Madam Tussauds' Doctor Who exhibition in Blackpool 2022
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(October 21, 2024 01:03 AM)
Bobby Tomlinson said...
Is that a brand new Kings Quest game that’s recently been released? I didn’t know they were still making them.
I bought lots of Point and Click Adventure games in a Steam sale some months back but haven’t played them yet…including the Space Quest games. Lucasarts P&C games are better though, much more fun.
The King's Quest I'm talking about is from 2015, so new to me but perhaps not to you.
They have the old KQ (1-7) for sale as a collection which I, oddly, don't have yet but they have Space Quest, Police Quest and the Leisure Suit Larry games (Which I do) up for buy.
There's a 'Quest for Glory' which I don't recognise and I can't see 'The Colonel's Bequest ' anywhere and so it's not a complete set
I don't know about the new King's Quest yet but I'd only buy the old ones on sale. They are good but they're not worth what they're asking.
The new Larry Laffer adventures by CrazyBunch are good though, they are modern made and new stories. The Wet Dreams titles (Yes, titties is more apt)
As for LucasArts vs Sierra On-Line, back in the day I was a die-hard typer of tales and didn't take to the easier icons for actions way of LucasArts. But they did make fun games and were more accessible to most.
I think now though I probably prefer the pointer clicking on things and just enjoy the show more.
With Full Throttle, Grim Fandango and Sam & Max LucasArts really bust the mould and set new standards with nobody else to compete against them. It sort of was the death of the genre until Telltale showed up but they didn't stay in business as their original form for very long.
Oh! I have some Walking Dead games of theirs too which you can't buy on Steam anymore. I was going through my list and seeing what else of theirs I have on Steam. I'm still looking too!
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Bobby Tomlinson — 1 year ago(October 21, 2024 11:01 AM)
∂³∑x² said...
The King's Quest I'm talking about is from 2015, so new to me but perhaps not to you.
They have the old KQ (1-7) for sale as a collection which I, oddly, don't have yet but they have Space Quest, Police Quest and the Leisure Suit Larry games (Which I do) up for buy.
There's a 'Quest for Glory' which I don't recognise and I can't see 'The Colonel's Bequest ' anywhere and so it's not a complete set
I don't know about the new King's Quest yet but I'd only buy the old ones on sale. They are good but they're not worth what they're asking.
The new Larry Laffer adventures by CrazyBunch are good though, they are modern made and new stories. The Wet Dreams titles (Yes, titties is more apt)
As for LucasArts vs Sierra On-Line, back in the day I was a die-hard typer of tales and didn't take to the easier icons for actions way of LucasArts. But they did make fun games and were more accessible to most.
I think now though I probably prefer the pointer clicking on things and just enjoy the show more.
With Full Throttle, Grim Fandango and Sam & Max LucasArts really bust the mould and set new standards with nobody else to compete against them. It sort of was the death of the genre until Telltale showed up but they didn't stay in business as their original form for very long.
Oh! I have some Walking Dead games of theirs too which you can't buy on Steam anymore. I was going through my list and seeing what else of theirs I have on Steam. I'm still looking too!
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I’ll be honest, I haven’t played any Sierra games yet, just watched videos of them and read about them in my Bitmap Books point and click adventure game book. I didn’t have a PC growing up, just micro computers such as the Amiga which DID have some Lucasarts games on.
I used to love Telltale games but I worked with this woman who I grew to despise and she likes them, so that’s put me off them a bit.
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(October 21, 2024 04:25 PM)
Bobby Tomlinson said...
I’ll be honest, I haven’t played any Sierra games yet, just watched videos of them and read about them in my Bitmap Books point and click adventure game book. I didn’t have a PC growing up, just micro computers such as the Amiga which DID have some Lucasarts games on.
I used to love Telltale games but I worked with this woman who I grew to despise and she likes them, so that’s put me off them a bit.
Telltale started out well, bringing back point-and-click and doing a good job of it.
But they started with episodic releases and they were a little late each time. No biggie really but some customers were a bit upset and there were some bugs and glitches when things were released due to the nature of being hot off the press.
Then they moved away from point-and-click and went for stories that require a button to turn the page and bigger intellectual properties (IPs).
More customers, less games. There the episodic releases were harshly torn down by loyal fans of the modern IPs they were destroying in their retelling and morale must have been frayed by those trying to release on time. That's where it all went tits up.
Amigas could play Sierra On-Line games Bobby
That's where most people who played them played them, that or on the Atari ST
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Bobby Tomlinson — 1 year ago(October 21, 2024 06:42 PM)
∂³∑x² said...
Telltale started out well, bringing back point-and-click and doing a good job of it.
But they started with episodic releases and they were a little late each time. No biggie really but some customers were a bit upset and there were some bugs and glitches when things were released due to the nature of being hot off the press.
Then they moved away from point-and-click and went for stories that require a button to turn the page and bigger intellectual properties (IPs).
More customers, less games. There the episodic releases were harshly torn down by loyal fans of the modern IPs they were destroying in their retelling and morale must have been frayed by those trying to release on time. That's where it all went tits up.
Amigas could play Sierra On-Line games Bobby
That's where most people who played them played them, that or on the Atari ST
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Well…this woman that I used to work with and despise, I have to say that it was the later Telltale Games that she enjoyed. These sort of interactive storybooks which made you THINK that you were in control but really the story always goes the same way albeit with a few cosmetic changes. I liked these for what they were however they are now TAINTED by her.
I realised after I posted that Amiga had Sierra games but for some reason these never appeared under my radar back then. It was Monkey Island 1 and 2, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and a friend of mine who’s mum was well off had a PC and he had Day of the Tenticle. I also enjoyed Beneath a Steel Sky and Simon the Sourcerer from other companies.
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(October 21, 2024 07:57 PM)
Bobby Tomlinson said...
Well…this woman that I used to work with and despise, I have to say that it was the later Telltale Games that she enjoyed. These sort of interactive storybooks which made you THINK that you were in control but really the story always goes the same way albeit with a few cosmetic changes. I liked these for what they were however they are now TAINTED by her.
I realised after I posted that Amiga had Sierra games but for some reason these never appeared under my radar back then. It was Monkey Island 1 and 2, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis and a friend of mine who’s mum was well off had a PC and he had Day of the Tenticle. I also enjoyed Beneath a Steel Sky and Simon the Sourcerer from other companies.
There's a follow up to Beneath a Steel Sky now Bobby. I have it but haven't played it yet (Like so many of the games I've collected over the years).
I'd never heard of Simon The Sorcerer until now
Must have been Amiga only, looking it up I see that
it's on Steam now
and has
an upcoming new spangled adventure
made by a different company too!
I'll get into both of them (Or all 11 of them depending on how you look at it) over the Winter
The Discworld games had some magic point and click things going on. I liked them a lot
As for that woman you despise and her love for cartoons which require the odd click to move the story forward. She probably fancied you
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Bobby Tomlinson — 1 year ago(October 21, 2024 08:49 PM)
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There's a follow up to Beneath a Steel Sky now Bobby. I have it but haven't played it yet (Like so many of the games I've collected over the years).
I'd never heard of Simon The Sorcerer until now
Must have been Amiga only, looking it up I see that
it's on Steam now
and has
an upcoming new spangled adventure
made by a different company too!
I'll get into both of them (Or all 11 of them depending on how you look at it) over the Winter
The Discworld games had some magic point and click things going on. I liked them a lot
As for that woman you despise and her love for cartoons which require the odd click to move the story forward. She probably fancied you
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Yes I too have the Beneath a Steel,Sky sequel (somewhere) and I too am yet to play it.
I want to play these Discworld games as I never got to do it back when they came out, but Steam doesn’t have them.
Sort it out Data East!!
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(October 21, 2024 09:07 PM)
Bobby Tomlinson said...
Yes I too have the Beneath a Steel,Sky sequel (somewhere) and I too am yet to play it.
I want to play these Discworld games as I never got to do it back when they came out, but Steam doesn’t have them.
Sort it out Data East!!
Those Data East guys Bobby, you just can't trust em'
You can play the
first one here
, the
second one here
and
download the Noir one here
.
But yes, I too prefer them to be on a shelf like Steam or GOG or something
It feels more like ownership
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Bobby Tomlinson — 1 year ago(October 21, 2024 09:20 PM)
∂³∑x² said...
Those Data East guys Bobby, you just can't trust em'
You can play the
first one here
, the
second one here
and
download the Noir one here
.
But yes, I too prefer them to be on a shelf like Steam or GOG or something
It feels more like ownership
Ah right that’s interesting…is there a catch to this site? Will they run on my rubbish laptop?
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(October 21, 2024 09:24 PM)
Bobby Tomlinson said...
Ah right that’s interesting…is there a catch to this site? Will they run on my rubbish laptop?
It's all legit, no problems with anything it's all kept within the browser and is just a game for a games sake. Your laptop won't have any problems with it
The download is the actual game from when it was made, I'm not sure how that will be on modern computers but if there ends up being a problems there are plenty of workarounds to fix those type of things Bobby
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Bobby Tomlinson — 1 year ago(October 21, 2024 09:26 PM)
∂³∑x² said...
It's all legit, no problems with anything it's all kept within the browser and is just a game for a games sake. Your laptop won't have any problems with it
The download is the actual game from when it was made, I'm not sure how that will be on modern computers but if there ends up being a problems there are plenty of workarounds to fix those type of things Bobby
I shall give it a try sometime. Does it have Star Trek The Next Generation A Final Unity? That one isn’t on Steam either.
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Bobby Tomlinson — 1 year ago(October 21, 2024 10:20 PM)
∂³∑x² said...
Your wish,
is my command
Oh what wonderful news and what gifts you bring me! I’ve been wanting to play that one again for years!! My DenAunty had it.
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(October 21, 2024 10:34 PM)
Bobby Tomlinson said...
Oh what wonderful news and what gifts you bring me! I’ve been wanting to play that one again for years!! My DenAunty had it.
I think I might have played it back in the day judging from some of the screengrabs people have posted up about it:
But I don't have fond memories of it and so it probably wasn't the type of point-and-click game I liked
Mind you, I didn't like those video cassette games they did either. In fact I don't think I've played a Star Trek game that I liked
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Bobby Tomlinson — 1 year ago(October 22, 2024 12:11 AM)
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I think I might have played it back in the day judging from some of the screengrabs people have posted up about it:
But I don't have fond memories of it and so it probably wasn't the type of point-and-click game I liked
Mind you, I didn't like those video cassette games they did either. In fact I don't think I've played a Star Trek game that I liked
I seem to recall it being like an interactive episode of the show. I’d like to beat the game with a walkthrough. That goes for the 25th anniversary OS point and click adventure (which Steam has) and the follow up (which Steam does not have).
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(October 22, 2024 12:24 AM)
Bobby Tomlinson said...
I seem to recall it being like an interactive episode of the show. I’d like to beat the game with a walkthrough. That goes for the 25th anniversary OS point and click adventure (which Steam has) and the follow up (which Steam does not have).
Well
I found the 25th TOS game
but I'd never heard of that one either Bobby
Lots of things for me to keep an eye on this evening
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Bobby Tomlinson — 1 year ago(October 22, 2024 10:16 AM)
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Well
I found the 25th TOS game
but I'd never heard of that one either Bobby
Lots of things for me to keep an eye on this evening
There was another POC OS game but I can’t remember what it was called. Judgement Rights rings a bell for some reason.
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