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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: Favourite (Unintentional???) Film Moments

« on: January 06, 2019, 05:58:15 PM »

     I [presciently] discussed a favorite (unintentional???) film moment as a tangent almost 6 years ago in a thread about the Oculus Rift:

     http://www.infamous-quests.com/forum/index.php?topic=541.0;all

Man, I miss me some Aladdin's Castle at the local malls...   

When Sam Flynn hit the main breaker switch in "Tron: Legacy" and Flynn's Arcade lit up after all those years with all of those machines coming back to life, and Journey's "Separate Ways" started booming in the background...

...I got chills watching that on the big screen.

Kids today will NEVER know how that feels...

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: What do y'all think of "mage's initiation"?

« on: December 25, 2018, 08:34:05 AM »

Well, there WAS a reason it wasn't on GoG as we both know...

It's not considered "old" enough to be a "Good OLD Game"?...   

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: Funny, I don't remember...

« on: December 17, 2018, 11:08:11 PM »

My memories also include a Color Computer 3 (TRS-80 equivalent), which I still have. I also still have all the floppies, cassettes, and cartridges for it. Poltergeist is one of them. I remember the game vividly, too. I was always confused about what to do. It never made any sense to me so I never played it. I still don't know what the graphics are supposed to represent to this day.

We had a Color Computer 1 from the early '80s until we finally got our first PC Clone in 1989.  Sadly, we sold it and all of the accessories (printer, disk drive, cassette drive, ROM packs) to someone my dad worked with.

They had some great "knock-off" arcade games for that machine, especially one for Donkey Kong.  The game came on cassette, so to make < ahem > a "back-up" copy, you put it in a dual-cassette deck and recorded the audio data "screeches" to a new cassette.

My uncle had an original Color Computer with 4k of RAM...  I remember he was so happy when he got a new chip to upgrade it to 16k RAM -- he had to de-solder and remove the old chip, then solder in the new one.

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: Funny, I don't remember...

« on: December 13, 2018, 04:09:45 PM »

Don't you DARE say a darn thing about trying to catch a ball -- which is attached to a string, which is attached to a stick -- in a cup -- which ALSO happens to be attached to said stick...

Them's fightin' words!   

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: Funny, I don't remember...

« on: December 13, 2018, 08:33:57 AM »

Hah, that's not even the version of Pac Man we all grew up with on the 2600.  It was like this - the maze was different than the arcade version; the "tunnels" were on the top and bottom, instead of the sides!

Oh, yes; I'm well aware of the actual debacle...   

Over the last few years, however, I wondered what the Arcade Game would look like using the Atari 2600 graphics.  So, I made this mock-up over the last day or two!   

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Funny, I don't remember...

« on: December 12, 2018, 09:39:28 PM »

...Pac-Man on the Atari 2600 looking all that bad.

Must be the rose-colored glasses of my old age!

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IQ Chat / Re: What's the status of Roehm to Ruin?

« on: August 24, 2018, 12:26:25 PM »

I hope it works. I've been hoping for QfI2 because the first part has quite an open ending.

It's not official / cannon, but...

Three-and-a-half years ago, I made a joke in another IQ thread that there was a "special" ending to QFI which gave a preview of QFI2.  I even provided a summary for everyone who couldn't find it in the game -- which was everyone, because it's not there.  It was all just nonsense I made up to tease my fellow QFI fans.

I still believe it has the feel of how a QFI2 sequel might start...

( ATTENTION: MAJOR QFI2 SPOILERS -- DON'T READ!!! )

Spoiler (hover to show)

When you exit from Swart's cart, you can wander though a few screens of Castle Lonaria, looking for the lavatory (it WAS a long cart ride, you know).

Anyway, when you finally find the loo and Roehm enters it, he mutters, "Cripes, what an ooo-dor!  Where the hell's the chambermaid?"

There is a loud, "A-HEM."

A curtain opens, and the King of Lonaria rises from a seated position, adjusts his robe, and places his crown on his head.  And he does NOT look amused.

Roehm then says, "Ooo!  Nice one, your Highness.  I didn't mean to catch you on the 'throne,' but before you make me kiss yer ring, hows about you wash up first? Hah!"

And that's where the special sneak peak of QFI2 ends...

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: Game Creation, or world building?

« on: August 11, 2018, 05:08:59 PM »

...the only people who got those were making way too much noise about their games. With the exception of Phoenix Online and The Silver Lining, where I think that was more a rabid and loud number of their fans were making way too much noise.

Sounds like it's a good thing that IA/IQ fans are more of the "sedated and mute" variety...

Hell, some might even go as far to say that IA/IQ fans are practically non-existent !!!

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IQ Chat / Re: Kings Quest For Steve video upload?

« on: July 21, 2018, 09:26:53 PM »

aha!  I've played The Order of the Thorne.  I hope that they will come out with another one once Roehme to Ruin is complete when Bt is better.

Yes, the plan is to finish the story with the second game, The Order Of The Thorne: Fortress Of Fire:

In the Land of Sunlight, the sudden appearance of a mysterious, menacing fortress plunges the isolated kingdom into darkness.  Brother Caradoc, a Knight in the Order Of The Thorne, and his squire, Patrick, are sent to find Brother Eoin and discover the cause of the chaos.  However, upon their arrival in the desolate land, Brother Caradoc is captured and Patrick is wounded.  Alone and untested, the young squire must now rescue Caradoc and defeat the Fortress of Fire.

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IQ Chat / Re: Kings Quest For Steve video upload?

« on: July 21, 2018, 05:48:49 PM »

I really want to see Kingdom of Sorrow.  Is there a download link for that anywhere for those of us who want to play it?    I think that it was unfinished, but it would still be neat-o to see what was developed.

Klytos specifically referenced the "never-going-to-be-released Kingdom of Sorrow" build, so I'm pretty sure that KOS won't ever be released...  Besides, most of the art assets were re-used for The Order Of the Thorne: The King's Challenge.

Likely, Klytos or someone will simply showcase a quick demo of KOS for what WAS completed...

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IQ Chat / Kings Quest For Steve video upload?

« on: July 21, 2018, 09:45:23 AM »

For those of us unfortunate saps who missed the #KingsQuestForSteve video stream, will there be a link to the video anywhere?

I'm especially curious to see the "never-going-to-be-released Kingdom of Sorrow" build that Klytos made in action.

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: Hero U

« on: July 18, 2018, 12:20:08 PM »

Backed this one from the first Kickstart, haven't had a chance to start it yet, but after seeing a demo some time back, I'm cautiously optimistic.

However, I'm not a fan of the "wrong place / wrong time" type of game, where you might miss crucial information and clues for no good reason -- it's penalizing the player through no fault of his/her own.  (Never got into Colonel's Bequest because of this.)

HOWEVER, it _is_ a good excuse for contrived replayabilty -- just to get all of the information you may have missed ... that is, if you liked the game enough the first time around ! 

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Quest for Infamy / Re: Looking for hunter

« on: June 20, 2018, 10:00:28 PM »

Visa the Hunter can usually be found in one of the 4 screens at the North end of the South Woods; I believe it's designed to be a random encounter.

The helpful hunter will want payment of a sort for his help, but he does offer a couple of options, so you can choose how you want to pay him.

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Quest for Infamy / Re: Looking for kyser wood

« on: June 16, 2018, 11:17:44 AM »

Hello stuck again. I am trying to find kyser wood. Can someone give me directions. Thanks

Boy, we are just getting swamped with questions about QFI, aren't we...   

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Banter and Chit-Chat! / Re: Star Trek Thread - Split from Star Wars

« on: June 07, 2018, 08:27:10 AM »

It was nothing compared to how they handled Enterprise when they first started it. (T'Pol)

What ?!?!?   

You mean there WASN'T a 'legitimate' reason for her to be 'nude' and have some sort of gel slathered all over her in while in quarantine in that one early episode?...

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