Tripping on the Way Back When Machine

[annuin]

And 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.

Comments

[thetragicclown.livejournal.com]

"Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers"

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.

[notagod.livejournal.com]

Have you checked out the text below http://www.livejournal.com/community/som_pos/660719.html#cutid1 yet? A few links there you might be interested in.

[spiritsighs.livejournal.com]

im not big on games. in fact i think the only ones i was ever that interested in back in the day was pac man and some game where you guided a mouth to eat the right foods... (you probably have no idea what im talking about). and more recently i find myself stealing the controller whenever my kids play crash and spyro. lol i like the cartoony type of games i guess. :) but i do agree that technology has came a long long way! it's absolutely mind blowing!

[funeralnight.livejournal.com]

I used to play Prince. Actually, that was the first game I ever played and I still love it. I should download it and try to finish it since I never did actually.