Topic: Police Quest and Willy Beamish

[Johnny]

Someone really needs to remake these games. Already Leisure Suit Larry and several other adventure games are being remade. How about Police Quest? I know one of the creators (Daryl F Gates) died but the other guy Jim Walls is still alive.

As for Willy Beamish I dunno if those creators are still around but with Sierra/Dynamix out of business I'm sure something could be worked out with the IP.

[A-Yty]

Those games were amazing when we were playing them on my cousin's PC, circa 1989-1990. Amiga/PC games were particularly impressive to me, since we only had NES (I later bought a C64, though). Alas, Willy Beamish got hit by nostalgia lucidity as I recently watched its playthrough. The idea was great, but the execution was pretty broken. People expected to play through the life of a mischievous school boy. What they really got was fairly unforgiving gameplay and the jokes were kind of unfitting. I mean, "Horny" the frog? Japanese family as ninjas?

Don't remember if my cousin ever managed to finish the game, but boy did he try.

I played Police Quest rather intermittently. Never remember finishing one, though. I think I played the part where the protagonist was switched from Sonny Bonds to John Carey for the longest. It seemed grittier than the previous parts. The graphics got darker and a dead kid is found on a dumpster in the beginning.

I'm afraid time has run over them too much to really be resurrected as "full blown" games. And wasn't Police Quest "turned" into the SWAT series (never made much sense to me)? However, since they recently resurrected Leisure Suit Larry, I can imagine Willy Beamish being re-released as downloadable phone game or something like that.

[DragonSlayr81]

A spiritual successor to Police Quest head by Jim Walls and an ex-programmer from Sierra was on Kickstarter not long back, but it didn't go anywhere. It was going to be called "Precinct".

Oddly enough, there's a LOT of old games I'd love to see make a return. So much fond memories with some of those worlds. Seemingly the Two Guys from Andromeda(who are creators and make cameo appearances in the Space Quest series) making a spiritual sequel/spinoff to Space Quest(another Kickstarter that actually got funded). You can kinda say people don't think like this anymore. They were more open to unique gaming experiences back in the day(unique worlds, unique stories, imagination and mystery gone wild).