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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 kbrasee · · Score: 4, Informative

      It was also nice how if you had a certain system config, you'd get to the VERY END of KQ V and it would run out of memory, and Sierra wouldn't patch the stupid thing.

    2. Re:King's Quest = hardcore by Triv · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

      It wasn't a stick, it was a pie.

      ...I thought I was over it. Guess not.

      Gr.

  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. Oh dear god by Misanthrope · · Score: 4, Funny

    My own personal grade wrecker is back, awesome. I always enjoyed how Sierra made the death sequences so humorous, I'd spend hours trying to kill myself in inventive ways. Monkey Island's parody of creative avatar murder was hilarious.

  4. Nostalgia by lunchlady55 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Memorable commands:
    KISS SARIEN (SQ1)
    USE ROCK IN SUPPORTER AT GUARD (SQ2)
    GET LADDER (SQ3)

  5. Re:Leisure Larry Suite by Khyber · · Score: 4, Informative

    I loved Leisure Suit Larry. See, there was a little quiz built-in before you got to first run the game, in which it asked you questions to prove you were an adult. Me, being about 7 years old when I first played it, found it endlessly amusing that I knew the answers to the 'adult questions.' I actually blew the original install diskettes because passing those quizzes was more fun than the actual game.

    --
    Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
  6. Re:Neat but buggy by RenHoek · · Score: 4, Informative

    :) The 'lot of Larries' is not a bug.. It's multiplayer LSL. Those are other players.

  7. Re:Just wait for MONKEY ISLAND by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kind sir, I urge you to relinquish the trappings of your long-past youth and allow your intellect to briefly blossom. May it wither only after your grasp of the concept of reasonable means of communication is firmly established.

    Now, pray excuse me, I do believe I can smell the deliciously browned toast being ready.

  8. you could do this 2 years ago... by Ianopolous · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can play over 140 dos games in your browser here: http://www.classicdosgames.com/online.php Once they incorporate JPC's new applet snapshot facility it will have instant load time as well.