vga256

back in the mid-90s just prior to sierra's downfall into fmv and poorly funded titles (their sale to CUC international), the company started looking for low-risk low-profit income avenues.

in the post-doom FPS feeding frenzy, the bloom was off adventure games. they were expensive to produce, and their audience was shrinking fast.

one solution was recycling old software, and honestly, it was great for a 13 year old kid like me, because it meant that i could buy a "sierra game" for $10 instead of the $60-$80 i would normally have to pay for a flagship title

Crazy Nick's Software Picks were collections of mini-games taken from sierra adventures. there were several of them - LSL, King's Quest - I happened to find this Conquest of the Longbow pack at a pharmacy.

the games were *great* - Archery and Nine Men's Morris kept me absolutely occupied for weeks. I had no idea at the time that they were culled from a full sierra adventure, until I discovered it by accident in my twenties.

today i found my copy of the game, buried in another game box. it still has the greasy kid fingerprint from me eating a bag of Old Dutch (regular) chips while i played

#sierra #retroGaming #adventureGames #softwarePreservation #dosGaming

Apr 12 at 6:11pmWeb
Show threadTed SpenceApr 12

@vga256 what’s fascinating is that at the same time Blizzard was fighting to decide whether to produce “games people play”, a similar anthology, or Warcraft

And a few years later everyone was bought together under CUC/Cendant/Havas/Vivendi

Show threadGrant HutchinsonApr 12
@vga256 The Old Dutch Seal of Approval®
Show threadvga256Apr 12
@splorp so great once you wring the grease out
Show threadGrant HutchinsonApr 12
@vga256 We would had very different teen years without fully-saturated potato chip fingers.