Trinsec @Qoto @trinsec@qoto.org

@benk I can say of the KQ series, KQ6 is by far my favorite. The puzzles make the most sense there and the theme was very nicely done. Or rather, themes, since there were multiple themes but about all were fairy tale related.
You could get stuck though somewhere halfway that game if you weren't careful, and better hope you have a savegame from before that crucial moment.
@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org @256

@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org Can you remember what that one game you don't recall the name of was like? Theme, graphics style, etc? Maybe I can help, who knows. ;)
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@benk Yeah, hence the walkthrough. :D
We didn't get 1 and 2 until MUCH later. We didn't have access to all of the SIERRA adventures via floppy swap, alas. :D
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@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org King's Quest 3 got finished by that buddy who had a walkthrough of it. I just didn't grok it enough. It was a game we spent a lot of time in, but it was all too arbitrary to me. 'When is that wizard coming back?' 'Why are we going away?' etc. Seeing the ending was cool and a lot of puzzle pieces got into place, but.. yeah, a little bit too distant for me. I'm probably more a scifi person anyway. ;)
@256

@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org Jeez, you didn't wear a 'rubber', did you?! That's what you get! Insta-death! Yeah it was ridiculous back then. :D

The adventure game I really finished on my own (together with a buddy), only having some hints gotten from somewhere, not a full walkthrough, was Space Quest 3. Boy, were we proud when we actually finished it. SIERRA adventures were really the best!

Then around came LucasArts adventures...
@256

@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org Neat! English wasn't too easy for me back then, but there were games like Adventure that was translated into Dutch. That was my first encounter with (only text-based) adventure games. If we don't count that one GWbasic game where you were travelling around in the Gobi desert, that had adventure vibes too.

I was much more in love with the graphical adventure games. Ahh... SIERRA was such a great game studio back then! The first of their games I played as a.. 9? year old was Leisure Suit Larry. That was fun, haha. But the real fun started with King's Quest 3, and continued with Police Quest, and Space Quest 3, and much more. Learned so much English that way!
@256

@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org Heh, I basically exchanged floppies filles with games with my classmates. Some of them even became 'dealers' in games, lol.

My parents did have a type cursus software from somewhere that I also made use of. Wasn't too impressed. What really motivated me was a friend coming over and seeing him type at light speed. So I simply taught myself how to type fast, no software needed.

Still reaping the fruits of that skill, like right now! :D
@256

@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org The coolest game we had on our school computers (because face it, our PCs at home were usually better :P) was some sort of typing game with laz0rs.

Whelp. Those ones who did the typing cursus managed to get a score of about 300-400 points... That was considered to be pretty good! One guy even managed to get to a whopping 600 points!

Imagine me entering the scene and keep typing until my eyes were basically giving up. I ended up with 1600 points. :P

I've tried a few years later to play that same game on my own computer. It was impossible because of the much higher speed. :D
@256

@claudiom@mastodon.sdf.org Hah, cool. In that time I remember talking to my classmates about how cool Wing Commander looked, that intro was totally rad!
@256

@westofer@mstdn.social Maybe... but considering 1990 had games for PC like Star Control, Wing Commander, and even the good ol' classic Monkey Island... this could've been better. ;)
@256

@256 Hehe, I played this one a month ago on one of those online dos games sites to see what it was about.

Pretty boring to be honest. ;)

@mur2501 But you'll definitely come back regularly, possibly with a whole bag full of dirty laundry for her to clean. :P ;)

@robflop Ah right, EU law for the win. :D Hi neighbour! ;)

Lemme know if you manage to get an ELECOM one from a viable source. It seemed to me back then that it needs importing. After a quick looking around, https://www.trackballmouse.org seems to be an useful site for this. Looks like Amazon also has more options available as well. It was real hard to find (non-Japanese) info about this brand a few years back. ELECOM has so many options available, I wish there was an European shop selling them.

My favorite trackball, that Cordless Optical Trackman, was finger-controlled and was my gaming trackball until it broke and I couldn't buy new ones anymore. The main mouse button was pressed with the thumb there, so that wasn't so bad in my memory. It was also the first button to break though... :P I assume that's what you meant with a more traditional mouse shape?

@FailForward It might be because they're so damned bored out of their skull?

@robflop Oh jeez, there's the M575 now? Haha, well last year I bought a nice deal of 4 M570s so I don't need to look for a new trackball anytime soon. :D

It seems to look similar to the M570 so you could indeed go for the M575 for probably the same experience. At most 50 euro, so around 50 bucks, sounds about right.

And what you experience with the Orbit is also my experience; It's not easy to control the ball and press the buttons at the same time like for dragging. I suspect it is because the push direction is a bit wrong for this. I often need to call in the help of my other hand to perform that stunt.

As a gamer, the Orbit quickly fell out of favor with me. It is also why I'm apprehensive of trying out the Expert, because it's more expensive than the MX Ergo (100 vs 90 euro), and it's probably got the same issue with the button push direction.

If you really want to get the Expert, I'd suggest buying it off a store with a 2-week return policy or similar. Then you could try it out. But those kind of trackballs are definitely different from the Logitech ones.

Oh I remember something. If you really want to keep it ambidextrous, maybe take a peek at the Logitech Marble Trackball, if that's still available. Doesn't seem to have a scroll wheel from what I can see, so that might be a huge drawback. But the push direction there seems to make more sense than the Kensingtons. There might be other brands with a similar setup, but I don't know them off top of my head.

My favorite trackball ever was the Logitech Cordless Optical TrackMan. It was finger operated (so not thumb controlled), had plenty of buttons, was made for the right hand (so not ambidextrous) and... isn't made anymore. I don't know why Logitech axed that line. :(

@mur2501 D'awwwwww....

@mur2501 I thought your mom didn't want animals in the house... 😋

Wait.. you didn't call her a cow did you?!

@mur2501 😂

They need to send out another one now! 😋

@kelena Ohhhhhh... burrrrrn....