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BBP
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Games!
Any gamers in the house?
Current hobby project:
Exploring this.
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Yes, I play a lot (I play too much actually), but what's this game about ? The character reminds me of something but 
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That's Leisure Suit Larry, a great adventure game saga!
You're Larry Laffer, a loser, and you have to try to get a girlfriend.
LSL 1 was released in the late eighties, LSL 7 in 1996. The first was an all-typing game, LSL 7 is part mouse-clicking, part typing. It features
wonderful cartoonesque animation, awsome music, full spoken text, gambling, pretty women, and lots of silly jokes.
Unfortunately LSL7 takes 92 MB on your hard-disk space, so you pretty much need a separate PC if you want to play it. I played it for the first time
in 1996, when it was still new. Now, ten years later, I'm back exploring it. And discovering so many new things. Partly due to improved English.
LSL7 will be re-released soon. Which is great, since there's no downloads of it. It's quite easy to find a download of any other part of the saga.
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Yeah, I remember that LSL game, think it was "Love For Sail", right? Don't think I ever managed to finish it without using the walkthrough.
I was huge on those Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games, too bad they don't really make 'em like that anymore. My favorites were the Secret of Monkey
Island series and Day of the Tentacle.
I still play some games every once in a while, like the Grand Theft Auto series, but not as much as I used to.
Hey kids! Do you hear that sound? . . . Freaks will be coming from miles around!
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Yeah, Leisure suit Larry, that game's funny, I thought I knew this character but couldn't find who it was.
The grand Theft auto series is great but I don't know if they'll succeed in outdoing the last episode, though.
Some of the games I play: GTA San Andrea, Gran turismo 4, Resident evil 4 (or Biohazard 4, depending on where you live), Doom 3, Far cry, Half life
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Never played Grand Theft Auto, I think the movie put me off.
I do play the Larry saga except 3, loads of pinball, AlleyCat, Minesweeper, Local Area Dungeon...
Recently I downloaded The Black Cauldron from Al Lowe's website (Al Lowe is the creator of the LSL saga), am busy playing that. Quite nice, in the Larry 1 and Goldrush style but all the
command typing is with Function keys. F6 is "do".
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Puptent
Yeah, I remember that LSL game, think it was "Love For Sail", right? Don't think I ever managed to finish it without using the walkthrough.
I was huge on those Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games, too bad they don't really make 'em like that anymore. My favorites were the Secret of Monkey
Island series and Day of the Tentacle.
I still play some games every once in a while, like the Grand Theft Auto series, but not as much as I used to. |
I think in LSL 7 I only solved very, very little of the puzzles on my own. It's very strange. One problem is if you want to complete it with full
points (you have to if you want to see the easter egg at the end), you have to listen to that Bill Clinton robot making all the bad jokes.
Though I very very nearly completed LSL 6 without peeping in the walkthrough. Just one puzzle I couldn't solve, involving batteries. LSL5 too, but
that one's quite easy. And boring.
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I think LSL5 was the one with the rappers and the subliminal messages they tried to put on record? I thought that one was pretty hilarious, although I
haven't played it in years. Most of these games aren't much fun anymore once you've finished them once.
I think the toughest ones are the antique CGA games that still had the text parser ("open door", "get key" etc.), most of the point-and-click
adventures aren't that hard to complete.
Hey kids! Do you hear that sound? . . . Freaks will be coming from miles around!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BBP
Never played Grand Theft Auto, I think the movie put me off.
I do play the Larry saga except 3, loads of pinball, AlleyCat, Minesweeper, Local Area Dungeon... |
I didn't even know there was a movie.
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I don't think there was any? The Resident Evil movie was pretty decent though, not exactly Oscar material, but pretty entertaining.
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I watched the first RE movie, well, what can I say, too bad it was made by hollywood, I wish it had been made by a "young Peter Jackson" style
director. Cause I see Resident Evil more like "Brain dead" than "Scream".
I had the possibility of watching "Resident Evil: Apocalypse" on Monday, but I conscientiously avoided master work.
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Yeah, it could have used a lot more gore, like a real zombie movie. I thought it was entertaining though, most of these film versions of games are
total stinkers (Super Mario Bros., Streetfighter, Tomb Raider.. utter crap).
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Super Mario Bros, the movie where Mario had vertigo, ridiculous. I remember Streefighter, that was so stupid I stopped watching it after ten minutes.
Tomb raiser, hahahah , here's the story: Boobs. I haven't watched the
adaptation of Doom, but apparently it's crap too, too bad, it could have been a cool Alien type movie.
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We got a Grand Theft Auto DVD, it came free with the player (a Ronin). Don't remember much of it, apart from a demolition derby with a beautiful
Rolls.
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Yeah LSL 5 is with the subliminal messages and the mafia trying to get the porn off the radio and TV because the sales of videos are down. I thought
it was not as nice as the other Larries, it was very easy to complete and you had the same puzzle over and over again. You couldn't die, just get
trapped if you forgot a phone number.
Ever played Colossal Cave, that text adventure? Couldn't even finish it WiTH walkthroughs.
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Never tried Collossal Cave, but I did play a lot of those old Infocom text adventures, like Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Zork, Bureaucracy, etc.
Those are tough as hell and you die about every 2 minutes. I tried to finish Bureaucracy last year, but it's near impossible without a walkthrough
(being a non-native speaker also doesn't really help).
Those games are kind of like reading Ben Watson's books... they make you feel dumb and uneducated.
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If you want to try Colossal Cave, it's free-ware and small, and it works on Windows.
We used to have a game like that on our Atari 800XL. I couldn't play it because I couldn't understand it, my dad couldn't play it because he had typed
the listing.
Another old favourite of mine, led to surprisingly little teasing: Clyde's Adventure.
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Oh you play pretty old games BBP, games I didn't even know the existence of.
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BBP, her sister and I play games on the computer since they were very young we started somewhere around 1984 or 1985 with an Atari800XL. To load a
game with the cassetterecorder you have to wait for sometimes 25 minutes.
(when it not fails) Most games that time are very principle.
In new games you see the same, only with a much better video. The Atari is now on the attic, I think I take it down sometime to play again the real
Donkey Kong.
In the floppy time there was a lot of shareware we bought like jill in the jungle, Prince, and so on. Unfortenately when the cd arrives windows
3.11,dos game W95 games were all on the cd's but most of them didn't work properly due to the various hardware. By then we have stopped buying games
in mass. The biggest game we bought was two versions of Fort Boyard. Bbp was a great fan of the French TV program and she have played the game a lot
of times. We even visited fort Boyard. With a boat around it. Maybe she still have the picture of that on her homepage.
I myself am playing cards most of the time, they don't die in the game 
Boring 
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I had an "Atari something" when I was younger, I remember now, it was a kind of red keyboard with a cassette player, there was a game where you ran an
apple jam business and two other games I don't remember the name of. Yeah it took time to load the game, but I adored the "SCRTHCHITCHTTHCSCRETCH
biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip scr scrum scr beep scrtchraaaacktch" the cassetteplayer made. I remember the graphic content was, well, "three rectangles, five squares:well that "looks" like a man.
Fort Boyard ? I didn't know there was a video game version of that show, was it good ? Did you see the real french show or was it the adapted version,
since I know there are different versions animated by local presenters ?
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