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Play Old Sierra Games[SQ1,PQ1,LSL1,Etc...] - Now with Multiple Players!
Mr Explody
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I'm lazy, so I'll let Kotaku explain it:
"There once was a time, before closures, before Lucasarts, when the name “Sierra†meant premium PC adventure gaming. Those days are, sadly, long gone. But they will not be forgotten!
If you head over to Sarien, you can take part in a little project that’s part-game, part-museum piece, with old Sierra adventure games running in Flash on your browser. The graphics are the same, and if you want, you can use text commands, but a right-click menu system has also been introduced to speed things up a bit.
That’s the game part. The museum part comes in a gallery of assets from the old games, with a wide range of things like background art available for browsing.
Interestingly, it also supports…well, multiplayer, with the internet-based nature of the games allowing users to see other gamers attempting the same puzzles as you are in real-time."
Essentially it's multiplayer AGI Sierra Games. The current list as of posting:
- Space Quest
- Space Quest 2
- Police Quest
- Leisure Suit Larry
- The Black Couldron
Go there now!
"There once was a time, before closures, before Lucasarts, when the name “Sierra†meant premium PC adventure gaming. Those days are, sadly, long gone. But they will not be forgotten!
If you head over to Sarien, you can take part in a little project that’s part-game, part-museum piece, with old Sierra adventure games running in Flash on your browser. The graphics are the same, and if you want, you can use text commands, but a right-click menu system has also been introduced to speed things up a bit.
That’s the game part. The museum part comes in a gallery of assets from the old games, with a wide range of things like background art available for browsing.
Interestingly, it also supports…well, multiplayer, with the internet-based nature of the games allowing users to see other gamers attempting the same puzzles as you are in real-time."
Essentially it's multiplayer AGI Sierra Games. The current list as of posting:
- Space Quest
- Space Quest 2
- Police Quest
- Leisure Suit Larry
- The Black Couldron
Go there now!
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LSL was the first PC game I played.
BTW, Black Cauldron was awesome, and proof that a game based on a book/movie can be great.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
We should form a raid on Black Cauldron.
I played everyone of these titles religiously as a kid (I often tell people I learned to read playing KQ1, which is sorta true).
I played PQ and couldn't get past the second screen. Where are the damn keys?
May give it another shot, cool idea in concept. How about a MMO Quest for Glory? (Hero's Quest)
aka Grillaface
I gave Black Cauldron a try, but it seemed really buggy. If they fix the bugs and add more stuff (I'd love to finally be able to 100% Colonel's Bequest which is something I never did because one of my disks became corrupted), this could be awesome.
Steam ID : rwb36, Twitter : Werezompire,
Unless you play nothing but Colonel's Bequest for two months whilst writing down notes, you're going to need a walkthrough to 100% it.
The worst is:
I just absolutely loved finding all the ways to die in it though. Did anybody else ever find the hidden death?
I'll spoiler this just for those who haven't played a 21-year-old game (DAMN I'M OLD):
1) Get really really lucky and never encounter the troll
2)
10: Save
20: Enter the next screen
30: If cave troll is present, reload game
40: If cave troll is not present, mark room exits on your handwritten map
50: Goto 10
So that's annoying, but eventually you make it through and you are now in a swamp. There are little green tufts of islands leading to the right, off the screen. Obviously this is the way you're supposed to go. Your character wanders over to the first one and... sinks to her death. She doesn't jump, she walks into the swamp and dies. No problem, I can turn into a frog. Hop, hop, hippity hop... OH SHIT SOME SWAMP MONSTER JUST TURNED ME INTO FROG LEGS. You actually have to carefully walk up to the islands and type "jump" to get across.
Once you get to the last island, the one containing the fruit? There's a big ol' snake on it, and you need an item from earlier in the game to hypnotize it or you die. If you forgot to get it or didn't know you needed it, it's jump jump jump across the islands and back through the cave of trollish death to get it, and back through the maze again and hop hop hop over the islands again. Even if you remembered or happened to get the flute or whatever would hypnotize the snake, you still have to get through that cave again.
And don't even get me started on The Whale Tongue.
It's like the beginning of Space Quest 1.
This would absorb my life. I still hum that damned theme song.
Good times.
I flushed the toilet in Leisure Suit Larry and promptly drowned, but clicking back puts you in the room before with your current graphic. So I spent 10 minutes in Lefty's bar doing the "I'm drowning dance."
Also, if you get the opportunity in Space Quest 1. Find a whole bunch of people in a room, type "One to Beam up." then click back, you'll disappear and everone will think you're just awesome.
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Noooooo!
Edit: Ok, it's working.
Wow. This is all done in javascript. That's pretty impressive.
I'm gettin' that. Who knew nostalgia could break a server.
Never beat Police Quest on my own as a kid. Kept on crashing and burning during the driving portions.
Nooooooo
Space Quest was fucking great also.. not sure which one it was though. I just remember starting on a spaceship and then eventually being in the desert and there was a spacecar market where you got to buy different types of spacecars.
That is 1.
I remember playing SQ1, 2, I want to say 3, 5, and 6. I don't remember 4, not sure why I never played that one.
EDIT: I keep trying to play these games, and they are just too buggy/annoying to play like this. There's no easy way to use the F# keys and save and reload or anything. Just annoying.