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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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  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. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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.

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

    any 403 errors in the original space quest...

  8. /.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.

  9. 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

  10. 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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  11. 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.

  12. 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.