Old Sierra Games Playable In Browser Through Open Source Game Engine 78
Lord Byron II writes "Like Quake III and Zork, Sarien.net has converted and made available many of the earlier Sierra adventure games. Currently, Space Quest, Police Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry are playable, and more are on the way. They are Javascript-based, and require no Flash. The site's creator, Martin Kool, said, 'To actually allow gameplay, I reverse engineered the original AGI interpreter in javascript. The reverse engineering process has been done before by others, and the best known existing interpreter (Sarien) has recently merged into ScummVM. Due to that, the interpreter mechanics were fairly well documented online.'"
Re:King's Quest = hardcore (Score:3, Funny)
At least now you don't have to dig out the god damn book and turn to page 23 and type in the 15th word in the 2nd paragraph.
Oh dear god (Score:5, Funny)
My own personal grade wrecker is back, awesome. I always enjoyed how Sierra made the death sequences so humorous, I'd spend hours trying to kill myself in inventive ways. Monkey Island's parody of creative avatar murder was hilarious.
Nostalgia (Score:4, Funny)
Memorable commands:
KISS SARIEN (SQ1)
USE ROCK IN SUPPORTER AT GUARD (SQ2)
GET LADDER (SQ3)
Re:Just wait for MONKEY ISLAND (Score:5, Funny)
Kind sir, I urge you to relinquish the trappings of your long-past youth and allow your intellect to briefly blossom. May it wither only after your grasp of the concept of reasonable means of communication is firmly established.
Now, pray excuse me, I do believe I can smell the deliciously browned toast being ready.
Re:Leisure Larry Suite (Score:3, Funny)
I still remember playing Larry and having a hard time to get the woman in the bar to dance with me:
Larry: Would you like to dance with me?
Woman: I don't understand.
Larry: Let's dance!
Woman: I don't understand.
Larry: I want to dance with you!
Woman: I don't understand.
Larry: Shall we dance?
Woman: I don't understand.
Larry: Do you want to dance?
Woman: I don't understand.
* two hours of trying*
Larry: DANCE
Woman: Oh yes. That's a good idea. Why didn't you ask me earlier?
Re:Leisure Larry Suite (Score:1, Funny)
Um, had you never played an adventure game before? The vast majority had very simple parsers, and sure as hell don't take questions.
Re:Leisure Larry Suite (Score:2, Funny)
You did what do the install diskettes? Hmm... Leisure Suit Larry appears to have had some sort of corrupting influence on you.