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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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.