I specifically recall Police Quest games requiring you to have read the
manuals -which were procedural manuals and hintbooks in disguise. If you read them and played the game according to it, you had an easier time making progress and earning points. Sierra Games were also famous for killing you,
at least compared to Lucasarts adventure games.


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I specifically recall Police Quest games requiring you to have read the manuals -which were procedural manuals and hintbooks in
disguise. If you read
them and played the game according to it, you had an easier time making progress and earning points. Sierra Games were also
famous for killing you,
at least compared to Lucasarts adventure games.

Police Quest was ALL ABOUT following those procedures! And immediate DEATH if you ever strayed from proper procedure!

Started driving a car without doing the prescribed walk-around check? DEAD.

Handcuffed a prisoner with their hands in front of them instead of behind them? YOU DIE NOW.


Anyone interested in Sierra games might like to check out Space Quest Historian on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Spacequesthistorian

As the name implies, Space Quest is the main obsession, but all the Sierra games are covered. Scott Murphy even gifted him The First Copy of Space Quest (in factory shrinkwrap) which is quite a treasure!


Chris/akacastor

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What is a C=64 light fantastic?

I'm not a mister know it all, I just act like one.

I have a C=64 bought in 1984 and a C=64C.
Neither has been used for years, but they still look at me when I turn on the XP box.
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Re: What's in your retro closet?
By: Ed Vance to Bob Worm on Wed Mar 27 2024 21:53:44

Hi, Ed.

What is a C=64 light fantastic?

It was a package that Commodore release for Christmas 1989 which coupled one of the later model C64s with a light gun and a handful of games. I am struggling to remember which games actually worked with the light gun, there was definitely Robocop and some game that had a clay pigeon shooting level?

Anyway, that was *my* C64 experience :)

BobW
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Hello Bob,

30 Mar 24 10:47, you wrote to Ed Vance:

Re: What's in your retro closet?
By: Ed Vance to Bob Worm on Wed Mar 27 2024 21:53:44

Hi, Ed.

What is a C=64 light fantastic?

It was a package that Commodore release for Christmas 1989 which
coupled one of the later model C64s with a light gun and a handful of games. I am struggling to remember which games actually worked with
the light gun, there was definitely Robocop and some game that had a
clay pigeon shooting level?

i am pretty sure operation wolf worked with that :)
maybe "the train" as well

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