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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. 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.

    --

    The most important thing any republican needs to know.
    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.