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I don’t remember clearly where I originally downloaded this from. It might have been the Sierra Classics site when they still offered classic Sierra games for download. The files are dated 1989. Now what I’d like to know is: Who made this? Why did they make it? How was it originally distributed? If anyone out there can answer these questions, it would be a great help!
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I would like to know more about this, too. I had downloaded it from the Underdogs. This is their entry for it:
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(re: re: Can anyone tell me what this is?) I have it on a Space Quest Collection timestamped 1994. Here’s what the readme.txt in the CD’s root says about it:
FUN SEEKER’S GUIDE TO EASTERN MADERA COUNTY (FSG):
The Fun Seeker’s Guide was written and programmed by
Doug Oldfield, a programmer who’s name you might have
noticed in the credits of Space Quests 3 and 4 – as well
as several other Sierra products. Generally a very busy guy, he
apparently had a little too much time on his hands a few years
back and was inspired to create this little gem which offers a
unique perspective on one of the more interesting attractions
(if not THE most interesting) in our humble Sierra foothill
community. Anyone who has ever visited us here in Oakhurst or has
driven along highway 41 on their way to Yosemite will probably
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(re: Can anyone tell me what this is?) Simon, could you zip up the files from your CD, including the readme file, preserving any directory structures, and post them here? The underdogs link is now to one of those sites that you have to register for to access any content, and I hate registering to a hundred sites just to download one thing from each one. We’ll get this into the museum for sure, as you suggest. Do you know which Space Quest collection it is? (What is the name of the collection?) Has anyone else found this on any of their other Sierra CDs or know any other ways that it was distributed?
Oh… now I see that it appears to be attached to the first post (I thought it was just an image attached before).
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(re: re: Can anyone tell me what this is?) It was probably included on more than one collection. I got it from the 15th anniversary edition released in 1994. The FSG directory on the CD contains exactly the same files as the posted zip file (only each file in the zip file is dated exactly two hours earlier). I will, however post the full readme.txt file as well as a directory and file listing of the CD’s root for reference.
Readme file from Space Quest Collection CD
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(re: re: The Fun Seeker’s Guide) Josh,
I doubt this was ever released in a box. After all the only form of documentation about it that I have found (which is an excerpt from the readme.txt file on the Space Quest Collection CD I got it from; I’ve posted the excerpt in this thread; you probably didn’t read it) says it was some kind of a joke by one Doug Oldfield who was on the programming teams for Space Quest 3 and 4. This is something that I doubt would have sold just one copy. It’s nice to look at, but nothing to spend money on. To assume it ever having been released in a box makes me smile – no offense there. But boxes cost money (the whole production process does) and I doubt that anyone (even Ken, even with nice boxes bearing the Sierra logo) could have sold a lot of copies of FSG…
My guess is that it wasn’t ever released before being included in the Space Quest Collection. I suppose the team whose job was to assemble the content for the CD and get the whole thing running somehow stumbled upon the Fun Seeker’s Guide that was on some hard disk or tape along with the Space Quest stuff they were really looking for. Since they found it funny and it was loosely connected to Space Quest (because Oldfield had done it) and there was some space left on the CD anyway, they threw it in. Just guessing, though.
Simon
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Actually, I did read the excerpt, it just didn’t occur to me that the software was never released. After all, Sierra has released tons of software throughout the years that has long been forgotten because it didn’t sell well. I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had released it and it just didn’t sell well and so they included it in the collections. I mean, they released the Crazy Nick’s Software Picks, and they didn’t do too well, and were cheap on top of that.
Furthermore, sites like the Underdogs and others give an actual year release date for the program, which made me think that sometime or somehow the software had been released at one point. I suppose I am mistaken, but I was misled by what I read.
Oh well. So I guess there is no “Fun Seeker’s Guide” independant release. Now, at least, I know for sure.
Talk to you later!
JDHJANUS
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That thing is hilarious, especially if you’ve been to Oakhurst and seen how really unimportant the Talking Bear is. It reminds me a little of that “Behind the scenes” slideshow they had on the KQ Collection, which was how I found out i’d been going to the town they made all my favorite games in every year since I was 8.
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