Amber: Journeys Beyond (Jewel Case) | 
| From: Vivendi Universal
Category: Video Games
List Price: $9.99
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Rating:  89 reviews
Sales Rank: 16014
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 95
ESRB: Rating Pending
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Jewel Case
Operating System: Windows 95
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 4.9 x 5.6 x 0.4
Model: 70838
UPC: 020626708388
EAN: 0020626708388
ASIN: B000021XYY
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Amazon.com Review
Amber: Journeys Beyond--a tight and self-contained ghost story--begins when you visit a fellow scientist named Roxy. An avid paranormal researcher, Roxy has chosen her new home because she believes it is haunted. Using a host of unreliable detection devices, she plans to use this house as a laboratory. Her goal: proving the existence of psychic phenomena. Driving out to the house in a thunderstorm, you are run off the road by a shimmering apparition and are sent crashing into a lake. In short order, you discover other things have gone wrong--Roxy is in the garage, apparently dead. It's up to you to save yourself and the overzealous scientist from the forces lurking in the house. Patience and close attention to detail are musts for playing Amber: Journeys Beyond. Critical items are sometimes hard to spot, and one or two of the scenes take place in very dark locales. When you can see, the graphics are crisp and drawn with a faint gothic sensibility, surrounding the player in a milieu of creepy sounds and ghost-catching gadgets. The game is especially suited to beginning or younger gamers, as the problem-solving challenges are on the simple side. Even so, Amber: Journeys Beyond is spooky and engaging, a worthy electronic heir to campfire stories everywhere. Alyx Dellamonica
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 Finally a software update to play Amber journey's beyond in xp! September 14, 2008
hansolo0
Someone finally made a patch/installer for the game!! [...] Use the test3 download, use it as an installer, and then play off the original CD! The errors are no longer a problem. I think it may occasionally crash, but it's way better than before!! Hurray!
Probably tied for my favorite adventure game along with Mission: Critical
 Heed the Windows XP warnings! August 22, 2008
D. Powell (Boston)
I just wanted to STRONGLY second the warnings already posted about Windows XP incompatibility. I love the game, and tried to reinstall it on my new Windows XP machine. But even setting the Amber.exe file to run in "Windows 95 compatibility mode" doesn't work. A search through game blogs indicates that the program uses an old Windows 95-only version of "Macromedia Projector," which Windows XP cannot handle. Only one blogger claims to have made Amber work on an XP machine, by doing a very complicated procedure to allow the system to be fully toggled between XP and Win95 operating systems. I can say that the last PC that successfully ran it for me used Windows 98, but I can't also attest to whether it runs on Windows ME systems. Such a waste, for what once was a very spooky, difficult, and enjoyable adventure game!
BEWARE! Does not work on XP!! January 24, 2007
OnlineShopper (Atlanta, GA)
Do not buy this game unless you have a computer with a pre-XP operating system cause it simply will not work. I don't think it works with ME either. This was not made clear online and I was sooo bummed when it arrived.
Great game -Needs XP patch... September 21, 2006
W. L. Anderson Jr. (Dacula, Georgia)
I've really loved A.M.B.E.R. for a long time and will play it now & then just because I like the 'feel' of the game. It's quite unusual. The only catch is it needs an XP patch. The only reason I run win 98 on an old pc is to play this game. I hear Hue Forrest developers are making a patch and have a new domain for a new site. Don't miss this intelligent game!!!
Short, but magnificent July 29, 2005
Karin Dru (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I picked up this game years ago and only recently got around to playing it. I cannot believe that I waited as long to finish it as i did.
If you enjoy a good spook, but don't equate a lot of blood and guts with fright, then perhaps this game is for you.
If you are interested in ghosts, and know something about them, then you will find the ones represented in the game satisfying. Their motivations are not the same, and their personalities come through loud and clear even in their settings. One of them most certainly kept me up at night, right along with its theme music running in an endless loop through my head. Incidentally, even the music is good.
Yes, the game is too short. You could tell they originally meant to do more to it. Not all the clues lead up to anything, and some things are implied that just don't go anywhere. The readme file suggests that the programmers believe the game itself to be haunted, (play it alone at night and you might not disagree) so perhaps they did just want to finish it in a hurry.
As for the difficulty level- if it had been much harder, the story wouldn't have flowed. Yes, a child could play it, but not a very young one. The puzzles do sometimes give one pause. Anyone who says they were too easy and mentions a walkthrough is contradicting themseves. Ignore the walkthroughs unless you get truly stuck- there's no timer. It's far better just to immerse yourself for an evening and enjoy.
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