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Multiplayer Space Quest in a Browser

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the taran-meets-roger-wilco dept.

Martin Kool writes "As a sequel to Quek we at Q42 are proud to present another DHTML javascript showcase: Good Old Adventures Remember the classic adventures games like Larry and Space Quest? Well, now you can play them online, multiplayer, right there in your browser." My favorite part about playing old Sierra games was watching and waiting for the screen to finish flood filling. Thankfully these are much quicker.

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  1. Does not work in mozilla by krokodil · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess I need Oprah browser or something

    1. Re:Does not work in mozilla by ahaning · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's right, you can get the latest Oprah browser here: ftp://ftp.oprah.com/pub/oprah/latest/.

      Be sure to get the new DrPhil plugin. It will make every webpage tell it like it is!

      (S'okay. I had to look up the spelling: Opera ;-) )

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    2. Re:Does not work in mozilla by JLyle · · Score: 3, Funny
      I guess I need Oprah browser or something
      First the talk show, then the book club; now her own web browser?
    3. Re:Does not work in mozilla by adjuster · · Score: 5, Funny

      I guess I need Oprah browser or something

      Isn't that the browser project that goes through horrible code bloat every so often, then gets all trimmed down and redesigned, only to bloat right back up again?

      (I couldn't resist...)

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    4. Re:Does not work in mozilla by Anonvmous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      "I guess I need Oprah browser or something"

      It was named Oprah because it's the same browser available in multiple sizes. If you need help remembering which one the bloated one is, remember that it's Oprah with coffee.

  2. Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Onan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My favourite part was the big black bouncing "Censored" box.

    Wait, I mean my LEAST favourite part. I would have preferred to see the twelve or fifteen blocky pixels beneath....pixeeeelllls.

    Either way it was better than having to use my imagination like in Softporn Adventure.

    Multiplayer though, that's just sick.

  3. can we watch larry do the girl now? by craqboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    do we get to watch when larry gets freaky with the girlie? I hope so cause I hated the censor box going up and down instead of being able to watch larry get it on with the chick.

  4. Finally.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    we can all beat up Cedric the Own in one big gang.

  5. Did you try to get the page to load? by LittleBigScript · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it is ironic to read "...things are must faster now..." and then wait 2 minutes for it to load.

  6. /.'ed by Bios_Hakr · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't think thousands of users rushing to establish a connection to their poor web server was the multi-player game they had in mind.

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  7. Hideous Intentions by robbyjo · · Score: 3, Funny

    So, you guys are posting to Slashdot to test how your multiplayer module would scale up, eh? :-) Well, you got it... Time to get to more work, guys...

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  8. SQ4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    My first computer game was Space Quest 4. The intro was fucking hilarious, but too bad I couldn't get by that stupid killer droid. Was there any point to the energizer bunny? Why was it called space quest 4 when you get warped to space quest 12?!

  9. Re:This reminds me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately mispelling "xyzzy" with too many characters caused a buffer overflow, allowing the entire server to be 0wned. The concept of little "hidden" games kind of went out of fashion after that.

  10. huh, I dont remember by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 5, Funny

    any 403 errors in the original space quest...

  11. *sigh* by PhoenixK7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    My favorite part about playing old Sierra games was watching and waiting for the screen to finish flood filling. Thankfully these are much quicker.

    Not for the next couple of days...

    Thanks slashdot!

    Before you mod this as a troll put yourself in the shoes of the sysadmin of that poor server, or better yet: whoever has to pay the bandwidth bill!

  12. /.ed game server by grey3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    My favorite part about the old Sierra games was that I could actually PLAY them and didn't have to wait for the /.ed server to come back online, then drop off the face of the internet after the story gets re-posted.

  13. hmmmmz by spudwiser · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thankfully these are much quicker.

    Assuming they're not /.ed, which they are :p

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  14. Emulating a 8086 by spoco2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I see... the games were running too fast, so they submitted the site to slashdot so it would be slowed down to the point where it was just like playing them on the ol' 8086...

  15. Trouble with tribbles... by VoidEngineer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ack! I've got Queks multiplying all over my webbrowser! Help!

  16. Quicker, yea right. by Harik · · Score: 2, Funny
    My favorite part about playing old Sierra games was watching and waiting for the screen to finish flood filling. Thankfully these are much quicker.
    ... and to make yourself feel at home you directed the slashdot DDoS at them to slow their servers down! EVIL! Pure Evil!
  17. Am I the only one... by sryx · · Score: 3, Funny

    who read the URL as www.GoodOlDadVentures.com

    Maybe thats how they are paying for it :P
    -Jason

  18. /.'ed by Iscariot_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anyone wanna post one of these games up here, site seems to have been slashdotted. I bet you'll get +5 so come on... why wait?!

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  19. QuakeDHTML by Iscariot_ · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll pay 50 bucks to the first guy to get quake running in pure DHTML code.

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  20. Re:Wow, how.. umm .. cool? by fmita · · Score: 3, Funny

    So basically this is an IRC interface masquerading as pixelated, ugly, early 90's looking (by modern standards..those games were very cool 'in the day!') Sierra Game?

    No, I'm pretty sure it was early 90's looking in the early 90's, too.

  21. DrPhil plugin considered harmful by Maggot75 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Beware the DrPhil plugin! It claims to tell you things as they are, but it only tells you what you want to hear. And only if you're a middle aged woman, at that.