Discussing Nancy Drew Game Eras
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2022
- Ever considered that the Nancy Drew games can be divided into different time periods, categories, or eras? In this video, we break down the history of game changes and how to classify these eras based on ever-changing game history. So fun!! Thank you all for the suggestions, and if you have any more, be sure to let me know below :D Your constant support always means the world! #NancyDrewGames #herinteractive #nancydrewpcgames
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Carter, love your new channel name! Very creative categories, never seen them broken up like that before! Also was on our recommended, top video actually! Go Carter 💪 -Brighella
Thank y’all 🥹 I appreciate the hype and for tuning in! You all are awesome!!
Nice video.
My era breakdown is
1-5_The Originals
6-8 _The Post Orginal Era
9-13_The Golden Era
14-20_The Experimantal Era
21-24_The Renaissance
25-32_The Post Renaissance
33_Reboot Era
Also i consider 1-9 to be the Classics
Absolutely love this, and I am so excited to find another Nancy drew youtuber to follow and love ❤❤❤
(I would have called the new age era the flop era tbh 😂😂.. but you’re nicer than me 😊)
So happy to have you here!! If you like more daily ND game content, check my insta out @thenancydrewtimes! I post soooo much daily/weekly reels, memes, fun-facts on there!! It’s actually how I started 🥹 But thank you, I sure do appreciate it!
AND HAHAHA OKAY. You’re not wrong 😆😆 I think I’m just hopeful that maybe they’re listening to the feedback based off Midnight in Salem reviews 👀🤞… hopefully… lol
But i really honestly don’t know until we get another 🤨
Actually the real outlier was technically danger by design because that was when they were showing Nancy's bedroom and then there was the golden era would technically be games 1 - 9 and then there was the silver age and that one had games of 10 - 15 and then there was the experimental era now that was more like games like 16 - 20 but the outlier would've been more like secrets can kill remastered which came out in the same time as trail of the twister and that's a Segway for the social media era of games of 21 - 25 and so that's why there was some overlap with the Renaissance era which would've been more like games for like say games 26 - 32
Amazing! Your eras are perfectly categorized. I definitely prefer the golden area over anything. My top games are from there: DID and TRN. I have a soft spot for the personal era though…and a bit of the experimental era purely due to ICE…man I feel like I’m talking about Taylor swift eras now 🤣.
Good video, it was on my recommended!
I think more videos about your thoughts on Nancy Drew topics would be cool, like maybe if you have some personal takes on some of the games, something like that. Theories about Thornton Hall would be interesting as well, considering the family history!!
I love those ideas and an definitely adding them to the notes for future vids 📝🤩
Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake was my first but I quickly played the earlier ones from the library as a child. I definitely agree that Secret of the Scarlet Hand indicated a shift in focus. I would argue that Curse of Blackmoor Manor signaled the increase of Nancy being a puzzle-game versus a mystery game. Sure, that game explains it but a lot don't beyond "treasure hunt and those aren't supposed to be easy." It feels like the whodunit factor got lost fairly early in the series in favor of puzzles, with an exception scattered about. Experimental is a great classification. Every game had something weird, Danger by Design had no way of figuring out the "culprit?" and had a weird final confrontation and really contrasts with Phantom of Venice despite similar ideas. All I can hope for with game 34 is that my poor laptop can run it
THE LIBRARY. Key memory unlocked to remember playing a bunch of amazing of games from there 😍
I love your view! I actually could see that for sure… and it’s also that CUR was the first international game, so I can totally see that as the team experimenting. I LOVE your point about it being a puzzle-heavy game. I think Secret of Shadow Ranch really was the game that introduced it being puzzle heavy and then even more so with CUR! Because Haunted Carousel and Danger on Deception Island puzzles were very minimal and easy and what a jump from SHA to CUR to TRN. Lots of more puzzles! Yes yes, I love your points!! 🤗
@@carterplaysyt Checking out games from the library was the best ♥️
I completely agree with you about Secret of Shadow Ranch, now that you mention it. I guess it didn't feel quite as in your face, since you get to move around a lot more. The first treasure hunt justifying a bunch of puzzles cliché. Ghost Dogs just didn't feel as puzzle heavy to me. Danger on Deception Island wasn't a treasure hunt, which was refreshing. The sheer amount of "old treasure therefore puzzles galore!" got to be a bit much for me. The games that differed from that stick out. Treasure in the Royal Tower is one of my all-time favorites and involves treasure, but the puzzles didn't feel intrusive or too hard. Goes to show the series has at least one game for everyone 🙂
Um Carter the Nancy drew games that you just grouped wasn't a fully completed series is that technically that series of Nancy drew games was actually called the early Y2K Nancy drew game series and that series would've been all the way from secrets can kill to secret of the old clock because everything within 2005 hasn't changed until 2006 when her interactive came out with danger by design and creature of kapo cave. But technically danger by design would be more the outlier of that series
I really love your take on the eras, and I'm glad you pointed out the personal aspect of the final era before MID. The Haunted Carousel was my first and is my favourite, but the fact that in the later games we got to see more development and exploration of the characters we'd come to know and love was so special to me. A lot of my favourite games are from the classic era and I've loved them for years, but the personal era was what actually made me want to get invested in the fandom because it gave me so much more attachment to the main cast.
Ooo thank you SnowyDoe, I really love reading your insight on this! I would say my experience is probably the exact same!! Played my first game from the Golden era and was hooked to play more, and as characters continued coming back and diving more into their stories, I think my attachment grew more just as you mentioned 🥹
I’m hopeful that we’ll still get something good; it just may take them some time to figure out what direction they’re going!!
A part of me sometimes questions myself, “why do I make content that is so niche specific?” Especially for a niche that is kind of stagnant right now…. But to be honest, I just have so much appreciation and love for them and just wanna share that with whoever finds it. And also to keep like a video catalog of all my thoughts/memories of something I loved 😭 So thank you for commenting and sharing! It’s awesome to share these feelings with others :’)
Danger on Deception is my favorite game too! And it was my first one! It holds such a special place in my heart. All these games do. Golden era is probably my favorite. Those games were my first ones I played, and they are what made me a fan.
Lol your “Harry Styles” haha 😂
I am the same 100%! I remember playing Danger on Deception Island first, then Blackmoor Manor, then Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake… whew, it was quite the introduction!! 😵💫 I was hooked from then on! And they were all golden era games 😄
Bahaha that just couldn’t be edited out. It had to stay in 🤣
Hi Carter! I love this! I agree with your assessment of the eras. I hadn't realized that there was an era focused on Nancy and I like that you brought up the point that HeR was also more active on social media; that's also something I wouldn't have thought of! ❤🕵🏻♀️
Why thank you friend!! ☺️
Love this video, and your channel! I really do think the best games are from the golden era. I also love the classics, and I have a few favorites from the later eras as well. But for the most part, I can't deny that I really do favor the golden era.
Also, Deception Island was my first game too! So naturally, it's my favorite!
Nice work, Carter! I'm always excited to see that you've posted new content. :)
If I'm remembering correctly, isn't it also the Golden Era that we get the Hardy Boys in the games for the first time? I believe Bess and George first introduce them as a phone contact partway through SSH. That was a big development because after being introduced, they became staples as phone contacts and by the end of the Golden Era were also characters you could interact with face-to-face.
And that's got me thinking how TRN, the last game in the Golden Era, is something of a transitional game to the Experimental Era! TRN was the first time we got one of the "big three" (Ned, Bess & George, Frank & Joe) as face-to-face characters, not just phone contacts. And I believe it's also the first game where you get to play as someone other than Nancy (Frank making burgers in the diner).
I discovered the games during the peak of the Golden Era. I saw SHA in the electronics section at Walmart when it was HER's newest release and convinced my mom to buy it for me. The rest is history.
Well thank you, Tori! 😊 I’m always happy to have you here!! Yesss very much so, and that’s exactly how I think about it too 🤔 there’s just soooo many changes unfolding around those few games, 13-15! And I like how you pointed out the phone contact too; I definitely feel like that signified the beginning of the golden era in SSH to the end in TRN when they actually made physical appearances! 10000% agree 😁
I really enjoyed your explanation.
I'm a 99 baby, too. 🤜🤛
Okay so I completely agree with you for all these eras and LOVE how you broke them up. My first ever game was Message in a haunted Manson then next was Shadow Ranch when it first came out. So yeah same I was born in 1998 so I completely agree with feeling in between generations. Like technically ya we are Gen Z but so much of my upbringing was based around 90s millennial movies, shows, games, and computer games!
Thank ya Mackenzie!! Ooo what GREAT games to start the series with 🤓 I was just telling another commenter that my line-up was quite the introduction to the series (which I also think matters so much to how you initially view the series!!)
But it was first danger on deception island, then curse of Blackmoor manor, and then ghost dogs 🤯 I mean… whew, I was hooked!!!
YES. I’m so glad someone understands what I mean 😩 I had an older brother, plus I grew up in the South (which typically catches on to things a little later) so I would say the first 7ish years of my life were much more millennial childhood. And then more technology was coming out, different music, movies… everything was just shifting and moving forward 🤔 But yeah, anyways, I guess we could say we’re Zillennials lol
Technically when you mean outlier I don't think you actually want that actually means it means it's detached from the main body system so technically I would say that secret of the scarlet hand was technically part of the main core group of those early nancy drew games because with ghost dogs of moon lake would be outlier because it was detached from that group of Nancy drew games because technically that game and the other two Nancy drew games which was haunted carousel and danger on deception island fit into the group of nancy drew games that came out in the mid 2000s because they were indicating actual pop culture of the mid 2000s
Actually people call a time period the Golden age that technically means a time of nostalgia and of when things were special and successful and so this might be shocking to you carter i would that the golden age of the Nancy drew games and they would be secrets can kill, stay tuned for danger, message in a haunted mansion, treasure in the royal tower, the final scene, secret of the scarlet hand, ghost dogs of moon lake, the haunted carousel, danger on deception island,secret of shadow ranch and curse of blackmoor manor and with those games they would known as the golden age because that was known as the y2k era
Actually Carter i kinda don't think that you should put in those other four Nancy drew games in with the games that from the mid 2000s because technically they were also from era the early series like treasure in the royal tower because with that game that was technically dreamcatcher interactive had a part partnering company called the adventure company and that was in within the year of 2001 and that was dreamcatcher interactive came out nancy drew game pack of the original game series but the media disks were colored blue but the year of release was in 2005
Actually games like captive curse and also shadow at the waters edge they're more in the experimental era of the Nancy drew games because that was the era when we as the millennial generation had shows on cable tv like glee and legend of the seeker and also BBC's Merlin and that's more like the Gen z millennial era and when i mean gen z millennial i mean that guys out there that be known as the second wave millennial generation
Great video!
I was born in 1999 too! When is your birthday?
Actually Carter buddy I know that your still with her interactive but technically right when they were still doing secret of the scarlet hand and ghost dogs of moon lake and haunted carousel and also danger on deception Island that was still dreamcatcher right when they were on with the adventure company
1999 is gen z
Okay yes truuueee. So tbh, I went back and watched that part again, and I don’t think I explained my thought as well as I wanted 😂
What I meant was just how difficult it is to pinpoint beginnings and ends of generations/eras because those things don’t necessarily just end when we define they do. So for example, 1999 is the end of the 90’s, but for those born in 2000, depending on factors such as, if they had older siblings and factors of music, movies, and culture, the things we associate of a decade didn’t dissolve just because 1999 was over. It still carried over some into the early 00’s until the new decade had its own definition.
And I feel that same way about myself because I don’t necessarily fit into one generation; I feel a blur of 2 different ones because I was born more on the earlier side of the years they define as Gen Z. I feel like a total mixture 😆
But that’s how I feel about the games too! Like it’s hard for me to create my own personal opinion of where I fit certain games into an era because there’s going to be games that just are a blur of two eras in one, almost like a transitional games. And that’s why I called those games outliers because they are set apart from 2 eras, yet they possess qualities from both-if that makes sense 🤔
Sorry for the long explanation 😂 I think I just finally was able to piece together my thoughts completely!