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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. 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.

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

    any 403 errors in the original space quest...

  5. 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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