Old Sierra On-Line games now available on iPad via the Web

Get ready to lose your weekend. As we reported it would a while back, Sarien.net is now offering up a whole slew of old Sierra On-Line games, playable through your iPad's web browser for free. The first three King's Quest games, the first two Police Quest games, and even a Leisure Suit Larry title are all online and available. Sarien.net even allows for multiplayer within these old games, so you might see some other players in there while you're wandering around trying to solve puzzles. For those of us who grew up or cut our gaming teeth on these Sierra titles, this is kind of a goldmine.

Sarien, a.k.a. Martin Kool, hasn't received a cease-and-desist from Activision yet, but he has received some kudos from some of the original games' creators. Hopefully that will be enough to keep Activision's legal team at bay, at least until they get these games on the iPad officially.

Don't let that stop you from enjoying these games while they're up and available to play -- I just gave King's Quest another shot, and it's weird to go back and play a game where actual death is around every corner.

[via TouchArcade]

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Ryan

It was taken down, but now Sarien.net has some of the games back up again (but without their ipad versions). Very cool! Here are details:

http://www.martinkool.com/2011/01/sariennet-full-story.html

February 27 2011 at 7:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

EvilKid

Does it crash at all on your computer? Whenever I click a command in the pop-up menu Safari crashes. Booooooo.

January 15 2011 at 10:04 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

mikehild

I wonder what's iPad-specific about this? When I try accessing the games from my Mac, no matter what browser I use, I just get redirected to a page telling me to get an iPad. Does MobileSafari have special features that Safari, Chrome and Firefox don't?

If I set Firefox' User Agent string to that of an iPad, I do get a step further, but it's just a screen that tells me, "Please press Safari's 'Add to Home Screen' button to play." Not quite sure how launching from a shortcut on the home screen would make a difference in how the game works...?

January 14 2011 at 11:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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sadielynn

It works on the iPhone also.. Yea King's Quest is back!

January 14 2011 at 5:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply