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Multiplayer Space Quest in a Browser
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.
Release a new game in stores, release an old game that anyone can play over the net.
Simcity did it not too long ago. You can play the origional SimCityonline.
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Is there a psychological term related to getting your stories rejected on slashdot?
Of the practice of sneaking text based games in
daemons. I think either classic adventure or
mansion was on one of the mindspring DNS servers
for a while. You could play with nslookup. It
went along the lines of:
nslookup www.blah.com 207.69.188.186 forward
and you'd get your request back and at the bottom
of it would be something like:
You enter a room and a loud clear voice says
"ritnew is a charming word"
or whatever your next move was. I'd love to find
another one of these.
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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?
While walking around as Roger Wilco or Leisure Suit Larry seems kind of cool, and you can travel the various locales and talk to other people, you cant actually play through the stories.
So whats the point...other than a chat room you can talk to other old timers who remembers when it was cool to play the game when it came out?
Unfortunately the site is slashdotted (dare I say "farked"?) beyond reason. But I can't help but wonder-- if this is the real game, aren't there copyright issues w/Sierra? Or have they been given permission...
Also, since I can't connect, could someone explain how Space Quest is now multiplayer as described in the story headline?
The site says that it supports Mozilla, and the other Netscape "clones" yet when I load it in Moz. 1.2.1 I get a nonsensical site. Did this happen to anyone else or am I just overly intoxicated tonight?
Jokes aside, I _loved_ the Sierra games and I can honestly say that they were the catalyst in my computing career/interests. I started with Space Quest I/II/III and when I upgraded to VGA I was all over SQIV. Kings quest, the Black Cauldron, and Quest for Heroes were among my favorites.
Unless I'm mistaken, there's an open King's Quest project out there. I just can seem to find the link. Can anyone help me find it?
(I have to get revenge on that witch that tricked me into her _pad_).
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
I cracked out a copy of good old Space Quest II about a year ago and loaded it up on my Athlon. It still works just fine. Sure, it's a little dated, and yes, those damned boxing robots are still friggin impossible, but it works.
Funny thing is, I won the game in a few hours, but I remember it being weeks when I was a kid. Oh well. Now I have Leisure Luit Larry and Police Quest to track down!
It was already slashdotted so I haven't seen it. But it uses flash? Why did they say it was 'DHTML javascript'? I thought it was going to be more like this startrek game.
I'm still waiting for Space Quest 7. Number six ended with a "To Be Continued..."
Reminds me of the old days when a floppy would go bad. Remember when you were ENCOURAGED to make backup copies to play from and store away the original disks. I had a few games where that was written in the instructions.
...All I can say is that my life is pretty strange...
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god, I remember when VGA came out and I was like, How could I need 256 colors!? can I even see that many? I can only think of like 7 or 8 if you count silver.
Ah, the red and grey faces of yesteryear, the time when you might be suprised and exclaim, " 3 disks!this Game is HUGE!" And be lost forever in the full screen oil-painting-like montages, with midi synths blaring thier midi horns with a midi choir all adding an epic quality to the graidiated spacescape before you.
That was a golden age.
It's meant to fit in between SQ2 and SQ3, and has the interface totally down. I've played it about 1/4 the way through since last week, and so far my only complaints are the spelling errors every dozen messages, the (very) wordy cut scenes, and the way some exits to other screens are totally hidden. (Don't even get me started on the squid). There are hints and walkthroughs available though, and is very welcome to those who miss the text-interface games that made Sierra so popular.
An online version of that game would absolutely rock! Please Wendell, do it!
Yes there are clones out there, but none are quite so good.
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Give Scott and his friends a visit over at Javascript Games, for more DHTML goodness
Note:
Opera isnt supported as it doesnt (at least it didnt used to) support the ability to re write the page after loading (elm.innerHTML) due to Opera's incomplete DOM model so any mildly adventurous DHTML will fail, hence Mozilla/NS6/ IE required.
I'd rather play Starsphere which does work in all browsers, and is a free online mmorpg where you control a planet and it's space fleet and go up against thousands of other players.
The problem with slashdot is that most of its users were bullied and stuffed into lockers as kids!
You get cupids bow and 2 arrows early on in the game. You can shoot a pegasus? to make him fall in love with you. At any time, you could shoot the other arrow and it would fly across the screen, etc.
THE LAST PART IN THE GAME, the evil queen or whatever, required the 2nd arrow. Literally, the last two words you typed were "Shoot queen." If you shot the arrow 5 hours ago... tough luck, you were dead.
Weeee, fun.