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Post by Discoalucard on Sept 20, 2014 11:51:17 GMT -5
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BdR
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Post by BdR on Sept 26, 2014 8:55:53 GMT -5
Just using F4, F6 and F8 made the game MUCH easier than having to type everything in English. Especially if you're just a kid and English isn't your native language.. I remember thinking, even back then, how easy this Black Cauldron game was compared to King's Quest and Space Quest etc. Played through the entire game on a rainy sunday.
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Post by Discoalucard on Sept 26, 2014 9:12:33 GMT -5
I wish I had this game as a kid. The Black Cauldron is something I was fascinated by since I had a Disney picture book about the movie, but I was too young to see it in the theaters. And since the movie was considered a flop, it wasn't released on VHS for several years after. The closest I had otherwise was the book it was based on, but that wasn't quite the same.
I finally saw the movie when it was released on home video, and even though it has a bad reputation, I still enjoyed it.
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Post by Joseph Joestar on Sept 26, 2014 9:29:45 GMT -5
I wish I had this game as a kid. The Black Cauldron is something I was fascinated by since I had a Disney picture book about the movie, but I was too young to see it in the theaters. And since the movie was considered a flop, it wasn't released on VHS for several years after. The closest I had otherwise was the book it was based on, but that wasn't quite the same. I finally saw the movie when it was released on home video, and even though it has a bad reputation, I still enjoyed it. I played it a bit at the Indianapolis Children's Museum computer lab sometime during the mid to late 1980s, but it was only there for a short time. It was confusing because they didn't have the booklet for it, and the interface was so different from the other Sierra games. As for the movie, I'm glad to be an old man because I had an opportunity to see both that and Song of the South in theaters. It was kind of a letdown when I finally got to see Black Cauldron again when it was released on video in 1998; it's still an enjoyable movie, but I'd built it up in my mind so much that the real thing couldn't possibly live up. As a kid I remember being pissed off that Taran wasn't able to keep the sword, as well (which wasn't permanent in the books, but...). Also, I remember getting confused and thinking for years that Thayer's Quest (which they had a machine of at the theater we went to in St. Louis) was a Black Cauldron game because of the similar look of Taran and Thayer/Lathan. As for the books, they're pretty fun, I read all of them before the movie was released on VHS and they're pretty entertaining. If a director gave half a damn they'd make a good movie series, too, but I guess the stigma from the animated movie is still around. Which is a shame, because there's always 'young adult' fantasy book series being made into movies, and zombies are still being beaten to death in popular culture, so that's two markets it could cover...
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