Topic: The Sierra Point-and-Clicks

I'm a master at the Sierra point-and-click adventure games.
Here's what I've played

Space Quest IV- love it! If only they'd been able to actually make Space Quest X, it'd be awesome!
Space Quest V- the hardest of the SQ point-and-clicks, IMO; my main problem is where to go in the ship
Space Quest 6- the most complex of the series, IMO; love it, though
King's Quest V- frustrating for the following reasons: illogical solutions (moldy cheese for the magic machine?) and unforeseen hazards (the boat, the unstable cliff step, etc)
King's Quest VI- mastered it
King's Quest VII- still hard, and the most complex
Freddy Pharkas- never got very far due to the lack of the manual (found that out on a Let's Play)
Torin's Passage- never beat it without cheating (though I never played it very often)
The Dig- my god, this game is hard! I got all the way to Brink's disappearance, and then gave up
Police Quest- very briefly, and only using the bikes

I've tried a few King's Quest games, but they were damn hard.
A friend of mine liked the Police Quest series a lot.

I only played all the LEISURE SUIT LARRY games and have beaten 5 out of 7 (or 8?) of them.

And I know THE DIG. I thought that was a Lucas Arts adventure and not something from Sierra.

I've played all of the Space Quests and Leisure Suit Larrys...never played a King's Quest, and only played a few Police Quests.

Freddy Pharkas is my favorite point-and-click adventure game...I can't count how many times I've played through it, and how many new jokes I discover each time. It's a perfect comic gaming experience.

That's right. The Dig was LucasArts, not Sierra.

Maybe that means it'll come out on WiiWare?

phantasmagoria was a personal favorite as a kid among the sierra clickers, the earlier leisure suit larry all the way up to LSL 7 was a blast as well.

Regrettably, I haven't played a single one of these. I should go look for some onEbay, particularly Freddy Pharkas, The Dig, and the King's Quest games.

I absolutely love the Kings Quest series, though i prefer the earlier (pre point-n-click interface) games in the series, mainly due to personal nostalgia. For the first two in particular, me and my friend Tom would switch off with the NES -- when one of us was trying to get through some level in, let's say Kid Icarus, the other would be puzzling through KQ on his dad's PC.

If you want to play the old games, I'd highly recommend getting an old computer with Windows '98. Today's computers run to quickly, even in compatibility mode. Some games might not even work.

Considering a dual boot, though.

King's Quest is open source nowadays. for all your retro dos games check out

www.abandonia.com

U can also find the KQ VGA Remakes, I recently played through the first two. All Free- or Abandonware.
So it is 100% legal and save to download. They have several games also in different languages than english.
U can find everything from cgi up to svga. there are some early 3D games aswell.
Almost all games come with boxart, manuals, etc... To play the games u need a program called dos.box.
U can find it on the site.
Very easy to use, just like oldschool dos. There are some windows games aswell, which don't need the dos.box,
they run smoothly on my Athlon 64 Dualcore 4,8 gig.

Sadly Lucas Arts games are not abandonware, since lucas Arts games recently republished them on Steam.

Have fun with those retro games. I do!!!

You can also always grab DosBox to play old games if they won't work on whatever Microsoft OS you're running. I have the most recent version running on Windows 7 with no problems.

The KQ games have also been released on a few different collections, none of which should run more than $20 USD. There were also, i believe, a few other Sierra compilations released with like the Police Quest games and such.

Abandonia.com is great. Lots of goodness there.