I hope this is cool to post here. It's a Backerkit project for a documentary about Sierra On-line. I grew up playing these and figured there might be some other old farts around who would be interested.

I remember Kings Quest 6 blowing my mind when it came out and I only had the floppy disk version. I never knew until I was much older that there was a CD-ROM version with full voice over.

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[–] FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Another old fart here. Some of my first gaming memories are Kings Quest 1 and Space Quest 1. I remember having to go all my parents how to spell certain words to do what I needed to do.

I played both of those originals but then missed out on the sequels until they went vga - sq4 and kq5. Of course as an adult I bought all the collections so I could finally see what I missed in 2-4.

All that to say, thanks for posting this. I'll always watch another documentary on Sierra.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

did they age well? worth playing now?

[–] Statlerwaldorf@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think some of the later stuff aged well if you're into point and click adventure games and some "retro" looking graphics. But the early ones might be a little janky for anyone who didn't live through that era.

You have to type in the actions you want to do and they looked like this:

[–] FurtiveFugitive@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

Even with nostalgia glasses on I had a hard time enjoying the really old ones. That said, I think there's a lot of charm in sq4 and kq5 5/6.