Hero's Quest Bug
I was playing Hero’s Quest (later renamed to Quest For Glory) on the Amiga years ago, when this popped up and the game crashed. I thought it was pretty funny, but maybe it’s only funny to programmers…
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Posted: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 15:08:48 GMT, by ikkebra
I loved these games. I bought anything Sierra put out. I still have my 5.25 disks laying around somewhere for Hero’s Quest, all 15 of them.
Posted: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 07:33:04 GMT, by dokidoki
I remember that in Monkey Island! That was awesome!
(description for those that didn’t see it)
Sierra games would kill you at every turn, if you walked off a cliff, or blinked the wrong way. Conversely, LucasArts games were very forgiving. At one poin
Posted: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 07:35:04 GMT, by dokidoki
(cont) In MI, you could walk off a cliff and the game said you died and put up a dialog just like Sierra’s, above. But then it turns out you fall on a rubber tree or something and bounce back up to safety. :)
Posted: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:28:51 GMT, by ambalek
That’s cool, it reminded me of playing Monkey Island on my Amiga and the joke bug when Guybrush falls off a cliff :)