Finally someone else who actually used a Color Computer back in the day! For so long I thought I was the only one! Everyone had their Commodore 64's and Amigas. Yes! Did you ever have a subscription to Rainbow magazine? I remember typing in pages of line basic to play (what looked like) a really ne...

We went from a Radio Shack Color Computer (1982-1989) to the Packard Bell (1989). While in college (1993/1994), I bought a no-name 486DX2\66 from the back of the Computer Shopper magazine. I often wonder how many forests were levelled to make that catalog, because back then, it was about the size of...

Billetwound wrote:ah but what kind of 486? was it a packard bell? cause they were slow....

I just tested it on my IBM Aptiva 486 (my machine dedicated to 'old skool' games).

...And we had a Packard Bell 286/12Mhz when I was in college; we were pretty happy with it.

Checked some official Sierra 3½" HD floppies (King's Quest V, 1990), and they are indeed ~20 grams apiece: Eight diskettes weighed 159.94 grams, so each diskette weighs 19.993 grams. [Our current Staples brand diskettes at work weigh ~14.66 grams apiece as a comparison.] So, the weight calculat...

i remember all my sierra disks being 1.44megs, so that would be one HUGE box to take out of the store. They'd need a fork lift and you'd need a moving truck to get it home, and then by the time you got it installed, they would have changed the name of the game to King's Quest XXXXVIII: Where did my...

The exception is Half life where they release episodes 1 and 2 a year apart and then never have any interest in doing episode 3 It seems like I read somewhere that as soon as Epsiode 1 was done, the Episode 1 team was to start working on Episode 3, almost concurrently with the Episode 2 team. Now, ...

A bad movie about the dangers of running windows. ...In the sense that it was a magical "Macintosh" computer able to upload the virus to the mothership computer system. Evidently, PC Clones are unable to interface with alien technologies like Apples can, and thus the world would have been...

Hey guys, first time poster here. First of all, I love all of your games! I have played both Kings Quest games countless times, and have just started Trial by Fire. These are awesome games! However, how come in King's quest 1, there were pictures for every type of death, in King's Quest 2, you only...

MusicallyInspired wrote:A sequel may be sooner than you think.

I believe PC Gamer has it scheduled for Q3/Q4 2010 (!)...

Erpy wrote:QFG1 has already been remade by Sierra itself, so it's unlikely anyone will bother remaking it again.

OK, but how about doing a VGA remake for Hero's Quest?

For a little while in the 1990's I had Sound Blaster AWE32, and the Sierra games that supported General MIDI sounded awesome with it... and I expect the SC-55 generated music will be at least as good or better than what my AWE32 produced. In particular, I remember Dagger of Amon Ra music sounds GRE...

I really don't see the point in "reserve price" auctions. Why do people do it? I believe it's used to to guarantee a minimum price for the object up for auction. Usually, the Reserve price is unknown to the Bidders until the bid prices go over the Reserve price ("reserve met" or...

And he also said he was on vacation when he wrote in on April 14...

Perhaps he's not back yet?

It's really worth buying! Once the issue has been out for a while, I'll see what I can do about getting a few scans up. But, out of respect for both Emily and the magazine, let's support it and buy a copy if possible. ;) Agreed, Eric. Bought a back-issue off of eBay last week, and got it Monday. Pr...

Spikey wrote:And in other kq4 projects?

Or is it "KQ4 Projex"?

Here's another hint. Perhaps I'll do regular bi-weekly hints or something. The game title starts with a " K " and ends with an " X " (which is not a roman numeral). OK: Taking a cue from Valve's highly successful "Orange Box", the mysterious, as-yet-unnamed game compan...

For those of you not planning to go see Alice in Wonderland, I give you the most important of the trailers: Tron: Legacy , playable in 1080p. Indeed. Of this, there can be no doubt! While the events of the seriously underrated first person shooter TRON 2.0 [2003] have recently been declared to be &...

I think you should just name your child Jeanway Luc Paris B'Lanna Tuvix the III from Planet Harry Kim-cheekotay and call it a day. No love for Kes in your grand nomenclature? Brutal ! :| You truly are a heartless one, Mr. Chang. :rollin < Granted, she was only on for a couple of seasons... >

Spikey wrote:Today I received...
...the King's Quest Companion, 4th edition!

Didn't expect it to be this heavy, wow!

Nice! I've got a couple of the LSL companions, the QFG (1-4) companion, and the Betrayal At Krondor companion on my bookshelves right now...

-- Was that from a SQ4-A game that was also done in 50's B-movie style? I don't mean to plug but that did remind me of this. :p Oooo! What a shameless plug! Yes, yes, Broomie -- the IA trailer for SQ2/Remake was AWESOME... Now I've got to set my DeLorean for March 31, 2010, and proceed to work back...

It appears that the people who made this "GameTrailers" video simply copied and pasted information from the KQ1 Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Quest:_Quest_for_the_Crown Virtually all the "facts" mentioned in the video are listed in the KQ1 Wikipedia entry...

As someone accurately brought up in the comments section of the video link, Due to inflation over the last 25 years, $700K in 1984 dollars is only about $1.4 million in 2008 dollars. I suppose it's possible that the $700K is an accurate number... Try the Westegg inflation calculator (based on the Co...

Did anyone happen to notice Destructoid's seasonal feature The Memory Card on August 27th ? Thanks for the terrific link! Chad's got a really great series going there, and it was a pleasure to relive many of those memorable gaming moments with his articles as I perused previous entries. It is now a...

I would have loved to help you but... Thanks for the tips braniac ! ...I suddenly feel intense disdain for you. Perhaps he's stumbled upon your insatiable and maddening appetite for bran-based foodstuffs? ( muffins, flakes, etc. ) BTW, I thought bran was supposed to help ease those uncomforable fee...

Hey! Maybe we really can convince AGDI to remake Jonny Castaway! I remember it gave me a full 5 minutes of entertainment 16 years ago! Funny -- I was jus thinking about that program over the weekend! :lol Back in the mid-1990s, there was a now-defunct local computer shop in our small town that alwa...