Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@social.cleverlibre.org

@zleap That logo kinda looks like a mastodon logo with an extra long trunk. ;)
@linuxmint

@zepsylonum What about turnbased RPGs?

@shpuld Jeez, it looks like a is turtle missing its shell...

@stux Gorgeous red cat. My parents have one too, and he's ridiculously soft. I mean, most cats are nicely soft, but he was really softer than soft. Is yours like that too? :)

It's still too early to say, but I'm cautiously optimistic about the new nosespray.

@JonathanMBR I don't think it's fun to be a hippo if you have to continuously establish hierarchy and dominance.

@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org Maybe it's listed here? I haven't used Apple back then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_II_games
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@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org Ah, so something like Eric the Unready?
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@Demosthenes Sure. Works better if you have a monitor with a higher refresh rate, 240Hz or something!

@Josefine Happy birthday regardless! Have a cozy day today! Fancy cake 🍰 , fancy drink 🍸 , and relax ☺️ !

@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org You played that a lot and that's all you remember?! 😜
Uh, a stab in the dark... DragonSphere?
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@benk It was a horrible decision to be sure. And not the only one that did this. I do remember Rebel Assault, oh boy, that was a great action game back then. It was STAAAR WAAAARS! (we were teens, we loved Starwars :P).

They actually had the actors voice those characters in the game! Oh, cool! Sure, we couldn't hear, but it was still cool and we could put speakers on loud and immerse ourselves there anyway! But, nope! EITHER you had the text on, OR the voice sound was on.

It was impossible to do both....

WHYYYYYYYY??!?!?!?

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@benk Then you probably had the floppy version of it. The CD version only was talky. Whoever decided that people with CD players didn't need to read should be shot. Then reloaded. Then fall off a KQ3 cliff. Then reload again. Then have the wizard turn him into ash. Reload. Then um... well, just be eaten by a crocodile because he was stupid enough to walk into that moat, I suppose. :P
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@benk I wish I could say the same. When I bought a CD player (it was fancy and new tech!) for my PC I could choose a free game on CD and chose KQ5 out of the CDROMs presented to me.

Alas, it was a talky. And me not being able to hear, it was utterly useless to me. It didn't even have text (wtf, why not?!) so I've never managed to play it. :(

So I kinda got resentful towards KQ5, and basically decided for myself it's probably the worst game anyway, lol.
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@benk I can say of the KQ series, KQ6 is by far my favorite. The puzzles make the most sense there and the theme was very nicely done. Or rather, themes, since there were multiple themes but about all were fairy tale related.
You could get stuck though somewhere halfway that game if you weren't careful, and better hope you have a savegame from before that crucial moment.
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@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org Can you remember what that one game you don't recall the name of was like? Theme, graphics style, etc? Maybe I can help, who knows. ;)
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@benk Yeah, hence the walkthrough. :D
We didn't get 1 and 2 until MUCH later. We didn't have access to all of the SIERRA adventures via floppy swap, alas. :D
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@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org King's Quest 3 got finished by that buddy who had a walkthrough of it. I just didn't grok it enough. It was a game we spent a lot of time in, but it was all too arbitrary to me. 'When is that wizard coming back?' 'Why are we going away?' etc. Seeing the ending was cool and a lot of puzzle pieces got into place, but.. yeah, a little bit too distant for me. I'm probably more a scifi person anyway. ;)
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@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org Jeez, you didn't wear a 'rubber', did you?! That's what you get! Insta-death! Yeah it was ridiculous back then. :D

The adventure game I really finished on my own (together with a buddy), only having some hints gotten from somewhere, not a full walkthrough, was Space Quest 3. Boy, were we proud when we actually finished it. SIERRA adventures were really the best!

Then around came LucasArts adventures...
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@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org Neat! English wasn't too easy for me back then, but there were games like Adventure that was translated into Dutch. That was my first encounter with (only text-based) adventure games. If we don't count that one GWbasic game where you were travelling around in the Gobi desert, that had adventure vibes too.

I was much more in love with the graphical adventure games. Ahh... SIERRA was such a great game studio back then! The first of their games I played as a.. 9? year old was Leisure Suit Larry. That was fun, haha. But the real fun started with King's Quest 3, and continued with Police Quest, and Space Quest 3, and much more. Learned so much English that way!
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