I found it, after 20+ years of searching!!!

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When I was a kid, we bought this old computer at a garage sale for pretty cheap. This was our home computer when I was growing up in the 90s. This was a decade old by the time we got it. This was only used for us to play several games that were installed, and everything ran MS DOS. We spent hours exploring this thing and running through all of the file crevices as we taught ourselves DOS to get around. Well, I freaking found the computer online. The MAIN factor was that it had this Orange display that was very crisp, but ONLY displayed in orange/brown.

I found all of the games I used to play: Goldrush, Xonix, etc. but have been searching so damn hard for a game that I remembered that we always referred to as 'Dream'. Last night I had a memory spark that we renamed the file. I think it was too hard to type with DOS or something. Anyway, the game that took all of these years to find is called 'Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter'.

Here is a reddit thread on the exact computer we had :)

Turns out, people love the displays and they are going for more than I would like to spend for nostalgia purposes.




I found a playthrough of the game here:
 
Dude, you've got a long way to go in order to compete with Danno and TheBiggestJerk so I wouldn't sweat it. :LOL:
 
GuitarGuy08 said:
When I was a kid, we bought this old computer at a garage sale for pretty cheap. This was our home computer when I was growing up in the 90s. This was a decade old by the time we got it. This was only used for us to play several games that were installed, and everything ran MS DOS. We spent hours exploring this thing and running through all of the file crevices as we taught ourselves DOS to get around. Well, I freaking found the computer online. The MAIN factor was that it had this Orange display that was very crisp, but ONLY displayed in orange/brown.

I found all of the games I used to play: Goldrush, Xonix, etc. but have been searching so damn hard for a game that I remembered that we always referred to as 'Dream'. Last night I had a memory spark that we renamed the file. I think it was too hard to type with DOS or something. Anyway, the game that took all of these years to find is called 'Space Quest I: The Sarien Encounter'.

Here is a reddit thread on the exact computer we had :)

Turns out, people love the displays and they are going for more than I would like to spend for nostalgia purposes.




I found a playthrough of the game here:
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Oh man I thought you were gonna say you found the clitoris. Keep searching.
 
I love all those old dos games. I learned how to do so much stuff in dos like creating folders, moving files, copying, basic programming, etc that windows just simplified with a point and click. However, I could still do that stuff if windows were to be outlawed lol

I turned my Atari VCS into an emulation machine and have thousands of old 8 and 16 bit computer games on there. I'll probably never play them, but I've got them if I want them.
 
Brings back some memories of when I first started using computers in high school, around 1986 or so. Apple II, Apple II E, and I think there was even an Apple II E+ lol. We're talking pre-Dinesh here.

Boot up, click on Apple II E + spell, etc.
 
@Kordoba You were spoiled bro'.

In high school, circa 1983 all we had was a machine that looked like a printer and the only method of programming and communification was... Fortran... via "programming cards" (pieces of stiff paper that you marked with pencil).

Uugghh...

I had an ATARI 400 (membrane keypad, ROM-cartridge ATARI Basic language and a cassette drive) from 1982 onwards so that was a little bit cool, but I always hankered after a Mac after seeing my "rich" buddies' parents Apple II variants. Seemed every rich family's parents had Apple. Finally managed to leave ATARI for Apple in 1999, so quite the wait!
 
I had a neighbor that had a computer when I was like 6 years old, it had that Space Quest game on it. I'm amazed we had the brainpower to use DOS to get programs like that to run. I remember we never got past the spaceship and thought that was the entire game (it's basically what should be the first 5 minutes of it). :LOL:
Wasn't until way later I looked up that game and found out there is way more.
It also had Leisure Suit Larry which had an adult check quiz at the beginning. We'd have to ask his mom the answers and she was always suspicious why we were asking her these questions. :LOL:
Games were so much harder back in the day. I played one point and click a couple years ago for nostalgia (Grim Fandango) and I can't believe people figured out how to get past some stuff in that without walkthroughs/the internet.
 
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