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Old Sierra Games Playable In Browser Through Open Source Game Engine

Posted by Soulskill on from the we-all-know-which-game-you're-going-to-try-first dept.

Lord Byron II writes "Like Quake III and Zork, Sarien.net has converted and made available many of the earlier Sierra adventure games. Currently, Space Quest, Police Quest, and Leisure Suit Larry are playable, and more are on the way. They are Javascript-based, and require no Flash. The site's creator, Martin Kool, said, 'To actually allow gameplay, I reverse engineered the original AGI interpreter in javascript. The reverse engineering process has been done before by others, and the best known existing interpreter (Sarien) has recently merged into ScummVM. Due to that, the interpreter mechanics were fairly well documented online.'"

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  1. King's Quest = hardcore by kbrasee · · Score: 5, Interesting

    KQ V and VI were hardcore adventure games... Nothing like playing through 20 hours of a game just to discover you forgot to pick up the stick on the beach within the first 5 minutes of the game, and then having to restart the whole thing. Made me want to break my keyboard multiple times.

    1. Re:King's Quest = hardcore by Chees0rz · · Score: 3, Interesting

      How about not being able to get past the Yeti near the end of the game- you and your sister begging your parents to let you call the Sierra hotline- only to hear the haunting words....
      "Throw the pie you received from the baker, at the Yeti"

      Yes, the pie I ate like an hour into the game... that pie. That same fucking pie.

    2. Re:King's Quest = hardcore by Khyber · · Score: 3, Interesting

      I'd much prefer that to having Fuck-UROM or SafeDisc installed on my machine.

      In fact that was probably one of the best forms of DRM. But now we have the internet, that means of DRM is effectively useless.

      --
      Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
    3. Re:King's Quest = hardcore by bishiraver · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Prince of persia would ask you e.g. 'The first letter of the third word in the fourth paragraph on page 55.' They must have had a rather large hash table - I played through the game more times than I can count, and don't recall it asking the same one twice.

  2. QFG by juventasone · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The fact that there's no plans for Quest for Glory would be depressing if it wasn't for the recent release of this free QFG2 recreation.

  3. Playable? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    None of these games were "playable" the first time around, so don't get your hopes up... The multiplayer bit is a nice touch though, this way you can see that others are just as confused as you are.