Sierra classics circa '90

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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.

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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

I see. I never finished it, of course, but I have some fond memories.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I never played Hero's Quest/Quest for Glory. Seemed a little too RPG-ish for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Police Quest 2 was ALWAYS my favorite.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

aye, that's a good one too.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

It was very RPG-ish. Would that be too DORKY for you, jaymc? :>

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes. I just liked wandering the countryside and finding treasures and scaling walls and things like that. Have we talked about Black Cauldron yet?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

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

no. we've talked about this on ILG, but Old Man Murray says it best with

Who Killed Adventure Games?

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:34 (eighteen years ago) link

So what is the closest thing?

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember wanting to work for Sierra when I grew up.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

what, nowadays? Psychonauts, the Bone game, and the sequel to The Longest Journey that's coming out this year(maybe)

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I miss Old Man Murray.

how is Psychonauts? my sister got it for Christmas but she hasn't played it yet.

― reddening (reddening), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i liked it lots.

― kingfish kuribo's shoe (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

what was the one where you're a hunky detective in munich trying to solve a mystery regarding werewolves? that one was good.

i was reminded of phantasmagoria II last night because ally c looks like curtis in his new glasses.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link

what was the one where you're a hunky detective in munich trying to solve a mystery regarding werewolves?

That was....YOUR DREAMS

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

great thread ;=;

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

does anyone remember mean streets, with realspeech (tm) technology

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Didn't Little Feat do the soundtrack to a Sierra game? I can't seem to find any mention of this.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

the king's quest series really hit a peak with numbers 5-7.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:54 (eighteen years ago) link

I have to admit, I NEVER liked King's Quest. I always thought it was a bit...well, what some of you would call "gay", though I don't use the word in that sense.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

you hate leggings.

i think at the time, i could appreciate it because i didn't really perceive the gayness as gayness.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link

You should probably write a book on this.

― phantasy bear (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link

is there anyway i could get some of these to work on my PC? I tried to get some old sierra game to work on my sisters computer and it totally effed it up

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

that's not a bad idea.

i'm gonna send you an e-mail; we can run through some ideas...
xpost

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

mandee, run em under dos emulator/dosbox.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link

I remember rocking King's Quest 1. I loved the midi version of Greensleeves on the title page.

What a fucking hard game...you had to walk around, sometimes avoiding carnivorous birds and witches, and simultaneously type commands that you PRAYED the game would recognize. It was like a timed text adventure.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 23:04 (eighteen years ago) link

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