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Déjà Vu

Rating:	Your rating: None Average: 4.7 (11 votes)
Category:	Adventure
Perspective:	1st Person
Year released:	1985
Author:	ICOM Simulations
Publisher:	Mindscape
Engine:	MacVenture

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Deja_Vu.SIT (486.28 KB)
For System 1 - 5 - Mac OS 9

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Deja_Vu.img_.zip (484.46 KB)
For System 1 - 5 - Mac OS 9

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dejavu_1985_dsk.zip (481.64 KB)
For System 1 - 5 - Mac OS 9

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Deja_Vu_manuel_Mac.pdf

Emulation
This game works with: Mini vMac

Déjà Vu was awarded SPA excellence in software awards for Best Entertainment Product and Best New World in 1986 as the first genuine point-and-click adventure game. The MacVenture interface saw no significant changes for the remaining three games.

This is the first game in the MacVenture series. See also Déjà Vu II, Uninvited and Shadowgate.

Also available for Amiga, Apple IIGS, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Commodore Plus/4, DOS, NES and Windows.

Top DL: "Deja_Vu.SIT" and the 2nd DL above: "Deja_Vu.img_.zip", contain the System 7-compatible 1992 version of the game, the latter on an 800K disk image.
3rd DL above "dejavu_1985_dsk.zip", contains the original 1985 release, on two 400K images.

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Comments

by jkheiser - 2019, April 1 - 6:44pm

Here is a crackerjack dissection of this classic game by MG’s own Daxeria.

by Dracari - 2017, January 30 - 3:32am

bit of a shame that only the NES game got Music :/

by jkheiser - 2016, September 28 - 7:57pm

Here's a link to a recent and fun interview with Dave Marsh, MacVenture team guy:

http://advgamer.blogspot.com/2016/09/a-conversation-with-david-marsh.html

This part made gave me a good chuckle:

I think Deja Vu is awesome and has great art by Mark Waterman. It’s got a great plot as well. The other thing I love about it is the balls the programmers had: there’s a part in the game where you need to purchase a gun from—I don’t remember the name of the gun shop, [Ed Note: “Gun Palace”]—and the code actually looked to see what the date was on your Mac and, if it was Sunday, the gun shop was locked. Which is just terrible to do to a player, but I just think is hilarious now. You’d never get away with that now. Just fun, great games.

by tanaquil - 2016, May 22 - 10:37pm

Super, thank you! *downloads*

by Winterlast - 2016, May 22 - 10:23pm

*updates page and taps tanaquil on the shoulder*

by tanaquil - 2016, May 20 - 5:56pm

Ah, good to know! Thanks, I won't worry about it then. Maybe an original copy of the game will turn up on ebay sometime.

I could play the 800K version on my Plus, too. I just have a thing for playing games in their original format on original hardware.

by jkheiser - 2016, May 20 - 5:10pm

The original release (on two 400k disks) had disk-based copy protection that was (to my knowledge) never cracked. ICOM removed the copy protection when they rereleased the game on one 800k disk in 1992. You might have to content yourself with playing Déjà Vu on Mini vMac.

by tanaquil - 2016, May 19 - 10:47pm

The img file works fine in Mini vmac (emulating a Plus). But I'd like to give it a try on my 512K. The game originally came out in 1985 and it's clear from the instructions that the user was expected to use two 400K disks to play the game, inserting first one, then the other.

However, the folder labeled "Deja Vu 2" in the present uploads is too large to fit on one 400K disk. I'm not sure which files can or should be moved to "Deja Vu 1" to make it work. Anyone out there have experience playing the game on a 512K machine, or own the original disks?

by IIGS_User - 2016, April 17 - 6:16am

Could someone please upload a. zip of this game?

I think this will destroy the game files, except this will be an .img file, suitable for Mini vMac.

by rockettaco 37 - 2016, April 16 - 9:42pm

Could someone please upload a. zip of this game? I am on android and have no choice but to use a. zip file.

Thanks
rockettaco

by IIGS_User - 2010, September 1 - 4:13pm

Please tell me, is Apple II compatible with a Macintosh?

No, Apple II and Apple Macintosh are completely different systems
(The Apple II line is home computer like Amiga, Atari, and so on).

by Bolkonskij - 2010, September 1 - 8:43am

I just love both Deja Vu adventures! They have nice graphics and a great atmosphere, especially if you love classic movies like The Maltese Falcon. A bit tough regarding the difficulty though, like most 80s adventures...

by schtolteheim - 2010, September 1 - 4:28am

Please tell me, is Apple II compatible with a Macintosh?
I really have no idea, but I guess not.