Sierra classics circa '90

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

― m. (mitchlnw), Thursday, 13 May 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Dude, did you remember to buy the mosquito net?

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:12 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link

What's gold rsushh!?

― absolutego (ex machina), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 03:01 (nineteen years ago) link

found it

― a banana (alanbanana), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 17:31 (nineteen years ago) link

nine months pass...

i wanna play phantasmagoria II: a puzzle of flesh

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

oh wait, 11th hr isn't sierra

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

FMV with VOICE ACTORS!!!!

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh right.

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

I remember when all of this was fields...

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

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

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

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

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

freddie farkus frontier pharmacist.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

haha

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

what was the one with the two dogs who were detectives or something? i think it was lucasarts.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

also, who remembers LOOM

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

are you thinking of sam & max, mark? that was a dog and a... rabbit, maybe? i don't think it was two dogs.

Loom is great. we had a thread on it at one point. it took me forever to finish that one.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link

That was Sam & Max. That & Loom were Lucasarts.

http://www.if-legends.org/~adventure/LucasArts.html

xpost

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, sam and max! that sucked.

loom was amazing tho.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

nothing was as good as the first monkey island.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

i think that's probably right.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:59 (eighteen years ago) link

sam and max most certainly did not suck! won't argue about the first monkey island, though.

― reddening (reddening), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:09 (eighteen years ago) link

gold rush was hard.

Does anyone remember "keeping up with the joneses", a sort of careerist proto-Sims? It totally seemed like the phuture at the time.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

i like that we are all basically having the exact same conversation that we had 18 months ago.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

have we talked about how chokingly god-awful King's Quest 8 was yet?

― reddening (reddening), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh shit! On some other thread I was trying to think of a Sierra game that takes place in an Eastern European-ish village and has little blue bouncing "antwerps", and it is HERO'S QUEST! One of them, anyway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

Yea, it was renamed "quest for glory I"

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

So...do they make games like this anymore?

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

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