[PC] Lighthouse: The Dark Being (1996) - Full Playthrough
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- Lighthouse: The Dark Being
Platform: PC
Content information: Mild violence.
Recorded on Windows 7 using SquirtTheCat's modern compatibility fix.
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This is a recorded playthrough of a first-person adventure game developed by Sierra and released in 1996. It was very clearly designed to compete with Myst, as the atmosphere and world design of Lighthouse resembles Myst in many ways. In fact, according to the lead designer Jon Bock, Ken Williams (president of Sierra at the time) called Bock into his office one day, took out a copy of Myst, and asked him "Can you do this?". Bock said yes, and development began.
Probably the biggest strength of Lighthouse is its visuals. It has some beautiful environments, oozing with pre-rendered 90's charm. Unfortunately, the puzzles don't hold up as well. Many of them are pretty obtuse, and it is sometimes possible to lock yourself into unwinnable "walking dead" situations if you don't do some things in the correct order. So, in other words, classic Sierra game design.
Overall, though, Lighthouse has a lot of charm to it. Even with the frequent crashing (which I experienced throughout all versions of the game I attempted to play, including third-party versions designed specifically to run on modern machines) I still can't help but love the detailed world and visuals. I recommend giving this one a shot (although maybe with a walkthrough by your side just in case).
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Scarred and scared for life. This game has left a permanent imprint in my mind. What has been seen cannot be unseen.
Im glad im not the only one .
I am 42, was sleeping suddenly remember this game and scream of baby and the name n music of game appeared in my mind, now I m here☺️
Me too. I played this game with my dad when I was like 6 years old.
My dad played this when I was 3/4 years old. I dont know if this is a false memory, but I remember a black Flying Dinosaur with red eyes painting a picture in a lighthouse / tower. Maybe it was this game, or the game where the little angel baby is trapped in a cage, I cant remember.
I was about 10 when my buddy introduced me to this game. Those bird people 😅 Terrifying!
9:54 literally had nightmares for years from this game I can't believe how realistic we thought it was back then!
yes, i literally had nightmares until i was reaching my late teens.
This game is serious and dark. No sense of humour at all. The world is empty and lonely. The Dark Being is not only one creepy character. Lyril with her electrical glitches gives uneasy feeling as well. Were children the target audience for this game? I doubt it, this game is more suitable for adults. For mature people who like thriller and drama genres. Having said that, the start of the game is interesting. That mystery and suspension.
It was one of the few games where you could use a crowbar to break open a locked door.
I remember playing this game when my parents weren't at home with my little brother. I still remember the baby scene 14 years later , it was horrifying. so much scarier than resident evil
0:39 Ed Sheeran
This game used to absolutely TERRIFY me as a kid. I always swore up and down that my closet was going to turn into the Dark Beings portal and he'd hop right out and steal my ass.
Holy fuck I had this exact same fear as a kid. Always afraid something would come out of my closet to take me away! Had many nightmares about that as well.
Oh wow, I remember being too scared to even leave the house in the first level. I had forgotten about this game until today and decided to look it up. Man the nostalgia is strong!
available at gog about a week ago, I buyed it instantly, and played it at the first time, worth every penny, imho much more sophsticated than Myst
I used to shit my pants with this game when I was a kid! The dark creature is so creepy! I wish they could do a remake out of this.
actually I shit my pants with this game yesterday, when I was 37 years old :D
That baby crying.
Is that so❓About Doc Krick, what kind of doctor 👨⚕️ is he❓
Not sure if anyone gives a shit but if you're stoned like me atm then you can stream all the latest movies on InstaFlixxer. Been watching with my girlfriend for the last weeks =)
@Solomon Mohammad Yea, have been watching on InstaFlixxer for since december myself :D
This game was the one thing I remember from my childhood....So many good memories!!! I wish I could go back in time...
This game was so hard to solve... respect for anybody who made it.
Just finished the whole video. Going through all of this again is so exciting ! This game is a master piece. Hands down the most remarkable experience I ever had in a video game. Even after two decades I still remember from the top of my head every single detail. I guess it took me an insane amount of time playing it over and over again to finally beat it. There was no such thing as TH-cam so after beating it for the first time I did it all over again taking screen shots and compiled a walk thru in a Word document. I might still have it in my old backup CDs. Man nostalgia hits hard on this one. Too many history and memories.
Thanks for posting this play through! Spent my morning before work watching this. So many memories! I never got past the part with the iron bird. 6 year old me couldnt figure out that submarime part. Watching this video, i still cant figure out that submarine haha
22:43
i love how, even in this grainy-ass resolution, the shark sub still looks cool as hell. this game had a great aesthetic, even if it was an out and out myst clone
The music in the underwater scene really fit the mood as well. It was a stretch for me to find elements of this game that I liked, but this was easily one of them.
Used to watch my older sisters play this when we were kids...so lovely memories to me
Oh wow I loved this game on my new Gateway computer running Windows 95 back in 1998!!
I used to watch my brother play this and it was terrifying but I couldn't look away. Also our disc was messed up so he never got to beat it... He could get up to the minecart bit and then it would freeze, haha
The atmosphere of this game is so dark and mysterious. I was so scared and intrigued playing this as a kid. I could not for the life of me figure out how to get that sub started.
Whoa ! I figured out every chapter and was approaching the finale! Did the troubleshooting and logic puzzles to make my way all the way to the final end of this game. However, when I was concluding the final details to finally complete this game there was this persistent runtime error. There was nothing I could do. I couldnt make it through a cutscene and into the end of the game. I was stuck on a switch on the tracks! Last I played this game was around 2010 and it was easy because I did it all in 2005 when I was in highschool. I am finally finishing the game ! Very cool game by the way. Very technical and awesome puzzles. Thank you for this Video Post ! ! ! !!
The nostalgia is strong with this one! Played this as a kid in the 90's. Remembered the puzzles were insanely complex. Even struggled with the walkthrough. Found Myst and Riven easier than this!
the message in the answering machine was enough the scare the shit out of me at that time
This game scared the SHIT out of me as a kid,watching my dad play
Excellent! I remember playing this as a kid. Thanks for sharing!
What an imprint this game left on my life. I remember playing just for the awesome music. But, how scary this game was at times. That monster waiting at the door was terrifying. Was so satisfying blasting him with the cannon! I do miss this. I still have the disc!
Thank you so much for reminding me my childhood... great game for that time standards
Oh my heart... this was the first pc game I ever played. Thank you so much for this!
Thanks for posting. I couldn't make it when i was kid and Now that i watch this, i feel better now.
Many people played this game in childhood. Some were scared by the kidnapping scene and others were not scared. I wonder, why some people were scared and others not? What is the difference? Parent’s explanation of the situation?
I used to love playing this game and bad mojo everytime i went to stay the night at my uncles house he put it on and walk us through it 👍
Thank you for posting this! I played this when I a kid and the Dark Being gave me nightmares! I still have the CD ROMs for it. I got stuck at the part in the Volcano with all those valves you had to switch. Also the puzzle cube to get the crystal bottle piece.
I always enjoyed adventure games much more if I had a walkthrough to refer to. And I was glad I had one for this game. My big frustration was that at the final part of the game, I was missing one piece of that super gun thingy you have to build. I revisited all the places in the walkthrough and never found that missing piece. As a result, I never finished the game or got to see the ending. Now, more than 25 years later, I’m going to finally see it thanks to this awesome play-through!
My favorite music is when you are on the roof of the castle after you kill the beast with the cannon. So epic!! A lot of memories on this title! I still got the CD!
I thought so the second comment will be spoiler filled :D
The nostalgia and unshakable eeriness of it all. Thank you for uploading! I enjoy watching, but am too scared to ever play again because of the alien jump scare 😭
I was so scared of this in my childhood...only reached the part with the submarine...and I always asked myself about the doctor and his baby could be saved...I am only searched for this to see the end to know they will be together again...I am so glad that this have actually an happy end....thank you so much for sharing this so that I could finally answer that "old" question :) stay strong and healthy this times. All the best for everyone who read this!
I got this along with Shivers as I have been wanting it for a long time. As with Shivers I have the original game. I never got to play it to the finish because there was some glitch in it as far as I remember with some troll or something and there was no way to get any further. There may have been a patch for this but at the time I didn't have internet. Back then it was also hard to buy pc games in my country they would usually have these floppies where it was just a small part of the game and we were never able to buy the full game. Like The Munsters. The full games we could buy was very very expensive.
I'm really happy you made this or I would still be trying to light the lamp outside with my lighter at the Lighthouse;) Sierra was the best of all!!
I got this game for Christmas. I never got that far, but I always thought this was a really cool game.
I think about this game a lot. The world, the music, it’s all so dark and dreary. Wish they made games like this still. Some of those backgrounds I could stare at for hours
My memory of seeing this game as a child, when the dark being came to steal the baby, I remember him being made of pure blue electricity. That memory is almost imprinted in my head. So weird to come back and he doesn’t look like that. Anyone else???
the speed of this run-through, and it's still two hours long. God help anyone who was playing this with no guide in 1996
Took me years to beat it
The baby getting kidnapped used to scare the shit out of me
This game was so ahead of it's time.
I also played this as a kid with my best friend. The background music was so creepy!
i absolutely love the music in this game! the tune that plays right as you arrive on the beach is so chilling and perfect. it's one of my favorite aspects of the game.
@@advveo 100% agree. The ambient is amazing. In my personal chart Lighthouse soundtrack and fallout 1-2 took the best 1st place :-]
This is the best creppy game ever for me for longtime ago this game make me lose my self go to inside
9:41 Bummer. You didn't get around to feeding Amanda before she was kidnapped.
Loved this game as a kid. Could never get past the beach level. But certain parts of this game stuck in my mind
I remember my parents playing this game with their laptop when i was like 7.
Best game ever!!!!! Wish Sierra would have made a sequel!!!! Found a way to play it on windows 10 and still love to play it..even after playing it once it is still challenging to replay it again.
oh jeez, fucking memories XD like, the nostalgia at the start-up logo actually felt like a weight when it hit me XD
(also, warning for vegetarians; this game is chock full of ham)
I remember throwing these CDs in the bonfire.
Played this game back in the 90s. Loved Sierra games. I wish I had kept my copy of it though. Ebay prices with big box are reasonable.
I think I had this on Floppys! Thanks for the update
At 10:54 I still can't believe that I was extremely terrified at whatever that half naked tatted mannequin thing is. Couldn't sleep with the lights off or anything, my parents had to snap the CD in half because of my fear for it LoL damn 😅
The most difficult video game ever made.
Yeah some of the puzzles were just so obscure. I wonder how many people beat it with no hints or walkthroughs. I think the shipwreck part would probably be the most difficult.
I dont think on earth somebody could it first without walkthrough
@@bbitirim
My dad did, but he plays just about every adventure game that comes out for PC (and has since the days of text-based adventure games), so he had a lot of practice navigating games like this and how they want you to think. He’d keep a spiral notebook full of notes on EVERYTHING he comes across in these games, in case it’s needed for a puzzle later.
I, on the other hand, got as far as the volcano (after MONTHS of playing) and could never solve it. 😅 The only reason I got that far was because I would watch my dad play-so some of the puzzles I saw solutions for already-and he would give me pointers and advice on how to play and figure out puzzles while he did. I never would have made it off the beach otherwise!
Man, this brings back memories.
Man the hours I spend on this game as a kid. I was so invested in this. But I never got past the mine train. Also remember this was my most expensive pc game by far at the time. I'm not sure if I remember correctly this game consisted of multiple CD's?
2 CDs of if I remember correctly! And you had to keep switching between them all the time.
1:09:11 I did like this little piano fanfare after completing the puzzle box. Here in the study, it seemed a piano would fit right in with the decor.
Where can I find games like this from Sierra, I wonder if they are still in business! It was awesome!!
Unfortunately, sierra went under over a decade ago and sold it's rights to vivendi. But, you can find most of the games for cheap on gog.com.
I still have the 2 CD‘s,
but no Win 95 computer
or other computer for it
so that I can play the game.
A shame indeed,
was the best game ever for me. ❤
56:54 Nuts to this whole scene! Back in the day, I bypassed all this by opening my own portal in Dr. Krick's lab, doing all the steps to get that medallion off the dead guy's neck, gunning it back through the portal, and closing it before the workstation overloaded again. Then I completed the whole puzzle box in one shot, and simply returned to the Tower after I got that Jet Gun piece from the basement here. Every single puzzle obviated made this game that much more palatable.
riding a real submarine is easier than this shit, and I was 12
It took me many years to beat that game. Got stuck at the submarine and two years later dreamed of a solution. It worked. IIRC I had to screw something to a lever to make a working throttle. I might have the original game in its original case somewhere.
1:34:32 Depending on how bright your display is, you can see the wide-eyed expression on Amanda's face. Another object lesson, I'm sure, this time about child labor or some such.
Just found out about this and its beautiful
Hard to believe this all started by Ken Willliams asking one of his programmers to make their version of Myst.
when I was like, 6 i played this. and it wass fun and cool till I seen the alien dude for the first time. I fucking ran. Had nightmares for days
thanks for sharing adv_veo
A dark power has found its way back into the world. - Radagast the Brown, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
HOW do you insert DC#2 then press enter to continue, in DOSBox??
I didn't play this in dosbox, sorry. I used SquirtTheCat's modern compatibility fix, which is linked in the description.
In 53:47 I was always wondering was there another way to summon the mechanical bird or just this glitch which is a weird short cut to it?🤔
I have play this game years ago and the closest answer to my question was the desert floor but I never was sure if any video clip was missing when the mechanical bird started to get near the palace or not.🤔
Me trae muy buenos recuerdos este juego, recuerdo la primera vez que lo jugué y quede impresionada, tenia 8 años y la versión que tenía era un demo del juego por lo que nunca pude terminarlo.
Que lastima que no pueda jugarlo ahora 😪 me quedare con las ganas de terminarlo.
Porque no sacan una versión que soporte el sistema operativo actual? Afortunados los que pudieron jugarlo completo
podes jugarlo con el Scummvm
My sister's name is Mandy, but her real name is Amanda.
1:07:40, I like it how the symbols for the playstation controls come out of that bite the mouse level frustratingly long puzzle sequence as if the reward is the advice to go play a better game
The graphics always reminded me old aliens game on the computer and doom 😅 I'm get ting old
I can see I made a big boo boo:) I heard the baby cry and ignored it then the baby stopped crying and when I got there it was gone so I never got into the other time:) At least I don't have a headache for being hit on the head just feel like an idiot instead:)
Actually, not following the Dark Being into the portal is better. Since you have to come back to the lighthouse anyhow, you'll eventually have to create your own portal into the other world. There are some mistakes you can make though that can't be reversed.
5:44 Going into the lighthouse before turning the lights on, just for fun. Somebody was inpired by Yoshi's Island, methinks.
56:12 Assembling this thing reminded me of assembling the "Jet Gun" in Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 Zombies TranZit mode.
game got a patch later where all clickable stuff were highlighted. made it much easier.
1:37:15 Whoops! Want to have even more fun? Set the time bomb before derailing. Keep in mind you have Amanda in tow as well.
1:38:17 Never mind. You did.
43:15 You were previously at the Workshop. Why didn't you just activate the plane from there? Either plane will get you to the Temple.
The game is set up in US. Which means the player should have a firearm from the beginning. When leaving house he takes a gun, not an umbrella. And shoots that poor Dark Being at first sight. Why to spend whole game assembling a nerdy shrinking gun? Then player goes to parallel world and saves Martin from Birdman. Dr. Kirk already became friends with him. The main goal of the game would be helping priests to recover. Fix the life support of Lyril. The original ending leaves Lyril struggling in her world. Priests were smart guys, how come all of them sunk with the ship. They have solar panels at the temple and still use a steam engine for the ship?! It would be more interesting if some of them survived and main focus of the game was recovering the parallel world.
Nah it’s much more scary to be alone in the whole world
It always annoyed me how dumb and slow your character was. When the baby is being kidnapped, you just stand there instead of stopping the monster. When the bird man is reaching for the lever to lock you out, you could easily go through the door.
I'm pretty sure it was this game that had beautiful relaxing scene with the sound of the waves on a shore (similar to 11:27) and a rusty balancing chain or bell (like in 1:17:50). I can't found it. Anyone remembers it?
It asked for the new cd just like in 10 mins? wow
I think the first CD had a lot of installation fluff and preview videos of other games of the time. If you buy the game on gog.com, the download is about 850MB, slightly more than what would fit on a standard CD-ROM.
Those 10 minutes can take weeks or even months to figure out LOL
The question fir all of you is how did you find this video are we hook back from this game this stuck with us I mean stuck with us its like CSI mind control lol but this game here is amazing I remmber where i left off and now I can finally see how it ends
I been playing this in DOSBOX, but I don't know what to do when the game wants me to swap discs ...I'm just getting an error message in DOS: "105 Attempt to load wrong type".
I didn't play this in dosbox, sorry. I used SquirtTheCat's modern compatibility fix, which is linked in the description.
Tem como encontrar e jogar esse jogo atualmente???
Anyone know where I can find this game? I lost it growing up. Someone will know where to find it
You can download it from the internet archive, I threw a link in the video description. It probably won't run natively on modern machines, but I think it works with ScummVM now. I haven't tried it myself, though.
It's available on GOG
38:27 BOOM! Bye bye.
49:30 Obligatory Sunday School lesson. To summarize, "Mankind in his zenith trashed the environment and left mass suffering and death in his wake, leaving only a few survivors. Now, a Dark Being is repeating the mistakes of the past (greed, ambition, cruelty, and so on) and is threatening our world." Typical backstory. Did I miss anything?
Michael Hayes Where has the Dark Being came from? What are his motives? I didn’t get that, especially why he kidnapped the child. He could make a mechanism for pushing buttons instead of forcing Amanda to do it.
@@johnshield9194 Yeah, every story has holes, however well written they may be.
one of the first games i played, in Russia of that time it was a pirat copy of course))
My one of the first Original Game in Box in Russia.
back when porn on the computer was dangerous.ahhhh. memories.
45:47 I wanted to like Lyril, but I couldn't get past the fact her broken machine-assisted speech reminded me of Shodan. Now, I'm playing through this game again on SCUMMVM and noting how far pre-rendered graphics have come along in the past 20 years. Her hair and face are lacking texture-mapping, and her elocution is not fully animated.
Man I want to play this game again so bad I haven't played it since 2010 I think (on an old system). I didn't think it would be possible but I'm going to look into SCUMMVM to play it. This game scared the hell out of me as a kid which is why it was so satisfying figuring out the puzzles and getting through it. My favorite memory from this game is doing that teleporter puzzle where you have to replace the parts if you fail. I was always so excited when I got it right and the portal opened. This game was also how I learned how to open a dial lock as a kid
@@nickpayne2689 There are instructions for getting it working in SCUMMVM if you still have the original CDs. You might be better off shelling out a few dollars and buying it on GOG though, so it works "right out of the box".
As for that teleporter puzzle, I always built the portal to the beach from the Lighthouse at the beginning rather than follow the Dark Being, and then did a speedrun to get that necklace off the dead professor's neck and return to the portal before it closed. Then I could solve the puzzle box and not have to return later, skipping the teleporter puzzle entirely.
@@intylab That's a good idea, I never thought the portal stayed open long enough to do that! I remember I used to forget to grab the seashells and stuff in Dr. Krick's house and realize that I had to go all the way back to get them.
I stopped this video a few minutes in because I realized I wanted to play it again after seeing your comment. I thought it would be too much of a hassle to get it running on my system but it sounds like a lot of people are getting it to work. Funny enough, I'm pretty sure I still have the original Lighthouse discs. But my pc and my laptop don't have disc drives, so I'm probably just going to grab a copy from GOG and get it set up. I downloaded the files from the link in the video description from internet archive, but the GOG setup will probably be easier. Cheers
Dr. Krick?! What kind of doctor 👨⚕️❓
Some form of physics, I'd guess if his study of wormholes in his journal is any guide.
@@machiner6 My sister's name is Mandy, but her real name is Amanda.
16:38 : Does anyone know what the pan flute is for ?
If I recall, it was to return to that flying bat machine from the hangar upstairs.
Thank you.
58:57 Where have we heard this before? "You're the only one now who can help us. If you don't stop the bad guy, he will endanger your would as well as ours." Sorry if I come across as cynical. It's just that I tried to like this game back in 1997, and now I'm playing through it again and trying once again to like it.
*world
1:42:06 "If there's something strange ... in the neighborhood ... who ya gonna call?"
The puzzles in this game made no sense
S s s s SPIT IT OUT, JUNIOR
another reason why sierra vanished... Instead of becoming original which once they were, they decided to clone...
This game is basically a ripoff of Myst