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Ultimately scrapped, Al Lowe's Capitol Punishment was a Sierra-style skewering of the Clinton administration. "It was a better premise than game," said Lowe.

While Leisure Suit Larry was the more popular successor to Sierra's Softporn Adventure, the first 'graphic' adaptation landed on Japanese computers a year prior with 1986's Las Vegas.

The Beast Within Tips by Bill Meyer Source: Electronic Entertainment Vol.2 #10 (1995)

Just me on a typical Thursday night.

The Space Quest V team achieving photo-realistic graphics 1993

Police Quest: Open Season 1993

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Point & Click Horror games are somewhat of a lost artform. Of the few examples we have, do you have a favourite? Which game immediately comes to mind when you think 'Point & Click Horror game'?

Once upon a time Sierra had a thorough line-up for the Sega CD. The ambitious add-on was originally going to receive King's Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, even Larry and Mixed-Up Mother Goose. In the end the Sega CD only got Willy Beamish. Pop quiz: Which classic Sierra

Correct! Phantasmagoria received a Japan-exclusive Sega Saturn port in 1997! Eight discs of gruesome, gothic terror.

What, me worry?

Softporn Adventure 1981

Mission Asteroid 1980

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