Video Quest for Glory III Intro – Enhanced James Schumacher, July 3, 2013July 26, 2013 Quest for Glory Wages of War is the 3rd entry in the franchise. This was the first of the series to use VGA graphics. ScummVM 1.6.0 Base Daily Build 5.29.2013 HQ3x Scaling Fluidsynth enabled FluidR3 Soundfont Via Wikipedia Rakeesh the Paladin brings the Hero (and Prince of Shapeir) along with… Continue Reading
Video Quest for Glory II Intro MT32 & SF2 James Schumacher, July 3, 2013July 26, 2013 Quest for Glory Trial By Fire is the first sequel in the series. You can import you character from the first game and continue on to this new adventure. This video features the MT32 intro followed by a Soundfont version. ScummVM has not optimized this game for Midi playback, so… Continue Reading
Video Quest for Glory I VGA Intro – Enhanced James Schumacher, July 3, 2013October 6, 2016 Quest for Glory aka Hero’s Quest is a sort of adventure-RPG hybrid game from Sierra. I came to the series very late with part IV. The games employ a good dose of humor from what I have seen. I’ve been meaning to go back to the beginning of the series… Continue Reading
Video Laura Bow II – Dagger of Amon Ra Enhanced James Schumacher, July 2, 2013 The Dagger of Amon Ra aka Laura Bow II was always a fun game to try and play for me. I say try, because it would inevitably overheat my CD-ROM drive at the time and freeze up (something that also happened with King’s Quest VI). It had good graphics for… Continue Reading
Video Laura Bow – The Colonel’s Bequest Enhanced James Schumacher, July 2, 2013October 6, 2016 Colonel’s Bequest is the first of two adventure from Sierra featuring the character of Laura Bow. My first encounter with this character was in the follow-up Laura Bow 2 – The Dagger of Amon Ra. I have never played this game and never finished its sequel due to it freezing… Continue Reading
Video Gabriel Knight II – The Beast Within – Prologue/Intro James Schumacher, June 30, 2013October 6, 2016 Gabriel Knight II – The Beast Within was a huge change from the first entry. The game employed FMV (Full Motion Video) which was all the rage at the time. The two leads of Grace and Gabriel were re-cast in order to make the visual look of the characters. The… Continue Reading
Video Gabriel Knight Intro – HQ Enhanced James Schumacher, June 30, 2013October 6, 2016 Gabriel Knight – Sins of the Fathers is another classic adventure game from Sierra. It features a pretty significant voice cast (for the time period) with Tim Curry, Leah Remini, Mark “Luke Skywalker” Hammill and Michael “Warf” Dorn. It has a very strong story focused on mysterious murders which are… Continue Reading
Video Robin Hood Conquests of the Longbow Intro MT32 – HQ James Schumacher, June 30, 2013October 6, 2016 Robin Hood – Conquests of the Longbow is probably my favorite of the Sierra On-Line created adventure games. I play it almost yearly. It’s a classic Robin Hood tale with nice visuals and great music composed by Aubrey Hodges and Mark Seibert. This is the MT32 audio version of the… Continue Reading
Video Conquests of Camelot Intro – MT32 James Schumacher, June 30, 2013October 6, 2016 Conquests of Camelot is the precursor to one of my favorite games of all time, Robin Hood : Conquests of the Longbow. Camelot is an early SCI game that employs keyboard commands with simple mouse, much like early LSL and Codename ICEMAN. I never made it very far in this… Continue Reading
Video Betrayal at Krondor – Titles – CD Enhanced James Schumacher, June 30, 2013October 6, 2016 Betrayal at Krondor is an RPG adventure from Dynamix (sub-company of Sierra On-Line) set in the world of Midkemia of author Raymond E. Feist. This is one of my favorite games of all time. I have owned two different copies of the game, the original on disk and this CD-Rom… Continue Reading
Video Freddy Pharkas – Frontier Pharmacist – Intro – HQ Enhanced James Schumacher, June 30, 2013October 6, 2016 The Intro sequence from the classic Sierra On-Line adventure game, Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist. Sierra Fanfare uses soundfont from below. Graphics are scaled through DosBox. Probably going up a bunch of Sierra intros and gameplay like I did for Lucasarts Madness – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKfzZUidwkH4MJFDgGGY28SUR7FFd0HOM Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist CD version DosBox… Continue Reading
Video Call of Juarez Gunslinger – Finale – The End 1080p James Schumacher, June 23, 2013June 30, 2013 The stories of Silas Greaves come to an end, but not without a final chapter taking place immediately following his tales in the saloon where he now sits. A secret is revealed and the finality of Silas’s vengeance is at a crossroads. Are his days of death and violence over… Continue Reading