Some of the more well known games were the Kings Quest Series, I only really like the first four. In the fifth one sierra tried a new format where you didn't have to type in text to perform an action. They also did that for the Leisure Suit Larry series and I tried playing that one but I didn't really like it either. The best are the ones where you have to tell the character what action to perform. Sometimes the game won't understand what you are talking about. Often you would need a game hint book to complete the games because they were made to be quite difficult when searching for items and knowing what to do. They use to sell these hint books in computer stores and they were descrambled so you needed a infered strip to read the answer to the question. No doubt they intentionally made things difficult in the game so you would have to buy the hint book. Nevertheless, the games were still fun and I still enjoy them today. The graphics are primitive but when I owned these games the computer I used was a Tandy 1000 with a hercules monochrome monitor so everything was in shades of green. So I've never played them in color. Plus I didn't have a 3.5 disk drive so some of the games were about 10 disks long and it was a nusuance to swipe them back and forth. Now you can play them straight through without any disk swapping because the games are so small.

Other abandonware includes the old Atari 2600 system, Coleco Vision, Intellivision (which I still own and it still works aside from some buttons).


Kings Quest Series