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#1 Apr 09 2004 at 11:37 AM Rating: Decent
Okay, I've been trying to think of the name of this game for a couple years now, and it's seeped back into my brain so I need to quench the thirst once and for all. It was a game that came out in the 90's (probably early to mid 90's), and here are the random things I remember about the game:

I should add that it's an rpg game and takes place in a medieval type era.

1) You started the game by going into a town and talking to a sheriff who had some cyclops or giant or something as a sidekick. The giant played with a yo-yo the whole time (yeah, yeah...)

2) there was an inn that was ran by some sort of cat

3) A big part of the game had to do with a thieves guild

4) There was a potion maker woman outside of the town that lived in a hut and you had to climb a tree and get something out of a nest for her

5) you could get a job raking the dirt for a farmer in another town and he would let you sleep there

6) there was a monster called an antwerp

7) you had to sneak up and listen to sombodies conversation outside the gates of town, near the same place you could practice your knife tossing skills

8) you could spar with a trainer who neevr failed to kick your a$$

9) You had to save a prince at one point (little strange) when he was turned into a bear.

Hopefully these will be sufficient clues to have somebody ease my mind...
#2 Apr 09 2004 at 11:40 AM Rating: Good
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Quest for Glory 1: So You Want to be a Hero? by Sierra.
#3 Apr 09 2004 at 11:42 AM Rating: Decent
SWEET RELIEF! Thank you for that, now I'm going to have to try and find a copy of that somewhere so I can have the old sierra realted technical problems and crush my computer.
#4 Apr 09 2004 at 11:53 AM Rating: Good
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You can buy the Quest for Glory Anthology, which includes the first four original games, and a remake of the first one ("fancy" graphics, clickable interface like the later games in the series).

Yes, you'll have to play with your computer settings to get it to run on newer versions of Windows. Sierra wins again!¡!

You can also try your luck at one of the remake sites:
Quest for More Glory
Sierra Remakes

May you bring great honor the the Famous Adventurers' Correspondence School.
#5 Apr 09 2004 at 11:56 AM Rating: Decent
awesome, this almost makes as happy as the day I found a copy of the infocom anthology rotting at the bottom of a display in a best buy...
#6 Apr 09 2004 at 12:06 PM Rating: Decent
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Ahhh, the joys of Zork on a TRS-80 Model III Basic... we're old...

Relive your youth.
#7 Apr 09 2004 at 12:13 PM Rating: Good
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Ahhh, the joys of Zork on a TRS-80 Model III Basic... we're old...


My favorites were The Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy (favorite book too) and Hollywood Hijynx.

How about booting up a commodore 64 and putting the TAPE of battle chess in the tape reader, then leaving for 30 minutes so it could load.


>open the mailbox
Please re-type your command
>look inside mailbox
The mailbox is closed
>open mailbox
You open the mailbox
>Look inside mailbox

What's better than that?

Oh yeah,
>Fight troll
What do you want to fight troll with
>the sword that is in my hand you jagoff!
I don't understand
>Fight troll with sword
#8 Apr 09 2004 at 2:38 PM Rating: Decent
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Getting nostalgic?

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#9 Apr 09 2004 at 2:39 PM Rating: Decent
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Getting nostalgic?

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#10 Apr 09 2004 at 2:59 PM Rating: Decent
Okay so Infocom is my favorite software company hands down... perhaps it's just a nostaglia thing, but regardless it's still my favorite. What about the WORST games from that era? I have two off the top of my head:

1) Manhunter- Another quality sierra product, Let's you play a strangely intoxicating, yet "medula-stabbingly" confusing game, where after you spend hours and hours playing... the reward was a bug that made it so you couldn't complete the game. (DAMN YOU BABAGGES!)

2) Hacker(s) - a game a little before that era.
Premise: Figure out how to play this game, what you can't? That's too bad... thanks for your money.


#11 Apr 09 2004 at 3:18 PM Rating: Good
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OMG Hacker was frickin' retarded. Wasn't that the game that opened with a password screen and just stopped there? Pissed the hell out of me. Of course, back then everyone copied their Commodore games anyway so at least it's not like I paid money for it.

I remember the Commodore version of Pirates! had a bug where if you got over 30,000 gold the game would start spazzing out. You'd wind up with 516 angry men on a pinnace or whatever. Splitting the gold helped for a while, but then it'd start up again. Always ticked me off to successfully raid the Treasure Fleet, the Silver Train and a couple choice cities just to have the game break on me.

My favorite (and biggest letdown) game was a sleeper favorite: Paradroid. You were a little droid control unit that had to hop from droid to droid on a spaceship using these little pseduo-Booleen logic puzzles against the computer. It was pretty fast paced and fun but I could never win it. Finally, years later, I downloaded it on an emulator, played the hell out of it and finally won it -- to find out you just start all over from the beginning. Lame. Smiley: mad

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#12 Apr 09 2004 at 3:34 PM Rating: Decent
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It was pretty fast paced and fun but I could never win it. Finally, years later, I downloaded it on an emulator, played the hell out of it and finally won it -- to find out you just start all over from the beginning. Lame.


That has to be one of my favorite things that game "designers" decide to throw into a game...the whole "Sure you beat this game once, but can you do it.... AGAIN?!?!" premise. Or maybe if you get lucky they will throw in an extra monster or two, or maybe even make them faster!!

Of course an older game that I "Loved" was... what was it called... Swashbucklers I think. It was a side-scroller... errrr a side...non-scroller, where you swordfight another npc with exciting commands like, PARRY and BLOCK ...and uhhh... PARRY! Then if you beat that guy you had to fight a rats at the same time, OH NOOOO! The true glory of this game is when I could hook the color TV up to the computer and witness the unadulterated glory as I parried and blocked my way to the next level. What happened when you beat it? I dunno...I think it was just an endless cycle of dudes that you tried to stab.


--Obscure Zork reference: Ulysses--
#13 Apr 09 2004 at 3:41 PM Rating: Decent
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Man, I remember playing Pirates! on my sister's old Mac. It was pirated (ha!) so I couldn't start properly; you'd begin with just a dinghy and your man-*****. I managed to do fairly well regardless. I'd love to get my hands on another copy of that...



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#14 Apr 09 2004 at 3:51 PM Rating: Good
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That sounds suspiciously like the swordfighting from Pirates!, but without the rats.

Another favorite: Archon. On the Commodore though, not the PC. The big difference being that, in the C=64 version, the phoenix was invulnrable while he was "flaming". I used to be able to beat that game in about six moves. I remember it was elemental to dragon, teleport unicorn to the space and attack the sorceress. Then while everyone putzed around trying to kill my unicorn, move the phoenix, djinn and some other onto the "power" squares.

And another mention for "games I always played and never won". It was some game obviously based off of Aliens. You had a small crack team of soldiers including a couple marines, a demolitions expert, a sniper, etc and had to rescue people in a six (?) story building full of aliens. The aliens would pour forth from pod things, so you had to waste ammo killing the aliens to hit the pod, destroy the pod and finish off the aliens. There were rooms of ammo, but not tons of it. What I mostly remember was one of your soldiers had naught but a welding torch (again, shades of Aliens). I don't even remember what her purpose was, but every.. single.. game would end like this:
"Ack, my marine is dead.. now my other one! The sniper too.. the millionaire and his wife. The demo expert and all the rest.. except Maria and her blowtorch!"
But the thing was, the blowtorch wouldn't actually kill the aliens, they just couldn't reach you. So you'd wind up backed into some hallway, fending off hundreds of aliens with an oxy-acetylene torch until your fuel ran out or else you realized that this was stupid and let them eat you. I usually chose the former.

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#15 Apr 09 2004 at 4:05 PM Rating: Decent
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Another favorite: Archon.


Wow! That was what I meant when I was talking about battle chess! No wonder I've never eben able to find a copy of battle chess that looked the way I remembered i looking...

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#16 Apr 09 2004 at 4:15 PM Rating: Good
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Since we are all being nostalgic for old games I have one for you I can't remember the name of. I created a post asking this six to eight months ago but no one knew.

  • It’s a Sci-fi game from the early to mid 90s I think.

  • You are the evil commander of troops invading planets
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  • You start off invading easy nonaligned planets with a stone age tech level and eventually make your way towards the heart of the Alliance home worlds (the good guys) with a tech level the same as yours.
  • You have a finite number of troops while invading each planet and could have up to 8 or 10 theaters of operations.
  • In each theater of operation you would teleport lightly armed commando style troops who would attempt to build a drop pad while fending of the natives and conduct raids on important targets such as AA and AS(anti-space) Batteries
  • Your tanks and assault troops where forced to use drop pads to land, if the drop ship got knocked out (you only had a finite number) there was a chance some of the troops would survive and land somewhere random on the map.
  • Tech levels for the natives started at stone age, medieval, renaissance, early industrial (Civil was era), industrial (WWI), late industrial (WWII), info age (nowish), and then several futeristic levels.
  • Once you conquered a planet you got medals for various things (speed, minimal damage, number of kills etc) and your legions of troops could gain experience and even be given names by the Emperor. The names where normally lame: "XXIII Legion" would become the "XXIII Red Lion Legion"

  • As I remember it I was able to get about 3/4 the way through the game and a bug stopped me from getting any farther. I would really, really like to know the name of the game and if I could find it anywhere on the net.

    Edit: cuz spelin iz impotant jus lik I iz, I no cuz the doktor tol me so

    Edited, Fri Apr 9 17:22:15 2004 by GitSlayer
    #17 Apr 09 2004 at 5:27 PM Rating: Good
    Empire Earth?

    If not, it's close, and you'd probaly like that game too.
    #18 Apr 09 2004 at 7:01 PM Rating: Good
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    No its not Empire Earth. Thats a crappy RTS from the last year or so, I'm looking for something a whole lot different.
    #19 Apr 09 2004 at 7:49 PM Rating: Decent
    How about this git, The Nebula Throne?

    It looks like what you described... maybe?
    #20 Apr 09 2004 at 9:15 PM Rating: Good
    Ahh, the commodore, love the nostalgia. I had hundreds of pirated games, but have to admit one of my favorites was a silly one called space taxi. Kind of like the taxi games today but 2d, in space, with a flying taxi and horrible graphics.

    Also loved the old RPGs--Bard's tale, Wasteland, etc.

    /agree with Hithchhiker's being one of the best games from back then...except for the ending. "you walk down the hatch and see..you'll have to wait for the sequel..." *I'M STILL WAITING YOU BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!*

    #21 Apr 09 2004 at 10:35 PM Rating: Decent
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    Wasteland was the bestest game. It's where I learned about 7.62 ammo, where Needles is, and the rate of fire of a Mac 10.

    Bards Tale was fun except for two exploits that made it silly. Killer Monks who's AC went down every level and fighting illisonists where you got XP for the illusions. You could level your Monk to invincibility by just fighting illusionists for ever and ever. Then you could wander around with one character and slaughter everything.


    Oh and what about Beach Head 2 where they tried to copy protect the game by having you add a little resistor thing to one of the ports on the comp. That allways cracked me up. "No, I could never deduce how get around this!"

    Edited, Fri Apr 9 23:35:48 2004 by Smasharoo
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    #22 Apr 09 2004 at 10:44 PM Rating: Good
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    Mulamen wrote:
    How about this git, The Nebula Throne?

    It looks like what you described... maybe?


    Wasn't that graphics where a little better. Man I really want to know what that games name was.

    I'm thinking it may have been based on an old Avolon Hill game.

    Edited, Fri Apr 9 23:48:12 2004 by GitSlayer
    #23 Apr 09 2004 at 10:47 PM Rating: Decent
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    MAster of Orion?
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    #24 Apr 09 2004 at 10:47 PM Rating: Good
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    I don't remember a resistor thing for Beach-Head 2, but I do remember trying to copy it and, when you'd load it, you'd get a stern scrolling lecture on how pirated software was hurting the industry. Then again, I never owned a legitimate copy of it anyway, so maybe the packaged version did come with some gizmo. As I recall, Kwik Copy was able to copy it just peachy though Smiley: grin

    I was actually trying to remember Wasteland earlier today. I only played it fleetingly on the PC, if I'm remembering the same game.

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    #25 Apr 09 2004 at 10:52 PM Rating: Decent
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    Wasteland was alsmot literally Bard's Tale with guns. IT's was post apocalyptic adventure in the West US. Same little graphics ineterface, et all.
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    Smash wrote:
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    nope, older than that. By the way MOOIII sucks *** don't buy it.
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