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Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers

Trivia

The floppy disk version of the game included an easter egg -- when the shift button is held down as Gabriel's car pulls up to Schloss Ritter, it breaks down on the overpass and Gabriel dies.

Amongst the long list of established voice actors: Tim Curry, Mark Hamil (Star Wars) and Michael Dorn (Star Trek) is Leah Remini, the voice of Grace. Leah has since gone on to find fame as the lead actress in the King of Queens TV show. This is probably her only role as a voice actor for a computer game.

The full, original game on CD was bundled with the July 1997 edition of CD-Rom Today, a Brazilian computer magazine.

This game was one of the first games that included the o-so popular "F" word. When you talk to your buddy at the police station for the first time about the voodoo crime scene, he'll say something about people being "sick f*cks".

On day 3, you’re able to attend a (pretty boring) lecture at the Tulane university. Take a walk in the lecture hall and read the bulletin board. After looking at it a few times, you’ll get the message “There's a notice for a lecture on Investigative Reporting techniques to be given by octogenarian Pulitzer Prize winner Laura Bow Dorian." This refers to two game characters from the Laura Bow II – Dagger of Amon Ra adventure: Laura Bow en Steve Dorian. In the game, they fell in love. An octogenarian means someone between 80 and 90 in age, so this assumes the two of them got married in the end.

Contributed by Sciere (118122) on Aug 19, 2003.

The German CD-ROM version has a major bug, which causes to crash the games at at least three points during the game. The program obviously hangs, because of a corrupted soundfile. Turn off voices & music in the crashing scenes and you can go on playing.

Contributed by Isdaron (695) on Aug 18, 2001.

Jane Jansen has written a novelization of the game (as well as one of its sequel, the Beast Within).

The full, original game on CD was bundled with the 1/2001 edition of Computer Gaming World magazine.

The cd version of the game included a 20 minute behind the scenes avi file depicting the creation of gabriel knight. The file also included interviews with most of the cast, lead designer/writer Jane Jensen and others.

It could be a coincidence, but there is a real life blues musician from Lousiana, named Dr. John. Perhaps the character's name came from a fan.

Tim Curry and Mark Hamill both auditioned for the voice of The Joker in Batman: The Animated Series. Hamill got the part.

Leilani Jones (Malia Gedde) seems to like the Voodoo Priestess gig. She also plays one in LucasArts' 'Curse of Monkey Island'.