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Visited 16 states, 31%

I know I'm missing a bunch of the northern states, as my parents roadtripped from NY to CA across the north with us and my aunt and uncle and kids back in the early 80s, via Yellowstone and Mt. Rushmore, but I can't remember what the exact route was we took.

Tripping on the Way Back When Machine

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.