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 Post subject: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2018 3:26 am 
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Anybody else love these as much as I did? Some of my all-time favorite games were text input, and later point-and-click:

Space Quest
King's Quest
The Dig
Full Throttle
Day of the Tentacle
Gabriel Knight series
Laura Bow series (A Colonel's Bequests and The Dagger of Amon-Ra)
Willy Beamish
Leisure Suit Larry
Police Quest (pre-SWAT)


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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
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i know they're both legendary, but i never played either. :(


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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
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Nearly 7,000 games available in MS-DOS archive, including the original goose game


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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
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Long, terrific article on the downfall of my beloved Sierra Online. Quite a tale.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vem8/ ... nt_twitter


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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
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Long, terrific article on the downfall of my beloved Sierra Online. Quite a tale.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vem8/ ... nt_twitter

omg is this an article or a novel?

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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
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I read it in two sittings


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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Anybody else love these as much as I did? Some of my all-time favorite games were text input, and later point-and-click:

Space Quest
King's Quest
The Dig
Full Throttle
Day of the Tentacle
Gabriel Knight series
Laura Bow series (A Colonel's Bequests and The Dagger of Amon-Ra)
Willy Beamish
Leisure Suit Larry
Police Quest (pre-SWAT)


These games were the greatest. I don't think I ever beat a single one of them, but I loved the challenge of them. And the agony of not saving my game every two minutes in the Space Quest games. I feel like I died every 90 seconds in those games.

If we go into lockdown again, I need to find these and start wasting all of my time.


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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
PostPosted: Tue November 03, 2020 8:22 pm 
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Recently came back around to playing these. Especially Space Quest 5, after my son watched a Game Grumps play through and wanted to try it out.

I’ve also played a few homage games that were really good. Thimbleweed Park comes to mind.

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Huge fan of Full Throttle. I loved it. also Indy, Sam & Max, Leisure Larry, Grim Fandango.

But damn Full Throttle still gets me. I wanna play it again.

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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
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McParadigm wrote:
Recently came back around to playing these. Especially Space Quest 5, after my son watched a Game Grumps play through and wanted to try it out.

I’ve also played a few homage games that were really good. Thimbleweed Park comes to mind.

:thumbsup: I've had Thimbleweed Park on my list for a while.


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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
PostPosted: Tue November 03, 2020 11:08 pm 
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If y'all like point & click I highly, highly recommend Disco Elysium.


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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
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If y'all like point & click I highly, highly recommend Disco Elysium.

It’s not on PS4 :-(

Maybe I can get it for Mac?


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 Post subject: Re: Old-School Adventure Games: Sierra, LucasArts, etc
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You can! It's on Steam.


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