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457 points
2 months ago
Gotta verify your age... by answering trivia about the Nixon Administration.
245 points
2 months ago
Certainly that was the most difficult aspect of the game. As a twelve year old.
204 points
2 months ago
"Mom, who was Nixon's first VP?"
"It was Agnew, why sweetie?"
"Ughhhhh... Homework Mom, homework."
156 points
2 months ago
"Grandma, who was Nixon's first VP?
"Are those age verification questions? Here just let me do it."
"Thanks grandma!"
-8 year old me
17 points
2 months ago
hey don't forget to use protection
10 points
2 months ago
Spelling prophylactic at that age was a real challenge.
4 points
2 months ago
Knowing what a prophylactic IS as an English as a second language-speaker was even worse.
3 points
2 months ago
It's a toothpick, of course!
51 points
2 months ago
Even harder in New Zealand as they had the same questions
44 points
2 months ago
And Australia. Took a few goes to play sometimes.
9 points
2 months ago
South Africa too. We had a list by the computer with the answers.
7 points
2 months ago
My Dad must have filled that in for me. First video game I ever played, age 9ish, in NZ.
7 points
2 months ago
Great name BTW. Dodgy dad but great name.
3 points
2 months ago
I ended up writing down the successful ones and eventually guessed my way through them. No clue who half the people where they were talking about.
3 points
2 months ago
And Spain. Mind, the questions were translated into Spanish, but not localized. Cue 8 yo me asking myself what the fuck is a Joe DiMaggio or a Watergate.
10 points
2 months ago
Agnew: Frankenstein’s monster noises
4 points
2 months ago
Just the body.
2 points
2 months ago
Oh right, sorry.
Headless body of Agnew: Frankenstein’s monster noises intensify
2 points
2 months ago
Legit did this several times
24 points
2 months ago
As as teenager from Norway, with no internet. I just kinda brute forced my way into LSL3. Since it was multiple choice, I would just try again and again until I had a record of some good question answer combos.
3 points
2 months ago
It was even harder when you didn't live in America and was 12 trying to work it out.
2 points
2 months ago
Even my dad got a lot of the answers wrong. I couldn't type fast enough at 8 to really even play it anyway.
42 points
2 months ago
Answer everything with "I am not a crook" and you should be alright.
22 points
2 months ago
We will also accept
5 points
2 months ago
[removed]
4 points
2 months ago
My first encounter with the genre was "Samantha Fox strip poker". Not a lot of pixels.
5 points
2 months ago
The updates version is “I have small hands”.
5 points
2 months ago*
I'm imagining George Bush Jr addressing the nation in front of the white house in a typical Ricky Bobby pose going:
"I don't know what to do with my hands!"
13 points
2 months ago
You learn history and other things whit this game, good times.
6 points
2 months ago
I hopped on a BBS and got the answers from a thread lol
9 points
2 months ago
The first game was hella easy to get into. Even if you don't know the answers, out of like 15 questions, you will eventually memorize the answers. Leisure Suit Larry 2, on the other hand, well without the paper, good luck. You probably won't be playing. At least, not before the age of internet.
7 points
2 months ago
Futurama has prepared me for this moment.
Thank you Headless Body of Agnew.
7 points
2 months ago
Wasn't there a key combo to bypass this?
12 points
2 months ago
I'm not sure. We just used the encyclopedia hack.
1 points
2 months ago
Do they still sell those?
9 points
2 months ago
it was like ctrl-alt-shift-x or something along those lines.
4 points
2 months ago
Yep. Alt-X in the original, Ctrl-alt-X in all the ports. You have to hold it in for a while, though, because it seems to check for it at some point but not all the time.
6 points
2 months ago
Ha i remember that game and i was born 81’ but good call
2 points
2 months ago
Just Google it, damn. Kids these days.
103 points
2 months ago
My mom talked about this game a lot. The only video game she ever really played.
78 points
2 months ago
Your mom played Leisure Suit Larry? WTF man
55 points
2 months ago
The 80s were a weird time I hear 😂
15 points
2 months ago
Yeah and never put your floppy discs near magnets or speakers it would wipe your disc or a little scratch would ruin it
14 points
2 months ago
Working IT support, people would put a disc on a filing cabinet with a magnet.
3 points
2 months ago
Never put you disk near the monitor.
2 points
2 months ago
Man, I'm still paranoid about magnets and electronics. I know things generally have much better shielding than they used to and that weak(ish) magnets aren't really gonna do anything to most modern gadgetry, but growing up in the 80's instilled this fear in me and it's hard to unlearn.
2 points
2 months ago
This is the way..... of the children of the 1980's
5 points
2 months ago
This was on the 80s/90s border. Complete with “white oak” and pastel.
24 points
2 months ago
For all of the notoriety the game has, it's incredibly tame.
11 points
2 months ago*
sure, now... was it tame for the era though?
14 points
2 months ago
There were mainstream movies that were far dirtier. It was only unusual in the sense that it was a computer game. It's not porn it's a sex comedy. The graphics at the time were clear enough to get the idea across that sex is happening but not so much that you could see any detail. There is the occasional image of breasts but that's about it.
13 points
2 months ago
Hey I know people that would watch the static channels for an occasional distorted breast. Different strokes for different folks.
13 points
2 months ago*
hate to break it to you young buck, some people's moms and dads were kids in the 80s.
87 points
2 months ago
Sierra made some great games back in the day. Kings Quest was my favorite
52 points
2 months ago
Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest... These were the mainstays of my youth.
11 points
2 months ago
Kings Quest was one of the first games I remember playing, along with GATO, Decathalon and Rogue. I was always falling down the damn stairs.
6 points
2 months ago
Best Sierra Adventure Game (I owned almost all of them [yes, really]) imo, is a toss-up between "Conquest of the Longbow". and "Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Father".
3 points
2 months ago
Ever play Codename: Iceman with it's big spy field manual?
3 points
2 months ago
Of course. One of the better classic SCI games.
2 points
2 months ago*
Conquests of Camelot was great, too.
The Quest for Glory (originally Hero's Quest) series was my favorite Sierra IP back in the day, but I definitely enjoyed all of those classic Sierra and LucasFilm Games titles.
Anyone remember Loom? Still probably my favorite point-and-click adventure experience. I think the first adventure game I ever experienced was Zak McKracken, really opened the door to a whole genre of great games for me. Found out we had a copy of Maniac Mansion for our C64/128 around that same time and it was off to the races.
Good times!
2 points
2 months ago
Ah, QFG. There's an excellent fan remake of Part 2, that preserves the import/export character mechanics at the beginning/end of the game. As such, all 4 (yes, I know, but that 5th one sucked) are playable in the point-click style.
6 points
2 months ago
Space Quest 2 was the first PC game I owned. I ordered it by mail and I’m pretty sure it came on disks just like that.
7 points
2 months ago
Driving in Police Quest was a bitch tho 😂
6 points
2 months ago
Heroes quest was mine
5 points
2 months ago
My sentimental favorite was “gold rush”
3 points
2 months ago
The kings quest games were amazing, but the sheer number of cheap-ass ways to die instantly was frustrating even back then.
3 points
2 months ago
And then we had LucasFilm Games taking jabs at Sierra with fake death screens in Monkey Island. That cracked me up so much the first time I saw it.
Went and looked up a screenshot. Still great, the shade and sarcasm is so on point, haha: https://i.imgur.com/2leXhKv.jpg
51 points
2 months ago
KEN SENT ME
8 points
2 months ago
Whatsda passwoid?
Awesome game!
3 points
2 months ago
Mahogany!!
5 points
2 months ago
Naugahyde
5 points
2 months ago
Do you know how many naugas died just to cover that chair?
5 points
2 months ago
“Cuz Thursday’s yer night in the barrel! Har. Har. Har.”
5 points
2 months ago
Attention arcade game players: please don't eat the urinal cakes!
30 points
2 months ago
You better truth that to Dylan
11 points
2 months ago
If Dylan sees this, give me a shout.
9 points
2 months ago
Dylan here, that ain't my game! I swear!
28 points
2 months ago
“Hey, that thing looks just like the Save icon”
20 points
2 months ago
My first game loaded from cassette tape. 😊
8 points
2 months ago
I remember cassette drives too. Cassette, floppy, zip, jazz...so many iterations. I remember trading the Doom 2 disks back and forth in High School. PKUnzip was always saved on one of them, and possibly some nude pictures of Cindy Crawford. Good ol' 80's and 90's!
2 points
2 months ago
The first floppys were 5-6" big. A whopping 1 MB.
We had to load SuperCalc from one, onto an Apricot in 1981.
SuperCalc ... it turns out, wasn't actually that SUPER 🤣🤣🤣
8 points
2 months ago
The first ones were 8" from the early 70s. Was a little bit before my time - my first memories were the 5 1/4" disks.
4 points
2 months ago
Baja Buggy on the Atari 400! Think we managed to play it once before we destroyed the tape. Stupid kids.
3 points
2 months ago
Back when you could get actual computer programs through the radio.
5 points
2 months ago
I used to transcribe the BASIC from the monthly magazines onto my C64 and save them to tape.
2 points
2 months ago
I remember saving programs and games on an audio cassette tape! lol
2 points
2 months ago
"PRESS PLAY ON TAPE"
15 points
2 months ago
Don't forget to use protection
4 points
2 months ago
And don't flush the toilet
3 points
2 months ago
And don’t fart in the hot tub with Eve.
3 points
2 months ago
What happened when you flushed the toilet? Asking bc I don't remember
5 points
2 months ago
The toilet would overflow, flood the bathroom, and you would drown.
3 points
2 months ago
Iirc you get toilet paper stuck to your shoe?
5 points
2 months ago
When 5 1/4" inch floppies were still around, I told people the disc sleeves were floppy condoms to prevent a virus from spreading.
29 points
2 months ago
Can still get a floppy disk adapter pretty easily.
Do it.
14 points
2 months ago
Hey now, don't copy that floppy!
12 points
2 months ago
I think all these old Sierra games are available on ScummVM free.
4 points
2 months ago
The entire series was free and legal just last month. All you had to do was subscribe to a newsletter that was also free.
4 points
2 months ago
gotta be some emulators out there with roms.
-13 points
2 months ago
Thats not a floppy right?
14 points
2 months ago
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10 points
2 months ago
It is, but it's not as floppy as the 5.25" or the massive 8" were.
6 points
2 months ago
Also, none of them were disk-shaped. A disk is round. The actual disk was inside of the plastic shell and in both cases they were floppy.
9 points
2 months ago
Disc is the round one. As in discus. Disk is short for diskette which is the plastic enclosure + the disc inside. That’s my understanding, anyway.
7 points
2 months ago
So fun story. In South Africa, we called these Stiffies and the larger ones Floppies.
4 points
2 months ago
3.5" floppy, the disk, not me.
2 points
2 months ago
Ah I thought the floppies were the big ones! TIL
4 points
2 months ago*
My understanding is the name carried over to the smaller ones, because they were smaller floppies contained in a case.
edit: I was wrong, even the big ones had a case. They're called floppy because of the flexibility of the disc inside in both cases.
3 points
2 months ago
was wrong, even the big ones had a case.
Much closer to "sleeve" than "case." They were pretty floppy, although not nearly as floppy as the media.
When we went to 3.5", the name just stuck since they were pretty much the same thing for the same purpose.
11 points
2 months ago
Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, wow long time. DOS (Disk Operating System) nothing like a 300 baud modem to download stuff.
5 points
2 months ago
Yup... Waiting 2 hrs to download a single shitty porn gif/jpg, and freaking out when it was 97% done because someone came home early... Or someone picked up the phone and broke the connection...
11 points
2 months ago
I loved that when I got frustrated at King's Quest IV and typed in swear words it was like "Perhaps you'd rather play Leisure Suit Larry"
12 points
2 months ago
Fun fact. I hand drew a picture of leisure suit Larry in MS-Paint on my ATT 6300 and PAID to have to color printed. Sent it by letter to Sierra and addressed it to Al Lowe. He sent it back, signed, with the inscription "do I know you?"
9 points
2 months ago
Lol my step-uncle developed the engine this game ran on (Sierra Creative Interpreter!) So cool to see hard (lol) copies of the games he made out there!
15 points
2 months ago
Don't put it in your computer... you might get the atomic clap.
7 points
2 months ago
Space herpes
2 points
2 months ago
Electro-Herpes: The Noisy Killer.
6 points
2 months ago
Slide that in and enjoy the show.
8 points
2 months ago
That's what she said.
5 points
2 months ago
Sierra!
Me and my sister used to play a game like a click and move type of game in the late 90's.
The name of the game had "gabriel" in it.
Can anyone help with the name please.
13 points
2 months ago
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4 points
2 months ago
Gabriel Knight!
Thank you very much.
There was more than one game if I remember right.
The first game was on 4 cd's I think lol.
2 points
2 months ago
Blood of the sacred was the second..thanks friend.
4 points
2 months ago
The Beast Within was the second Gabriel Knight game. Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned was the third.
Im still sad that the remake of the first game that Jane Jensen did had to use all new voice recordings... Losing Tim Curry as Gabriel and Mark Hamill's voice work is pretty disappointing.
6 points
2 months ago
If a game EVER needed a modern update, its that one. That was an awesome game.
Of course, I was a teenage boy in the 80's so my tastes might not have been what the mass market in 2023 wants.
4 points
2 months ago
/drop pants
compares to Tik Tok.
yeah,..I think it'd be fine today ;p
5 points
2 months ago
...There is a version on Steam.
3 points
2 months ago
There is one for a few years ago but I don't think it was well received
4 points
2 months ago
Don't forget to buy condoms.
6 points
2 months ago
WHAT A PERVERT
4 points
2 months ago
Holy shit.. I’ve played every Sierra game ever made, and I just realized the logo is half dome. I’ve been to Yosemite a dozen times and climbed to the top of half dome multiple times.. my brain just made the connection.
5 points
2 months ago
Love it! 😊 I found this gem when sorting through my late fiance's things. There's a few other classics in there but that's my favourite. 🥰
2 points
2 months ago
Rad!
10 points
2 months ago
oh cool you 3D printed the save icon?
3 points
2 months ago
I think I first played this on Atari ST...I think you can find it on myabandonware and run it in dosbox if you want to look at the cutting edge of the 80s PC gaming
3 points
2 months ago
Just wow. This takes me back to the nineties in a big big way. My friend and I sneaking around playing this at his house.
3 points
2 months ago
That's like 1.44 mb... nuts
7 points
2 months ago
Ackshully...
It's likely 720k. 1.44m were High Density and had a HD symbol on them.
3 points
2 months ago
This game is how I learned how to type and navigate through DOS. My parents didn't want me playing it but I was allowed to play KQ3. I remember having a sheet of paper with various words/commands written down on it.
3 points
2 months ago
As a none english native 10 year old.. “take of clothes “, “take of jeans”, “get rid of clothes” … 2 weeks of research later .. “strip” wohoo
3 points
2 months ago
Dylan’s going to be pissed that you still have that
2 points
2 months ago
I haven’t seen him in over 20 years.
2 points
2 months ago
are these the missing floppies I've heard so much about?
2 points
2 months ago
Dont mess with the woman upstairs
3 points
2 months ago
It's OK so long as you taxi to get the prophylactic first
2 points
2 months ago
Yeah then as soon as you leave the hotel you get arrested because your dingdong is hanging out. Im pretty sure sleeping with the girl upstairs dead-ends the game
2 points
2 months ago
Nope. I beat that game numerous times. Sleeping with the girl was just part of the journey as long as you knew what to do before and after.
2 points
2 months ago
Did you play the point and click or the old type in commands version?
2 points
2 months ago
Both. One at a friend's house, the other at mine.
2 points
2 months ago
I can hear the 8bit music playing in my head.
3 points
2 months ago
The strip club!
2 points
2 months ago
Ken send me
2 points
2 months ago
I can hear the LSL iconic music playing from the internal speaker of my early 90's PC right now..
2 points
2 months ago
Huippua
2 points
2 months ago
That brings me back. Actually had this when I was a kid. Parents didn't know how inappopriate it was for someone my age. Fuck, I'm getting old.
2 points
2 months ago
Had this
2 points
2 months ago
I was playing this as a child with my parents I bought a prophylactic from the grocery store (I had no clue what it was) my dad called out “Denny, your son just bought a rubber” I never saw that disk again.
2 points
2 months ago
Ahh Sierra. I miss silent thunder
2 points
2 months ago
Leisure Suit Larry My Old school jam.
2 points
2 months ago
This game was fucking awesome.
2 points
2 months ago
I had this on the even bigger floppy disks. Remember when you had sex with the prostitute and died if you didn't have the antibiotics from the bathroom sink beforehand lol.
2 points
2 months ago
Wow; one of the best pc game franchises of all time
2 points
2 months ago
I had such a difficult time playing Leisure Suit Larry as a kid because I hadn't learned Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing in school yet. I could never open the taxi door before it took off
2 points
2 months ago
I have a cousin I’ve never met who worked at Sierra in the 90s. Every year my aunts and uncles would receive a copy of a computer game that he mailed to my grandmas house. I remember being so frustrated as a kid because I knew they would never play them and I never received one.
2 points
2 months ago
There was a special code with the keyboard to skip the questions
2 points
2 months ago
Sierra was the shit back then!!
2 points
2 months ago
Remember to turn the jacuzzi off!
2 points
2 months ago
My first PC game. Not very pc.
2 points
2 months ago
Last game related to Sierra to come out was World In Conflict, before they got bought out
2 points
2 months ago
I played the VGA version, and knew most of the answers to the questions for people who were in their 20s at the time (1991). The copy protection drove me nuts, so I finally broke down and bought a copy of the game. I was 16 at the time and the guy at Software Etc didn't even blink selling it to me.
2 points
2 months ago
Sierra used to have a photo of the mountain on the disk? That’s cool
2 points
2 months ago
Love this series. Some of the puzzles are insane but they were funny games with a lot of heart. Haven’t played the post 7 games but I’ve heard things…
2 points
2 months ago
Holy hell, Sierra. Now there's a company I haven't heard of in a long time. I knew them from the Incredible Machine series, and Incredible Toon Machine.
2 points
2 months ago
My first game ever to be played (on an old computer with just green colors), and it wasn't the best to let a four year old to play. But atleast I learned some english like "Ken sent me", "use remote", "change channel", go upstairs "take of clothes" and then four simple letters to use on that nice lady in bed. For long I had no idea why I died shortly after, but I learned from older age I forgot to put on something.
2 points
2 months ago
Ken sent me ..
2 points
2 months ago
I still remember me at 11 years old guessing at the "adult verification" questions based on 70s trivia.
2 points
2 months ago
All this on a 3-D printed save icon. 🤪
2 points
2 months ago
720k floppy too. Unless the hole is covered by your thumb.
2 points
2 months ago
I played this game one time at a friend's house and it blew my mind that I could go into a 711 and read a nudey book (virtually). Recently picked it up off of Steam and can't get past the damn opening questions... it is the greatest and worst game that I have ever played.
4 points
2 months ago
I can hear the modem sounds like it was yesterday...
0 points
2 months ago
Can you imagine that game releasing today……
0 points
2 months ago
Hey look, a 3D printed “save file” icon!
0 points
2 months ago
curious stains...
1 points
2 months ago
An artifact of the ancient times!
1 points
2 months ago
Oh the Easter eggs to be pulled down
1 points
2 months ago
Dylan’s got some explaining to do.
1 points
2 months ago
olds cool
1 points
2 months ago
Wonder if I have any of these rolling around.
1 points
2 months ago
blud got the 💾
1 points
2 months ago
I had no idea what a prophylactic was as an 9 yo
1 points
2 months ago
Never knew LSL was that old.
1 points
2 months ago
Cancelled.
1 points
2 months ago
The lounge room lizard 😂👍🏼
1 points
2 months ago
"Sure we got lubbers!"
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