Sierra’s old-school adventure games of the ’80s bring back many memories of days where finding cheats and walk-throughs were hard to come by, and a binder of scribbled clues sat by my tiny monitor. Many of those same games have been ported to the web, and we’re likely to see them made especially for the iPad soon.
Martin Kool of sarien.net has made a hobby of porting many of Sierra’s older adventure games to the web, and now he wants to make those same games work especially well on the iPad. Kool plans to make each title on its own landing page, where visitors can create web app icons on their iOS devices to each page, essentially giving them access to a full-blown, free Sierra game.
Another cool aspect to these ported games is that Kool has added a multiplayer aspect to them. You could be walking around the Kingdom of Daventry and see another player completing the quests along with you!
So far Sierra’s parent company, Activision, has not submitted a cease and desist letter, but he won’t fight them if it comes to that. Kool does not plan to make any money off his ports, and they will remain ad-free.
[via Touch Arcade]
Old Sierra games coming to iPad as unofficial web apps originally appeared on TUAW on Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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