5821

God damn it. My copy is being delivered today, I ordered it at the same time as Madwhatever it’s called was $20 a couple of days ago. Oh well, it’s only like $8 or $9 dollars.

5822

Since it’s only one day, you might want to contact Amazon customer support and politely ask them if it’s possible to get the discount even though you’re a day late. I bet they’ll do it.

5823

Worth a try, sent them an email. Really loved it when they gave 30 day price protection but that ended awhile ago so I am not optimistic.

5824

I bet they won’t. Tried almost the exact same thing a few months ago - no dice. Best I could’ve done is re-order the game at the lower price and return the one I had bought - EDIT which IIRC hadn’t even shipped yet - but the cost of shipping it back would’ve negated any savings.

5825

Kinda lazy considering that LucasArts wrapped their games up in swanky Vista executables, although I suppose it’s possible that the source code simply doesn’t exist anymore, given Sierra’s turbulent history and the age of some of these games.

The King’s Quest collection isn’t officially supported under Vista or 64-bit operating systems (the Space Quest collection doesn’t have this warning but I suspect it’s the same there).

5826

I call bargainware the questionable carousel, kisk or display full of cardboard-container ‘spyware-removal’ discs and old adventure games. a lot of stuff like broken sword, runaway etc along with other third-fourth rate publisher stuff.

5827

How well does King’s Bounty run on a 64-bit system running Vista or Windows 7? Doesn’t seem like it’s supported.

5828

Perfectly.

x64 vista here.

5829

Activision put no effort into these it seems.

“Some games in this collection may run under Windows XP 64 and Vista 32/64, but are not officially supported.”

Pass.

5830

I haven’t had any problems running the game on 64-bit Vista.

5831

For those of you who missed it last week, Mirror’s Edge (PC version) is back in stock at GoGamer, for $5.90, along with some other 48 Hour Madness deals.

Which inexplicably run out in 89 hours.

5832

Doesn’t the Kings Quest / Space Quest compilations run on DosBox anyways? If DosBox runs on Vista then so should KQ/SQ.

5833

The one exception is KQ7, which apparently uses a native 16-bit Windows executable, so it won’t work under either DOSBox or 64-bit Windows. There was a DOS version of it, but they didn’t use it in the package, which is one of the reasons they’re being accused of sloppiness in putting it all together.

5834

Thank you very much! I missed it last time, but I got it this time :)

5835

Steams weekend deal is Velvet Assassin for $24.99. 50% off.

Linky

5836

That makes me almost want to try the game for its unique setting and stealth. Almost.

5837

Little King’s Story for $39.99 at Fry’s Electronics.

5838

Also on sale on Steam: Men of War for $7.50, down from $29.99.

Edit: incidentally, according to the Steam page “This product does not support Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT or XP x64/Vista x64!” I was thinking of getting it, but will have to pass if that’s the case. In the Steam forums it seems like some users are able to run it fine in Vista 64, but it’s not universal.

5839

i’ll totally buy it for that amount

that’s crazy pricing

5840

Nice deal on MOW, cheaper than the $12 I paid recently.

The game is maddening but it moves along solidly and there are many glimpses of brilliance.