For those of you who lived on adventure titles back in the good ol’ days, I have great news for you.  Available now, Sierra Adventure titles are now on Steam.  Which titles you ask?  Hint: It rhymes with “Ping’s Guest”.

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Have you heard of Sierra?  Would you like to play Sierra  Games now?  Ok, good 2 for 2.  Then this site will be a link in your bookmarks.  The site is called Sarien.net and they make Sierra games playable… again.  The games are played through Flash in your browser.  Currently, they have 5 Sierra Adventure titles that include; Police Quest 1, Space Quest 1 and 2, The Black Cauldron and Leisure Suit Larry in The Land of the Lounge Lizards (typing cramp from that title).  More titles will be released during the week.

What’s cool about Sarien.net is not the instant gaming access you’ll get but the gameplay itself is worth mentioning.  After playing Police Quest 1, there’s something that kept me playing.  It was the nostalgic graphics and the inclusion of a mouse that made navigating easier.  You also have the ability to type your entries by way of text-command line.  They’ve also included online multiplayer, so you’ll be able to see others play while you play or just follow them (creep).  Is that a Sierra Paradox?

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It seems like I’m loving Ghostbusters: The Video Game a little too much.  But I find it very interesting how this game’s progression has lead them to a very high anticipated release.  Here’s the brief history and trailer to follow:

2006 – Game Developer Zootfly starts game

2007 – Sierra took early videos of Zootfly to Sony to discuss their own version on a Ghostbusters game

2008 -

• Activision Blizzard announced the game would not be released.  Sierra Commented that game would be canceled.

• Infogrames announced that Atari would be releasing the game with a release date of June 16th 2009 for US and June 19th in Europe. Read more…