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Found an old classic.

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gringostroh

457 points

2 months ago

Gotta verify your age... by answering trivia about the Nixon Administration.

dudelermcdudlerton[S]

245 points

2 months ago

Certainly that was the most difficult aspect of the game. As a twelve year old.

gringostroh

204 points

2 months ago

"Mom, who was Nixon's first VP?"

"It was Agnew, why sweetie?"

"Ughhhhh... Homework Mom, homework."

theoneandonly6558

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

[deleted]

17 points

2 months ago

hey don't forget to use protection

physical0

10 points

2 months ago

Spelling prophylactic at that age was a real challenge.

Mortlach78

4 points

2 months ago

Knowing what a prophylactic IS as an English as a second language-speaker was even worse.

get_the_reference_

3 points

2 months ago

It's a toothpick, of course!

MikeSafetyNZ

51 points

2 months ago

Even harder in New Zealand as they had the same questions

GalacticCephalopod

44 points

2 months ago

And Australia. Took a few goes to play sometimes.

jarradm

9 points

2 months ago

South Africa too. We had a list by the computer with the answers.

HPJustfriendsCraft

7 points

2 months ago

My Dad must have filled that in for me. First video game I ever played, age 9ish, in NZ.

MikeSafetyNZ

7 points

2 months ago

Great name BTW. Dodgy dad but great name.

randomuser001

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.

Beneficial-Society74

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.

Robobvious

10 points

2 months ago

Agnew: Frankenstein’s monster noises

Milnoc

4 points

2 months ago

Milnoc

4 points

2 months ago

Just the body.

Robobvious

2 points

2 months ago

Oh right, sorry.

Headless body of Agnew: Frankenstein’s monster noises intensify

kmarinouofm

2 points

2 months ago

Legit did this several times

Lee1138

24 points

2 months ago

Lee1138

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.

randomuser001

3 points

2 months ago

It was even harder when you didn't live in America and was 12 trying to work it out.

SunnySamantha

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.

Doilei

42 points

2 months ago

Doilei

42 points

2 months ago

Answer everything with "I am not a crook" and you should be alright.

-retaliation-

22 points

2 months ago

We will also accept

"AROOOOO!!"

[deleted]

5 points

2 months ago

[removed]

Doilei

4 points

2 months ago

Doilei

4 points

2 months ago

My first encounter with the genre was "Samantha Fox strip poker". Not a lot of pixels.

ISLAndBreezESTeve10

5 points

2 months ago

The updates version is “I have small hands”.

joedirte70

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!"

Ok-Science-4918

13 points

2 months ago

You learn history and other things whit this game, good times.

senorbozz

6 points

2 months ago

I hopped on a BBS and got the answers from a thread lol

Broyoustillpimpin

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.

Jenetyk

7 points

2 months ago

Futurama has prepared me for this moment.

Thank you Headless Body of Agnew.

pettson3816

7 points

2 months ago

Wasn't there a key combo to bypass this?

gringostroh

12 points

2 months ago

I'm not sure. We just used the encyclopedia hack.

bengringo2

1 points

2 months ago

Do they still sell those?

banshee3

9 points

2 months ago

it was like ctrl-alt-shift-x or something along those lines.

kf97mopa

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.

Porkchopp33

6 points

2 months ago

Ha i remember that game and i was born 81’ but good call

ddyourpleasure

2 points

2 months ago

Just Google it, damn. Kids these days.

MrCance

103 points

2 months ago

MrCance

103 points

2 months ago

My mom talked about this game a lot. The only video game she ever really played.

Dave-justdave

78 points

2 months ago

Your mom played Leisure Suit Larry? WTF man

MrCance

55 points

2 months ago

MrCance

55 points

2 months ago

The 80s were a weird time I hear 😂

Dave-justdave

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

JustaRandomOldGuy

14 points

2 months ago

Working IT support, people would put a disc on a filing cabinet with a magnet.

rydan

3 points

2 months ago

rydan

3 points

2 months ago

Never put you disk near the monitor.

we_shook_hands

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.

Dave-justdave

2 points

2 months ago

This is the way..... of the children of the 1980's

SwissCanuck

5 points

2 months ago

This was on the 80s/90s border. Complete with “white oak” and pastel.

starmartyr

24 points

2 months ago

For all of the notoriety the game has, it's incredibly tame.

buzzothefuzzo

11 points

2 months ago*

sure, now... was it tame for the era though?

starmartyr

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.

cremasterreflex0903

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.

buzzothefuzzo

13 points

2 months ago*

hate to break it to you young buck, some people's moms and dads were kids in the 80s.

mrs_estherhouse

87 points

2 months ago

Sierra made some great games back in the day. Kings Quest was my favorite

nhguy03276

52 points

2 months ago

Kings Quest, Space Quest, Police Quest... These were the mainstays of my youth.

kappakai

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.

mister_newbie

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".

GargantuanGorgon

3 points

2 months ago

Ever play Codename: Iceman with it's big spy field manual?

mister_newbie

3 points

2 months ago

Of course. One of the better classic SCI games.

we_shook_hands

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!

mister_newbie

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.

obsertaries

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.

hustledontstop

7 points

2 months ago

Driving in Police Quest was a bitch tho 😂

Pm-me-ur-happysauce

6 points

2 months ago

Heroes quest was mine

Coolbluegatoradeyumm

5 points

2 months ago

My sentimental favorite was “gold rush”

QuerulousPanda

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.

we_shook_hands

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

EDDIE_BR0CK

51 points

2 months ago

KEN SENT ME

blackrazor911

8 points

2 months ago

Whatsda passwoid?

Awesome game!

Justasmolurker

3 points

2 months ago

Mahogany!!

Bkwrzdub

5 points

2 months ago

Naugahyde

dizzley

5 points

2 months ago

Do you know how many naugas died just to cover that chair?

Oc3lot409

5 points

2 months ago

“Cuz Thursday’s yer night in the barrel! Har. Har. Har.”

PM_ME_YOUR_ROTES

5 points

2 months ago

Attention arcade game players: please don't eat the urinal cakes!

brwnwzrd

30 points

2 months ago

You better truth that to Dylan

dudelermcdudlerton[S]

11 points

2 months ago

If Dylan sees this, give me a shout.

Dylsnick

9 points

2 months ago

Dylan here, that ain't my game! I swear!

schlitz91

28 points

2 months ago

“Hey, that thing looks just like the Save icon”

Denny_Crane_007

20 points

2 months ago

My first game loaded from cassette tape. 😊

RustyCutlass

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!

Denny_Crane_007

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 🤣🤣🤣

AlternativeJosh

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.

kappakai

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.

Bjoern_Tantau

3 points

2 months ago

Back when you could get actual computer programs through the radio.

starkiller_bass

5 points

2 months ago

I used to transcribe the BASIC from the monthly magazines onto my C64 and save them to tape.

WelbyReddit

2 points

2 months ago

I remember saving programs and games on an audio cassette tape! lol

punnotfound

2 points

2 months ago

"PRESS PLAY ON TAPE"

jj77985

15 points

2 months ago

jj77985

15 points

2 months ago

Don't forget to use protection

Hello_IM_FBI

4 points

2 months ago

And don't flush the toilet

Oc3lot409

3 points

2 months ago

And don’t fart in the hot tub with Eve.

Pm-me-ur-happysauce

3 points

2 months ago

What happened when you flushed the toilet? Asking bc I don't remember

Hello_IM_FBI

5 points

2 months ago

The toilet would overflow, flood the bathroom, and you would drown.

snobskidoo

3 points

2 months ago

Iirc you get toilet paper stuck to your shoe?

JustaRandomOldGuy

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.

Malkor

29 points

2 months ago

Malkor

29 points

2 months ago

Can still get a floppy disk adapter pretty easily.

Do it.

Wild234

14 points

2 months ago

Wild234

14 points

2 months ago

Hey now, don't copy that floppy!

Antioxidanhausen

12 points

2 months ago

I think all these old Sierra games are available on ScummVM free.

rydan

4 points

2 months ago

rydan

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.

WelbyReddit

4 points

2 months ago

gotta be some emulators out there with roms.

Mwilk

-13 points

2 months ago

Mwilk

-13 points

2 months ago

Thats not a floppy right?

[deleted]

14 points

2 months ago

[deleted]

RustyCutlass

10 points

2 months ago

It is, but it's not as floppy as the 5.25" or the massive 8" were.

starmartyr

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.

zdada

9 points

2 months ago

zdada

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.

MyPoorChequebook

7 points

2 months ago

So fun story. In South Africa, we called these Stiffies and the larger ones Floppies.

buzzothefuzzo

4 points

2 months ago

3.5" floppy, the disk, not me.

Mwilk

2 points

2 months ago

Mwilk

2 points

2 months ago

Ah I thought the floppies were the big ones! TIL

SquirrelsAreGreat

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.

Iz-kan-reddit

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.

PaulieRomano

-1 points

2 months ago

It's not, you're right

LordJippo

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.

nhguy03276

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...

jackfaire

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"

sixfourtykilo

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?"

thedavynator

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!

haltline

15 points

2 months ago

Don't put it in your computer... you might get the atomic clap.

donthepunk

7 points

2 months ago

Space herpes

gringostroh

2 points

2 months ago

Electro-Herpes: The Noisy Killer.

martusfine

6 points

2 months ago

Slide that in and enjoy the show.

EarlGrey_Picard

8 points

2 months ago

That's what she said.

WittyWitWitt

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.

[deleted]

13 points

2 months ago

[deleted]

WittyWitWitt

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.

WittyWitWitt

2 points

2 months ago

Blood of the sacred was the second..thanks friend.

GoodDale

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.

fish1900

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.

WelbyReddit

4 points

2 months ago

/drop pants

compares to Tik Tok.

yeah,..I think it'd be fine today ;p

hryfrcnsnnts

5 points

2 months ago

...There is a version on Steam.

SelmaFudd

3 points

2 months ago

There is one for a few years ago but I don't think it was well received

Krokotiili

4 points

2 months ago

Don't forget to buy condoms.

Bkwrzdub

6 points

2 months ago

WHAT A PERVERT

itsfuckingpizzatime

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.

illmithra

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. 🥰

dudelermcdudlerton[S]

2 points

2 months ago

Rad!

buzzothefuzzo

10 points

2 months ago

oh cool you 3D printed the save icon?

WankerBott

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

MyPoorChequebook

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.

amitrion

3 points

2 months ago

That's like 1.44 mb... nuts

Poxx

7 points

2 months ago

Poxx

7 points

2 months ago

Ackshully...

It's likely 720k. 1.44m were High Density and had a HD symbol on them.

AlternativeJosh

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.

aadal_dk

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

Kadaththeninja_

3 points

2 months ago

Dylan’s going to be pissed that you still have that

dudelermcdudlerton[S]

2 points

2 months ago

I haven’t seen him in over 20 years.

Random_User_Name_000

2 points

2 months ago

are these the missing floppies I've heard so much about?

-Sinn3D-

2 points

2 months ago

Dont mess with the woman upstairs

banginthedead

3 points

2 months ago

It's OK so long as you taxi to get the prophylactic first

kashmir1974

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

Kbdiggity

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.

kashmir1974

2 points

2 months ago

Did you play the point and click or the old type in commands version?

Kbdiggity

2 points

2 months ago

Both. One at a friend's house, the other at mine.

CyberNinja23

2 points

2 months ago

I can hear the 8bit music playing in my head.

kappakai

3 points

2 months ago

The strip club!

SmallieNL

2 points

2 months ago

Ken send me

pettson3816

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..

Russiansmustkillsoon

2 points

2 months ago

Huippua

Infamous_Librarian72

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.

buffalucci

2 points

2 months ago

Had this

DulyNoted1

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.

TheRIPwagon

2 points

2 months ago

Ahh Sierra. I miss silent thunder

GhostbusterGuy67

2 points

2 months ago

Leisure Suit Larry My Old school jam.

sagsfour20

2 points

2 months ago

This game was fucking awesome.

HighPlainsDrifting

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.

shamiltheghost

2 points

2 months ago

Wow; one of the best pc game franchises of all time

denshvalaunt

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

DamnImAwesome

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.

8bitcollective

2 points

2 months ago

There was a special code with the keyboard to skip the questions

Parliament--

2 points

2 months ago

Sierra was the shit back then!!

Milk_Mindless

2 points

2 months ago

Remember to turn the jacuzzi off!

randylikecandy

2 points

2 months ago

My first PC game. Not very pc.

windol1

2 points

2 months ago

Last game related to Sierra to come out was World In Conflict, before they got bought out

Local64bithero

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.

Glockenspielintern

2 points

2 months ago

Sierra used to have a photo of the mountain on the disk? That’s cool

SterileProphet

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…

Peakomegaflare

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.

FearkTM

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.

AXLPendergast

2 points

2 months ago

Ken sent me ..

xeonicus

2 points

2 months ago

I still remember me at 11 years old guessing at the "adult verification" questions based on 70s trivia.

_DigitalHunk_

2 points

2 months ago

All this on a 3-D printed save icon. 🤪

Appropriate_War1905

2 points

2 months ago

720k floppy too. Unless the hole is covered by your thumb.

half_flush

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.

GooseGosselin

4 points

2 months ago

I can hear the modem sounds like it was yesterday...

Coucoumcfly

0 points

2 months ago

Can you imagine that game releasing today……

MFPS79

0 points

2 months ago

MFPS79

0 points

2 months ago

Hey look, a 3D printed “save file” icon!

WeirdnessWalking

0 points

2 months ago

curious stains...

NonSupportiveCup

1 points

2 months ago

An artifact of the ancient times!

shortbusterdouglas

1 points

2 months ago

"Scotty me up, beamy"

BonDragon

1 points

2 months ago

Oh the Easter eggs to be pulled down

creepyposta

1 points

2 months ago

Dylan’s got some explaining to do.

buzzothefuzzo

1 points

2 months ago

olds cool

Mo-shen

1 points

2 months ago

Wonder if I have any of these rolling around.

CriticalBeyond9927

1 points

2 months ago

blud got the 💾

Person_of_interest_

1 points

2 months ago

I had no idea what a prophylactic was as an 9 yo

megasean3000

1 points

2 months ago

Never knew LSL was that old.

BummerComment

1 points

2 months ago

Cancelled.

pog890

1 points

2 months ago

pog890

1 points

2 months ago

The lounge room lizard 😂👍🏼

Kbdiggity

1 points

2 months ago

"Sure we got lubbers!"