The Internet is fixed and I’m back online!
I remember being about six, maybe seven years old and visiting my grandfather at work. He was a sports newscaster for NBC. Normally a day at the office would be boring, but not at his. On a bright fat color monitor was a game called The Perils of Rosella. I had never seen a PC game before and was instantly enthralled. Of course, I made my grandfather buy it for me and for the next seven to ten years, I played it whenever I visited him.
Back in those days games came on hard disks and the security code was a word that the computer asked you to find in the game manual (it’s amazing how far we’ve come in technology since then). Rosella was a hard game and there was no online walk through to help me cheat. I’d spend hours trying to use the arrow keys to climb up a spiral staircase, only to fall every time. A Black and white monitor and large pixels don’t mix.
Sadly, I still have not beat Rosella. I have the entire King’s Quest series on cd now, and hope to one day conquer that giant.
If you have never played a Sierra game, you’re in luck. Sarien Net has a bunch of Sierra games from Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and King’s Quest, that can be played from your browser AND if you have an IPad, the games are getting a makeover for an easier interface. Sierra games are fun and the original RPG’s of the 80’s, I highly recommend checking them out.