16th March 2006, 9:02 PM
I'll pick up King, Space, and Police (all three were pretty fun, and I've lost the Police Quest 1 handbook, the one that used that awesome form of copyright protection where they fed you a bunch of knowledge about the game world and forced you to look it up in an actual book so you could use it in the game, and also that knowledge is actually a police officer training guide, or some stuff based on one in the real world).
Leisure Suit Larry? Probably not...
But really, I would very much like a Quest for Glory collection.
I wonder one last thing. Will the King's Quest Collection contain anywhere near as much as the last two itterations of it released by Sierra? Aside from every King's Quest game except Mask of Eternity (which I can live without, but yet have anyway), it also had a very large number of images, a trivia quiz, all the old videos and documentaries made for even older collections, some special walkthroughs for what are acknowledged to be "ridiculously tricky" parts of old King's Quest games (images of how to climb the whale tongue in KQ4, walk down the honeycomb mountains in KQ3, and a couple others, though it was missing a nice walkthrough of both the desert, Mordack's Castle, and the ocean sequences of KQ5 (also just plain "hard for the sake of hard" with no real actual clues on where to go segments). It even included almost every other game Roberta Williams herself had made, from the two Laura Bow games (pretty fun actually) to "Mixed up Mother Goose Deluxe" (sorry, not the original ancient version, but since it is intended for VERY young kids and the "puzzles" don't even exist unless you are 3, that's fine) to 5 different Apple II games (run on an Apple II emulator) including Mystery House, the first adventure game to use graphics EVER.
I'd like them all included, updated to run on XP, please :D. Or at the very least, be lazy and just "toss them on the disks in their original form" so I can get rid of the older collections I have laying around.
You know, having played a number of those "made for 3 year old kids" games, I have to say I still think it's a good idea to have games like that. It really helps the youngest of the young to learn basic computer skills. In fact, when the Rev controller is modified to become the standard interface for PCs, a number of simplistic but "shiny" games should be made for that too. There's nothing wrong with a game where the entire objective is to just see if you can point and click at a thing if you keep in mind the right target audience. I myself played a similar game a long LONG time ago called "Manhole" where the entire "game" simply involved opening a manhole and going on a strange and magical journey through some sort of weird "Wonderland", and also some PC speaker based voices sprinkled here and there in the game. Ancient as dust, and barely worthy of being called a good Flash game these days, but for something intended for a children type person, it's perfect, and I loved every second of it.
Leisure Suit Larry? Probably not...
But really, I would very much like a Quest for Glory collection.
I wonder one last thing. Will the King's Quest Collection contain anywhere near as much as the last two itterations of it released by Sierra? Aside from every King's Quest game except Mask of Eternity (which I can live without, but yet have anyway), it also had a very large number of images, a trivia quiz, all the old videos and documentaries made for even older collections, some special walkthroughs for what are acknowledged to be "ridiculously tricky" parts of old King's Quest games (images of how to climb the whale tongue in KQ4, walk down the honeycomb mountains in KQ3, and a couple others, though it was missing a nice walkthrough of both the desert, Mordack's Castle, and the ocean sequences of KQ5 (also just plain "hard for the sake of hard" with no real actual clues on where to go segments). It even included almost every other game Roberta Williams herself had made, from the two Laura Bow games (pretty fun actually) to "Mixed up Mother Goose Deluxe" (sorry, not the original ancient version, but since it is intended for VERY young kids and the "puzzles" don't even exist unless you are 3, that's fine) to 5 different Apple II games (run on an Apple II emulator) including Mystery House, the first adventure game to use graphics EVER.
I'd like them all included, updated to run on XP, please :D. Or at the very least, be lazy and just "toss them on the disks in their original form" so I can get rid of the older collections I have laying around.
You know, having played a number of those "made for 3 year old kids" games, I have to say I still think it's a good idea to have games like that. It really helps the youngest of the young to learn basic computer skills. In fact, when the Rev controller is modified to become the standard interface for PCs, a number of simplistic but "shiny" games should be made for that too. There's nothing wrong with a game where the entire objective is to just see if you can point and click at a thing if you keep in mind the right target audience. I myself played a similar game a long LONG time ago called "Manhole" where the entire "game" simply involved opening a manhole and going on a strange and magical journey through some sort of weird "Wonderland", and also some PC speaker based voices sprinkled here and there in the game. Ancient as dust, and barely worthy of being called a good Flash game these days, but for something intended for a children type person, it's perfect, and I loved every second of it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)