[dangling participle]

First time poster, long time observer...

I did a search and nothing came back so I'm wondering if anyone on this forum had the chance to use either The Sierra Network (TSN) or the ImagiNation Network during it's prime? wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImagiNation_Network

I totally wanted this when I was a kid, but there was no way I could convince my parents to dish out a monthly fee to play video games, plus we were in canada so I don't think the service was available to us. Instead, we got "compuserve"

According to that wikipedia link there was an emulation project or two in the works but they seem to have stopped. You can still check out a beta version of the emulation here however: http://web.archive.org/web/200605181...ds/fauxinn.swf

Would be sweet if this came out some day.

[SamandMax]

I always wanted to try it but I was way too young. It seemed like a lot of fun. I hope they do manage to do an emulation for it, that'd bring back a lot of cool memories.

[zach]

I remember using the Sierra Network for a trial period. It was fun and colorful, but my parents weren't about to pay for a subscription.

[toger]

I did. I joined about 6-8 months before AT&T bought it and changed the name to ImagiNation Network. It was a blast! I made a bunch of friends there and actually met a number of them "live and in person". To this day, I'm still friends with some of them.

I actually became a Sysop ("Hosts" in the wiki article) and ran tournaments. I was there when the "lights were turned off" and we moved to AOL I was one of the WorldPlay hosts until EA bouught it and treated everyone like trash. I left - scorching the earth behind me - just before WorldPlay got rolled into Pogo.com and disappeared forever.

Some of us still miss it.

[vivasawadee]

Originally Posted by toger

I did. I joined about 6-8 months before AT&T bought it and changed the name to ImagiNation Network. It was a blast! I made a bunch of friends there and actually met a number of them "live and in person". To this day, I'm still friends with some of them.

I actually became a Sysop ("Hosts" in the wiki article) and ran tournaments. I was there when the "lights were turned off" and we moved to AOL I was one of the WorldPlay hosts until EA bouught it and treated everyone like trash. I left - scorching the earth behind me - just before WorldPlay got rolled into Pogo.com and disappeared forever.

Some of us still miss it.

Thats it then, I'm cancelleing my pogo.com membership....... after 1 more game of Payday Freecell of course

[Squinky]

dangling participle... I have to say, your username made my day.

[Yorolepal]

I spent my early teen years totally burning a hole in my parents credit card with TSN and INN. I upset many relatives by clogging up the phone line. I don't know if an online society like that would still work today, seeing how the internet can get really dirty, really fast.

But man, it was great when it lasted.

Greatly interested in it being emulated. I'd love to see it done. Hell, I'd be happy just to get my hands on the MIDI files that were played on the main map.

[fov]

Originally Posted by Squinky

dangling participle... I have to say, your username made my day.

Because it's a King's Quest reference, or just because it's quirky?

I have no memory of the Sierra Network, which is weird, because I remember pretty much everything else Sierra related. We had Prodigy and CompuServe at various points during my childhood. I remember my dad logging into Prodigy to help me find hints for Sierra games.

[eXo]

all my boxed sierra games still have adverts for the sierra network.

It's sorta funny reading through them and seeing how it was advertised.

[Putrid Moldyman]

I do believe the Imagination Network was my first online experience.

I was pretty young then... I remember throwing temper tantrums in the chat rooms because people weren't talking to me, and I was too shy to assert myself and getting into a name-calling insult war with some other kid (which I lost), among other things.

The games were fun. I liked Shadows of Yserbius and the like. I played as a Wizard with some cheezey name that I was really proud of, and my friend went under the name "Coolio." Loved it.

I remember being really proud to have made some Red Baron clan, but I must have been the single worst Red Baron player online, so when people would ask me to test them out to see if they had what it took to join my clan, they'd always slaughter me. I'll never know just how I got in in the first place.

[QFG]

Yes, I had The Sierra Network for about six months or so; I played Shadow of Yserbius absolutely constantly, for hours. My dad must've been worried about me...

I even bought the standalone version of Shadow of Yserbius / Fate of Twinion for the sentimental value... it suffered greatly. I miss that place...

[dangling participle]

Originally Posted by Squinky

dangling participle... I have to say, your username made my day.

Thanks Squinky,

I very recently re-finished King's Quest 6 again, so it seemed fitting. Can't believe it wasn't taken in here

[dangling participle]

Found a bunch of videos on youtube for it, there's even a super cheeseball commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/results?searc...&search=Search

[toger]

Originally Posted by QFG

Yes, I had The Sierra Network for about six months or so; I played Shadow of Yserbius absolutely constantly, for hours. My dad must've been worried about me...

I even bought the standalone version of Shadow of Yserbius / Fate of Twinion for the sentimental value... it suffered greatly. I miss that place...

I was totally hooked on Yserbius for weeks. I travelled with a couple of guys in Maryland and on weekends we'd play until 3am pacific time. I miss "pit jumping". Fates of Twinion wasn't nearly as much fun.

[QFG]

Ahhh... "pit jumping"... brings back memories.

I remember completing some quests and wondering "how in HELL did ANYONE figure this stuff out???"

Favorites: flex sword, four seasons.

I never did beat it, online or solo. Amazingly, I actually made it a little farther going solo. Less social aspects to distract me, I guess.

I even joined the Yserbius Online website in the hopes it would be resurrected... but so far, no dice.

[toger]

I finished Yserbius twice - the first time I joined up with a couple of guys who were taking newbies through just for the heck of it; the second time was with my regular group (they weren't really happy that I'd completed it without them). It was a huge accomplishment for us! I think I still have the maps for the last few levels (since I was a ranger, I was the offical map-maker for our trio of travellers. Someone had to keep track of all the pits and where (or if) they went).

If I'm not mistaken, we finished Fates as well, but it wasn't nearly as satisfying as Yserbius.

[QFG]

I almost always played as knights. I once tried a wizard, and enjoyed that a lot but had to travel with a lot of melee types or I would get slaughtered pretty quickly. But those death darts, man... quite effective.

All the old stories are coming back to me... the uselessness of "blast" ... the incredible utility of "resurrect" ... trying to find each and every skill trainer...

Most useful key: Thieves Key!

Man, now I REALLY want to play...

[dffd]

the thing that i really miss from INN is the game Boogers... also its nice to see the wiki artiacal grow so much.



also from the fauxinn site on wayback you can still use the flash version of the face maker.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060518101128/www.fauxinn.com/downloads/fauxinn.swf

[dffd]

i just was able to log onto INN with dosbox

http://innrevival.googlepages.com/home

it is great. this is a project that we need to support.

[dangling participle]

Originally Posted by dffd

i just was able to log onto INN with dosbox

http://innrevival.googlepages.com/home

it is great. this is a project that we need to support.

That's AWESOME!

I can't wait to try this when I get home from work...