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Kings Quest 8

Sun, 13 May 2012 12:09:36 GMT

Hey,

I recently purchased Kings Quest: Mask of Eternity and am having a few issues getting it to run. The usual DosBox solution isn't working for me and I'm having trouble finding out an alternative solution.

Some info: I'm trying to play it on my laptop which has Windows Vista Home Basic.

Mask of Eternity is the only KQ i have not yet played so please any advice would be great.

Forum: What game next?

Trying to install the game

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:13:59 GMT

Someone PLEASE OH GOD TELL ME how do you run setup.exe -lgntforce to bypass silly "This won't run on windows NT" message

I really want this game to work on my computer

Forum: Thief: The Dark Project

Hey

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:59:06 GMT

Hey I love the idea of this place... too bad i just found it and it looks a little dead.

Forum: Welcome to the Vintage Game Club

Name Game

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:21:03 GMT

Do do doot do doot doot!

So after registering for this forum, I now realize you folks are vintage VIDEO game peeps... I'm looking for some info that is a little less technical. Can someone chime in if they have a clue??!

Looking for the name of a game that was around late sixties, early seventies. It was a partner game, there was a stick between two people with plastic hand that hugged the hips. There was a swinging pendulum type hanger in the middle that the two partners would try to get moving around in a circle by cooperatively moving together. I know this sounds crazy, but it is a really funny, fun, great activity and I'm looking to recreate it for my high school phys. ed. classes. Hit me up if you have any idea what I'm talking about!

Forum: Welcome to the Vintage Game Club

Can I post a link to a free game?

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:00:00 GMT

Hello,

If it's not against some regulations,
I'd like to post a link to an oldskool free collaborative game project,
called UBIK (or UBIK Dungeons)
- its a browser RPG (no download needed)

the url is: http://ubik.netne.net

If u like it, please comment here, or if u have any ideas,
I'm coding it so any feedback is appreciated.

The game is free so this is not some kind of advertisment,
I won't get any money no matter if 10 or billion people play it

But u might enjoy it as I do.
Kill many multicolored sheeps!
Avoid killing trees!
Level up!
Have fun!

Forum: What game next?

iOS Version

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 17:22:13 GMT

I have just downloaded the newly released iOS version of this game. Anyone else playing through this on their iphone or ipad? I missed this playthrough the first time, but would be interesting in discussing the iphone version if anyone else is.

Forum: Chrono Trigger

Persona 3 and agency

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:18:35 GMT

Interesting potential discussion occurred to me - Persona 3's ability to give the feeling of agency to its players.

Many recent JRPGs like FFXIII most obviously, stopped trying to hide how linear JRPGs are. And persona 3 is heavily linear when you get right down to it. But somehow manages to avoid feeling like you have no agency in the world.

Obviously this is because you have a lot of power over your daily life as opposed to the core story, but I think this is certainly something worth spending some time discussing.

Forum: Persona 3

Horror game for October

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:05:31 GMT

In the new game discussion thread, several of us were interested in doing something spooky for October. This is a little different because we're interested in a genre rather than the game, so I thought we could vote on a few titles to see what people are interested in. I'm listing series of games just by the title of the series and if one of those is picked, we'll decide on the exact game after that. I would assume we'll be doing the first or second game in the series.

Comments and suggestions are extremely welcome! I like horror games a lot, but my actual experience is kind of limited. The list is mostly coming from the other thread.

Edit now that I've made the poll:

I said System Shock 2 because it seems like the first one isn't really a horror game. I'm also really interested in Sweet Home, but it's a NES era Japanese game so finding a legit copy is impossible, but there's probably a translated ROM somewhere.

I made it so you can vote for multiples mostly because I realized I want to play most of these. Let's just see how this all turns out.

Again, please make suggestions, especially if there's a glaring absence.

Forum: What game next?

Persona 3 and views on adulthood

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 07:28:51 GMT

Emie R raised a good topic for discussion in the Devil arcana thread. And warnings, this thread is likely to have spoilers for a lot of things, but this first post will NOT!

From Emie

That's a great point and it ties into something I've been meaning to mull over and start a discussion on: the P3 perspective on adulthood. Clearly, neither Tanaka or Mutatsu are very good role models. There's some pretty deep dissatifaction and angst that comes through in the conversations they have with the MC. I find Tanaka to be kinda dull but at least he's a good instantiation of what the devil arcana symbolizes--materialistic, greedy, vain.

Forum: Persona 3

The Legend of Zelda

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:53:54 GMT

Man, this game is hard. I think I've died 30 times now.

I found the Level-1 very fast and beat it pretty easily, too. Now I'm trying to get rupees to buy a thing that looks like it might be a raft. I'm avoiding walkthroughs, so don't tell me if I'm wrong. I'll find out.

So far, I like how little it tells you. There's sort of a feeling that if you just keep going, it'll work out. Most of the challenges are skill rather than puzzle and barriers are less "you need this thing to go here" and more "you need to just learn how not to die so fast".

Anyone one else trying to do this after getting the Nintendo Ambassador stuff?

Forum: What Vintage Games Are You Playing Now?

Persona 3 Mechanical discussion

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 02:39:17 GMT

Persona 3 is a quite mechanical game. Some even describe it as almost a roguelike. Borrowing things like stamina, lots of random events possible in the dungeons (from the cards to high/low monster floors, chances of running into death) as well as the tight integration of all the various systems (all systems tie back into the dungeon crawling somehow, and that leaks out into the rest of game, e.g tireness making study less useful, and training cutting out some study time).

So anything interesting mechanics wise people want to look at? Persona fusion mechanics might want to stay in the persona thread perhaps?

Forum: Persona 3

Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Some Spoilers)

Sun, 28 Aug 2011 10:44:34 GMT

A lot of folks have been looking for a place to discuss the new Deus Ex, and this seemed like the place. I can already imagine people replaying this several years from now, so I think it qualifies as Vintage. Was going to put this in the Deus Ex section of the board but wasn't sure, Moderators feel free to move it if you wish.

So I'm really enjoying the game so far, but the boss fights are so out of place they are making me more frustrated and angry than they would in any other game; and I don't like boss fights at the best of times.

Anyway... Continued thoughts?

Tag spoilers if possible, I think you can create them as White Text on a White Background to make them invisible until highlighted. Testing, 1, 2, 3, 4

Forum: Off-topic conversation

canonization, the JRPG genre

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:54:38 GMT

We were getting a little off topic here http://www.vintagegameclub.org/post?id=5441761

And thought I might redirect the conversation here.... Too lazy to summarise but I suggest I take a look.

Forum: Off-topic conversation

Persona and Catherine

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:26:55 GMT

I just started Catherine, the Persona team's latest game; I'm only a couple of hours into it, and while a couple of hours in that game is a much larger chunk than a couple of hours of a Persona game, it's still not very far, so I don't have anything to say about it yet. But I figured I'd open up a thread in case anybody else wants to talk about the two games; hopefully I'll have something more to say in a week or two...

Forum: Persona 3

Final Fantasy V Four Job Fiesta

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:11:01 GMT

In my many commutes when not playing p3 I'm currently getting through ffvs 4 job fiesta. A challenge where you only get 4 jobs, on from each crystal... Randomly choosen.

I'm really enjoying it too. Usually I get bogged down in ffv by feeling I need this ability of that class and this one of another and it's just so overwhelming... But as it stands my knight ranger summoner trio actually has a lot of room of variation without being too difficult... Although I'm aching for some white magic....

Ah FFV... It's actually one of the only FFs I've both never finished and never gotten very far in.

Forum: What Vintage Games Are You Playing Now?