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Legends of Adventure: The Story of Sierra On-Line

I hope this is cool to post here. It’s a Backerkit project for a documentary about Sierra On-line. I grew up playing these and figured there might be some other old farts around who would be interested.

I remember Kings Quest 6 blowing my mind when it came out and I only had the floppy disk version. I never knew until I was much older that there was a CD-ROM version with full voice over.

Strider ,

Color me surprised. I’ve read ken’s book which is recommendable. So what’s new here?

Having a closer look I’d really recommend the book, written by him and not some interviews with him. 🤷

kensbook.com

And hi to all other old farts.

Statlerwaldorf OP ,

Cool, thanks for that. I read John Romero’s ‘Doom Guy’ earlier this year and it was pretty good. Not perfect, but it fed my nostalgia for the olden days of Commander Keen and Doom.

Fredselfish ,
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I read Hackers: Heros of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy. Should I really read Kens book as well? I mean I feel I learned a lot about how it came about from Levy book.

Strider ,

I didn’t read that one.

Ken’s book is mainly focused on the business side of things. While that does sound boring how I stated it it is very good imo.

Fredselfish ,
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Man you should read it. It goes over the entire computer revolution from like 50’s on.

Strider ,

I might, thanks!

FurtiveFugitive ,

Another old fart here. Some of my first gaming memories are Kings Quest 1 and Space Quest 1. I remember having to go all my parents how to spell certain words to do what I needed to do.

I played both of those originals but then missed out on the sequels until they went vga - sq4 and kq5. Of course as an adult I bought all the collections so I could finally see what I missed in 2-4.

All that to say, thanks for posting this. I’ll always watch another documentary on Sierra.

Num10ck ,

did they age well? worth playing now?

Statlerwaldorf OP ,

I think some of the later stuff aged well if you’re into point and click adventure games and some “retro” looking graphics. But the early ones might be a little janky for anyone who didn’t live through that era.

You have to type in the actions you want to do and they looked like this:

https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/768c02a5-9cd3-4025-ad9f-9089fb6931ea.png

FurtiveFugitive ,

Even with nostalgia glasses on I had a hard time enjoying the really old ones. That said, I think there’s a lot of charm in sq4 and kq5 5/6.

Broken ,

I’m an old fart that grew up on these games too. They were what I lived for. Kings Quest 1 blew me away. Then 2 had me hooked. 3 was another level and felt so big.

I collected their catalogs and dreamed f what would come next. There was a box art for KQ4 they showed in the catalog that didn’t make it to the actual box. It was amazing and I wished I had that.

I also played Space, Police, and Heros Quest, but Kings Quest was my jam.

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