Secret of The Old Clock (video Game) - Trivia

Trivia

• Many of the locations in Titusville are taken from film and books.
• This is the only Nancy Drew game that does not take place in the Present day.
• Twin Elms is a mansion haunted by a so-called-ghost in the Nancy Drew book, "The Hidden Staircase" and sounds similar to the name of the spa with the criss-crossed palm trees (Twin Palms) in the movie "Nancy Drew".
• The picture shown when Nancy visits Twin Elms is an actual picture of Biltmore Estate, in Asheville, North Carolina.
• Seymour and Audrey who work at the nursery are names from The Little Shop of Horrors.
• Bogart's Pond is named after the pond in Westwood, New Jersey.
• Miss Temple, Mr. Brocklehurst, Madame Pierrot and Miss Scatcher at the Lowood Academy are all found in Jane Eyre.
• The names of the counselors at Camp Avondale are names of characters from the Friday the 13th movie.
• Dr. Aikerman, Margaret Judson, Mrs. Brownell and Betsy Howard at the Deer Mountain Resort are characters from the Nancy Drew novel, The Haunted Bridge.
• The workers at Krolmeister Nail Factory, Phil Connor, Dede, Jurgis and Ona, are characters in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
• The names of the characters at the library are people for whom the libraries at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Washington were named.
• The names of the characters at Sunnybrook Farm refer to characters from Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.
• The character names at Vache's Dairy (vache is French for 'cow') are taken from George Orwell's novel, Animal Farm.
• The company name "Krolmeister" turns up many times in future and past games, usually the brand name of ovens and microwaves.
• The girls at the railroad station and their friends are named after characters on the television show "Petticoat Junction".
• Emily has a record of the instrumental version of the "Ballad of Brigitte" from Curse of Blackmoor Manor.
• If the player straightens the picture from Emily's room 10 times, it will talk.
• While walking down the stairs from Emily's room, the portrait of Edward Stratemeyer, the creator of Nancy Drew, is seen on the wall.
• The carousel horse in the Josiah's house is one of the horses that were sold in The Haunted Carousel.
• In this game, the character Topham was a man while Topham is a family in the book.
• Nancy has no cellphone yet because the game is set in 1930.
• The name of Emily Crandall's inn is taken from the Nancy Drew book, "The Mystery at Lilac Inn".
• Jim Archer is the name of Helen Corning's husband in the Nancy Drew books.
• The Nancy Drew books The Hidden Staircase, The Bungalow Mystery and The Mystery at Lilac Inn are combined in this game because there is a hidden staircase at Lilac Inn just like in The Hidden Staircase, but it's in Twin Elms, the carriage house beside Crowley's house looks like the bungalow in The Bungalow Mystery, and there are stolen jewels in Lilac Inn.
• Richard Topham said he has ESP, Abby from Message in a Haunted Mansion also has ESP.