Oldschool Sierra games

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Space Quest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers

My favourite was the Space quest series.

Talking about those old Sierra games, has anyone got latest collections of them from Vivendi? I got a box of all four collections (Space Quest, Kings Quest, Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry) for Christmas in 2007. They supposed to be able to run on Windows XP, although thats because they run on a version of DosBox included on the CDs.

I've got the Space Quest one and the Police Quest one...they're alright, but both of them left off the original first game, in favor of their respective VGA remakes.

Also would've been nice if they let you choose which games you wanted to install, instead of forcing you to install all of them at the same time.

I remember going to someone's house and playing King's Quest, then telling my Dad about it. This was just before he got us a Tandy 1000, what I thought was the coolest computer at the time. I was just ten of course. But seeing these computer games were better than my Atari and Nintendo at times, I was overjoyed when Dad got us The Black Cauldron, my first computer game. I loved it so much, but shortly after that I started playing all the King's Quest games, Space Quest series, Heroes Quest (later renamed as something else I think), Police Quest, and even (when Dad let us play the PG-rated version) Leisure Suit Larry. I can't recall how many Space Quest games there were. I only remember playing three of them. Were there more than just three made? And I think Sierra is still around, isn't it?

I had an IBM PC Jr. (though this was 1997, so it was just a little bit dated by then

My favorite thing about it was that in King's Quest, you could watch it draw the entire screen and then color it. It made the game feel all the more like some sort of fantasy coloring book or something...even though it did make the game a whole lot slower.



Quest for Glory.



There were six. There was supposed to be a seventh, but it eventually got cancelled =/



Nope =(

At some point they turned into Vivendi/Sierra, which was more of a publishing thing than anything (much like the Infogrames/Atari thing)...and I guess when they had that whole Vivendi/Activision merger, Sierra got shut down completely =/

I was always a fan of LucasArts games over Sierra games.

I Love it all I own the recent collections.Also the fan remakes.

I had that box set too actually, but I lost it. I wish I still had it, I really want to play the fourth one again. I never finished any of those ones. Was very young then...

Space Quest Remake

i liked Caesar III the best but i hated having to build monuments to the gods because it too up too much space.
i also played Pharoah which was based on the same game engine but not quite as good aesthetically.
also i played Zeus and Poseidon etc.

Ah yes, sometimes we forget that Sierra made more than just adventure games.

I really, really liked the 256 color version of Red Baron back in the day (technically a Dynamix game)...which was weird, because I've never really been big on flight sims, or any sims for that matter. I got so into it, I raided all the encyclopedias I could find and printed out everything I could find about Manfred von Richthofen, or any other WWI fighter pilot heroes.

Talk about having an autism obsession I probably still have it all in a folder somewhere.

I also liked Nascar Racing 2, because I could drive around the track backwards and smash up all the other cars ¬_¬ Seems like that level of realism is hard to find elsewhere

Betrayal at Krondor was really cool, but I never managed to get very far in it. One of these days I'll have to figure out how to get it running and sit down with it.

Back into the adventure games theme, I thought the two Shivers games were really good Myst clones, especially the second game with its panorama engine. Too bad we lost them =/

And Phantasmagoria...wow...I had to turn on the censor halfway through it, I totally chickened out

I have fond memories of Police Quest and King's Quest. Especially the old DOS King's Quest (I think it was the first or second game, not sure). I remember back when we got our first computer, an old Intel 386 with 2 MB of ram, 1 MB of HD space, we also got a copy of King's Quest with it, but the copy protection system involved you hunting for words within the game manual ("Enter the 3rd word on the 4th paragraph on page 26 of the game's manual in order to continue") in order to proceed to certain screens, and we didn't get the manual, so I couldn't play. Good times, good times.