Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum (1991) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum

The year is 2033. Your name is Tex Murphy, Private Investigator in San Francisco. You've been hired by the beautiful daughter of a university professor to uncover the facts about his death. Beginning your…

31 December 1991

What Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum is

Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum is an adventure game developed by Access Software and released in 1991. It is available on DOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The year is 2033. Your name is Tex Murphy, Private Investigator in San Francisco. You've been hired by the beautiful daughter of a university professor to uncover the facts about his death. Beginning your investigation you uncover the deaths of several prominent members of the scientific community. Are these deaths coincidental or is there something more sinister going on? And when you'll end this case, you will have a chance to try yourself in the next one, this time on... Mars!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are comedy, mystery and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum launched on 31 December 1991, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams and Baseball Stars 2.

Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams, Baseball Stars 2.

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