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Hound of Shadow involves an unusually detailed character creation process for a text adventure - the process starts with the choice of your character's gender. (MS-DOS, EGA graphics)
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You can keep clicking "no" until you get the thumbnail sketch you are looking for, although the computer starts displaying complaints over your indecision (MS-DOS, EGA graphics)
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Choose your nationality - British or American. The decision will affect the nature of your service in the World War. In addition, only British characters are eligible for the "gentleman adventurer" profession. (MS-DOS, EGA graphics)
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Choose your profession - the icons displayed here represent novelist, aristocrat, freelance reporter, psychic investigator, sleuth and scholar (MS-DOS, EGA graphics)
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What did you do in the war? A male American character can select from one or two years in the military or "war bonds", being on the home front. (MS-DOS, EGA graphics)
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Allocating points to skill areas - points will be used to purchase skills in the assigned area. The skill areas are physical, social, investigative, academic, logical, creative and spiritual. (MS-DOS, EGA graphics)
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This is the physical skills page. You are assigning points to the Pilot skill. (MS-DOS, EGA graphics)
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After the character creation process is completed, a summary of your character is displayed, after which you can decide to save or discard the character. And then the text adventure can start! (MS-DOS, EGA graphics)
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Gameplay (MS-DOS, EGA graphics, 640x350 original resolution)
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Some locations are also depicted with an image - the tea-chest in the attic (MS-DOS, EGA graphics, 320x200 original resolution)
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Title screen (MS-DOS, EGA graphics, 320x200 original resolution)
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