Looking for very, very old games ...

[Sifo-Dyas]

Hey

I'm a bit tired of all those flashy, super-expensive, larger-than-life, extremely realistic-modern videogames and I'm heading back to the days when videogames didn't look really good, but were truly fun-fun-fun.

Right now I'm playing a videogame called "Hugo" which is basically a platform videogame where you have a young man who's in front of a ghost house à la Hotel California and you as a player has to type down short yet distinctive messages and commands and then this character will do them, for example: open door, throw the meat to the dog, grab the knife, etc ... I was wondering if there were more games such as these.

WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR?
I am specifically looking for a couple of platform videogames easily 15 years ago who focused on a single character that you could manoever around and give certain messages. I don't know if this character's name is also Hugo (I actually thought it was Larry) and you had a Hugo- or Larry-game with him being a cop and having to drive around and solve crimes and stuff (no - not GTA) and you also had another one with him being in Las Vegas winning money and having fun with certain girls in the game ....

Please help me find such games where you - as a player - have to write down stuff. I like these interactive fantasy games.

Thanks!

Bye for now

[Encore]

What about Monkey Island?

[pneboy]

i have a demo of this game from win95 magazines i think, ill try dig them out and find out what the name is of the game it sounds very familiar

[miss.haggard]

...Sifo-Dyas - Is your name Star Wars related? :)

[tacotaskforce]

Sounds like you're thinking of Police Quest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_Quest) and Leisure Suit Larry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leisure_Suit_Larry). Both of those belong to a genre usually called graphical adventure games (to seperate them from the text adventure games they descended from). Sierra's games from that time run pretty well in DOSBox, while there's an emulator made specifically for Lucasart's games in the genre; SCUMMVM.

[Sifo-Dyas]

...Sifo-Dyas - Is your name Star Wars related? :)

Heheh - finally someone asks about my name! LOL! :oD
That's right. I have a weakness for strong, super-cool, fantasy names and when I first heard the name "Sifo-Dyas" - I thought to myself: "My God, what a COOOL-sounding name."

I'm actually going to create a new character in the new upcoming "Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic"-videogame and call thát character Sifo-Dyas. I hate the fact that such an interesting character (or at least: with an interesting name) does not get any screentime at all - LOL! :oD
I wóuld like to use that character in KOTOR I and II but I already made up my mind that - every single time I play these games - I create female characters, because if there's any flaw to the Star Wars-saga - then it is that there are too little black and/or too little female characters ...

The female characters I create for KOTOR I and II are very beautiful. The one for KOTOR I is named Shania Faith (Shania Twain and Faith Hill - 2 extremely beautiful singers who also happen to have véry good music) and Shania Faith is a dark-skinned (not black but more brownish), black-haired woman who ends up being a Sith in MY personal Star Wars-saga. LOL! :oD
Whereas the female Jedi of KOTOR II is also a woman but a blonde, very tall, extremely beautiful Scandinavian-looking, young Michelle Pfeiffer-kinda warrior whose name is Roxette Phoenix (thát name - I trúly like. Roxette for it is my famous band of all times and Phoenix coz that word just ROCKS!!! LOL! :oD) Roxette Phoenix is slightly stronger than Shania Faith and I sorta make up for myself that she is THE strongest female Jedi that ever lived.

I know I'm crazy but fortunately not in general - just crazy about Star Wars! LOL! :oD

Bye for now

[Sifo-Dyas]

YES!!!!! THAT IS IT!!!!! Oh my God! Thank you sooo much! Do you think I can download/buy this somewhere, please? I have already bought and downloaded this Dosbox-thing that allows me to play the first 2 Prince of Persias along with other old classics ...

Many thanks, my friend.

Bye for now

[Punaxe]

Abandonia has one Police Quest (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/125/Police+Quest+-+In+Pursuit+of+the+Death+Angel.html) game for download, and one Leisure Suit Larry (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/120/Leisure+Suit+Larry+1+-+in+the+Land+of+the+Lounge+Lizards.html). If they're downloadable from there, it's legal - the newer versions are apparently still protected by copyright.

[Mokono]

You can also officially download GTA1, GTA2 & Volume 2: Wild Metal for free at Rockstar Classics (http://www.rockstargames.com/classics/).

[Sifo-Dyas]

Abandonia for download one Leisure Suit Larry (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/120/Leisure+Suit+Larry+1+-+in+the+Land+of+the+Lounge+Lizards.html).

Yeah, I found that one too, but the crazy thing is that it doesn't contain a .exe-file. Thus - even with dosbox installed and using it to launch this game - I cannot possibly hope to play this game for it doesn't contain an execute-file.

Please help? Could you perhaps try it out and tell me how to run it please? I'd be forever grateful - truly!

Bye for now

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Never mind! I just found it. Apparantly there was a file called LL.com - not exe but com apparantly also does the job! Yippiiie! LOL! :oD
Thanks though ...

C ya!

[tacotaskforce]

Activision released compilation discs of both the PQ (http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=police+quest&hl=en&cid=13384958933710533165&sa=title#p) and LSL (http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&safe=off&q=leisure+suit+larry&cid=5463307701000763461&sa=title#p) games a few years ago. On the down side these collections don't contain any special features or feelies like earlier collections, but on the plus side they're available and cheap.