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Damn, for just a moment I thought the Sierra Online company was coming back. I want a new official Quest for Glory game.

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Assume Sierra owners are too young to know what Sierra games means. I was absolutely obsessed with their logo (1) at school time.

1. https://preview.redd.it/remember-sierra-games-1979-2008-they...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMQi7olp-tw

What was wrong with their logo? Or did you mean to type "obsessed"?

Obsessed, correct.

One of the most beautiful game logos, going back to the early nineties.

Wow seeing that hit me surprisingly hard. Such good times

It occurs to me just now that the logo is in fact a mountain and not a breaching Orca whale like I'd always thought

isn't it the yomesite's half dome, on their logo?

looks like it! didn't know about yosemite's half dome but that makes perfect sense considering it's in the Sierra nevada mountain range. It's gonna have to stay an orca in my headcanon though

Probably many are ashamed to remember that the name Sierra is also associated with the Leisure Suit Larry (1) games.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry

Why would we be ashamed of that? The early Leisure Suit Larry games are a lot of fun; yeah the humor is crass and low-brow, but that's sort of the charm. It's meant to be silly.

That's because you were probably the right age to know the answers to the age control questions, and I was at an age where I could only download them from a BBS.

I actually didn't play the game until I was fifteen, in ~2006. I didn't know the answers, but I found out you can just hit ctrl-alt-x and skip the questions.

Take a look at how it was in 1995. InterAction (Sierra Online) magazine [PDF copy]. Article about the Larry 6 release on page 50.

https://sierrachest.com/gfx/Publications/IA/IA_8_1/023_Inter...

Whoa, the Vivid 3D Pro on page 62 looks awesome!

I wish I had known that! Guessing and trying the answers worked too, given no internet and only having a faint idea that "age control" was not in fact part of the game itself. I learned that Bonnie and Ronnie was not in fact a thing. What is "Bonnie & Clyde"? Eh, probably some band name was my guess. It took some patience, but since it was one of 3 games I had somehow acquired (how exactly is a lost memory), I had to get past the starting quiz.

Since I also barely spoke English at the time, I got stuck in the game itself pretty soon anyway. Didn't manage to figure out how to say some things the right way. "Ken sent me" is the last thing I remember from it... and I never had any idea that the game was rather dirty until much later.

The Psygnosis logo similarly has a special place in my memory

It's simply the best looking game company logo for me.

Capstone - the pinnacle of entertainment

At least I'm not the only one:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Entertainment

I was about to post a snarky comment along the lines of "Sierra? The publishers of Homeworld and Homeworld 2?"

That series is over, and the magical feeling of being in an open-ended fantasy world is really hard to replicate when we're not kids anymore. Loom is another game that gave me that feeling.

But there was one idea in QfG that I wish more games would use. Namely, designing three different solutions for every problem the player is facing. This idea works so well to create a sense of possibility in a game, I don't know why it got forgotten.

Every single word domain seems to have become some new AI company.

I still get briefly confused when I see a post on here about X, only to realize they're talking about Twitter, and not the display server.

There are 26 letters and millions of words; people should choose other ones.

and not only one https://www.cyera.com/press-releases/cyera-raises-400m-to-me...

Likewise, I was hoping for more Space Quest :(

Use plunger.

Not exactly the same, but SpaceVenture finally released at the end of last year: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1374960/SpaceVenture/

This looks great but wow, what a hilariously shameless knock-off! :D

Me too, now I am suddenly wanting Space Quest 2026!

Space Quest IV: Roger?

Same. A new Gabriel Knight would be fun!

Oh yeah! For some reason I was convinced that Gabriel Knight was LucasArts but nope, just misremembered.

Gabriel Knight was awesome, I'd love a new one.

Well, if MicroProse could do it...

A new Lode Runner when

EDIT: holy shit I stand corrected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lode_Runner

So you want to be a hero?

One can dream.

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