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Chipping in on the memories. Lucasarts Adventure Game Pack on 5 floppy disks IIRC was the first game I ever purchased with my own money for our Compaq Presario
by inDigiNeous 11y ago
Chipping in on the memories. Lucasarts Adventure Game Pack on 5 floppy disks IIRC was the first game I ever purchased with my own money for our Compaq Presario 386-SX 25Mhz back in the day.
They used to remind to take backups of your floppies before doing anything else, so I purchased a 5-pack of 1.44 MB floppies to copy the diskettes unto. I will never forget the pain when I realized that I accidentally formatted one of the original diskettes in the process, and I could not install Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ever.
My imagination ran wild when I looked at the photos of this game in the contained cleverly disguided walk through that was in the format of a story, and I longed to install that game and play it but nobody had it. Luckily I downloaded it later from a local BBS and finally got to play it.
But back on the subject, seeing Monkey Island logo on the screen, with glorious 256-color VGA, the PC Speaker playing the theme music, in the dark cellar where our PC was, was just pure magic. Nothing has ever come close to that moment and will never come, it is one of the few rare memories that I wish I could re-live, to feel the magic of entering that Island and being there again, for the first time.
Monkey Island 2 came close, but the magic of playing my first really graphical adventure had already passed. Oh, I wish to share that feeling with my child in the future :)