Police Quest - A Tale of Two Tones

[@pushinguproses]

I just noticed that the description for Helen Hots's blouse said it was unbuttoned, but that shirt clearly never had buttons. I feel wronged.

[@MagusMarquillin]

Well, Sonny is an unreliable witness on this one - his official pants were tight enough as it was, but now? Ouch. Just be glad the text box didn't say *"%&!Dwahao! BOOOBIES!@$^&%!"*

[@pushinguproses]

Thank you! It is Pravana - Wild Orchid is the color.

[@MoeChicken]

Perhaps her blouse WAS unbuttoned, then removed?

[@TheSev-]

Her license also has her address as 202 Gyrate court.

[@RettMikhal]

They broke off, obviously.

[@LauDanielS]

Police Quest 2 is my favorite of the series. It still have some of the procedural stuff, but they lighten up on it a bit and make it feel more like an 80s cop movie.

[@pushinguproses]

This is kind of what I wanted from THIS game - thought it would be a kind of perfect 80s cop movie parody, or maybe something akin to Miami Vice.

[@jasonblalock4429]

I remember PQ3 being pretty good as well, although it's been ages since I've played it. At the least, it does have very good music since they hired Mr. Miami Vice himself, Jan Hammer, to do the score. However, for the love of god, do *not* play Police Quest 4. It is Paper-Pushing Simulator 1993 - SO focused on procedure that it's incredibly dry to the point of not being fun at all. Not to mention the really questionable decision to hire disgraced ex-LA Police Chief Daryl Gates as its co-designer, which kind of cast a shadow over the whole project. (I mean seriously, who actually said, "Hey, I bet that guy who botched everything about the Rodney King beating would be a great game designer!"...?)

[@hunam_1]

Beat Cop does a pretty good job of playing up the 80s cop movie trope.

[@caiuswickersham]

It was Ken Williams and he wanted Gates on the game to churn up the controversy (because controversy creates cash, amirite?.

[@Hudson316]

@@jasonblalock4429 I enjoyed PQ4, though it was during the FMV era of gaming where all the adventure games like Police Quest, Gabriel Knight, etc all used Mortal Kombat style captured images of actors as sprites on photographic backgrounds. PQ4 goes rather nuts by the end of it, though, like if David Lynch directed Silence of the Lambs.

[@LeoFan93]

Fun fact: The EGA version was used by actual police officers when training new recruits.

[@vinnyc.1265]

Source?

[@Ravum]

​@@vinnyc.1265it stated it in the manual for the police quest collection

[@KWKBOX]

Ah just mix kings quest III with leisure suit larry and slap a badge on it.

[@pushinguproses]

You are definitely not wrong.

[@MagusMarquillin]

Ha, even the title theme sounds like KQ3, viced up a little. Small surprise maybe, both were written by Margaret Lowe!

[@Ohboycommentsection]

I played this game when I was very young and spent most of the time crashing the car. it was a source of great amusement at the time and I can see from this video it still is

[@FatalKitsune]

I just imagine that police guy looking at the script for this game and being so proud of the solid police procedural he helped create. He's beaming with pride, knowing he can expose gamers to what REAL police work is like. Then Al Low pokes his head in and goes "YEAH BUT YOU KNOW WHAT IT NEEDS? TIDDIES!" And thus it was ruined.

[@MagusMarquillin]

It's not like that's not a situation a cop could wind up in. Still, I wonder how Jim felt about having his story have to be fixed; but unless he had a background in entertainment, he should have had a Sierra co-designer from the start.

[@Kisai_Yuki]

It's likely that Jim had to sign off on the changes since his name was on it. That said I think Al Lowe's humor (from todays point of view) is dated. It's nothing terrible, but in the 80's, early 90's if you played PQ1 or LSL1-3 you'd probably get the innuendo's but your mind had to fill in a lot of the blanks in the visuals.

[@caiuswickersham]

Well, it seems it eventually got to Jim and he was barely there for PQ3 before leaving Sierra entirely.

[@rpgnut5897]

@@Kisai_Yuki I recently played the Leisure Suit Larry series for the first time and those games were HILARIOUS, especially Love for Sail and Reloaded.

[@OtioseFanatic]

Magus Marquillin Jim HATED what happened. He hated it soo much actually he went off and made the Police Quest Swat spin-off series.

[@RettMikhal]

I always thought the stripper scene with Jack was the most realistic scenario in the game. Jack's friends didn't know about his problems when they hired the kiss-o-gram and inadvertently made an awkward situation. It happens.

[@dawnmachine]

I also think this scene is rather excellent, really well conceptualised.

[@BoogerDeWitt]

So I just played through this today (for some reason I don't understand) and this review is spot on. It kinda felt like the events of this game occurred over like a day or two maybe? What the hell is the actual time frame? It absolutely is just a male cop power fantasy fever dream. Great work!

[@Wincenworks]

One of the things I found odd back in the day, but now am certain I can blame Al Lowe for is the command "drop pants" A command so powerful it could make you lose the game, even after you'd just won.

[@Gilmaris]

Yeah, and I never quite understood what was so "fatal" about stripping anyway. Even in the locker room!

[@Myxril]

"This game should be titled 'Open Door, Get in Car, Close Door' because I think I did that more than anything else." I haven't played this game in decades and that comment cut right through the dust of my terrible memory.

[@bud389]

If anyone wants to play Police Quest but with significantly reduced tedium, I recommend playing the VGA version. They also re-did a lot of the writing for it and generally improved the whole game.

[@kwamebetts7164]

from space quest to kings quest and many more from the Sierra on Line games were fun to play in the late 80s going into the 90s. a big glass of Dr Pepper and dominos pizza on a rainy day in 1988 were good times :)

[@Bone74838]

100% Its sad that ppl today does not even know about this era in gaming in the 1990's. It was a text to point and click adventure that was really special in its own right.

[@herbiehusker1889]

This game is actually pretty awesome. I could see how you might not like it, but when I was a kid, I loved this game.

[@downhome7500]

This was my SHIT growing up. My older brother had a Tandy 1000TL and while he was at college, it was me in his room with games like this, Space Quest, The Colonel's Bequest and so on. It makes me happy as Hell to see that you do reviews for not only this one, but most of Sierra's line up, even the Hoyle card game one. You wouldn't have played A Nightmare On Elm St, the PC version as well, have you? I'd love to see a proper review for that as pretty much nobody has done it.

[@ewmickle]

Ah yes the 80s adventure game. I learned valuable life lessons from them. Such as every mistake no matter how minute, will kill you faster than you can blink.

[@pjgathergood6987]

Ahh... Police Quest, that strange old beast. As an old-school player of the Sierra classics, the PQ series was one that eluded me until the advent of abandonware sites. And PQ1 is indeed a curious game. Whilst I like the idea of "proper police procedures" (something that faded a bit as the sequels went on), it was horrendously over-trivial at times. And as Roses mentions in the video, there was definitely some polar opposites at work creatively on this game. Saying that, I did stick at it as, for all the trivial sections, there were also some fun sections - and the text input allowed for some real mischief attempts and easter eggs. It's the most I've ever needed a hint guide for an old Sierra game, though.

[@Vizimech]

"What is WRONG with this game?" I would've expected no less tomfoolery from an ex-cop. If anything, the leisure suit larry guy's additions to the story making the MC a pervert willing to violate protocol when it pleases him just made it more accurate to real cops.

[@hollyconnelly8871]

along with king's quest 3, i learned to spell a lot from this game too. there is a glitch when stop the drug dealer's car - when you input "lay down" you immediately fire your gun, the animation will be like you shot him, but the game registers it as normal and you can continue

[@UKCougar]

I always suspected that the procedural stuff was a form of copy protection. It's just not possible to play without the game manual (see also, King's Quest 3). I spent forever trying to arrest the drunk driver before finding the command in the manual, "administer fst". Maybe it's common knowledge in the US that this is a Field Sobriety Test but... eh.

[@kylemurphy597]

The best name for an evil villain belongs to the movie "Dangeresque 1: Dangeresque, too?" (KillingYouGuy)

[@serin20]

You used the Gabriel Knight Police Station music in the background. Nice!

[@strain42]

*sees a new PushingUpRoses video* WHIP CRACK! *stops everything I'm doing to watch it*

[@korgothkillings2032]

Yes another video. I bought wasteland 2 for my PS4 CAUSE OF YOU AND LGR

[@timothymclean]

All the intuitive, forgiving gameplay of a typical Sierra adventure game, along with all the clarity and simplicity of several inches of paperwork. In case that isn't enough, there's a story with the emotional depth of a Michael Bay movie and the comprehensibility and tension of Shayamalan's Last Airbender. What a brilliant combination! How did people complete this game without a guide? I'm not sure if _knowing_ how to win would be the bigger obstacle, or wanting to even _play_ it.

[@jthornburg12]

This was the first Sierra adventure game I ever played. The idea that I could type in commands and explore on my own was mind-blowing to me. As a kid in Christian household, this was how I learned to play poker. I kept a save right before the poker game so I could play again and again. I used to play this game once a year or so, and I still enjoy it, but it has its warts for sure. The driving is grating. You forgot to walk around your car? You’re SOL!

[@tomkelly00]

OMG same!!! I was 12-ish and this was way before the internet and I couldn't get hints or anything... it was all trial and error (and a lot of saves) lol!

[@zooropa04]

I played these games over and over as a kid. Even today, whenever I see a story in the news about police brutality or about an officer somewhere who killed an unarmed person, I can't help but think to myself, "That would have been an instant game over in Police Quest."

[@roguishpaladin]

"Time to get back on the road." *EXPLODES*

[@dewoiski]

This video was great. My nostalgia went of the roof! I used to play this game when I was a kid, the floppy version, but I didn't have disk 2, so when I got to the car part the game ended!

[@EdmondDantes224]

I can't say I agree with the idea that this game is either tonally inconsistent or a power fantasy. A "Power Fantasy" would have Sonny Bonds stop the Death Angel by kicking down his hotel door and opening fire. As for the tone... the idea is just that its incidents in the life of a cop, tied together by the Death Angel plot thread. Sometimes silly things happen. Also, your first call about "tonal whiplash" was him having to pull over a hot woman who was speeding, when hot women getting to break the rules because they're hot is literally one of the oldest cliches in the book and something most people learn in high school.

[@Strideo1]

I agree. Power fantasies are usually about making the player/reader/viewer feel powerful or live vicariously through a powerful character to indulge their fantasies. This game does anything but that. You can't even drive a car comfortably without smashing into a curb causing a major accident and you can die at the slightest drop of a hat for making minor mistakes.

[@woodrowwiIs0n]

short hack learned as a kid playing was to type "o d" or "c d" for open door/close door and i think f4 would sit in car / stand up

[@MelodieOctavia]

I'm so jazzed to see a new video from you in my feed, every single time! You're one of the few youtubers that I know that primarily covers old adventure games, especially the ones when adventure games were in their prime. It's just as entertaining to see the bad ones as the good ones due to your presentation and commentary. I truly hope you don't disappear into the sunset like a many other youtubers have since the adpocalypse. I love your stuff, please keep up the great reviews! You and LGR are my top 2 favorites.

[@RichDuckKing]

Great video as usual. I played the VGA version before the EGA, which lightens up on some of the hardcore procedural stuff (e.g. - you can drive your car without doing the walkaround). I have very fond memories of the VGA version, and I love the first two sequels, but I know a lot of people who had the same criticisms you did. For me, it was more that PQ was just unlike the typical Quest game. I love the music in the VGA version too. The EGA version is notably more frustrating. Oh, and I have always and will continue to pronounce it “Lye-ton”.

[@headrockbeats]

Police Quest I has a soft spot in my heart as the first Sierra game I ever played (and shortly thereafter, the first Sierra game I ever purchased - while on vacation with my parents in Switzerland, no less). However every time I play it, I realize it's worse than I remembered from the previous time. On the other hand, Police Quest II is a remarkable improvement. While nowhere near as good as Sierra's best, it's still a very coherent and well-thought-out story, quiet suspenseful at times, and generally manages to maintain its tone throughout (minus the airplane hijacking...). I recommend it even if you really didn't like the first game, just don't expect a Colonel's Bequest or a Gabriel Knight. Also forget the last two games. They will ruin your happiness forever.

[@tahustvedt]

I started learning english from this game and King's Quest 3.

[@niagargoyle]

When I was a kid, this was the only Sierra adventure game we had (aside from Mixed-Up Mother Goose). I didn't bother to read the manual because I thought that most of the contents were just flavor (I also didn't know how to look stuff up because I was five). And by my five-year-old logic, the drunk guy was slurring his 'S' sounds and therefore meant to say "sit" (I think the previous text said something about how he liked the furnishing in his cell) and... failed. One thing I did like about Police Quest, as opposed to other adventure games I have played, is the fact that there is no moon logic whatsoever. Like other Sierra games, it is brutal, but at least you can figure everything out by following the rules. Also, one of the death conditions in the game is that you can be nice to Helen Hots (don't give her a ticket), and she will give you her phone number. Call the number, and the captain answers the phone. Given that it is a distant memory, I am not sure if it's just the game punishing you for ignoring the story (the captain often takes the place of the spiteful god/narrator typical of "Quest" games when you screw up), but I think there's an implication that you just called the boss' wife or daughter.

[@jesusbear7367]

Some people started with King's Quest, some started with Leisure Suit Larry, but I started here with this as my first Sierra adventure game. 🤣🤣

[@Kisai_Yuki]

Good review PUR. I don't think I'd have the patience to play the EGA version, and haven't. I hope you try PQ2 too though.

[@TheLomdr]

I don't think that Activision distributes that anymore at that. I remember the old Direct2Drive version cutting out the classic version for the VGA version, which I'm sure is the version on GOG (outside of the DRM). The old disc based collector's edition had the EGA version...but the most unplayable PQ game was the 3rd one as it was tied to the CPU cycles like an old dos game, back when DosBOX didn't exist (like windows 95 era)

[@lotus-prince]

"Wow, Sweet Lips! Was that hot, or what?" Good lord, Sonny. For a cop, you talk like someone in a corny "we don't know how actual humans talk" sexual harassment training video for retail workers. P.S. Next time PUR uploads, I gotta say "Jiggers! A new Roses video!"

[@VincentDeBellis224]

I was so in love with this game as a child who was way too young to be playing it.... Thanks Mom. One of my first experiences in PC gaming at about 8 years old. Hard to decide if I liked this one or PQ4 "Open Season" better. I remember many "too sick for school" days beating these games.... Beating them with my PR-24 Nightstick

[@JStryker47]

Yeah, PQ2 did have some better character development. And just so you know, you can actually just press F4 to get in and out of your car. And in PQ2 you can also press F6 to load your gun, F8 to draw and holster it, and F10 to fire it. (I *think* those apply to PQ1 too, but there's never any need to shoot anyone in that one.) Also, I won't spoil who the "gremlin" was, but you can find out by looking up the personnel records on any computer in the office in PQ2.

[@freshrot420]

They shoulda let the cop n the funny guy work on it together! That woulda made it funnier as well as mesh better, so long as they could stand each other.

[@vikingreflections2824]

I distinctly remember a part where you go to a cafe because the bikers next door keeps parking in the cafe lot, so you have to confront them in the bar.

[@bardicinspo]

How can you do that?

[@TheMedievalNerd]

You clould have saved yourself some trouble by using F4 to get in/out of your car. And you can also load your gun with F6, draw it with F8, and fire with F10. The tonal shift moments are few and far between. The game is really more about being a cop and making arrests. You could very well be right that Al's had a stronger influence than he should have had. But I don't think it's abundant enough to say it derails the game.

[@ljp1942]

Lots of great memories of playing this game years ago.

[@3dmaster205]

I love Police Quest; I even replayed it in the VGA remake. Police Quest III was a master piece. Wish they made more of them; after that it got reduced to an action game with Police Quest (4) Swat; and it just took over instead of it being a side series with more games in the main series.

[@PartridgeQuill]

Looks like the coffee breaks happen at Bob's Burgers.

[@JBabyLeather]

Despite being the same game, the remastered version is so much better! And the series does get much better in later games. But, I also grew up on it. While a part of me hopes you’ll do another let’s play someday, I love your videos and hope you have a happy holiday season!

[@JemyM]

It just struck me... There are actually no single retrochannel who have covered Police Quest 2-4. Or Codename Iceman for that matter.

[@tomkelly00]

I found a playthru of iceman... made me glad I gave up on that game and didn't waste my time

[@jeremygeorgia4943]

PQ2 is better, and it was actually my first Sierra game. I split the cost with a friend. He got the 5 1/4's & I used the 3 1/2 disks. There is a lot less typing of procedures, and for the most part, you don't even need the manual. I know this, since my friend had the manual for the first few months. Your partner actually takes care of most of the procedural stuff, that you would normally be typing in, like radioing dispatch. It feels much more refined, and you can just type "Drive to ..." instead of dealing with pixels.

[@barefootanimist]

I played a few of the PQ games, but enjoyed PQ3 most. Did you ever play the Leisure-Suit Larry games?

[@DuncanMcCurdie]

Wow I just found this video and it is spot on. I played this as a kid, a kid who loved Sierra games and cop shows. Man did it kinda suck though. You either died in a car crash the moment you put on your siren or got in a standoff and realized your gun was in the hold at the station or courthouse. I don't think I ever got to the main storyline so it's good to finally see how it all turned out.

[@mikeroagreschen5350]

WALK AROUND YOUR CAR! Flat tire = DEATH

[@Kreln1221]

*The theme music at the **1:21** mark is more like the theme for the TV show, 'Get Smart', than it's like the theme for, 'Dragnet'...*

[@TheSwiftFalcon]

I replayed the Police Quest games a few years ago, and found that they were still very enjoyable. I didn't really mind the things you complained about. PQ2 is better, though, and probably my favorite in the series. I just wish there were more games like this, I really enjoyed pretending to be a police investigator. It is probably what made the PQ series my second favorite Sierra series (the QFG games were my favorite).

[@rhomcampbell6765]

You are awesome. Shots always make nostalgia games and life better!! Cheers!!

[@DeaconTaylor]

try pq3. buggy as all hell as most sierras from that period but they made it into almost a soap opera. melodramatic moments but still enjoyable i found. thats the last we see of sonny too.

[@Gilmaris]

The traffic stop with Helen Hots was probably not Al Lowe's doing, but meant as a challenge cops actually do face, probably on a regular basis. You have two options: ignore her attempts at seduction and give her the ticket, or let her go in which case she'll give you her number. Call this number at any point in the game, and you're fired - game over.

[@Gilmaris]

This game featured some very useful shortcuts. "O" for open, "C" for close, "D" for door... which lead to the somewhat ironic "O D" command for opening doors. There may be others I've forgotten about, but with all the doors to be opened and closed, this made the game a lot less tedious. Gold Rush! didn't have these shortcuts, but added some others instead, like "L" for look and "G" for "get" and "T" for "talk". Oh, and on a hunch, I figured out that "FST" must be an accepted abbreviation for "field sobriety test" - and thankfully it was.

[@Dream0Asylum]

Don't worry, Roses, they get better. Though, probably not as good as the Laura Bow series as far as mystery, pacing, plot, or character. But relative to each other, better ...

[@dubbleawesome3982]

I just recently played the VGA version of this game for the very first time. I enjoyed the procedural aspect of it and I found all of the out of place elements just made it feel like I was in an 80s buddy cop movie. So I LOVED it. Then again I also recently started playing the leisure suit larry games, and they pretty much hit my comedy spot just right too.

[@Powers3848]

I remember playing this with my cousin back in the day on a black and green monitor, when i was about 6 - 7 years old. I believe the PC was an intel 8086. But it was a blast because it had a "built in speaker" so we could hear the "music". And it was such a new thing back then since it was interactive. You could type what you wanted your character to do and you got answers and developed further in the story. And back then it was really a new exciting thing to what came before. Atari with space invaders and of course Commodore 64 with its arcade games... But this was something different. You took part in the game itself. You made a great video but i have to say, if you were not there which you obviously weren't you won't get it. Peace.

[@Iggsy81]

Haha i loved this game as a kidlet! i got so fast at typing "open door". Then one day i saw a friend type "o d" and it did the same thing and my jaw dropped, haha.

[@AdamAus85]

I remember playing this game before and after learning how to touch type. I'd even credit this game with encouraging my efforts in learning to touch type.

[@Iggsy81]

Yeah i kinda learned to type on the old Sierra games too for sure

[@Butt_Slayer]

I learned to type playing these types of games too. I didn't know i just had to type 'o d'! Mind blown. I was proud enough to work out I could write 'Open door' instead of 'Open the door'.

[@panographic]

Love your review! It gave me a flashback to 1994 when I played and finished this game from a Tandy 1000 floppy disk

[@JamesBrown-wi6mq]

The best thing about the Police Quest series was that for the Japanese version of PQII, they redid all the character art and made everyone anime.

[@MOS-MHz]

Oh the Police Quest series would do well as a Lets Play with LGR

[@Dutchtica]

The music at 8:30 made me SIT DOWN

[@karenelizabeth1590]

Jim Walls made a spiritual sequel to the Police Quest games called "Blue Force." I love that game! But I could't get into Police Quest.

[@TheRetroRaven]

I did play this game (EGA version) as a kid - but in the end, it was the second game I played the most. Really great game in my opinion.

[@Maioly]

all I know of the police quest series is that it eventually spun off into the swat series yes, the one with the FPS that spoony did a playthrough off also, the one with the second game that I hear is really good but cant get running on my pc no matter what I do.

[@Naruedyoh]

"Pressident takes days off to see birds mate" Still better than the current one

[@TomSFox]

Yeah, who wants peace on the Korean Peninsula?

[@benm7729]

Naruedyoh h

[@Coffeebean1985]

@Jim Corny Haha, really? What dimension are you passing by from? Tho the racist comment fits.

[@ejl423]

Another fun vid, Roses! Keep up the awesome work!

[@adambathon]

Thanks for all the older games you make. I love the trip down memory lane for many games and I love seeing games I never had or heard of because I was too young to find them besides having my dad take me to the mall computer game store once in a blue moon. I love Laura Bow. Hugo Haunted House or something was another game I remember but struggled a lot with being like 7 or 8 years old trying to type in sentences correctly.

[@jasonleetaiwan]

This and KQ3 were the two most challenging games from Sierra.

[@Jest]

Great video, I grew up playing Kings Quest and Gold Rush but could never get into Police Quest. Interesting to see more of it finally vs giving up early on as a kid.

[@nathanbarnes6869]

Just thought I would stop by and wish you a happy festive season, Roses. May you have everything your heart desires this Christmas.

[@actionvestadventure]

Police Quest II is my fav of the series. As for PQ I, I remember having to use the nightstick in the courthouse was a pain since it hardly gives you time to type. But it has been ages since I've played PQ. Looks like I better add it to my list of games to eventually revisit.

[@horaciodelre2210]

4:09 that's the same building that we can see in the game "Larry 1"

[@winterburden]

I'm sorry we subjected you to this, thanks for covering it!! 😄

[@kuyarickkelley4719]

Well I gotta give you credit, you did the review that won the poll even though it was on a game you didn't like. And the review was actually really on point

[@Xarfax321]

I loved the PQ-series. I played the first one a lot as a kid, and actually beat it. (and english is not my native language!) But I think you'd enjoy the other games more, especially the fourth one, which has a lot of procedures and mystery solving, but it has a very dark tone.

[@tahustvedt]

Al Lowe fixed a lot of the early Sierra adventure games, apparently. He did lots of things on most of them, including the King's Quest games.

[@quonomonna8126]

did you know you can shortcut most commands like instead of open door, just type o d and c d to close it

[@BrotherSean]

6:50 Is that the Pimp from Leisure Suit Larry 1??!!

[@eatwhaturgiven]

This is was and still is awesome. Thanks for reviewing! One of the better Sierra games imo.

[@sha11235]

Speaking of Leisure Suit Larry, there is a shot there from the disco, although the sign is taken down because it went out of business. Plus, the suit Sonny wears as Whitey is a white leisure suit, just like Larry's!

[@ThoughtyTheWrangler]

Checked the description... yep, this video is indeed about Police Quest and its opposing tones. I now understand everything. Brb, off to decipher Voynich Manuscript.

[@quonomonna8126]

had a 286 when I was 9 in 1989 and it had 3 Sierra adventure games on it: Police Quest, King's Quest 4, and Leisure Suit Larry (which was hidden from us kids)

[@Owlpunk]

There are only two video game genres: Games that get better with alcohol, and games that get playable with alcohol.

[@ahandsomefridge]

As many times I died and failed at this game I stil have some fondness for it. However I have little interest playing this game 30 years later.. Damn, I'm old. (dare I say: too old for this shit)

[@Gilmaris]

I was around 11-12 when I first played this game. I marvel at how my younger self had the patience and tenacity to play this game to the end, not least considering English is my second language. Testament to the adaptability of the young mind, I suppose, but today I'd be put off by the text parser alone.

[@xrayvisi0ns]

So glad you covered this. I saw a video of some kids playing police quest and was like wtf?

[@pearce123]

Loved it as usual PUR. Please do a Police Quest 2 video as well!

[@tleeg74]

Holy shit...I used to adore this game when it was out and i was like 13 years old.

[@Pinkhair3d]

Police Quest I felt like 'Manual Based Copy Protection: The Game' to me.

[@JoeServo]

All part of the procedure, civilian.

[@Blake_Stone]

I used to really like how this game forced you to go through the insanely pedantic steps of actually following police procedure, it's kind of an amusing counterpoint to police fiction which is all about slow-mo jumps through the air firing dual pistols. I got a kind of obsessive compulsive pleasure out of reading the manual and painstakingly following every step. It was almost a disappointment when it got to the end and it started to be exciting.

[@gabrielcorvis]

The point-&-click Police Quest that came out a few years later was better than this one. This one frustrated me to no end as a kid. The driving...the fucking DRIVING...made me want to put my fist through that big, clunky monitor

[@GoodPunk]

Now with that teaser for the second part.... is that video still coming? :D

[@RetroPCUser]

The PC Speaker tone is music to my ears. I have the Tandy 3 Voice card in my Packard Bell for old games that support it.

[@laynereeves406]

New Brutalmoose and new PUR, awesome

[@GrimmShadowsII]

I don't think I played the orginal version EGA or whatever the graphics were called, maybe a little bit but mostly I played the remake that came out in a box set of the whole series in the late 90s I think. I aways figured the name Death Angel came from a case the cop who wrote the game worked on.