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This article summarizes most of my gaming experience in the late 80s. (ok, add also Sierra On Line to the list to be fully accurate). This is marvellous to rem
by lolive 6y ago
This article summarizes most of my gaming experience in the late 80s.
(ok, add also Sierra On Line to the list to be fully accurate).
This is marvellous to remember those times!!!!
- lolive 6y agoThere were also Crystal Quest, a labyrith game in a pyramid and a helicopter where you had to fly in russian-named cities. Oh my god, that article opened a pandora box in my memories.
- User23 6y agoArmor Alley was a great LAN game too. Nettrek[1] was another popular LAN game. And Spectre was a wireframe tank game. [1] not the same thing as Netrek.
- theNJR 6y agoThe helicopter game was Apache something. Crystal Quest was awesome. My mom loved that game too. I don’t recall a pyramid game.
- MontagFTB 6y agoApache Strike
- theNJR 6y agoYes!! Apache Strike!
- Jetrel 6y agoIt was probably this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarab_of_Ra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarab_of_Ra I was going to link screenshots, and then I realized, holy jesus, I can just link the actual running game to you on the web archive: https://archive.org/details/ScarabOfRaMacintosh https://archive.org/details/ScarabOfRaMacintosh
- Chazprime 6y agoAnyone else remember Sierra games on a monochrome Mac? Oh, the dithering!!
- lolive 6y agoAt that time I was really bad at English (==learning a foreign language at school is inefficient anyway). Then King's Quest 3 arrived on my father's Mac SE. What a blast! With my tiny french/english dictionary, I worked superhard to understand the texts, and input commands correctly. And with the help of Minitel forums (the french Usenet, accessible from any Minitel that every french family had at home at that time), I eventually finished the game. My English level skyrocketed. And it was the beginning of my love story with Sierra games.
- Chazprime 6y agoTotally agree. King's Quest III was amazing; when I went off to college I upgraded to a Quadra 840AV which allowed me to play the first three games (as well as the Space Quest & Monkey Island series) in color. It was like the Wizard of Oz shifting into color for the first time… just amazing.
- lolive 6y agoSwitched to a PC for a similar experience :) When King's Quest 5 was released, you needed a 386 and a vga card. Shit, that was much beyond what I would ever have access to. (and then came the Moore's Law).
- theNJR 6y agoSpace Quest was pure, utter magic to me. I couldn’t believe it.
- lolive 6y agoWhich one did you start with? (I started with the number 3)