I've never personally played Police Quest, but I recall seeing my late uncle play this game series a ton and it's rather bittersweet watching this. He was a huge video game fanatic and especially loved the old-school ones.
I spent about 6 months knowing I had missed something in Marie's house before I was able to go forward in the game. I always wrote "look at ashtray" and got something like "it's an ashtray" or "you're looking at it". Drove me insane.
Yeah back then those DOS games had little music because space was limited. Most people were playing with the built-in single voice PC speaker but some people bought add-in sound cards which sounded much better. This walkthrough has upgraded sound. Back in '88 we played PQ2 most of the way through on a monochrome PC with PC speaker which could hardly run it. A little later in '90 I got a 386 with an Adlib/soundblaster card and it was almost an entirely different game :) Beat it on the later machine. Good times!
I remember figuring out how to disarm the bomb on the plane before realizing that the instructions were hidden in the bad guys turban! Probably "saved" and "restored" 40-50 times LOL
Just love that iteration of the Quests' series: Space quest III, King's Quest - Perils of Rosella, Quest for glory, this one. The graphics, the colours, the mood... It was a whole new world for us children back then. And it really helped to learn english - I played these with dictionary on my lap for my native language is russian.
Yes, I was about the same age. Playing these games really helped with my English. My father thought it was MTV how I learned English. lol He never understood videogames, how helpful it can be leaning a language.
I forget which one it was but in the game if you called Sierra's real phone number or the number for their hint line Al Lowe would pick up and start talking about Leisure Suit Larry. There were a couple other people you could call too but i don't remember who they were.
i vaguely remember when reading the story/hint-book as a kid that it stated that Sonny (or Marie) liked the blonde look on him after the events of PQ1, so Sonny colored his hair again
smooth driving music, I never heard that. And I had zero idea about gun sighting at first, soon I figured it out. But I think I was in 4th-5th grade at the time when I found this game and I only started to learn English in 3rd grade.
Great game! Didn't go to the mall first to search the jailer's car though. Odd you were able to progress. I also remember being accosted at Cotton Cove too.
I still don't find the 'hijacking' very plausible, unless the Death Angel set it up somehow. I half-expected Sonny to search the bodies and discover they were really former associates of Bains, like from the poker game in PQ1?
I kinda thought the same thing, but from what I've observed, Sonny's a very sympathetic and kind guy. Compared to characters like Keith, he's a lot milder mannered and a bit of a refresher to the somewhat typical "tough cop" persona. Whether that be intentional or not, I don't know.
@@CookiehsAndDreams Kenny does mostly nothing in this game, notice? With the hijacking, he says he is going to check the cockpit, like that's where the bomb would be.
I used a high quality filter on DOSBox called hq3x. I love the original graphics, but this filter smooths out the pixels which I found to be easier on the eye to play and better for the youtube videos when viewed in HD.
In 20:25 after the first shootout, if you kept sunny on-screen longer, bains would had driven out from the bush with the black car. if sonny was below keith, he got run over. Bains was a real ahole...
I remember there is a stage where you get a plane ticket and if you drive to the airport in your cop car they stop you so I drove in my personal vehicle and it crashed the game
I got stuck at the motel. I knew I had to call for backup but didn't know how. I tried "Call for backup", "Use mic" "Use radio" and never got past here.
Though we all despised Bains, they determined that you were acting in self-defense and gave you the Silver Commendation Award even after you fired at Bains first?
I don't think if the game would let you, but when Sonny lost Bains in pursuit from Cotton Cove and ended up at the airport, he should have gone inside to warn the gate agents and pass Bains' picture around in case he tries to get a flight, (edit) or rent a car, which he did.
@@sha11235 the pic showing should be "this man will very likely try to rent a car/get a flight. If he does, call the Lytton Police and try to stall him."
53 Mary 2, wouldn't that call sign be for a motorcycle in CA? I'm just cross referencing my CHiPs and Dragnet memories, but then again,I can't believe this game would miss on something like that, so maybe it's just Lytton city stuff.
I have to say it always bugged me they called the magazine "clip". The thing that goes in a semiautomatic handgun to load it that looks like a rectangle full of bullets is called "magazine". No one who actually knows anything about guns (like a cop) calls it "clip". Its only people who know nothing about guns that call it that. A clip is actually an entire different thing that you use to load ammo *into a magazine*.
growing up i couldn't get the locker open, which meant i never got far at all. these games were kind of unfair. you need to know the exact words to use and where to look. it's not like now when you could look online for help. plus slow hardware made reloading kind of tedious.
To be fair, Police Quest was one of the least obtuse of the early Sierra adventure games; it just expected you to be super meticulous about following proper police procedure, including checking your field manual frequently and not missing any details. Pretty sure the locker code was copy protection. Now King's Quest, there was a series that required a gold medalist in mental acrobatics to solve some of its weird puzzle logic.
+Level 0 NPCs the locker code wasn't even in the manual. you had to look on the back of your scuba certificate i believe. so i mostly drove around but the game would soon end fron deriliction of duty
I seem to recall you could purchase hint books for the Sierra games. But yeah, wasn't easy to find and they took weeks (sometimes months) to arrive in the mail!
is this the same Marie wasn't she a quote-unquote working girl in the last game? it would be so phenomenally cute and yet so wrong if that were the case
31:43 how can you get points there? when i try this, i always get the message "Officer Gelepsi and Keith are busy discussing the details of the shoot-out." I also don't see anyone doing that and getting points when i see other solutions.
You need to take the gun to the range and qualify on it before the gun battle, or else you lose automatically. When you search the hotel (later), slamming your gun against the wall knocks it out and it needs to be recalibrated then also.
When you show up at Cotton Cove and Keith wants to bet the jogger witness is a 'dude'. The Sonny of today would chastise him immediately with "How dare you assume the jogger is male or female. Maybe they're non-binary! It's 2024 Keith, shape up!"
