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Posted by: wood_e on 2008-08-28 08:36:32
Sierra made Lode Runner and I was addicted to that on my performa 6300...
I DESPISE Real...
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Posted by: ealex79 on 2008-08-28 08:37:53
I played Lode Runner on my C64 for hoooouuuurrrssss [😱)] ]'>
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Posted by: returningmacuser on 2008-08-28 09:48:29
Sierra made Lode Runner and I was addicted to that on my performa 6300...
I DESPISE Real... I agree. RealAudio and RealVideo are excellent codecs for online streaming, but the player itself is just bad.
And what's up with this "RealArcade" they keep advertising? Sounds like a desperate attempt to stay relevant, if you ask me.
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Posted by: Phreakinus on 2008-08-28 15:15:23
haha I second leisure suit larry. that game never needed to make it out of the break room of junior high programmers I loved those games. 🙂
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Posted by: TheNixer on 2008-08-28 18:51:11
As a kid in school in the early 90's Sierra was the stuff. I agree though, the adventure games were downright hard. If you weren't getting what the programmers wanted you to get you were just plain stuck. The whole King's Quest series, Gold Rush, Police Quest and Space Quest...all classics.
I was never up for the Larry series though.
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Posted by: Scott Baret on 2008-08-28 22:24:11
I think Brøderbund originally made Lode Runner. I seem to remember it in their 1988 catalog (which I have). Perhaps Sierra bought the rights to it?
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Posted by: Temetka on 2008-08-31 22:12:14
I loved Sierra games.
Especially Jones in the Fast Lane, Hero's Quest: Quest for Glory, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and others.
I also loved Microprose for Master of Orion. Best. Game. Ever.
The game I couldn't beat was Rise of The Dragon.
Man this thread sent me on an abandon ware download spree for my T42.
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Posted by: Temetka on 2008-08-31 23:16:32
So I just beat Jones in the Fast lane. Now I just need to figure out how to get sound working. I think XP only uses config.nt and autoexec.nt for DOS stuff but it has been a very long time since I fiddled with this kind of stuff. Kind of shocking to fire up a game and have no sound.
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Posted by: heebiejeebies on 2008-08-31 23:17:09
Flash port of Jones in the Fast Lane ;D
http://rambo3.googlepages.com/jones.html
How do they do that???!
Speaking of sound, I had the game on a USB stick and I took the stick into work. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if it would still run on a modern XP machine. Fired it up with the sound turned down, then realised that DOS doesn't respect Windows' volume controls. Damn, that was embarrassing! [8D]
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Posted by: Temetka on 2008-09-01 00:00:59
SO Quest for Glory is annoying.
Back in the day I used to be able to type "cast calm" then "cast flame dart" and so on. Now it's mouse driven and I can't figure out the combat system as arrow keys are apparently useless in this version.
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Posted by: aphetica on 2008-09-02 19:15:47
Sierra also published The Incredible Machine. Dynamix developed it though.
I also enjoyed Lode Runner and the King's Quest series, although some of them were impossible to get through without hints. Ten years later, I can finally use the internet to find a walkthrough.
I honestly don't pay attention to developers enough to hate any one in specific... other than the obvious. [}🙂] ]'>
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Posted by: II2II on 2008-09-02 19:34:19
Rise of the Dragon is a game that I encountered rather late in the game (maybe 5 years ago). I recall liking it, for no other reason than the artwork. Stylistically, it was way beyond the games that I had encountered in the past. Particularly Sierra games.
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