DOS

Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer

Description

Geoffroi Le Brun, ensign in His Majesty’s musketeers, arrives in the middle of the night in 16th century Rouen, France, to start his new posting at the musketeer headquarters. At the moment he arrives, the unfortunate Comte d’Itee, William de Peuple, is attacked by bandits and his precious will is stolen. Geoffroi offers him, just before he dies, his assistance to find his will.

Of course, getting it back will not be easy, and he must travel back and forth across France to accomplish his quest, visiting the cities of Amiens, St Quentin, Le Mans, Paris, and Le Havre. However, he is assisted by a clever manservant, called Henri, who will be a great help, without any doubt. With some luck, he will hunt the murderer(s) down and find the will. And who knows, maybe he will meet a beautiful lady or find a fortune on the way.

Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer is a humorous, inventory-based point and click adventure game. By right-clicking on a hotspot a context-sensitive action interface pops up, showing the relevant actions. The game is a full talkie with captions, music and sound effects. It features a progressive traveling map, which allows to visit new locations after having solved various puzzles.

Alternate Titles

• "Touché: Przygody Piątego Muszkietera" -- Polish title
• "Touché : Les aventures du Cinquième Mousquetaire" -- French title
• "Touché: las aventuras del quinto mosquetero" -- Spanish title
• "Touché: Die Abenteuer des fünften Musketiers" -- German title

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I want to be a musketeer!

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The Press Says

High Score	May, 1996	5 out of 5	100
Power Play	Nov, 1995	84 out of 100	84
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Jan, 1996	82 out of 100	82
Quandary	Feb, 1997		80
Adventurearchiv	Aug 23, 2001	76 out of 100	76
PC Games (Germany)	Jan, 1996	75 out of 100	75
Just Adventure	1999	B	75
PC Player (Germany)	Dec, 1995	65 out of 100	65
Aventura y Cía	Aug 15, 2001		60
Reset	Jun, 1997	5 out of 10	50

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Trivia

Most of the work on the game was done at an office attached to the house of Graham Lilley in Birmingham, a hideaway built by the previous owner.

He recalls the memory problems, as Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer was a DOS game and was originally restricted to 2 MB of memory and a CD-ROM. He was running 256 color SVGA and had some huge scrolling (at that time) artwork loaded so they were very tight. He used a DOS extender and a 32 bit compiler from Watcom. This memory issue restricted the number of characters that could be loaded and in fact some were painted on the backdrop and just their heads and arms were animated.

Lilley got only one production copy from the distributors, probably a casualty of U.S. Gold Ltd.'s demise which happened as the game was released. Only a CD-ROM, no box or manual.