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Thank you! My D&D game I was in this Saturday got rescheduled - so I may dive back into Freddy's Boots again this weekend, and see if I can _try_ to finish it? But I remember the Freddy Pharkus game being a long one. 🙂

@LetsPlaySierraGames If you want. :D Don't forget to save often.

Thank you! Yeah - my XTERRA was my baby. How it came out - I used to work for a company called Dragon Optical. And they had an XTERRA covered in Dragon Optical stickers and needed someone to drive it around to help advertise. I gladly volunteered and immediately fell in love with the XTERRA and had gone and got my own. lol I knew the time would come soon for that poor XTERRA of mine, because the last couple of years after my wife's health took a nose dive, I wasn't taking as good care of that beast of a car as I should have been, especially with how old the car was. My wife is convinced that one day I am going to fix it since it's still parked in front of my house.... :-) But that's not gonna happen unless a miracle of mass money falls on my lap! :)

I think it's very cool to hear how some folks REALLY loved these games. As I told Cookie of Doom - I think I've only ever PLAYED the first one - and about 200% sure I never beat it or got far in it. (I can't even recall if I still own the copy I played, or if that was my friend's father's copy!) I have a ton of Sierra games I bought as they were coming out all securely in bins! Most of them, I've thankfully been able to get on GoG, so I don't have to try and find ways to get the games off there (although the USB 3.5 was a nice savior, that allowed me to make copies of my own games, just because I have different version numbers than what GoG released, which sometimes had little different things!). But there's no USB 5.25" for me to grab my game files for the games I had on 5.25" drive! But definitely, with the amount of interest and passion that folks talk about the two Inca games I am hoping to eventually play them for my channel on here. :)

@@LetsPlaySierraGames Inca 2 actually was localized to my native french, and the voice actors did arguably a better job than the original ones. ...Not that they were amazing, but they managed to make some scenes less cringe than they were in the original English. XD But as I said, it's the kind of game that had issues so blatant I was very much aware of them, even as a 9 year old. But on the other hand, even 30 years later, there has never been another game like this one. It's an absolutely unique experience. And if you end up resonating with this wild concept of "Incas in space" and/or its eerie atmosphere, the game can be very charming despite all of its flaws. And if you end up disliking it, it will at least be bad in a memorable way, being so different from any other game that ever existed.

Thank you so much! I love making these videos - because I also love hearing comments! Because it's nice to know that others watch and enjoy these! :) So thank you very much for the comment! :) I need to get back to making these videos! (Like got super busy and crazy!)

Thank you very much for the comment! I enjoy hearing that people listen to the music from these Sierra games! I agree, new games are very big but sometimes it is very nice to go back and play these simple games to remember a simpler time! 의견을 보내주셔서 정말 감사합니다! 나는 사람들이 Sierra 게임의 음악을 듣는다는 소식을 듣는 것을 좋아합니다! 동의합니다. 새로운 게임은 매우 규모가 크지만 때로는 더 단순했던 시절을 기억하기 위해 돌아가서 이러한 간단한 게임을 플레이하는 것이 매우 좋습니다! Pardon any errors - I was looking at your user name and google says it's Korean - so I tried to also translate what I wrote using google translate into Korean. :)

Absolutely agree. I had sincerely forgotten how good Quest for Glory IV was until I had recently replayed it again for my channel. My commentary version (ua-cam.com/video/KK385N9iB-o/v-deo.html&ab_channel=LetsPlaySierraGames - the game was so long I broke it into five parts because I didn't want to skip over anything to comment on) - was me pretty much confessing I forgot how freaking amazing the game is - and the one, very, very specific tear jerking moment, which is probably the same one you mean! Always glad to run into a fellow QFGIV fan! (Or really, ANY Sierra fan!) :)

Yes! That is what was so great about the QfG series as a whole - that the way to solve some of the puzzles (could, if you wanted) be different depending on the class you played, which created some nice replayability! Have you got a specific favorite game from the series?

@@LetsPlaySierraGames That's a really tough one. I love aspects of all 5 games, but QFG4 had the biggest impact on me in terms of the story. To this day, I can't watch the staff scene with Tanya and Toby without becoming a crying mess! Aside from the bugs, it was a masterpiece IMO.

@@dmoore0079 That was indeed a very heartbreaking scene and well done. In regards to bugs, I snagged into way more bugs in QFGIII than I did for QFGIV.

Thanks man! Yes, I loved developing this game! I was in the process of making a sequel game - but never got around to finishing it. But I enjoyed making this - back then, when I first created it - I had uploaded it to AOL and made it available through their site. I wish I still had the source code to the original - because I found a few bugs since then (naturally) that I'd love to fix.

Hah, yeah - back then we were both completely unaware of the B.C.'s Quest for Tires game by Sierra ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.C.%27s_Quest_for_Tires ) ... Although not the traditional Sierra 'quest' type game... but it was a kicker that it was so similarly named to what we had come up with. lol It was fun to share the pictures we did - and the box art, manuals, and all that, that I had created back then. Seeing those print outs of the manual made me chuckle, because you can tell it's from a very old dot matrix printer. Final Soul was fun to create too. I truly do wish I still had the source code to fix the last few bugs. Not that I think anyone is going to play a text adventure game in these modern days, but just knowing those bugs are there are enough to make me want to squash'em. :) And thank you, as always, for hanging out, watching the video and commenting - it's so very appreciated!

@@LetsPlaySierraGames It's too bad Sierra weren't interested. I hope they gave your game demo a try. Your game sounds interesting, even with the bugs. And there are still people playing text adventures. :)

Definitely a fun game and available on Steam if you want to try it out.

Yes! Which, I get the goal was to make it far more accessible and easier for a younger audience that might be interested in playing The Black Cauldron, but man, every time I revisit this game, it takes me a bit to readjust my thinking to how the game works.

Hooking up with the spy and the earring are the easiest parts of this game, lol.

@LetsPlaySierraGames but you get sent on a mission that would be completely impossible if you don't know those codes. Why would the pentagon send you on that mission without giving you the required codes to get your orders? A spy would only be carrying microfilm of decryption keys if they were trying to smuggle them back to their employer, why would a US spy be carrying US decryption codes?

@@Darkshadow64540 I'd need to go back and play it - but I _think_ you can still continue the game without the codes you get from her? I think the codes you get from her earring give additional information? I might be wrong on that... It's been a long time since I've played and messed up by not getting her earrings (it only took a few harsh lessons and repeated tries to beat the game and getting stuck on the sub sequence... so that I always automatically know to look for her earring - so I can't speak with 100% confidence that the game can continue without it). It would not surprise me, I will say, if you can't continue without it. The game admittedly tries to dead end you repeatedly (it even happened to me in this play through if I remember) - where I gave my ID, forgot to pick it up when I left, when I came right back the guy was like, "You need your ID." And in my head, I am like, "You literally just saw me 2 minutes ago. If you can't let me back to get my ID, can you call the guy who IS holding my ID to come back out here?" So yes, there is definitely some moon logic to the game and repeated attempts to dead end the player, for sure. Although the main character does wonder who she's a spy for when he discovers the earring's secret (ua-cam.com/video/jG-_JEyoEK8/v-deo.html). It could be they were never intended for him, and that she, as a spy was using them to decode things she was getting. ;)

Thank you! I definitely plan on continuing forward! Have plenty Sierra games I own to still make my way through. :)

Hah! I like how you have that 10K mark for the next milestone! :D In the video I talked about 5K! But it would be very incredible to see it keep growing! :) Thanks for the injection of positivity! :)

Hah, thanks! Yeah, I thought the title bar would be a nice touch! (My silly mind enjoys coming up with those kinds of things!) And yeah, I hope it helps drive engagement (already this one has collected some nice, heart felt comments!) And here's hoping each 1,000 leap doesn't take 14 years! ;-)

Thank you! I am a huge fan of the Gabriel Knight games! :)

Hahah! Thank you good sir! (See how even D&D creeps into me talking about it in this video too?) :D

I hope so! I made the joke about shooting for 5,000 subscribers - then talked about how it took 14 years (I think when I first set up this channel) to reach 1,000 - and to reach 5,000 is too many years to count! hahah! I did mention "some of you are frequent commenters" - that was a nod to you! :)

@@LetsPlaySierraGames Thank you! I think that your next milestone is closer than the first one was. UA-cam seems to give more visibility to already popular videos and channels, so the more your channel grows, the more it will grow. :)

@@TeaAndFloppyDisks I hope so! That would actually be great to see the channel grow! This little thing has been very fun! And I love engaging with people who have similar passion for these Sierra (and Sierra-like) adventure games! :)

@@LetsPlaySierraGames Good luck then! :)

Thank you so much! I am flattered that I managed to reach that 1,000 mark! :)

Hah! Thank you so much for joining the party! :)

Me too! Hang tight, it is on its way to the rest of the world...!

I am pretty sure I grabbed these from the old Quest Studios site. My files are dated 2010. But from the information I have in the text file of the audio - "Jan Hammer’s 1991 “Police Quest III” soundtrack, as recorded from the original Roland MT-32 score with Sound Canvas enhancements. Created exclusively for Quest Studios members in fall 2006. Arranged and produced by Quest Studios."

I think Mystery House was the first game to feature graphics, if I remember correctly. At least "complex" graphics (like this where it's stairs and such). So I get why the graphics were on the ... eh, rough side. But man, some of it could have definitely used more descriptions... (I am looking at you candle on the dining room table! lol)... and yes, the direction thing was... maddening. When I'd have to do "go door" to go to a doorway, rather than pressing a direction - then trying to figure out how to get out of that doorway/room. So I think if they just relied on directions (N, S, E, W) it would have made getting through that house way more easier. And the forest bit... that forest bit... still angry about that, lol. Because I enjoy playing without a walk through... but there's about an hour of me wandering in the forest that I cut out from the video because it was just me going in a million different directions to figure out which way led out of the forest! :D As for playing my own game - I may do that! I am only 5 subscribers away from 1,000 I just noticed! I think it'd also be fun to play - and then do commentary on my own game...! lol And thank you for always being there with comments and feedback! You're one of the constants and I absolutely appreciate you!

@@LetsPlaySierraGames I did see the candle, but I can understand how it could look like a spoon too. The doorway and forest sadly sound a bit like faults in the programming. I get annoyed with parsers recognising too few commands, but, as you mentioned that you had to give up on some of the verbs for your own game due to lack of space, maybe that was a problem in older games too. I like the relaxed atmosphere in your videos, so I drop by to watch from time to time. :)

@@TeaAndFloppyDisks Yeah now I can't unsee the candle... lol But yes, the doorway and the directional stuff... even the forest... despite the frustrations, I still try to laugh about it - and keep things light and welcoming! :) Thank you for noticing!

@@LetsPlaySierraGames That's a good attitude to have. I appreciate not using a walkthrough, but if you get stuck for too long, a little hint doesn't hurt. :)

Awesome! Thanks for commenting. I loved the soundtracks from the games - and it was cool that Shivers II actually had a band with an actual soundtrack to the game! I do love how the tone/pacing changes in that song "Secrets"

Thank you! I loved playing this game (and Sierra games, and games - like this one - that are similar to Sierra!) - and I love when people enjoy the commentary too! :) I am passionate about this stuff... so I love talking about it.

Hah! Gonna have to pin your comment good sir, as the creator of this fine game!

You should check out the game if you haven't already! :)

The second game is definitely the more enjoyable. The first one has its charm - but some of the puzzles are truly punishing (especially when you need to get a specific key in the first game...) The second game has a few things, but over all is very straight forward with what you need to do.

I enjoyed the Laura Bow games; if I had to choose, I'd say I liked the first one more! I love the idea of being trapped in a house (reminds me of the movie CLUE, which I love very much!) :) In Dagger of Amon Ra, others would walk into a room where there was a dead body and not even react. It was weird. lol

I agree - this entire game feels ... just there. There's no heart. No soul. None of Al Lowe's normal humor. We don't get that until until Leisure Suit Larry VI, and that feels like, because Al realized he phoned it in for LSLV - so he needed to make a LSL game that harkened back to what made LSL fun again.

The party you mentioned - about Dreep (I think his name is!) - was probably one of the hardest parts of the game! So you gut instinct is pretty amazing! 🙂 I love that people check out my video for different things - and I love that you are able to watch this to see the whole plot of Torin's Passage (which was an incredible game, as you said!) - it feels like you're controlling a Disney cartoon!

​@@LetsPlaySierraGameshang on a minute... I WAS RIGHT AT THE END?!... Damn... And here I thought I was just a stupid kid, but I basically beat it more than almost 30 years ago then... Huh... Neat!

@@Mzaleyao Yeah the voice thing and where to hide is a very tricky part of the game! :)

Oh weird - I am not sure what would have caused that blackness! But - that area is still fresh in my mind - what part of the puzzle do you need? Have you looked at everything? There's a WHOLE lot to see. Pizza is sticky. Maybe use that for something? If you have those two items - that will get you to the next area. Happy to offer a more direct clue. :)

Thanks - I re-recorded this portion and attached it to the end of my commentary version. You can see it here: ua-cam.com/video/aWNVdIMPnUc/v-deo.html

This is a very early version of the game...! Been doing the beta testing for awhile. There was a break there... but... Well I have good news... they're still working on it. I can confirm (because I've been doing bug testing for them these last few weeks!) :) So hopefully it's public release is on the nearby horizon. Watch my channel for more because I will for sure be announcing it. :)

Yes! It really is! I enjoyed it - felt like it really captured those old school Sierra games (for which it is clearly very, very, very inspired by!)

Welcome to my channel. :) Now to be fair - I also do play games that are similar to Sierra games - for example, I also played the Legend of Kyrandia series on the channel, Blue Force (which was created by the maker of Police Quest - Jim Walls, but was a Tsunami Game - not Sierra) - and even this game - Tachyon Dreams Anthology isn't a Sierra game - but as you can see - very, very, very influenced by Sierra games! But yes, the majority of what you will find on my channel is me going back through Sierra games - as play throughs, and then doing commentaries as a separate video! The games I don't use walk throughs (some of the Sierra games like Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, and most of the King's Quest series are ingrained in my memory from repeated plays in the past) - but there's other games I had only played once - and struggled to get through on my channel. Lighthouse, for example, I'd never completed prior to playing it on my channel - and that ended up being like a 10 hour video. lol

Side note - love the avatar - very King's Quest/Graham'esque! :)

It's a fun game on Steam! You should check it out. Especially if you love Space Quest.

To be honest - I don't recall where I got these tracks. I don't even know the titles of the songs because my mp3s are "qft5-01.mp3", "qfg5-02.mp3", etc etc - and the info in the track info is "Sierra Online" - so it doesn't have the titles for each of these tracks. The date stamp as to when I got these - they're all dated 2010. I thought it might have been from the Quest Studios website (the new URL is - www.midimusicadventures.com/queststudios/ - but the highest they go is QFGIV). So I can not recall where I got these. I do have the QFGV game on CD. So at some point I may have extracted them - but really do not remember. :(

Yeah - I have this game - but have yet to ever play it. I'd love to get my hands on Police-Anime-Quest 2. :)

I think the video is hilarious. "We had him over at the house. Once." :D

Man! I don't think I've ever hidden between those trees in the hundreds of times I've played SQ2. (I'd say SQ1, SQ2 and SQ3 are my most repeated playthrough games when I am looking to just veg out and have fun! Don't always play to completion, but definitely the most frequently launched and mull about, because those three are so laid back and fun... despite death around every corner!) :D

@@LetsPlaySierraGames , I love playing KQ3, SQ2, and SQ1. I just finished SQ2 again the other day.

@@brianvonkraus7408 Bwhahahah! You can hear me scream about KQ3. I love, love, love KQ3 - but man, that game STRESSES me out. Freaking Manahahahahahahaha, the evil Wizard.... him and his demands... and having limited time to get the things you need... the biggest pain is that Eagle Feather. On my channel you can see, I think I waited like an hour for that thing to drop off the eagle. lol

LOL! I mean there has to be a version of it as there's been a female terminator in the TV show/movie if I remember.

Got lots of'em....! :)

Thanks! I've been enjoying replaying these! I plan to properly redo the King's Quest games, since they were the first game I did on my channel, way, way, way back - and didn't have much of an idea of what I was going to do with the channel.

The game was insanely complex and difficult at times... clearly an effort to mimic the success from the MYST game... This game, though, had me banging my head against the wall, quite a bit...

@@LetsPlaySierraGames Back in time I´ve played the first scenes of the game, because the music and atmosphere captivated me. Laterit was more like Myst and I was never a good puzzle solver. :)

@@Matzeschloe Yeah the opening to the game is easy to get into... as the game progresses... it gets way more difficult to figure out what to do next... as seen in this 10 hour video. lol

I have a playlist of a TON of Johnny Castaway videos I made and uploaded - ua-cam.com/play/PLQ5PmsYIWgZK5roiP_h7b8s0v6YkB2a2e.html - it's 103 videos! Someone did the numbers for me and if you play that playlist this is what you get: No of videos : 103 - Average length of video : 3 hours, 36 minutes, 33 seconds - Total length of playlist : 15 days, 11 hours, 45 minutes, 14 seconds! So imagine if you put it on, you could watch it for almost 16 days straight, all together!

​@@LetsPlaySierraGames Thanks for letting me know 😊❤

@@PrncssKB93 My pleasure! <3

Hah! Thank you for the compliment on the cowboy avatar. That was a long, long, long time ago when I used to have long hair. (I miss that long hair, still!) Now it's a long beard I have! It's like gravity took over. :) So for the music - because the music for Gold Rush is beeps and boops, what I did for the commentary is - I have a license with music called "Fantasy Complete II" from here (and it's currently on sale: www.monumentstudios.net/products/fantasy-complete-ii ) - so I just pick some of the more soothing songs from there to lay on the track in the background and just tried to find music to match the theme (so on the travel portions the music is a little more epic or exciting). As for the ships, indeed they did! The game does an amazing job being historically accurate (for the most part, except the very end, obviously). But this site talks about how many ships wrecked in the San Francisco Bay (www.nps.gov/places/000/how-many-ships-wrecked-during-the-gold-rush-on-the-way-into-san-francisco-bay.htm) and there's a video about how some people during the building find remains of a ship (ua-cam.com/video/u16s-f9sgW8/v-deo.html). So it's really cool stuff. As for the calm and sanity, I do try - and part of the reason I am replaying so many of these games - because they keep me calm during these times of chaos. So I am flattered to hear that others enjoy my channel and find some peace here.

Yeah I loved putting this together. I even did a second one a year or two later. May do a third one around Halloween.

@@LetsPlaySierraGames nice tracks do a more playlists for us 🤩👌