Ex-SIERRA Game Developer is selling Original Source Code! - Leisure Suit Larry, King's Quest & More! 

Modern Vintage Gamer agreed. It should be backed up multiple places including github, so we can preserve the history

You know the person who can afford to win the auction will try and profit fron the source right? So it probably won't be available on github

@@imheyns1514 sadly you are probably right. Oh well

Them floppies have a very limited life span. Even if you keep them safely stored in a humid-free environmentally controlled space, they utilize magnetic storage. IF they are still readable, they surely won't be after another 20-30 years.

maybe you should buy it and just add a donation button to help reduce your costs

There was that tour a few years back of Richard Garriott's collection (Ultima, Akalabeth) with that one guy who is currently dying from Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Jake Friedel Same here. The “Boss is coming” feature saved my skin plenty of times. 👍

I remember the LSL questions being too hard for a European kid. (didn't know about alt-x for a long time)

@@PierreVonStaines hahaha "why the hell is my son looking at old random graphs"

Jake Friedel I guess ignorance really is bliss! They had no clue what I was doing, the perfect crime you could say. 🥴

@@zebular...with his pants down? That's some weird "homework"...

Yeah the whole video I was thinking a) I hope these floppies are still readable b) I hope whoever buys them backs them up to a more modern storage medium. A lot of them. Redundantly. c) Regardless of what the buyer does with them please send a copy of the backups to the Computer History Museum. They might not put them online but they’d be the best place to hold on to a copy.

I totaly agree I so so so so hope the right person buys it and document this for the love of gaming.

@@tomkidd4006 Spot on! Media that old is going to be sketchy at best. Hopefully whoever acquires them can also afford any potential data recovery that may be needed. Would be really cool to see the source code along with comments and such.

Yeah, this is the most concerning part of this. Auctioning it off to the highest bidder is risky as hell. I'm sure he could have shopped this around to a responsible buyer who could have made him an offer rather than leaving it up on a public auction.

@@tomkidd4006 So that's like 5 5"1/4 floppies, right? Here's what we do, we embed the

lmao

Where is Jason Scott when you need him

@@leonstrand329 Right here, pal.

@@jasonscott526 is the Beetlejuice of the internet. Call out his name once and he will be summoned.

BAZINGA!

Most developers are cool people but now the companies lock them like animals.

@@Orbitthemaster I remember reading some interviews with some japanese developers from the early days, and they almost seemed bitter and cranky about everything. Like they didn't want to talk about their old stuff because for a lot of them it was just a job that they didn't have passion for. They didn't feel like anybody should look at them with any celebrity and people who did were foolish. I'm just happy to see this guy wasn't like that. You never know until you meet somebody right?

Well he is getting advertising for his auction. Pretty sure that's why he is doing this not because he's a nice guy.

@@sirsmokealot630 he did an interview for a brazilian magazine, like 8 or 9 years ago, I don't remember, but he was a nice guy.

@@GeovaneSanciniSR I don't doubt he's a nice guy at all. I grew up playing Sierra games and they have a special place in my heart. Just saying that he is out to push product at auction on Ebay not to be a nice guy in this video. Otherwise you would see him doing these sort of videos with no product to sell.

He's grabbing a snack ... in the refrigerator.

He is too busy running away from Spielberg and Lucas as South Park has taught us.

considering some of the stuff hes selling is already bidding at like $6000, i dont he wants to just give it to a museum

He’s on floppy disks, that’s where

@@caseycomb Keep it hidden, keep it safe. :P

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HAHAHAHAHAHA

LIKE just isn't strong enough. I have never agreed more with anything in my life.

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It was a complete HONOR to hang out with the living legend :)

Yeahhh... You may wanna leave the kids at home for that one... Lol

Me thrise!!! Two=Twice=Three=Thrice...not once not twice but thrice :)

with staff dressed as leisure suit Larry characters and such!! that would be awesome!! Bill Gates should fund the project!! lol

I would go to Eurotrash from the Disneyland sketch on sprockets from SNL ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rZMoGyr1BFU.html

That's not really saying much since everything related to Disney is absolute crap these days and shows zero signs of even a partial recovery ever being possible. I'd rather hang out in an AIDS-infested dumpster somewhere in California than watch another cape shit or Woke Wars movie.

Probably had a change of heart. I personally would keep them as a true monument of dues payed and history made. It belongs to him \-3-/ its just money after all.

greetings from Poland MetalJesus!!!

Maybe for legal issues? :p

Either the disks don't work anymore or Sierra sued him.. or third option being some company like Sony or Microsoft bought them and plan to re-release everything.

I'm going to vote legal issues, also. Does he actually own that data, since he created it while working for the company? I was curious how high the bids would go.

Deuxforever maybe even a vr version.

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It does, I miss those times.

at some point. I've really got a find out which of the series were point and click with out all the text. First one I played was love for sale and Cantor member if that was the sixth or seventh pretty sure after that the rest of them. I played were on consoles.

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I messaged Al asking if he would consider it. #CrossesFingers

I understand why it is only for US. There are so many scammers around here (*cough* India, *cough* Romania) so it's easy to deal only with local scammers.

@@MetalJesusRocks Thank you!

Second that

I'm willing to facilitate bidding for non us residents in exchange for a 5% commission of the final price, plus the shipping to you.

I might start back playing persona 3

For some reason I thought they would find the "lost" Leisure suit Larry 4 game. I know the canonical story goes that Larry forgot to appear in Larry 4 which is a funny gag, but would have been extremely awesome if they actually made the game but never shipped for some reason. The other thing I hope that some these disks have earlier / uncensored versions of the game or some other big differences. One game had the floppies "Latest version" AND "Master version"

@@cyde79 I was thinking, where's 4, when they were looking at the others and then I was like... duh.

looks right ,looks left, makes a brief little smile and slides you a beer and a Cigar

@@cyde79 I'm sure leisure suit Larry 4 is around their somewheres. It's always been this urban myth that the master discs got lost or erased. While the game was being produced or that any number of things like that happen. When they started talking about lowering his attic. I immediately thought they're finally going to find the game under a couple of loose boards or something while poking around his boxes of stuff. God I miss leisure suit Larry games. I know everybody hates the ones for consoles, but at least they were something after such a long absence. I've never played all the games for a couple of reasons, mostly to do with what I can do with computer hardware and can't do. I gave up playing video games on computers a long time ago because you always needed something different. You had to much of this or not enough of that and gamesRequired all that foolishness and I got fed up with that real Fast. I like taking a disk turning on the machine and it just works. No having to upgrade or downgrade or anything like that. I don't think they made a complete leisure suit Larry box collection that will just run on a basic windows XP computer without having to worry about. If your video card is too fast or too slow, or how much RAM you have or any of that other crap. I can't even are member what operating system I was running when I played leisure suit Larry love for sale. I want to say I was running Windows 95 probably on a IBM Aptiva Pentium 75 is what my brain is saying which should be about right. That would've been my first computer. Every computer game I always seem to have a problem where the video card was too fast or to use while or didn't have enough RAM or any number of other reasons, and it just got monotonous. At one point I tried to install a videogame in the that was clearly labeled or the and it totally screwed up the operating system when it up losing everything that was on the computer because the bloody shop decided to simply reinstall windows And Remove everything. It was around that point I stuck with consoles and never went back to computers. I know at one point I've bought a leisure suit Larry collection that in clued the leisure suit Larry casino game as well. As all the other cup games in the series, which was several years before they did the console games. I'll probably never see another leisure suit Larry game. Obviously they'll never do one for console again on. Fortunately, I know they did a remake of the first game a couple years back for computer. But once again there's the whole issue of it probably requires one operating system or another and your computer can't be a certain age, or be two new. They never did figure out that whole concept of just stick it in and it works without screwing something up.

don't mind if i do yooooink

Agreed!

Loved that game, so many fun mini-games. Have you played it on an emulator?

aguyandhiscomputer I sure have, quite recently too which was to the delight of my own children which was a bit of a full circle moment considering they usually play the Switch or 3DS lol

@@tweaklab It's a great game for kids. Shows problem solving/strategy, earning/saving/spending money, then playing on the trampoline, ship's wheel, etc :)

Luis Zambrano with a digital backup done by a data recovery team of the highest order.

Honestly people keep mentioning "a data recovery team", I really doubt you could get anything better from professional data recovery off a 5.25" floppy than what you'll get from a KryoFlux (forensic floppy disk controller, not that expensive relatively speaking) and a decent floppy drive.

Collectors own their own personal museums.

Damn man me too

Joe Casson I liked it better then the later ones. I guess I’m just easily satisfied. Lol

Ahahaha good one. After reading this, I checked the image and had a loud lough. Thank you man. God bless you. :D

Lol , asshole !

LOL

My best guess is the split keyboard is a Mistel Barocco EDIT - apparently it's a Keytronic Flexpro

PLOT TWIST... He removed the auction lol

John Douglas Racing Video i bet there is more out there too.

TheQuartering , he only accepts curled mtg cards these days.

He probably do , look his overweight and age lmao

Wait you know about leisure suit larry quartering

He might accept some coffee ;)