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I know this thread is ancient now, but I just had to say that I have some fond memories of Pepper’s.
Elon Gasper (BrightStar founder) is my dad, and he would always bring home copies of the Sierra games as they came out.
To this day, whenever I go to a thrift store, I search through the old game disks, hoping for a great find. And every now and then, I find one!
I downloaded Pepper’s from Mark Seibert’s site, and to my never-ending delight, played all the way through again.
I worked at Sierra as a tester during high school, and would love to lay hands on Hoyle Classic Board Games again – I spent months with it, and still loved it!PHOENIX ONLINE STUDIOS – 06/17/06 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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donny.taylor@postudios.comKen Williams……Al Lowe…… J.R.R. Tolkien……Douglas Adams…..Dan Simmons…..Gene Roddenberry……
Nice and short list that the new pope needs to consider when the next Saint positions are up for grabs!
All of these did more then three miracles 😉I just purchased Battlefield 1942 Complete Collection. It has Battlefield Vietnam but I can’t get it to come up. Is it possible that I put in the Code wrong while installing and the install program did not add it to the game? Do I now have to reinstall the whole game?
update: I have gotten Battlefield Vietnam to work. It appears that disk 5 starts BV. It didn’t prompt to insert the disk and it calls for disk 1,2,… even though disk one it calls for is disk 5 and so on.
For all you King’s Quest Five soundtrack junkies, I wrote a song covering the Bandit Camp song. Enjoy. 🙂
http://www.defiant1.hostingisfree.com/user/binary/Drunken%20Bandit.mp3
http://www.defiant1.hostingisfree.com/user/binary/KQ5GM8.MID
It’s simple. Just check out my website and send me your requests. All games will be emailed in either .zip or .rar format. Here is the website:
You are right. I don’t know what I was thinking… it would have been sometime around 1983 or 1984.
-Ken W
The building was still there the last time I was in Oakhurst.
I don’t know its address, but it is in front of a well-known restaurant ‘Erna’s Elderberry House.’ If you find Erna’s, you’ve found that building.
It was built for us, just before we hit hard times, in around 1976. We decided to do video game cartridges, at a time when the video game industry collapsed. The lease on the building almost took the company under. I remember offering our landlord 10% of the company if he would let us out of the past due rent.
Had he taken us up on it, he would have made a TON of money. Instead, Roberta and I mortgaged our home, and somehow the company not only survived, but took off. It was all good after that.
-Ken W
Hi
This site already has several threads dedicated to getting classic Sierra games working on XP-installed PCs.
Select Bulletin Boards, then click on Sierra Games. Now select either ‘Bugs/Tech Help’ or ‘King’s Quest’.
There should be an answer to your problem in their somewhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Bono_Copyright_Term_Extension_Act
Update: &*(&%&^$% This paper became a group effort and partner nixed Sierra Idea.
So, my opinion is that the new copyright laws of U.S. has doomed any chance of Sierra becoming public domain. The only option is to boycott any ‘Sierra (VU)’ games and hope they sale to someone who will release the good old adventures. The gamming industry makes up only 2% of VU’s business. I would expect a sale off if they don’t profit here. ‘World of Warcraft’ by VU’s Blizzard had a 109% sales increase in 2005 so Blizzard will be held onto unless that is boycotted as well. Maybe a ‘Derivitive Works’ could be made from the Sierra games legally.YES!! Yet again I can spend my hard earned money on a game and be 100% certain that it’s going to be well worth it even before I’ve seen a picture or read a review!
I can see it now! The return of Jazz and Comedy and dare I say Adventure!!
It’s Christmas and Santa palys a Sax!!!Kimmie, a moderator at the Sierra boards and Sierraplanet.com does that as well, as long as they have proof that they own the disks or whatnot.
I wouldn’t see a problem with what you’re doing.
I’ve been thinking of offering files to people who’s disks have gone bad, or bought bum disks off of Ebay, but I don’t want to start an abandonware site (and get targeted by ESA).
Do you think it’s legal for me to offer files to people who can prove they own a copy of the game, see link for how I’d ask for proof. http://www.sierra-collector.com/help/replace.cfm
Still missing
Conquest of the Longbow
EcoQuest 1
Mixed-up Fairy Tales
Hoyle’s Book of Games Vol. 3.Does anyone know if the EcoQuest 1 ega only version actually exists?
SCI 1 1.ECO.013 1.000 1991 EcoQuest 1: Search for Cetus, The Has Al Lowe ever stated why he stopped using Passionate Patty after LSL 5. I would have to assume the reason would be because tying Larry down limited storyline options. I also always wondered storyline wise what the reason behind her disapperance was…now that would make an interesting fan game. I wonder how long it would take VU to realize that Passionate Patty was one of their game characters…
MCL was funny, although a lot more crude than actual LSL games. It’s just the gameplay was horrible and it can’t be considered an adventure game at all. It’s just a series of mindless mini-games that you play over and over. There’s only like 5 of these mini-games and 2 or 3 of them you play all the time throughout the game, while the other few you only play once in a while. It does have a lot of inside LSL Larry jokes, like one of the bars is a 3-D representation of the bar from LSL1.
I never even played LSL:MCL. I thought about it, but then as more and more info and screenshots and vids and the like were released, it just seemed like it had no redeeming qualities at all. So yeah, I agree. I think it would be great to see a Larry fan project.
I’m not sure if he’s made any remarks about it. I just honestly think that if given a choice between fans who really knew LSL making a game and VU making another Larry game, he would obviously prefer the former. He has gone on record with his opinions about LSL:MCL
I don’t have anything against fan games… (re: my recent comment re: Jane Jensen)… some have turned out very well and other upcoming fan games also look quite promising. I suspect that you’re right. The perspective of the original designers on fan games is always very interesting. There was Jane Jensen’s response… Roberta’s response to fan games was generally good I recall though Ken thinks that fans should put that creative energy toward their own, original efforts… Josh Mandel seems to enjoy fan projects, since he contributed to Space Quest 7. Back to Al Lowe… has he ever gone on record about fan games? I think he commented positively about AGDI’s remakes at one point. Leisure Suit Larry is definitely neglected in the fan project community.
I think the software copyright laws are completely unreasonable and should be changed. Companies like VU Games hoard old games that fans demand to be rereleased and instead spend their resources on shutting down anyone who tries to provide the games for free since they are pretty much abandonware. If it’s not still being produced then it’s abandonware… I don’t care if there are $200 copies on e-bay or being sold used on Amazon.
So, if someone downloads abandonware on the internet, does the company that owns the rights lose any money? Are they affected in any way? I don’t know exact statistics, but I’m going to make a guess that people who are interested in abandonware are a very small percent of the entire gaming population. They usually grew up with the games, probably owned them and lost their copies or they just couldn’t afford to buy a copy at the time and have deep nostalgic feelings and appreciation for the games to seek them out and play them again. Of course, these games are no longer sold and probably don’t even work on current system. The system might not even really exist anymore, such as Commodore 64 or Amiga or Apple IIgs… even early Macintosh systems. At this point in time old Macintosh games are extremely difficult to get working without having an actual old Macintosh that supports it. And then take into account people who actually have the technical knowledge and computer skills to find the game, download it, decompress it, download an emulator that will play it, configure the emulator properly, and actually play the game… I’m willing to bet the number is insignificant compared to the gaming population as a whole.
That’s why companies really don’t sell or support these old games, because it would be more trouble than it’s worth and all they care about money. Which makes me mad that they don’t just let their fans download these games for free. They’re not losing anything and they’re not alienating their core audience should they decide to re-release the games. I have every single Sierra Quest game and I would have still bought the new compilations had they released them, especially if they were XP-compatible and had other enhancements that I’d like to see. I have enormous respect for companies that release old games for free. Bethesda did it for Elder Scrolls, companies like ID and Bungie open-sourced Doom, Quake, and Marathon. I think all companies should open-source their games after around 10 years. Fans would enhance and update the games for free and out of love for the game. At the very least, I think copyright laws should be changed to reflect the realistic lifespan of software. Software lasts at most 10 years. Especially games. I think a certain number of years without any support from a company for a particular game should automatically classify the game as abandonware. Either way, I don’t think abandonware is wrong. Downloading a game that just came out recently is wrong and I agree that a company has the right to protect their property. But the line has to be drawn somewhere. And in the case of Sierra games, I think the line is clear.
In the case of fan-made games and the wishes of companies or designers, I think fan games should be made and exist any way they want. Fan game projects should stop using numerical indicators to avoid confusion with any official game that gets released, and maybe even put Unofficial in the title or have a disclaimer at the beginning. But I don’t see any problem with such games being made. I can sort of understand how a designer would care about their characters and setting and be concerned with how it might all be portrayed in an unofficial game. I think dialogue between a game designer and fan project designers could remedy any of those issues so that both games can be released.
Of course, if anyone other than whoever owns the rights to game property is profitting from it, then that’s a completely different story. Anyways, it’s late/early and I’m tired and rambling but I think somehow my point will come through and everyone will agree and there will be harmony among all.
Sonny Bono and Walt Disney??? I can’t imagine the two of them working together on something? Walt Disney is a legend, where as Sonny Bono is well…Sonny Bono
Personally, I thought he did more as a Congressman than as an entertainer….Although he is the reason for watching Airplane II…no, wait..that would be Shatner!
I can’t seem to find a copyright filed for King’s Quest II?
PA-659-020: King’s quest I
PA-659-023: King’s quest III
PA-659-022: King’s quest IV
PA-627-274: King’s quest V
PA-683-268: King’s quest VI
Current laws of 70 years were put into effect by Sonney Bono and Walt Disney to protect their works.
