I first read about Al Emmo and The Lost Dutchman's Mine over three years ago. I'd stumbled upon a website for a "company" called Tierra Games (now called AGD Interactive) that had faithfully recreated the old Sierra Adventure games King's Quest 1 and 2 to work with Windows XP and released 'em for free. I grew up on all of those old Sierra games, and immediately downloaded both of them. I plowed through the first one with Marissa in two days and got most of the way through the second one shortly thereafter. For whatever reason, those few days are some of the most memorable of my senior year in college. Upon reading more about the people that developed the remakes, I found out that they had started a commercial software company called Himalaya Studios that would be making original games in the all but dead and gone point-and-click adventure game genre. I kept up with the development of Al Emmo for a bit, but eventually forgot about it as development dragged on and on and on. A recent message board thread, however, sparked my interest in the game once again... and I was happy to find out that it's finally out! I downloaded the demo before bed last night and am pretty excited to get started on it. I've got an extremely busy schedule for the next few days, but I'm hoping to get through it at some point soon. As always, I'll be sure to blab about it here.
If adventure games were ever your thing.. or if you think that they sound cool, here are a few other links that might get you excited:
* Adventure Game Studios - Homepage for the AGS development program, which allows you to make your own adventure games. There are some homemade downloadable games on the site, too... which I'm psyched to try out. I hear Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator is pretty great.
* Space Quest Compilation - Looks like Sierra finally decided to re-release these games with Windows XP compatability! Woo hoo!
* King's Quest compilation - In my opinion, the best of all the "Quest" games. Also compatible with Windows XP for the first time.
Just looking at screenshots like this from KQ gives me goosebumps and reminds me of how much I enjoyed sitting in front of my computer alone or with friends trying to plug through these games:
I'm definitely picking up the King's Quest collection today! ---
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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