And King’s Quest, and Space Quest… and whole host of others. If you head to this nifty website with your iPad web browser, you can gain access to a whole set of old-school Sierra point and click adventures, tailored for the iPad touch interface.
And it’s all thanks to Martin Kool, who started off by porting Space Quest across to iPad as a demo, before fixing up th entire game, then a host of others. If you, like me sometimes feel a hankering for some nostalgic adventurin’, this is a great solution. The one drawback, of course, is that you have to online to play it – which may make mobile play on the train, for example, next to impossible – but it’s still an awesome way to waste an hour or two if you’re stuck at home with a mobile device.
Sarien [via TouchArcade]
Naca-Yoda
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 10:40 AMAre there game saves?!
Sughly
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 11:26 AMThis was going to be my query! Though I own no iGadgets, this would be an interesting swing in the direction of ‘I should get one’.
Crazyguy1990
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 12:18 PMYes, just bookmark the page, and it will save your game progress
Aneesoft Win
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 6:09 PMAwesome one
Woodze
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 11:00 AMThat started off awesome, but then the online thing murdered it! This would be perfect for train rides! Here’s hoping for City Rail free Wi-Fi one day!
Jamesmacusedmyhandle
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 11:36 AMNeed for ipad rising……
Any screenshots?
Straight ports or updates?
If anyone else feels nostalgic, this site has remade some old sierra games
http://www.agdinteractive.com/games/games.html
Sughly
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 12:01 PMYeah those guys are great! there’s also a pretty awesome KQ3 remake bobbing around on the internets somewhere that’s well worth your time.
EzyLee
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 12:02 PMThis is awesome.
Alright, I went to the site on my iPad thinking I would just get normal site you see in the above link. What you do get is a view exactly like the apple book store with the cover of the games.
You then select the game you want to play, then it prompts you to add the site to your home page on safari. It then creates a shortcut to this in the form of an application button.
Freakin’ brilliant!
As for saving. Yes you can do it… You can hit options as a button on the screen, it then brings up an F Keys option. Hit that… and if you all remember what F button it is to save your game, then you are laughing ;) Hit the F5 button and rotate the ipad into portrait mode and it will then allow you to save the game in a save slot.
This has made my game. As for ‘What are you playing this weekend?’ I just found my games.
Chaz
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 12:52 PM^^^
Right on dude. That Quest for Glory remake is boss.
@Woodze – you can turn multiplayer off.
@Naca-Yoda – yep you can save games … it gives you a URL or something
No sound on it as yet though, unfort.
Mr Explody
Friday, January 14, 2011 at 3:28 PMKind of works in Windows Phone 7, but was struggling to work out the controls.
astrogirl
Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 2:41 AMIts a bit iffy on the iphone/ipod touch. Unless I am missing something, you need to go through the ipad site and add the games to your homescreen and that seems to work (mostly, I couldnt get space quest to work, but police quest loaded) but when you play, you have to keep moving the screen around to get to the buttons below, and of course tapping the screen to grab and drag makes your character move all over the place. Its playable, but kinda difficult.
Stephen Oxley
Sunday, January 16, 2011 at 8:16 PMAwesome. Police Quest 1 is one of my favourite games of all time.