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Yes, to keep you out of a racy game before central ID registries like login-with-FB. They're old-people questions.

by HexagonalKitten 6y ago

ev1 6y ago
Did people not just search it on whateever engine was available at the time? (Yahoo?)
- stevekemp 6y ago
  The original game was released in 1987, so that wasn't really an option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry_in_the_Land_of_the_Lounge_Lizards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry_in_the_Land...
- jcranmer 6y ago
  At the time the game was released, the internet might be available in a modem that would go at the blazing fast speeds of a thousand bits per second. And of course, tie up your phone line in the process. The WWW hadn't been invented yet, let alone search engines. Having been a kid during the formative years of the Internet, I can tell you that the notion of "you can find everything on the internet" doesn't really start coming into play until the early 2000s. In the late 90s, having to do research generally meant schlepping yourself to the library and finding encyclopedias or other research materials. Or, if you were lucky, maybe you had something like Microsoft Encarta, an encyclopedia on a CD-ROM!
- m463 6y ago
  ha :) This was the dark ages, when people could lose phone numbers, forget birthdays and when stuck in a game - suffer without hints or cheat codes.
  - unionpivo 6y ago
    hey some of us manage to forget birthdays even nowadays. It just takes a bit more work :)
- ogurechny 6y ago
  If you got the software from pirate BBS, you would meditate on its file list to check for presence of notes, hints, FAQs and release info files if that information was not attached. Newsgroups/echomail could have it posted, too, routinely, or as an answer to someone's question. That was a bit later, though. In the age of physical disk swapping, you would ask friends, or prepare for an audience with That One Guy Who Has Everything And Knows Everything.

Yes, to keep you out of a racy game before central ID registries like login-with-FB. They're old-people questions.

ev1 6y ago

Did people not just search it on whateever engine was available at the time? (Yahoo?)

stevekemp 6y ago
The original game was released in 1987, so that wasn't really an option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry_in_the_Land_of_the_Lounge_Lizards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry_in_the_Land...
jcranmer 6y ago
At the time the game was released, the internet might be available in a modem that would go at the blazing fast speeds of a thousand bits per second. And of course, tie up your phone line in the process. The WWW hadn't been invented yet, let alone search engines. Having been a kid during the formative years of the Internet, I can tell you that the notion of "you can find everything on the internet" doesn't really start coming into play until the early 2000s. In the late 90s, having to do research generally meant schlepping yourself to the library and finding encyclopedias or other research materials. Or, if you were lucky, maybe you had something like Microsoft Encarta, an encyclopedia on a CD-ROM!
m463 6y ago
ha :) This was the dark ages, when people could lose phone numbers, forget birthdays and when stuck in a game - suffer without hints or cheat codes.
- unionpivo 6y ago
  hey some of us manage to forget birthdays even nowadays. It just takes a bit more work :)
ogurechny 6y ago
If you got the software from pirate BBS, you would meditate on its file list to check for presence of notes, hints, FAQs and release info files if that information was not attached. Newsgroups/echomail could have it posted, too, routinely, or as an answer to someone's question. That was a bit later, though. In the age of physical disk swapping, you would ask friends, or prepare for an audience with That One Guy Who Has Everything And Knows Everything.