Subj : Re: What's in your retro closet?
To   : Argelian
From : AKAcastor
Date : Fri Mar 15 2024 19:43:40

 A> Those Sierra On-Line games are a blast from the past... 
 A> I played a couple of the King's Quest ones as well as Space Quest and  A> Leisure Suit Larry LOL!  Manhunter too was pretty fun to play and I also  A> remember purchasing/ordering hint books for those games too.

I love the Sierra games so much!  I have a collection of them, purchased mostly from eBay but some found locally.  I was dumb enough to throw away the ones I bought as a kid, and then a couple decades later decided I absolutely needed to have them again.  They're more expensive now than they used to be!  At least, according to eBay listings.

There's a story that Leisure Suit Larry was the most pirated game ever, evidenced by Sierra selling more hint books than copies of the game.

Manhunter 2 I played a bit of - very cool game but I don't think I got too far as a kid.  (never got the hint book)  I like how it had such stylistic differences from the other Sierra games of that era.

Police Quest I remember playing along with a couple friends in school and spending weeks working our way through it figuring out how to phrase what we wanted to do so the game would accept it (or finally realizing we needed to do something else altogether).  It was a ton of fun!


Chris/akacastor


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