Re: "Sierra made the games of my childhood. Are they still fun to play?"

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, 20 May 2025 00:47:21 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

That didn't stop me from buyin Firehawk or Sierra's Win95 port of the
original game, though. It's just a game I wanted to love so much I
kept giving it chance after chance.

Did you like those? I enjoyed Fire Hawk, but its ending boss level was
sooooooooooooooooooooo lame! Like the developers gave up or ran of time.
I can't remember if I played W95 port.

Honestly, I remember very little about "Firehawk", except that it felt
like 'more of the same', which -given my opinion of the original- was
quite disappointing.

But at least it had music this time.

And better graphics and sound effects. Oh, and you can pause the game to
change stuff IIRC. IIRC, it had a save game option! My parents kept its
game from local Egghead store.

"Thexder 95" wasn't much better. It was one of the earliest
'made-for-Win95' games, and a lot of what I remember about it had less
to do with the game itself but some of the tech it used. For instance,
it was one of the earliest "Autoplay" games, where you didn't have to
install anything to your hard-drive; just stick in the CD-ROM and go
(Microsoft really thought that was going to be the future of games and
advertised that as a major advantage of Windows 95).

Also, it broke out its HUD into separate windows; a tiny weapon for
showing what weapons you had, another window for showing health, the
main window for the action, a fourth window for the mini-map. The idea
was you could arrange and resizethese HUD elements/windows how you
wanted (or hide them entirely), depending on your preferences and
screen-size. But the end result was just to make everything look
cluttered.

The gameplay itself... well, it was pretty much original "Thexder" but
with less fluid animation and slightly nicer graphics. And since I
didn't care for the "Thexder" gameplay, I didn't stick with that
version very long either. ;-)

I watched the videos on YouTube. OK, I didn't play this one. It looks
bad!

TIL they ported the game to PSP. So now I have to buy that one to see
if I hate it as much as the originals ;-)

>
I saw videos of that, but don't have consoles. Give me a PC port or 
an emulator.

I don't even know if they have a Playstation Portable emulator.
(Oh look, they do. https://www.ppsspp.org/ I don't know why I
doubted).

Wow, but how is it? Do I need a high end video card for it? My computers
are old!

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