Donald Dowell and the Ghost of Barker Manor screenshots

Title screen

Donald is leaving his home.

Donald does not get a job here.

Finally a job for Donald Dowell

Cut-scene with the ghost buster Bob Delano

At the gate of the haunted Barker Manor

Dialog options with the receptionist

Check out the guest book

The Butler

A painter named Vincent

A different bible version

One of the mini-games which reminds one of an arcade game.

Inventory

Bob Delano's room, with a reproduction of a famous painting also referenced elsewhere in the game.

Searching Bob's suitcase

The local handyman...

...and his time machine.

The clues for getting the time machine running are fairly complicated. Everything is coded as fruits, but you also need to figure out which parts are meant: levers? dial?

The hotel manager's office

This lady just appears in a quiz show, but Donald asks her for an autograph to get her distracted.

Entrance to the woods

The hotel dining room

A little hint: play the whole game and watch the credits - you'll see a bit more about why doesn't this kitchen meet any health code standards.

The game repeatedly "breaks the fourth wall" and includes several "hammerspace" jokes. This one is a classic game reference at the same time.

Using the ghost detector

Donald managed to get into the library.

The repaired bridge to the other side of the river.

The local emporium

The cleaning lady keeps some, uh, interesting items in her closet...

The hunter's room

The chemical laboratory

The lady in the tea room turns out to be very knowledgeable about astrophysics and cosmology.

A fun puzzle: considering each ball's weight, put them on the correct scales to balance them.

The weirdest thing: all the time Donald doesn't realise that the ghost detector DOES work correctly and he IS talking to ghosts. This time he thinks it's just a drunk's rambling...

The whole map of access to the secret room

This whole little sub-plot is based on Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea".

The other screenshots could be considered spoilers. I chose just this one (from the credits), because it only shows what happened next in the lives of two secondary characters.

Donald Dowell and the Ghost of Barker Manor

Windows screenshots