Laura Bow - The Colonel's Bequest Enhanced

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Published on July 2, 2013 5:35:13 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fpWpbIzg74

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The Colonel's Bequest (1989)

Duration: 8:08

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Colonel's Bequest is the first of two adventure from Sierra featuring the character of Laura Bow. My first encounter with this character was in the follow-up Laura Bow 2 - The Dagger of Amon Ra. I have never played this game and never finished its sequel due to it freezing my poor, slow, 2x speed CD-Rom drive back in the day.

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The Colonel's Bequest is set in 1925, and the game employs a distinctive, Art Deco style.

The game's main character is Laura Bow, a Tulane University student, daughter of a detective and aspiring journalist. Laura is invited by her flapper friend Lillian to spend a weekend at the decaying sugar plantation of Colonel Dijon. When the reclusive, childless Colonel gathers his quarrelsome relatives for a reading of his will, tensions explode and the bickering leads to murder.