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I just noticed that King's Quest VI was on the Steam store... I spent many hours in my youth playing that on my Packard Bell 386 (and yes, it ran terribly). Tha
by artmageddon 15y ago
I just noticed that King's Quest VI was on the Steam store... I spent many hours in my youth playing that on my Packard Bell 386 (and yes, it ran terribly). That game in particular though required the user manual in order to solve puzzles given the listing of symbols in it - assuming pirates wouldn't have access to a copy machine. I wonder how that and other games that have been put up for sale again handled that?
- arscan 15y agoYeah, that was a common anti-piracy measure for Sierra games. The earlier games had a pretty boring "what is the xth word on page y" quiz, but by KQ3 they realized it was more fun to incorporate in-game puzzles with content in the manual. As for redistribution... I assume they just provide a PDF of the manual, instead of actually rewriting parts of the game, but I don't really know for sure. I haven't yet checked out the Steam version of KQ6.
- artmageddon 15y agoTrue true, I hadn't considered the use of a PDF for it. I hope it's good quality.
- dunham 15y agoYears ago, I bought a CD with the first six Ultima games. The manuals were provided as a single "WRI" file, which included a table of copy protection questions and answers for Ultima 6.