The Space Mystery
| The Space Mystery | |
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| Developer(s) | Mondo |
| Publisher(s) | The LEGO Group |
| Platform(s) | Web browser |
| Release | 5 December 1996[1] |
| Genre(s) | Adventure game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Exploriens – The Space Mystery was an online point-and-click adventure game based on the LEGO Exploriens product line.
As a LEGO Surfer Club account was required to play The Space Mystery, it was not archived on the Wayback Machine and is currently lost media.
Gameplay
The Explorien Space Lab at the planet Mondo II has lost contact with its SatCraft 001 spaceships.[2]
New players were asked to keep what happened in the game a secret[3]
Development and release
The Space Mystery was developed by Mondo A/S,[4] the same company that designed the original LEGO World Wide Web Site.[5]
The Space Mystery was first made available on LEGO.com on 5 December 1996.[1] Mondo employees Soren Beck[6] and "Laust" advertised it on rec.toys.lego a few hours after its release.[7] The LEGO Group officially announced it in a press release on 12 December.[8]
The Space Mystery was an Interactive finalist in the 1997 Cresta Internatinal Advertising Awards[9] and a Print finalist in the 1997 Epica Awards.[10][11]
Additional images
Additional screenshots of the game from the Wayback Machine and from Mondo's website. These are the only known images of the game remaining at this time.
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Landing page with language selection
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A SatCraft 001
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Exploring a room
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Soren Beck (1996-12-05). "NEW GAME ON WWW.LEGO.COM". Newsgroup: rec.toys.lego. Usenet: [email protected]. Archived from the original on 2024-06-21.
- ↑ Mondo (1996). "LEGO Exploriens - The Space Mystery (English LEGO Surferclub signup)". LEGO World Wide Web Site. The LEGO Group. Archived from the original on 1997-01-10.
- ↑ Eileen Keeney (1996-12-13). "Re: Exploriens Game". Newsgroup: rec.toys.lego. Usenet: [email protected]. Archived from the original on 2024-06-24.
- ↑ "LEGO Explorien Space Mystery Game". MONDO. 27 February 1998. Archived from the original on 1998-07-01.
- ↑ "MODNO A/S - Internetløsninger". 18 April 1996. Archived from the original on 1996-11-11.
- ↑ "Experience – Soren Beck Jensen". LinkedIn.
Mondo A/S – Nov 1994-Jun 1998, 3 yrs 8 mos – First employee in the company. Started as HTML slave and was involved in many projects. Helped develop MondoSearch and give birth to Mondosoft.
- ↑ Jeff Findley (1996-12-10). "Re: NEW GAME ON WWW.LEGO.COM". Newsgroup: rec.toys.lego. Usenet: [email protected]. Archived from the original on 2024-06-22.
- ↑ Nipper, Mads (December 12, 1996). "Space-travel game on the Internet". LEGO World Wide Web Press Info. The LEGO Group. Archived from the original on 1997-01-10.
- ↑ Ross, Nancy (1997). "Cresta International Advertising Awards 1997". MONDO. Archived from the original on 1998-07-01.
- ↑ Weill, Alain (1997). "Epica Finaliste 1997". MONDO. Archived from the original on 1998-07-01.
- ↑ "Finalists by Country - 1997". Epica. Archived from the original on 1998-12-03.
Denmark – Print Finalists – Mondo (Copenhagen) – Lego Explorien, Online – Internet Game, www.game.mondo.dk
