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The game came with LucasArts Archives Vol. IV: Star Wars Collection II. It's in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/thelucasartsarchivesvolivstarwar...

There was also Indiana Jones Desktop Adventures which used the same engine. Both were rather harshly reviewed at the time for being "pointless" - presumably the reviewers didn't like the random generation - while "rogue" (and Nethack, etc) existed, the idea of a "roguelike" hadn't quite gelled as a concept in pop culture yet.

It is supported by the DREAMM emulator. And the image is on archive.org, have fun!

I remember it fondly. My family had a lower-end 486 and it couldn't run a lot of games but it ran Yoda Stories great! Loved that game as a kid. LucasArts really was a gem (loved Grim Fandango, Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Full Throttle, etc.).

https://www.retro-exo.com/index2.html - check in one of eXoWin releases.

This one slapped!

Note: I had very good luck with DosBox on a pile of games from that era and older lately. (Edutainment mainly). I didn't try this one though. Now I want to...

Yes, I got my copy from a lucasarts box set promotion at compusa. I recall liking Yoda Stories more than the other games in the box set.

I recently played a browser version of it. Such good childhood memories!

Friend of mine had it on the original gameboy

1. Find a map with the maximum amount of buildable space 2. Start the game with the maximum speed to above 5000 years 3. Build Hell first and only 4. Pause, build the portal already thinking in upgraded form. 5. Build long straight roads, columns spaced 4 from each other, avoid crossing 6. Check the sins demand 7. Usually, the green is the most demanded 8. Don’t touch anything about the planet 9. This is key: using green as example, build 2x2 spaced so the neighbor is diagonal, never adjacent. 10. Build your first wave of buildings, and essentials (dystopias, the trams, etc. I assume you know those things) 11. Open the portal, make a lot of money 12. Upgrade the portal, make more money 13. Max capacity reached, starting to lose souls and money, you adjust the building’s efficiency to white for every building manually until you are rich 14. Buildings start to reach its top version and capacity, lock them 15. Activate the bats , y to their guano are excellent to upgrade the buildings. Also keep other disasters away during a grace period 16. Then keep growing, adjusting buildings efficiency, more portals, more buildings 17. You only need half the Hell, to achieve hell’s Omnibulges 18. Then star heaven 19. Follow heaven best practices and you reach to Love Domes very easily and rich af 20. I would only train later in the game. Build the best training school, make it only accept top 10%, left side, watch and leave 20% no lower because it can cause excess oof demons or angels, unless you want to see the a special ending 21. Endings can be quite fun to achieve (then you want to mess up with the planet)

What I like about sim city 2K is that it is like an arcade sim game. It is super easy to get up and running without too much prior knowledge. You can build a successful city without reading through the manual.

I also like that there's no ending. Maybe this makes it "easy", but it promotes setting specific goals for yourself and exploration rather than going through certain expected motions to meet a preset goal. But there are the scenarios for people who like a preset challenge.

It's funny when you boot up these old games you played long ago, how small the view port is, and how I didn't seem to notice that at the time.

I'd recommend this. As kids my brother and I could never complete a game on the BBC Micro called Imogen[0]. It was amazing for the time in that your character could transform into three modes (wizard / cat / monkey) and on one screen a fourth mode, and the transformation looked smooth even back then. However - we never completed it. As an adult I found it again and while I completed it fairly easily, it was a nice memory.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogen_(video_game)

I played it summer of 2005, the same year I binged Douglas Adams' complete non-HHG works (including 'Last Chance to See' on CD-ROM and the interactive fiction game, 'Bureaucracy').

Afterlife is wonderfully fun and satisfying to experience to completion for the first time, and what it might lack in replayability it more than makes up for with humor and design.

Indiana Jones, Monkey Island, Sam & Max, The Grim Fandango. Such a big part of my childhood and teen years.

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Amen. Sam and Max Hit the Road has a special place in my childhood. So much encouragement of exploration and humor.

As far as I remember, they were called LucasArts, except their first title (Labyrinth, 1986) was published and distributed by Activision. Everything else, from Maniac Mansion (1987) to Escape from Monkey Island (2000), was published by LucasArts.

/edit I stand corrected... I just checked the intro on the c64 version of Maniac Mansion, and it does indeed state Lucasfilm Games, not LucasArts. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM8ot8bJS3Q)

I have memories of MI2 already showing the LucasArts logo?

(/me goes to check YT videos)

Yes I'm right, see https://youtu.be/6lTz2nkPNXA?t=32

The brand used before "Lucasarts" was "Lucasfilm games"

It changed in 1990. There was a logo with both names briefly.

It's not your English proficiency. I didn't know this game existed, so before clicking, I expected it was about LucasArt's legacy on the games industry, or what former people there are doing now.

I've got good enough English as a native speaker and I thought the same thing, don't worry. That said, still an interesting article about a game I managed to never hear of before, despite being immersed in exactly those sorts of games at the time.

Leisure Suit Larry was Sierra, not LucasArts.

I've just remembered whichever version of Sim City I played as a kid used to have the option (and encourage?) to take on debt. I found the interest a killer.

I don't envy politicians having to run a country, knowing that 10% + of all government spending is just going towards interest payments for past spending.

As with all debt, you hope that it was used to buy assets that are earning more than the interest cost, and not just on a consumable.

There are high numbers here that must be difficult: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-government-expen...

Thinking about it, I wonder if this doesn't capture the whole picture. It is the percentage of spending, but doesn't capture whether that total spending denominator is itself more or less than the government is earning. Suppose one year, a government spent twice as much as it earned. Even if the interest payments stayed the same, wouldn't the "interest payments as a share of expenditure" halve that year?

See “The Good Place”.