GOLD RUSH! Adventure Game Gameplay Walkthrough - No Commentary Playthrough

[@davidbedard6824]

This brings back so many good memories of the Sierra games. Kings Quest...Police Quest...Space Quest...I loved all of them

[@slickdog78]

This makes me think back on the many Sierra adventure titles my Dad and I played through together when I was a young lad. Brings back a lot of good memories of us sitting around our Tandy 1000 trying to figure stuff out.

[@spaceghostcqc2137]

A true classic. One of the more grounded and educational experiences in the genre. The multiple travel modes was really a cool aspect of the game design.

[@rgn87654]

I loved this game as a kid. With three ways to get to California it had great replay value. I used to fantasize about living in that olde tyme Brooklyn too. It looked so quaint.

[@snuijt8815]

Nova Kane Loved it as well. One of my favourite Sierra games. I used to hurry back from school to play a little more. Loved those days.

[@trueKorvus]

I played this game a lot when I was nine. Stirred such an appreciation for adventure in me. I've also always liked that the real treasure was finding your lost brother, the gold was just secondary.

[@z3my4l]

The graphics are amazing, really! I love this style!

[@waterenglish9501]

So nice to see this played out. I never finished this game when I had it on my Apple II GS back in 1991

[@Jussi-c2s]

This game is missed . I played 20 years ago, all of Larry and Quest . I then did not know that there are also gold rush

[@dawnbreaker2912]

Same. When people think of Sierra, it's usually the myriad 'Quest' games and LSL. But they had a few one-off gems like this one.

[@phibbykaden]

I remember this game. I was maybe... 4 or so when I started watching one of my older siblings play it. That person on the copy protection screen always frightened me, especially if the password was wrong. One memory that was particularly jarring was when if you failed the CP, you were greeted with a scene of Jerrod getting hung and nothing else. Normally the Game Over music was reserved for if you messed up in-game, but on this one occasion it actually started playing right before it kicked the game back to DOS. I couldn't get out of the room fast enough. All the same, though, it was still fun to play as a kid. I never did figure out how to get into that mine at the end prior to the Internet hitting its stride, though.

[@Ambaryerno]

I NEVER had the real-estate guy turn up that fast to buy the house.

[@Firebrand319]

Fantastic video. Love how you structured and edited the play-through with all three paths with no commentary. I remember as a kid I died in Panama and basically gave up. Being able to see this to the end, the gold cave... this future we now live in is amazing. Thank you very much.

[@GanymedeXD]

Lived so much as a kid!

[@grindhousefan80]

I loved this game as a kid, well done on the video. I really enjoyed watching!

[@11dubs30]

Brilliant and under appreciated game.

[@thedarksideoftheforce6658]

I have played all of the Sierra games but never heard of this back then. I must say it has good graphics and details for back then.

[@Tigerman1138]

Police quest was my game. II was the best. GOLDRUSH was great. I can only imagine what this seems like to kids who grew up with Half-Life and Fallout.

[@JonHuhnMedical]

I actually miss these crude, low resolution adventure games. The graphics suggested things, but your brain still had to fill in the details.

[@CrunchyRhombus]

Thanks for sharing! I remember trying to solve this decades ago - having to switch out the floppy disk when you got far enough.

[@Tigerman1138]

What is really cool is there is a mini “Oregon Trail” within the game with land route.

[@briandennison2146]

I don't know why but i just loved that game back in the day. it was so fun played it through a few years ago and was just as much fun as when i was a kid

[@Sammy4549]

They're playing La Cucaracha for Rio... a MEXICAN folk song.

[@dawnbreaker2912]

Yeah, and they also play "Anchors Aweigh" when the ship departs, which wasn't composed until 1906.

[@greenmagicdragon]

This is one that I totally missed from back in the day and only found out about last week! Happy days! Thanks for the play through. Great work 👍

[@elmirador8308]

This was probably the very first game I played, when I was 3 years old.

[@legomattie3295]

In my memories I had to do more on the cape horn trip . I had to put coals into the oven. But it seems I am wrong

[@TheSk909]

Thanks for playthrough!

[@englishquizfactory]

I’ve literally come here 30 years later to see how to finish the game after I got stuck in that guys room & walking the ledge outside the window

[@micahbush5397]

Who thought it was a good idea to make the points fanfare louder, longer, and more annoying once you reach California?

[@JoshuaSuermann]

Who played this on 5” floppy disks and had to keep switching the disks as you played through?

[@helorumtheknightsofmambrin2155]

Regrettably, this is one of the only Sierra games I didn't play.

[@DanielWesleyKCK]

This is the most underrated Sierra adventure. It's too bad it never got a sequel.

[@Tigerman1138]

Daniel Wesley actually it did.

[@thefonzkiss]

Tigerman1138 Nope. There was a modern REMAKE. No sequel.

[@gpfable]

There's a sequel too

[@Daud76]

1:25:59 Jerrod would have done better if he used the pick on his older brother and kept all the gold for himself. 😋

[@PeterSivazak]

SELL HOUSE?!?!? THAT'S what you had to do?!?!? I hate this game

[@idanoreilly]

I really struggled through this game as a kid, and there were many things I couldn’t guess, but I did figure out selling the house

[@Religious_man]

I lol'ed when James and Jerrod were dancing with joy in the cave.

[@itsaguinness]

never finished the game so cool to see 1:27:25

[@Religious_man]

Yep

[@mykhalable9433]

Tried it yesterday at the bank when the teller asked me for my account number. Said 70. Now I'm $200 richer

[@Usumgallu]

Just visited Sutter's fort in the summer!

[@thefonzkiss]

Lost Dutchman Mine was a bit more charming. This was good for the era though.

[@unstableordinance]

Thost AGI graphics would have been an absolute PAIN to create using those primitive vector graphics tools of the 80's, I'm surprised this game wasn't using the SCI engine of later Sierra games

[@micahbush5397]

$650 dollars for a ticket from New York to California?! That's almost $24,000 in 2024! (And from what I've been able to find, it is a lot higher than what one would have actually paid in those days.)

[@robh115]

put the house up for sale, but real estate agent isn't showing to buy :(

[@manco828]

Whenever I sell the house, the buyer never shows up.

[@Valjurai]

I don't think the 9-to-5 existed as a concept that far back

[@micahbush5397]

It didn't. Paperclips didn't exist that far back, either.

[@Nilo1310]

Neither did cameras (especially before Jerrod's parents died in 1839) On the other hand newspaper jobs would exist in a city like Brooklyn

[@thebl4ckd0g]

I've seen it now 3 times - "you are on the right TREK". Shouldn't it be "TRACK"? :o

[@machmslf]

Sell house walk outside and take $850? God these shrooms rock

[@davidgrindle1435]

wait it missed a step. I remember you had to look up an answer in a book or be hung before you could even play it

[@Carliarnius]

this game was sure unforgiving

[@starofjustice1]

I thought about picking this game up but just from watching part of this, I'm kind of glad I didn't. I don't think I would've liked a game with so many travel montages.

[@klarenzjeong8031]

Oh 1988.12.23

[@sainttan]

A lot of traveling text, happy the hero Jerrod finally reunited with his brother. Ending kind a... meh.

[@Tigerman1138]

Santo Tan You mean striking it rich? There was a sequel called “Depression Quest”-Jerrord’s descents are living in the Great Depression. The game takes them from Brooklyn Heights, the family moved back to NY and bought a lot of property, back to Jake’s land. The route is taken over land and you see tons of desolate land, property, people, and more during The Great Depression. Robberies are everywhere, people selling stuff from very little, people are desolate The goal? Reach he mine you and your brother found and discover a chamber below. The game didn’t make it long on the shelves it was simply “too depressing.” A follow up is being made called “Goldrush: “The Great Recession” and it is during the Obama years, but done in same graphics. This time it is the ALASKAN Goldrush like on “Goldrush” on The Discovery Channel. The quest is to get the show produced.

[@jblowedup]

Spoiler: don't lose to something dumb.

[@Tigerman1138]

jblowedup You mean going out on the deck of a ship during a powerful storm?

[@hotboiled6188]

or dying because you didn't leave early enough before the storm

[@s.a.1555]

16:45 The song "la cucaracha" is from México. Why was used it if they are in Brazil. What a ignorants! This is like if the guy comes to USA and plays the England anthem.

[@John-jz5yv]

Stop being so millennial.

[@oppie47]

@Sebastián P. It would have to be the French anthem because Americans would recognize the British anthem as “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHzNaHmCnJiKjKM “Rule Brittania” would also do the trick as there are no Americanized verses to it and we Americans think of it as being quintessentially British.

[@alham4409]

PLEASE go away and create something of your own. Just know that in a couple of decades, you will be held to the new standard of "consciuosness" which wants to condemn and cancel you for not knowing what you didn`t know!