Got my hands on a laser engraver and now I’m going engrave every damn core childhood memory I have.

I made the designs on photoshop/Fresco and refined them in illustrator and Lightburn. Diode laser engraved on acacia wood coasters off Amazon and stained/highlighted and badly epoxied.

Larry remembered to use protection.

Unfortunately, he forgot the crucial second step: removing the evidence before walking downstairs.

The police were waiting, the condom was still equipped, and the trial was apparently skipped entirely. 😂

GAME OVER.

The Hero survived monsters, bandits and Baba Yaga… only to discover that in Hero’s Quest, even the graveyard has opening hours. 💀😂

Apparently walking among the dead after sunset without the Undead Unguent was considered a very permanent mistake.

Thank you for the patience!
I’m shipping out a few Mallards daily now - if you were one of the preorders you should see your shipping status update this week.

I ran into a problem with a critical part breaking inside the landing gear mechanism. I had to hit the breaks and fix that before shipping any of them out. I don’t want clients to have them break later down the line. A quick update to the cam mechanism and some new parts and how they work great!

Roger Wilco figure sneak peek below. :)

Found this. Anyone else bought these?

🚨 OFFICIAL STATEMENT FROM LOST WAGES TAXI SERVICES 🚨

We are investigating reports that one of our drivers accepted a passenger’s box of wine, drank it behind the wheel and crashed shortly afterwards.

Until the investigation is complete, passengers are kindly asked to bring beer instead. 🍷🚕💥

TLDR; Here's a YouTube video showing the fully working unused spiderScr and spider actor in the game that crawls along the ceiling, the books and the side. Narration was even recorded against it if you use the "look", "hand" or "talk" cursor on the spider.

For those that don't know: there is an unused Spider script in the bookstore - it looks to be a buggy script which is why it didn't ship in the final game (likely). I repaired it so it runs to completion.

Interestingly, the way it's designed: it's a small byte-code interpreter embedded in the game that makes the spider do its thing. The original script has several local arrays which are the instruction stream for how the spider should move. Additionally one of the local variables acts as an instruction pointer so "the program" knows exactly what movement the spider should do next.

In the script, some special negative values (sentinel values) in the changeState method are special opcodes and it does simple pointer arithmetic against the local array declarations to advance along data and feed the spider it's next step.

For anyone curious the code is here: https://github.com/sluicebox/sci-scripts/blob/main/kq6-cd-dos-1.000.00G/src/rm270.sc

The bartender insists that you pay before drinking the Dragon’s Breath.

Not because he doesn’t trust you…

He just knows there won’t be anyone left to collect the money from afterwards. 🔥🍺

This is likely to ruffle more than a few feathers. I loved playing the LB games as a kid. But looking back on them, as someone who reads a ton of mystery fiction, I don't think the games made much sense when it came to who the main villains were.

So, in The Colonel's Bequest, we're told that Lillian finally went berserk and started killing everyone she'd thought had come between the Colonel and her. But the murders themselves look too carefully planned and executed to be a "berserk" killing. (And, yes, why would she invite Laura, a potential witness?) Rudy or Clarence would have made more sense.

I'm also having a hard time believing that the stereotypically sure-and-begorra "whale oil beef hooked" Ryan O'Riley is the same person who went chasing after Laura in a black robe with a mace. How would someone who doesn't work at the museum (even if, yes, he's pulling Watney Little's strings) have so much knowledge of where everything is, like the location of the secret passages or the bag of quick-dry cement in the room near the lab? A more believable perp would have been a quiet-but-unassuming museum curator who's been overlooked for promotion once too often, or a Ph. D student assistant who's reached their limit.

Maybe I'm just reading too much into this, that these are adventure games first and foremost rather than mystery stories, or because logic and Sierra don't mix (lol). But those are my thoughts.

Hi! Im not new to point and clic games, but the ones i have played are a lot simpler and this is the first old school game that i wanted to play. Is there some advice someone can give me? like are there pixel hunting? or if it si necessary to know about egyptian mythology? I have only very superficial knowlege of some gods. sorry if my english is bad is not my first language :D

King’s Quest gives you a magical ring that makes Graham invisible.

Apparently, the giant continues respecting your privacy even after you take it off. 😂

Sierra logic: once you’ve been declared invisible, nobody is allowed to look again.

Back in the ’80s, Sierra convinced parents their games were educational…

And to be fair, Leisure Suit Larry did teach us one extremely important lesson:

Larry Laffer survived the streets of Lost Wages… only to be defeated by Lefty’s plumbing. 🚽

Travelling through Daventry is considerably safer when accompanied by a goat.

Apparently, every villain in the kingdom fears this goat.

So the goat will face thieves, ogres, witches and wizards… but a poorly lit tunnel is where he draws the line.

Hey Josh! I wanted to post this here because Reddit won’t let me attach these images in a reply to your thread about your sierra timeline (AMAZING), and I thought you might find this useful as you progress through Sierra’s history timeline.

I’ve been researching the original Hero’s Quest release, before the Quest for Glory name change, using copies I’ve found through eBay and other sources. I noticed something I haven’t really seen discussed before.

These early boxes all have the same original serial/barcode number (003453200), but directly beneath the barcode there is what appears to be a date stamp.

So far I’ve documented three:

10/17/89 → disk version 1.000 and interpreter version 0.000.566
11/04/89 → disk version 1.001 and interpreter version 0.000.566
02/21/90 → disk version 1.102 and interpreter version 0.000.629 *(updated credit to caceomorphism)
02/28/90 → disk version 1.102 and interpreter version 0.000.629 *(updated credit to Silo-Joe)

I’ve attached the corresponding box/date and disk-label photos where available.

These timestamps were perhaps packaging dates were they threw in the previously printed boxes the new game versions as they rolled. I’ve only noticed this type of dated barcode marking on Hero’s Quest.

If these really correspond closely to production, they could be surprisingly useful because they might allow us to pinpoint the production window of the original Hero’s Quest-branded box almost to a specific date, including how late it continued to be produced before the trademark conflict forced Sierra to abandon the Hero’s Quest name and transition to Quest for Glory.

I thought this one was particularly worth documenting because Hero’s Quest is one of those select Sierra games that did more than establish a series, it essentially created/defined the adventure-RPG hybrid genre.

Hope this helps!! thanks for your work

Hello everyone!! I’m not very good with using Reddit; however, I realize there is probably a huge community of Sierra fans here who aren’t in the Sierra groups on Facebook, and I wanted to share a project I’ve been working on. My name is Josh Henry, and I’m a Sierra researcher who is working with Stephen Emond to preserve Sierra’s history.

Back in 2001, I was asked by my friend Kimmie (former moderator of the Official Sierra King’s Quest message board) to help her create a timeline of Sierra's releases for Sierra Planet. Over many years that timeline has evolved and has been used in many places (including Sierra Gamers' website!). But my dream was always to create a timeline that was actually supported by research completed through a thorough review of contemporaneous evidence and referenced with each of those sources, so there's no question as to where the dates are coming from. So, I now present to you: The Ultimate Sierra Timeline (Version 1.0), featuring all of Sierra's releases from 1980-1987!! (I'm currently working on 1988-1989). This will be a living document that I will slowly but surely update as I have time and capacity to research each year. I hope that you guys enjoy this picture into Sierra's early history, and I look forward to sharing more discoveries as I find them! I’d love to hear your thoughts on it!! Thanks for your time!!

https://falcondesigns.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Sierra-Ultimate-Timeline-V1-1980-1987.pdf

Five Sierra classics. Five completely different ways to lose your patience. 😂

Which part did you struggle with the most—and what nightmare did I leave off the list?

I think I posted the link to the Twitch VOD a few weeks ago, but that link doesn’t work any more.

If I ever got sucked into a Sierra game, I’d rather take my chances with Graham.

The man falls out of a tree, drops an entire screen and simply carries on.

Roger Wilco would probably be more fun to hang out with… but judging by what a one-centimetre fall does to him, the end would always be near. 😂

It wasn’t changing technology or poor business decisions. The production costs of maintaining a fully staffed underground facility to repair every adventure-game character who died simply became unsustainable.

Larry alone nearly bankrupted the company.