Sierra classics circa '90

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I can't get KQ1 or SQ1 to work for me. I totally just downloaded KQ6, though, and it works. Although the sound is FUCKED UP somehow, and I think it's supposed to be playing music but it sounds like my computer is exploding with modem buzzing and bleeps and bloops (but not in a good way). And I totally forgot that I played this game but now it's all coming back to me in a huge rush.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahaha holy shit Chris, that site is like revisiting Gopher...

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The text is based on an ftp site's INFO files.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

jaymc, I had similar sound probs with the "enhanced" version of Space Quest 1. In fact, it sounded so fucking awful I had to turn the sound down and stop playing.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I downloaded that version, too, with success (except for the sound).

While playing it, I found that I am much more impatient than I was as a kid. (Or maybe I was just mad at myself last night for staying up past my bedtime! I couldn't even get off the ship!)

As far as nostalgia trips go, it's pretty awesome, though. I am looking forward to playing the slot machine in that Star Wars cantina rip-off.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Fucking aliens keep shooting me.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Couldn't get Manhunter:NY to work. :(

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Are you managing to avoid them by ducking into the elevators?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes, but Roger Wilco won't move fast enough, his steps keep stuttering!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I can't move him the fuck off-screen sometimes.

My problem is I'm just dawdling too much because I can't remember what to do. FYI: I had to consult a website with cheats, because there's something you have to do early in the game that requires the original Sierra game manual.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Try this for some of the earlier games that don't work.

Some of the "humour" in these games that so amused 13 yr old @d@m is actually a bit lame, IMHO.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't understand what that website provides. Downloads of the games themselves, or downloadable software that somehow makes the games compatible?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 May 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually haven't tried it myself, someone just suggested it on Mac Garden for running Police Quest 1. I assumed it was software.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"wilco
2003-01-19

Like most of the early sierra games, this works fine (in colour!) on OS X with sarien http://sarien.sourceforge.net/. But it's nowhere near as good as space quest imho."

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of the "humour" in these games that so amused 13 yr old @d@m is actually a bit lame, IMHO.

this is crushingly otm.

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I really want to find KQ6 now... I never actually finished it.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

not early 90s or sierra, but i'm always unhappy that nobody reps for the dig.

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

In re: Crystal Crazy, I couldn't get the sound to work running virtual OS 9 last night, and the sound was the whole point of Crystal Crazy, really. It was a bunch of dumb task-related screens (erase the pictures, smash the objects into the walls) that you did within a timeframe by moving the mouse around and click-click-clicking. But the sound effects were constantly hilarious, even after hours of play.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

I dloaded Gold Rush at the weekend in a fit of nostalgia and played it straight through in a marathon session. Not one of Sierra's better known adventures, but great atmosphere, some hard puzzles and a bit educational to boot! It ran perfectly using Dosbox.

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I freaking love Gold Rush. How do I get "dosbox"? What is that, anyway?

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Try here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=52551

Download the DOSBox0.63-win32-installer.exe file and away ye go!

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Best thing about Gold Rush is the three different ways you can travel to California, I've still never completed it on the Panama Canal route.

― wombatX (wombatX), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude, did you remember to buy the mosquito net?

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Not remembering to pick up the family photo at the start of the game: dud.

― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

What's gold rsushh!?

― absolutego (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

3D graphic adventure game circa 1988. You play the role of Jerrod Wilson, who decides to abandon his comfortable existence in Brooklyn to search for gold and his brother in California around the time of the gold rush.

― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

That game was awesome, but there were so many dud ways you could lose the game, like "You bought the golden shoe in arkansas, but you polished it with the wrong polish so you get cancer and die in the jungles of South America."

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 02:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The best way to die was by committing a crime in California (breaking & entering or prospecting on someone else's patch for example) and getting hanged. Why? Because you get to type in your last words.

― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"You walk up to the gallows, utter 'FUCK ALL Y'ALL!!!!' and the trapdoor opens..."

― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

found it

― a banana (alanbanana), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

i wanna play phantasmagoria II: a puzzle of flesh

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 04:48 (twenty years ago)

I got 11th Hour to run for the first time last week, after owning it for around 5 years. It sucks.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 05:15 (twenty years ago)

oh wait, 11th hr isn't sierra

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 05:16 (twenty years ago)

Weren't 11th Hour and Phantasmagoria II essentially the same game?

― reddening (reddening), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 09:18 (twenty years ago)

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

how do i shot "alone in the dark" and "betrayal at krondor"??

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Is Alone In The Dark the Southern Gothic one? I never finished that!

Also Zak Mckracken PLEASE!!!!

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:10 (twenty years ago)

Is Alone In The Dark the Southern Gothic one? I never finished that!

I don't know what Alone in the Dark is -- but are you thinking of Laura Bow, maybe?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

no, i am not thinking of laura bow. i don't think alone in the dark was a sierra game. same era, though. i can maybe find zack mckracken for you, adam, but only if your promise of all your material goods still stands,

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't asking you, Ian. Adam said, "was it the Southern Gothic one"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

you are doing that with the punctuation just to bug me, and for that you are getting added to my list of least favorite ILXors.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Alone in the Dark was the Lovecraft one, commonly referenced as the first survival horror game.

"Colonel's Bequest" was the first Laura Bow game, and ten bucks says the folks at Sierra were all-too-pleased with themselves for the punny title.

I always wanted to try both 11th Hour and Phantasmagoria II, just to see what they carried on with the first one. Both suffer from the mid-90s trap of FMV, don't they?

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

FMV with VOICE ACTORS!!!!

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Alone in the Dark was Infogrames, not Sierra, but absolutely phenomenal. I think it was based on Lovecraft, and had all sorts of Cthulhu stuff going on.

xpost with kingfish.

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:56 (twenty years ago)

you are doing that with the punctuation just to bug me, and for that you are getting added to my list of least favorite ILXors.

I actually didn't notice that I did that until just now! Mea culpa.

...

Am I dense if I don't get the pun in "Colonel's Bequest"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Jaymc, you know the naming convention for the vast majority of Sierra's early/mid-period adventure games, right?

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Oh right.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:01 (twenty years ago)

I remember when all of this was fields...

― mei (mei), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:37 (twenty years ago)

zak mccracken was awesome! some of the mazes in it were completely ridiculous.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

dudes upthread are otm about gold rush too! that one was totally underrated.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

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