Nancy Drew: Stay Tuned for Danger | |
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Developer(s) | HeR Interactive |
Publisher(s) | DreamCatcher |
Platform(s) | PC |
Release | November 13, 1999 |
Genre(s) | Adventure |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Stay Tuned for Danger is the second installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by HeR Interactive. [1] [2] [3] It was officially discontinued in 2011 before being re-released in 2016 after the company had transferred to their new gaming system. It has an ESRB rating of E for moments of mild violence and peril. Players take on the first-person view of fictional amateur sleuth Nancy Drew and solve the mystery through interrogation of suspects, solving puzzles, and discovering clues. It features longer gameplay and improved graphics compared to the previous game, Secrets Can Kill . It is also the first installment in the series to feature three-dimensional suspect character models. There are three levels of gameplay: Junior, Senior, and Master detective modes. Each mode offers a different difficulty level of puzzles and hints, but none of these changes affect the actual plot of the game. It is loosely based on The Nancy Drew Files book of the same name, Stay Tuned for Danger (1987). [4]
Nancy Drew is invited to New York City to stay with Mattie Jensen, a popular soap opera star. Mattie wants Nancy to investigate death threats that her co-star, Rick Arlen, has been receiving. Throughout the game, Nancy discovers each character has a motive for threatening Rick:
Between near-death accidents on set and backstage, Nancy soon discovers security footage that shows Dwayne Powers at the studio after hours. Nancy heads for the studio and runs into Lillian. Suddenly, the power is cut, and Dwayne Powers is revealed to be the culprit. Nancy is able to alert security, and Dwayne is arrested. Lillian moves on and becomes a director. Rick and Mattie get married.
The Toledo Blade reported that the game was in development in an issue released on April 3, 1999. [5]
The game was officially discontinued on November 17, 2011 due to incompatibility issues with sound cards in newer computers. Although HeR Interactive released a remastered version of its first game Nancy Drew: Secrets Can Kill , they have not announced plans to remaster any other older games, including Stay Tuned for Danger. [7]
While not remastered, HeR Interactive has made Stay Tuned for Danger available again through digital download only, along with tips and tutorials for getting it to work with more modern Windows systems (7+). Installation of Stay Tuned for Danger - Win7+
Publication | Score |
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Adventure Gamers | [8] |
Just Adventure | B [9] |
During the year 2001, Stay Tuned for Danger sold 20,826 units in North America, according to PC Data. [10] Its jewel case re-release sold 47,179 copies in the region during 2003. [11] In the United States alone, the game's computer version sold between 100,000 and 300,000 units by August, 2006. [12] Combined sales of the Nancy Drew adventure game series reached 500,000 copies in North America by early 2003, [13] and the computer entries reached 2.1 million sales in the United States alone by August 2006. Remarking upon this success, Edge called Nancy Drew a "powerful franchise". [12]
New Straits Times wrote that while the game "had a certain voyeuristic charm", it "suffered from some of the most contrived puzzles ever put in an adventure game." [14]
Stay Tuned for Danger received a "Gold" Parents' Choice Award in spring 2000. [15]
On August 8, 2016, HeR Interactive re-released the game after transferring it to their new gaming platform.
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