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I found some screenshots of the NES version. Just scroll down untill you come to the NES section and voila!:
i have a cool nintendo story about this from back in the good old days of the super nintendo. i think it was about 95, right before the nintendo 64 came out. anyway, i was playing my copy of zelda for the snes and got a little NEStalgic, so i decided to break out the old nes and play zelda 1. it took me some time to find everything, and when i finally hooked it up, zelda didnt work. every other game i had worked, so it was obviously just the zelda game pak. i was not happy to say the least, one of my favorite games of all time and its also not being sold anymore. this was before ebay, or at least before i had the internet and knew about ebay. i was talking about it to everyone and my grandpa finally recommended that i write nintendo about it and see what they would do. so i did. i wish i would have kept the letter i got back, but it has gotten lost over time. basically it said that they were sorry about the problem and instructed me to send it to them and they would see what they could do. so i did, and in about a month i got a box back from nintendo with my same copy of zelda in it, but now it worked. im not sure what they did, but im pretty sure they just replaced the battery in it. back then i didnt know they had batteries in the paks. but anyway, thats pretty good customer service considering that my copy of zelda was from the first year it came out, which i think was 86. so that was close to ten years later. i can only hope that they still are that good to their customers. i dont know if they would have replaced it though if it couldnt be repaired. who knows.
im with you about the lengths that companies are going to stop piracy. with all that extra dev time it just jacks up the cost, and the good pirates are just going to crack it by the end of the week it was released anyway. i dont know of any major release that hasnt been cracked. i guess it does stop the consumers from just giving each other disks and intstalling them freely (like everyone used to do with windows!). the average consumer probably doesnt know that there is an entire legion of underground programmers working on cracks for software. also, that is really cool about philips and the cd logo thing. im glad they are stepping up.
“the steam registration is very anoying but it is the only solution against piracy”
Hmm, I don’t know anything about Steam, but I am continually surprised at the things companies do to try to prevent piracy (not just video games, also videos, music CDs, etc). It takes weeks or months for the company to devise a new system against piracy, and it takes a day for a hacker to crack it and spread it around. Anti-piracy schemes only make it more annoying for the legitimate user to use the product, and the cost of developing such schemes is of course passed onto the market price as well. In today’s saavy-technology world, anti-piracy schemes stop very few people who have the intent to pirate something.
I don’t mean to go off-topic, but I am intersted in the subject because of what some major labels are doing to music CDs these days. They use a scheme called “copy control” to prevent ordinary ripping software from making MP3s of the CDs. Not only that, but you have to install software on your computer to play them in your computer CD drive. Well I use my iRiver MP3 player as my main listening device and I copy my legitimately-bought CDs onto my computer, then to the player, so I can listen to them. I don’t share these MP3s after I’ve copied them. Well, it took me a couple hours but soon I found software and certain settings to be able to copy these CDs just so that I can listen to them. I don’t have a regular stereo, and I’m not about to install more junk software onto my computer. Philips told these labels they cannot display the CD logo on these CDs or the cases they come in, because these CDs do not meet Philips’ specs, and I think that’s pretty cool that Philips is standing up to this ridiculous stuff. If you have one of these CDs, look inside the case on the part that holds the CD, where there are usually two CD logos, and there won’t be any!
Here’s another interesting one. I saw in a Gameboy Advance cartridge manual the other day a copyright notice that said, you may not make a copy of this product for any reason, including for backup purposes, basically, it is not legitimate to make a copy for backup purposes and it said something to the effect of “there is no reason to make a backup copy.” Presumably if my cartridge fails, they will replace it. I don’t know what the legal on this is, but what if my game fails in 10 years. Nintendo is not going to replace it then.
Well, rant over. By the way, I in no way condone piracy. As a legitimate user I am just disgusted, like you, at this kind of stuff.
dear friend
first of all the steam registration is very anoying but it is the only solution against piracy.
Because it is also anoying when you buy you copy of half life 2 for 50 euros and your friends buy it with 5.
as for the code ,in the standard edition of half life 2 it is in the dvd case just above the dvdHere´s a note from Lori and Corey Cole´s web site: http://www.transolar.com/
Note 3:
How does a four-game series become five games?
The ending of “Trial by Fire” indicated that the next game in the series would be “Shadows of Darkness.” However, we had a two year break from the series while we were making Educational games, and we didn’t want to introduce new players to the horror genre of “Shadows of Darkness” until they had played a more traditional fantasy genre. So we added “Wages of War” to balance things out.I have been looking for a High Quality version of Rage since I first played Phantasmagoria 2 myself.
If it’s anywhere out there, it would be much appreciated.never mind, I found it. Its here:
http://www.abandonia.com/game.php?ID=368&genre=adventure
Yeah please, I want it too, god that game brings back memories.
Email it me please to,bluesabadaba@hotmail.com
orshanefilan@gmail.comNo problem…I had that happen too. Between that and the dynamite problem I think I had the most trouble. Enjoy the rest of the game!
Ken no longer owns Sierra, and doesn’t own the rights to the KQ games (or any other of Sierra’s old games). The current rights-holder is VU Games and it is unlikely that they will ever re-release any of Sierra’s old games.
You don’t need to start a new topic about the same question. Return to your old topic and continue posting there. Ken, perhaps a “combine” function in admin would be good.
There are still some abandonware sites that carry the old Sierra games (regardless of VU’s desires to the contrary). Sure, it’s technically “illegal”, but all in all no one’s going to lose any money through your downloading of ten year old (or older) games. In fact, you’d be doing the original creators of those games a favour by showing them that their work is still appreciated and enjoyed.
I reckon Woody Allen has been making Leisure Suit Larry movies for years. 🙂 Even before Larry existed. And they’ve been funny more often than not.
Well, AGDI’s remake of KQ1 is still fun to play, and many fans have said that the plot and character development that was added to KQ2 brings it up to an almost-KQ6 level. With both you get VGA graphics and digital sound and voices, so you really do have the experience of Sierra’s later games with these remakes.
Gildor, I just meant burn the installation progs to a CD. The games require to be installed on a HD to run.
That’s true that I could download 1 and 2 however I dont think that they are able to connect with young gamers nearly as well as the more recent games. Only someone with a real appreciation for retro can go back THAT far.
Do you mean just ‘copy’ the .exe isntallers in a cd, or can you burn them as cd versions of the games, that are installed and ran from the cd?
It is sad that no game-actor gets to be recognised and start a career from these games 🙁 they get getting always minor parts and even soft-port in order to be slightly more famous
soemthing similar i remember about that girl from Phantasmagoria II, who posed nude for Playboy
PS. i liked Grace too 😉
Well, I know Joanne Takahashi (who plays Grace) had a VERY (cough, cough) interesting role in an ep of the Showtime series Women Stories of Passion. Being that I remember having a crush on her when GK2 first came out, I kind of enjoyed that ep…
but I won’t go into too many detials, lest I get kicked off the board… 🙂
Thank you kevin,for your suggestion,it worked.I do remember getting run over a couple of times,by the headless horseman also!
You don’t need to repost. Your post will be moved if it’s in the wrong location. I deleted your first post, and moved this second one into the “Swap / Find Games” forum under “Games Chat”
You could download AGDI’s remakes of King’s Quest 1 and 2, burn them onto a CD, and give it to those young people you know.
Granted, but I was referring more to the mid-’90s, when the PC industry jumped almost exponentially. That, as everyone in the computer industry — from software to hardware — realized, was the time to make or break a company, the time to decide if your company could keep up with the industry and the market. So, my questions and comments are posed from that angle. Apologies in advance for the confusion!
–Matt
