The Colonel's Bequest
Sega Genesis · 1988
About this game
Laura Bow is a young student attending the Tulane University in New Orleans, and an aspiring journalist.
Her friend Lillian invites her to spend a weekend in a mansion belonging to her uncle, Colonel Henri Dijon, a veteran of Spanish-American war and the owner of a large, but decaying sugar plantation on a secluded island.
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During the dinner Laura meets members of Lillian's extended family and their alleged friends.
As Laura begins to explore the mansion and talk to its inhabitants, she unravels old family feuds and realizes some of those people - if not all - have their own plans and schemes.
It all gets much worse when strange accidents and murders start to occur.
Laura must investigate those gruesome events and find the culprit.
The Colonel's Bequest is a detective mystery adventure game very similar in style and presentation to Agatha Christie's novels.
The game world is confined to the island and consists of numerous interconnected areas, such as various rooms in the mansion, garden, smaller structures, etc.
The player is free to explore much of the game's world right from the beginning, with only a few areas being initially inaccessible.
The game's clock advances a quarter of an hour each time Laura performs an action pertaining to the plot.
Characters have their own schedules and clues are often obtained by discretely observing their actions.
The player interacts with the environment by typing verb-object command combinations (such as "Look Garden", "Talk Colonel", etc.).
Some of the most common actions have keyboard shortcuts.
The gameplay largely focuses on exploration.
Much of the plot stays in the background and can be uncovered by talking to the characters about various topics (mostly other people).
There is an inventory and a few puzzles, but they play a much less prominent role in the game compared to other adventures by Sierra.
It is possible to complete the game without having discovered the entire plot or even without having identif
About Sega Genesis
Known as the Mega Drive outside North America, the Sega Genesis (1988/1989) was Sega's most successful console and Sonic the Hedgehog's original home, fueling the "console wars" era against Nintendo's SNES. Genesis cartridge collecting is well-established: common sports and platformer titles are affordable, while sports-license and later-era games with smaller print runs can carry a meaningful premium.
Gamevaro tracks The Colonel's Bequest for Sega Genesis with separate market values for loose, complete-in-box (CIB) and factory-sealed copies, sourced from real eBay sales. Prices also vary by region — PAL, NTSC-U and NTSC-J releases of the same game often sell for different amounts due to print run sizes and regional collector demand.
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What's the difference between loose, CIB and sealed for The Colonel's Bequest?
Loose means cartridge or disc only, CIB (complete in box) includes the original box and manual, and sealed means factory-sealed and never opened. These are tracked as separate market values because the price gap between them can be significant, especially for older releases.
