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Currently hosting 4 games developed by Sierra On-Line!
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Home of Retro PC Gaming
Currently hosting 4 games developed by Sierra On-Line! |
| Gobliiins 1991 | ||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Adventure |
| Developed by Coktel Vision (Sierra On-Line) | ||
| Published by Sierra On-Line | ||
| Graphics: VGA 320×200×256c | ||
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In the first game in the legendary Goblins series, someone is using a voodoo doll to drive the king crazy, and you must seek out a wizard to save him. Gobliiins is a point-and-click adventure in which you control three goblins, named Dwayne, Bobo and Hooter. Only one character can be controlled at a time, and each goblin has different abilities. Bobo is a warrior and can punch things. Hooter is a magician and can cast spells on things. Dwayne is a technician, and is the only character who can pick up and use objects, but he can only hold one object at a time. Sometimes making a mistake will cause one of your goblins to be injured in a humorous way, which reduces their collective life bar. Some actions will even kill them instantly! When all of the goals on the screen have been achieved, the game indicates that you can move to the next screen and gives you a save code. A CD-ROM version of the game, called "Gobliiins Gold" featured voice acting in several languages during the interlude between screens, which helped develop the story. There are 20 levels in this game, with only the first 3 playable in the shareware version. DownloadsGobliiins Shareware Demo (765k) Play online AvailabilitySierra no longer sells this game. It can be ordered from Amazon: Gobliiins
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| Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon 1992 | ||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Adventure |
| Developed by Coktel Vision (Sierra On-Line) | ||
| Published by Sierra On-Line | ||
| Graphics: VGA 320×200×256c | ||
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In the second game in the legendary Goblins series, the king's son has been kidnapped, and you must rescue him and bring him home. As the name implies, there are only two goblins this time, named Fingus and Winkle. This time both goblins can carry and use objects, so the difference between is their personalities. Fingus is intelligent and tactful, while Winkle is discourteous and violent. Their personalities determine how a goblin will use an object or talk to other characters. The first major improvement over Gobliiins is that both goblins can be controlled simultaneously, and must sometimes work together to solve a problem. You can also keep more than one object in your inventory at once, and objects can be instantly assigned and transferred between goblins. There is no longer a health bar, which dramatically increases the number of situations where the goblins can be hilariously injured. The dialog is witty and sarcastic, the goblins' antics are hysterical, and there's a lot to do on every screen. Another improvement is that the goblins can (and must) move back and forth between screens. Sometimes a goal must be achieved on another screen before success can be achieved on the first one. Many of the solutions are devilishly hard, so with the addition of more to do on each screen, the playable demo for Gobliins 2 offers much more content than the demo for Gobliiins, and could take a newcomer to the game hours to complete. Only the first level, consisting of 4 screens, is playable in the shareware version. DownloadsGobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon v1.01 Shareware Demo (535k) Play online AvailabilitySierra no longer sells this game. It can be ordered from Amazon: Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon.
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| Goblins Quest 3 1993 | ||
| User rating: No rating | DOS Shareware (partial game) | Adventure |
| Developed by Coktel Vision (Sierra On-Line) | ||
| Published by Sierra On-Line | ||
| Graphics: VGA 320×200×256c | ||
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In the third game in the legendary Goblins series, a single goblin named Blount sets out with no particular quest in mind, but eventually needs to rescue a damsel in distress. There are secondary playable characters in some levels, which allows for puzzles that require teamwork by controlling both characters simultaneously. You can still keep more than one object in your inventory at once, and there is no health bar. The only obvious improvement since Gobliins 2 is that some levels are larger than the screen, which can be scrolled with the mouse pointer. Only the first level is playable in the shareware version. DownloadsGobliiins Quest 3 v0.02 French Shareware Demo (1290k) AvailabilitySierra no longer sells this game. It can be ordered from Amazon: Goblins Quest 3.
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| Lost Mind of Dr. Brain, The 1995 | ||
| User rating: No rating | Win16 Shareware (partial game) | Educational |
| Developed by Sierra On-Line | ||
| Published by Sierra On-Line | ||
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The third in the popular Dr. Brain series of educational games from Sierra. While performing an experiment to give his intelligence to a lab rat, Dr. Brain transfers his mind to the rat and leaves himself a vegetable! The player must reconstruct Dr. Brain's mind by completing puzzles in nine regions of the brain, and getting 100% in each puzzle. There are three difficulty levels in each puzzle, which are worth 5, 10 and 15%, respectively. File sorting is a memory game in which Dr. Brain asks you to place items in filing cabinets and remember where they are, even after the cabinets are re-arranged in the harder difficulty levels. The Music Region requires you to reconstruct a piece of classical music from a group of bars which are in the wrong order, and may also be vertically or horizontally flipped. Motor Programming is a simple programming language like Logo, which requires you to break a problem into smaller tasks and write subroutines to collect pieces of Dr. Brain's mind. The game is filled with beautiful animation, voice, and humor. There are 9 regions of Dr. Brain's mind, with only 3 playable in the shareware version. DownloadsThe Lost Mind of Dr. Brain Shareware Demo (48 750k) AvailabilitySierra no longer sells this game. It can be ordered from Amazon: The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain.
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