Developers You Could Do Without!

[wood_e]

Sierra made Lode Runner and I was addicted to that on my performa 6300...

I DESPISE Real...

 

[ealex79]

I played Lode Runner on my C64 for hoooouuuurrrssss [)] ]'>

 

[returningmacuser]

Sierra made Lode Runner and I was addicted to that on my performa 6300...
I DESPISE Real...

I agree. RealAudio and RealVideo are excellent codecs for online streaming, but the player itself is just bad.
And what's up with this "RealArcade" they keep advertising? Sounds like a desperate attempt to stay relevant, if you ask me.

 

[Phreakinus]

haha I second leisure suit larry. that game never needed to make it out of the break room of junior high programmers

I loved those games.

 

[TheNixer]

As a kid in school in the early 90's Sierra was the stuff. I agree though, the adventure games were downright hard. If you weren't getting what the programmers wanted you to get you were just plain stuck. The whole King's Quest series, Gold Rush, Police Quest and Space Quest...all classics.

I was never up for the Larry series though.

 

[Scott Baret]

I think Brøderbund originally made Lode Runner. I seem to remember it in their 1988 catalog (which I have). Perhaps Sierra bought the rights to it?

 

[Temetka]

I loved Sierra games.

Especially Jones in the Fast Lane, Hero's Quest: Quest for Glory, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and others.

I also loved Microprose for Master of Orion. Best. Game. Ever.

The game I couldn't beat was Rise of The Dragon.

Man this thread sent me on an abandon ware download spree for my T42.

 

[Temetka]

So I just beat Jones in the Fast lane. Now I just need to figure out how to get sound working. I think XP only uses config.nt and autoexec.nt for DOS stuff but it has been a very long time since I fiddled with this kind of stuff. Kind of shocking to fire up a game and have no sound.

 

[heebiejeebies]

Flash port of Jones in the Fast Lane ;D

http://rambo3.googlepages.com/jones.html

How do they do that???!

Speaking of sound, I had the game on a USB stick and I took the stick into work. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see if it would still run on a modern XP machine. Fired it up with the sound turned down, then realised that DOS doesn't respect Windows' volume controls. Damn, that was embarrassing! [8D]

 

[Temetka]

SO Quest for Glory is annoying.

Back in the day I used to be able to type "cast calm" then "cast flame dart" and so on. Now it's mouse driven and I can't figure out the combat system as arrow keys are apparently useless in this version.

 

[aphetica]

Sierra also published The Incredible Machine. Dynamix developed it though.

I also enjoyed Lode Runner and the King's Quest series, although some of them were impossible to get through without hints. Ten years later, I can finally use the internet to find a walkthrough.

I honestly don't pay attention to developers enough to hate any one in specific... other than the obvious. [}] ]'>

 

[II2II]

Rise of the Dragon is a game that I encountered rather late in the game (maybe 5 years ago). I recall liking it, for no other reason than the artwork. Stylistically, it was way beyond the games that I had encountered in the past. Particularly Sierra games.