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Yep. My brother and I practically grew up on The Island of Dr. Brain. That one is a classic.

eddie lee roth wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 4:41 am At first I was going to say what kind of dork was into that shit but then dmbrocker answered my question.

Ha! I grew up in a whole generation of dorks raised on computer games! You wouldn't even last five minutes on the Oregon Trail!

BernieTaupson wrote: ↑Mon Aug 19, 2024 5:43 am Sierra games you cunts.

King’s Quest. Space Quest. Leisure Suit Larry.

The Island of Dr. Brain IS a Sierra game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_of_Dr._Brain

And my brother did play some of the Space Quest games.

GAY

Thank you!

Think these super old games are kinda making a comeback. I got "the Oregon trail" which is fun. Its just a make choices and point and click with the mouse.

Night trap is so bad its fun. Its another point and click only with real actors. The old games are kinda like solitaire of pc games. Just simple, point and click.

Damn...I just saw this thread. Hell yes, they were a big part of my growing up. Started with King's Quest in 84 when I was in first grade. I've finished Kings Quest 1-5 (3 was my favorite), Space Quest 1-4, Police Quest 1-4, Leisure Suit Larry 1-6 (I know they skipped a number maybe 5?), Gold Rush, The Black Cauldron, The Colonel's Bequest, Hero's Quest 1&2 (Quest For Glory), Manhunter New York and San Francisco, the one that had King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable (I can't remember what it was called), Codename: Iceman and a few others that I can't think of. I think I still have all the boxes the games came in. Anyways, yes I spent a lot of time playing those things. I used to call Sierra On Line all like 10 times a day asking for hints on the games. I even demanded that my dad make a pitstop in Coarsgold, California on one of our family vacations so I could look at the building the games were made in. Unfortunately it was a Sunday and they were closed. Every birthday or Christmas I was always getting a new Sierra game.

Torin's Quest or something similarly titled held my interest, I remember. When we first bought a computer, it came with a little booklet of games, and I'm pretty sure all or most were Sierra games.

BernieTaupson wrote: ↑Sat Oct 26, 2024 10:53 pm Torin’s Passage.

Yaaaasss.

Yes, Torrin's Passage. I never got far on that one. Thexder was another one. I know it's made by Valve, but wasn't Half-Life connected with Sierra somehow?

I was always hoping they would make a Rock Quest game where you started off learning an instrument, then put a band together, make an album, get popular, get some addictions and some paternity law suits, and then at the end you fight Axl Rose or something. I think something entertaining could've been made with that.

Sorry. Double Post.

The creators of Leisure Suit Larry should get a cut of the royalties from Viagra.

No. But I worked at Sierra from 07-08. All the games I worked on either didnt come out.... or sucked!
We were also the parent company of Blizzard, so I'll let you guess where the successes were coming from.

BernieTaupson wrote: ↑Thu Oct 31, 2024 11:09 pm Sierra was long dead by 07-08.

Inaccurate. If only there was a global web-based encyclopedia where you could check yer facts first.

I worked at Vivendi Games, the parent company of Sierra and Blizzard. They merged with Activision in 08. to become Activision Blizzard, but Blizzard was left alone to keep doing what they were doing, as they were kicking ass.

The Sierra shit I was working on, Ghostbusters, Prototype, F.E.A.R 2, etc went to other companies for release.

BernieTaupson wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 2:19 am You miss my point. It may have existed on paper under some merger with some other massive company but the days of Sierra being a company and putting out their iconic stuff was over. The last Sierra thing worth a shit was Half-Life 1, which was made by Valve but Sierra published it. And that was what, 1998? Not sure when Ken and Roberta Williams sold Sierra and retired, about 2000 or something.

Anything called “Sierra” in the mid or late 2000s was purely in name only.

Sierra was long dead by then.

Youre a tord.