Tripping on the Way Back When Machine
Jan. 26th, 2004 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annuinAnd so for a while I've been keeping an eye out on Ebay for old Sierra games. I used to love those things, and some of them I never managed to get my hands on. And from time to time they pop up, though not always for cheap as some of them are extremely rare.
But PreZ managed to find some online too :D
So last night I played some Conquest for Camelot. God how far graphics have come since 1990.
PreZ also managed to find a copy of The Colonel's Bequest, a game I've been trying to find back when games still came on 3.5 and 5.25 inch disks, and it was rare then. So now, only about a decade and a half after first wanting to play it, I might actually get that chance.
I wonder how kids these days would react to seeing some of these games. They're a long long way from the graphics and sound of today. I do wish there were more of the adventure style games that Sierra used to put out though. Nowadays it's strategy of some sort or shoot-em-up. RPG's also aren't quite the same as the way those games were.
Ah well, fun to reminisce.
But PreZ managed to find some online too :D
So last night I played some Conquest for Camelot. God how far graphics have come since 1990.
PreZ also managed to find a copy of The Colonel's Bequest, a game I've been trying to find back when games still came on 3.5 and 5.25 inch disks, and it was rare then. So now, only about a decade and a half after first wanting to play it, I might actually get that chance.
I wonder how kids these days would react to seeing some of these games. They're a long long way from the graphics and sound of today. I do wish there were more of the adventure style games that Sierra used to put out though. Nowadays it's strategy of some sort or shoot-em-up. RPG's also aren't quite the same as the way those games were.
Ah well, fun to reminisce.
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Date: 2004-01-26 01:22 pm (UTC)Best. Sierra. Game. Ever.
It gave me nightmares. If you can pick it up on CD version then do so, because then you can hear Tim Curry doing the voice of Detective Mosely.
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Date: 2004-01-26 01:31 pm (UTC)Only problem was that on day 10 it kept dying, so I never managed to complete the game, which pissed me off endless ways. I think it was a game bug that needed patching, or something. I never found out what the issue was, but I was majorly disappointed because it was such a great game.
The second one was pretty good too. And a few months ago I picked the third one up on Ebay for like $5 or so, haven't played that yet though. I have to say though that I liked the graphics in the first one better than the second one. I wasn't too thrilled with that real-actor stuff phase that they went through.
I also didn't like the animation for the seventh Kings Quest game, The Princeless Bride... it was way too Disney, which just sucked, and I wished they'd just kept the animation like the game before it.
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Date: 2004-01-26 01:56 pm (UTC)I love the animated interludes between Warcraft 3 missions, they're amazing. The only downside to WC is that usually you play one group, beat the shit out of another and conquer them, only to switch to that group and play them for a while and beat the shit out of another group. Ad nauseum. It's a bit of a tired formula after a while. Plus in nearly every case the leader of the group you're playing is an arrogant wanker, which doesn't exactly endear you to them.
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