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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. It's the newest marketing trend by tyrani · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  2. This reminds me... by sawilson · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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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    1. Re:This reminds me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The original used to be at hastur.rlyeh.net. Quite likely that someone set one up somewhere else, though - it's just data.

      Background at http://www.fataldimensions.org/links/dns-mud.php
      and http://www.lysator.liu.se/adventure/Various_compan ies.html.

  3. Wow, how.. umm .. cool? by Warin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?

  4. SQ6 by mickcim · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm still waiting for Space Quest 7. Number six ended with a "To Be Continued..."

  5. Re:huh, I dont remember by WickedClean · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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