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Article #172516Re: Roberta Williams is a FRAUD
From: Matthew Murray
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00
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On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, David Monaghan wrote: > On Sun, 1 Mar 1998 12:11:54 -0800, Matthew Murray <mmu...@cc.wwu.edu> > wrote: > > >On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Neil Schuh wrote: > > > I'm just considering Sierra a total loss now. A shame--they used to do > >some good stuff. We haven't seen any games like Hero's Quest or > >King's Quest IV or Leisure Suit Larry II in a long time. > > I used to be a text adventure game devotee ( Infocom, of course ) and > have just started playing again after getting the Zork Legacy > Collection and ZGI. If you can place yourself in that mindset are the > early KQ/other Sierra games worth playing ? And if so which would be > the best to try first and how should I get it? Of >course< the earlier Sierra games are worth playing. They were much better in terms of gameplay and writing (you know, the IMPORTANT things) than the crap that passes for computer games today. Start at the beginning with the original King's Quest, and move on forward from there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthew A. Murray | The script calls for fusing and using our smarts, | And greatness can come from the sum of our parts, mmu...@cc.wwu.edu | From now on I'm with you-- | And with you is where I belong! http://www.wwu.edu/~mmurray | -David Zippel, City of Angels -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: Matthew Murray <mmu...@cc.wwu.edu> Subject: Re: Roberta Williams is a FRAUD Date: 1998/03/01 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980301191245.10518D-100000@titan.cc.wwu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 329889972 References: <6db79d$gks$1@nnrp2.dejanews.com> <01bd4549$1ab153c0$dfa060d1@landofoz> <6dce43$tq4@wiscnews.wiscnet.net> <Pine.SOL.3.96.980301121038.22797B-100000@titan.cc.wwu.edu> <35010240.6443952@news.dial.pipex.com> Organization: Western Washington University Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit