Phantasmagoria is a rather large adventure game from Sierra in terms of CDs (7), not necessarily in length. You play Adrienne, who has just moved into an old mansion with her photographer husband Donald. Shortly after moving in, Adrienne begins to experience horrifying nightmares and have odd encounters inside the creepy old abode. Further, the house is having a severe effect on her husband, changing him for the worse and you must discover its secret before he (or the house) kills Adrienne.

The game places heavy emphasis on full motion video for exposition and cutscenes at various junctures to advance the storyline. Further, Adrienne is represented as a digitized character roaming around pre-rendered settings in the house. She inspects various rooms, finds items, adds them to her inventory, finds places to use the items, and triggers advancements in the storyline. There are 7 chapters to the game, and there is a status screen in the game which tracks your linear progress within the chapter.

If you happen to get stuck in the game, there is a talking skull icon who identifies himself as the hintkeeper. You can click on him to get out of a puzzle jam.

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Alternate Titles

""幽魂 1" -- Taiwan Title" -- "幽魂 1" -- Taiwan Title
"Phantasm" -- Japanese Sega Saturn Title
"로베르타 윌리엄즈의 판타스마고리아" -- Korean Title

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Merchant	Title
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User Reviews

Full of flaws, but atmospheric and overall very impressive	DOS	Unicorn B. Lynx (53164)
The stereotype of an interactive movie - much more movie than interactive.	DOS	Mumm-Ra (385)
One of the most memorable gaming experiences I've had	Windows	hikari_no_tsubasa (11)
Quite horrible, really.	DOS	Tomer Gabel (4480)
One of Sierras best and a great FMV!	Windows	Alex Misiti (84)
Technical Marvel, Gaming Disaster	Windows	Game22 (42)
A Campy Movie Adventure	Windows	Dustin Neal (9)
A memorable Horror Story, that has stuck in my mind since 1995.	Windows	Eric Ridenour (2)

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The Press Says

Joystick	Windows 3.x	Oct, 1995	75 out of 100	75
GameSpot	Windows	May 01, 1996	6 out of 10	60
GameSpot	DOS	May 01, 1996	6 out of 10	60
Quandary	DOS	Dec, 1995		60
Just Games Retro	DOS	Oct 20, 2006	51 out of 100	51
Just Games Retro	Windows	Oct 20, 2006	51 out of 100	51
Just Adventure	DOS	1996	C-	42
Aventura y Cía	DOS	Jul 06, 2003		40
High Score	Windows 3.x	Nov, 1995	2 out of 5	40
AppleLinks.Com	Macintosh	Feb 10, 1999		0

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Trivia

The opening theme is called Consumite Furore (expend your rage) and was written by Mark Seibert with english text by Roberta Williams. The words are:

Come into this talisman || O Spirit of Darkness || Mighty Asteroth, I command you || And fill this stone with your rage || Fill it with your sulphurous powers|| Expend your angers on it || Those powers I will assume || I command you

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Venite in fascinum || O spiritus tenebrarum || Magne Asterothe, te iubeo || Et implete hunc lapidem vestro furore || Implete eum viribus sulfuratis vestris || Consumite eum iris vestris || Istas vires adsumem || Iubeo te

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