected memories. | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e7b0229a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e7b0229a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e7b0229a | |
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Dark Is Evil | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e8b0f099 | comment |
Dark Is Evil: The Translator, Dalton, Big Jim Slade and Tex Murphy (before having his memory erased). They all wear black and aren't exactly the nicest guys. Dark Is Not Evil: Tex Murphy wears darker colored clothing in contrast to the previous games. | |
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Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_e8b0f099 | |
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Bookcase Passage | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_ea0d06f0 | comment |
Bookcase Passage: A secret door behind a bookcase at Elijah Witt's place. | |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_eae41a | type |
The Vamp | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_eae41a | comment |
The Vamp: Regan Madsen. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: The player can make Tex a glaring example of this if he chooses the "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" path. | |
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Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_eb8ec7c8 | |
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The Starscream | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_eedee4d | comment |
The Starscream: Slade who tries to cash in the Tesla Egg, but he gets killed by a vengeful Mantus. | |
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Faking the Dead | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_f9876f7e | comment |
Faking the Dead: For most of Tesla Effect, it's assumed that Chelsee has been dead for a long time after the events of Overseer. However, it turns out Margaret and her allies faked her death to protect her, due to her actually being Margaret's daughter. | |
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Cyberpunk | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_fb01ee16 | comment |
Cyberpunk | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_fb01ee16 | featureApplicability |
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| Tex Murphy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_fb01ee16 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_fd4f8299 | type |
Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_fd4f8299 | comment |
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Ultimately, Dr. Dangerfield's goal was to deliver justice to a mass murderer. Even his A God Am I megalomania at the end after he got The Oracle Stone wasn't directly malicious against anyone. Unfortunately, his misuse of the technology would have blown up the planet if Tex hadn't stopped him. | |
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Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_fd4f8299 | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_fd5603b | type |
MacGyvering | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_fd5603b | comment |
MacGyvering: Combining random items into whatever crude instrument required to advance past a given obstacle is an absolute necessity in these games. | |
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Ridiculous Future Inflation | |
| Tex Murphy (Video Game) / int_fdbb6993 | comment |
Ridiculous Future Inflation: One of the in-game items is a single postage stamp. It costs 10 dollars. | |
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