So many ways to die.

Nice to see the Laura Bow games finally released. And knowing Activision, not the least bit surprised about the way they went about it.

Finally! Took you long enough.

This looks interesting. Wishlisted for now

Of course they are amazing. But when they get Shivers 1 & 2 they will be awesome ;)

RIP post #21. We hardly knew ye. :(

More Sierra gems are always welcome! Thank you GOG and Activision.

yaaaaaayyyyy!!!

more sierra.

i never was a fan of laura bow, so i'm going to pass on these and wait for a giant-ish sale before buying, but it's great that they're here.

keep the new sierra stuff rolling, please, activision and gog.

I'm surprised these aren't labeled Laura Bow: The Colonel's Bequest and Laura Bow: The Dagger Of Amon Ra.

I think there's also a sequel to that song.
And most deaths in CBQ aren't that dumb, except for walking into a gator infested swamp.

i dunno. disney sort of disavows anything related to their brief foray with sierra [the hundred acre wood/donald duck's playground] - so activision might have a problem getting those to gog since maybe [?] disney owns the rights to those games now. or something?

i sincerely hope that's not the case/how it works. because that means we /are/ inching ever closer to a complete sierra adventure catalogue.

Nice release. Wish that one had got a VGA remake though. I find EGA graphics sometimes hard to stomach on today's big ultra-sharp screens, especially when they rely a lot on rasters to create intermediate "colors".

Hooray! Hooray! I still have the originals in some format on disk.

this was a weird period for sierra. the remakes were experiments and the experiments sort of failed. the prevailing sentiment at the time was:

a) if i wanted to play king's quest 1, i'll just stick the disks in the drive and play it! i don't need a newfangled version with better graphics and sound!
b) lots of folks felt that the remakes were a desecration of a sort. you were taking the intent and spirit of the original and then mangling it through the process of remaking the game. most felt it was a case of "the cover isn't nearly as good as the original..." [one very interesting article i read at the time talked about the "silent era" of film and how colourizing those movies and modernizing them all but extracted the charm out of those movies. their theory was the same would happen here.]

so, while they kind of started at the back end of their catalogue [kq1/sq1/pq1] and "modernized" those, the experiment kind of fizzled by the time they were due to do the second round of "updates."