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* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest'' (VGA): The combination to the main character's locker, which you need to get into to retrieve his uniform, is the score of a football game reported on in the fake newspaper included with the game, and also inputting violation codes while putting an arrested man in jail. The sequel requires the player to identify the last name of the person on a mugshot before playing the game.
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* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest'' ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest1InPursuitOfTheDeathAngel'' (VGA): The combination to the main character's locker, which you need to get into to retrieve his uniform, is the score of a football game reported on in the fake newspaper included with the game, and also inputting violation codes while putting an arrested man in jail. The sequel requires the player to identify the last name of the person on a mugshot before playing the game.
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* In ''VideoGame/GoldRush'', failing to enter a given word from the manual when prompted by a prospector on the opening screen causes your character to be accused of claim jumping and sentenced to the gallows, immediately kicking you back to the DOS prompt as soon as the rope goes taut.
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* In ''VideoGame/GoldRush'', failing to enter a given word from the manual when prompted by a prospector on the opening screen causes your character to be accused of claim jumping and sentenced to the gallows, immediately kicking you back to the DOS prompt afterward.
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* In ''Gold Rush'', failing to enter a given word from the manual when prompted causes your character to be accused of claim jumping and sentenced to the gallows.
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* In ''Gold Rush'', ''VideoGame/GoldRush'', failing to enter a given word from the manual when prompted by a prospector on the opening screen causes your character to be accused of claim jumping and sentenced to the gallows.gallows, immediately kicking you back to the DOS prompt afterward.
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** Also, in the first ''Police Quest'', you have to exactly follow "police procedures" from the manual in order to advance in the game, and a large chunk of the gameplay is taken up with following just these procedures.
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** Also, in the first ''Police Quest'', you have to exactly follow "police procedures" from the manual in order to advance in the game, and a large chunk of the gameplay is taken up with following just these procedures. You can pretty much guess these if you're familiar with police movies and/or TV series.
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** A certain line of code in the ''VideoGame/KingsQuest Collection'', which includes games I-VI, had a misprint in it, leading to a player most likely getting the spell wrong until they notice that the misprinted manual decided to rhyme "thither" with [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "thither"]] instead of "hither". The VGA remakes with the protection stripped out that allow the player to just work the entire spell with a single command actually make the game vastly easier.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'': A very large part of the game revolves around copying lengthy, exact instructions for magical spells from the game manual. Getting the instructions even slightly wrong will [[HaveANiceDeath end the game]]. The correct phrasing is to simply type over the exact sentence in the manual, although words like "the" and "a" can be omitted. This is ''in addition'' to the disk check at the beginning of the game (that all Sierra games had at the time).
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'': A very large part of the game revolves around copying lengthy, exact instructions for magical spells from the game manual. Getting the instructions even slightly wrong will [[HaveANiceDeath end the game]]. The correct phrasing is to simply type over the exact sentence in the manual, although words like "the" and "a" can be omitted. This is ''in addition'' to the disk check at the beginning of the game (that all Sierra games had at the time).
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** King's Quest III is also part of the ''VideoGame/KingsQuest Collection'', which has a misprint in the manual, leading to a player most likely getting an (optional) spell wrong until they notice that the misprinted manual decided to rhyme "thither" with [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "thither"]] instead of "hither". The VGA remakes with the protection stripped out that allow the player to just work the entire spell with a single command actually make the game vastly easier.
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** ''Conquests of Camelot: The Search For The Grail'' also uses this system - you have to look in the manual to solve various riddles throughout the game (but you learn some interesting mythology in the process).
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** ''Conquests of Camelot: The Search For The Grail'' also uses this system - you have to look in the manual to solve various riddles throughout the game (but you learn some interesting mythology in the process).process, albeit myths made up for this game instead of classic myths).
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* ''VideoGame/CodenameIceman'': The game begins as the main character is on vacation in Tahiti. A nearby volleyball player drowns in the surf and the player must rescue him and perform CPR. Obnoxiously, the game doesn't tell you that it wants you to look in the manual and type off the instructions verbatim. However, the introductory walkthrough in the game's manual offers step-by-step instructions, making this section trivial for legitimate first-time players.
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* ''VideoGame/CodenameIceman'': The game begins as the main character is on vacation in Tahiti. A nearby volleyball player drowns in the surf and the player must rescue him and perform CPR. Obnoxiously, the game doesn't tell you that it wants you to look in the manual and type off the instructions verbatim.instructions. However, the introductory walkthrough in the game's manual offers step-by-step instructions, making this section trivial for legitimate first-time players. Also, you can google how to do CPR, the official instructions will work as Sierra's parser always allows lots of synonyms and alternative phrasing.
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*** It also made at least one puzzle more confusing. In the floppy disc version, there's a moment where you have to use a spell to improve your aim in order to hook a rope onto a rocky outcrop, rather than the unstable tree next to it (which will immediately break and cause you to fall if you attempt to climb). In the CD version, you don't get asked to cast the spell, and you can choose to rope the outcrop or the tree. If you choose the tree, you get a "Thanks for playing" death message appropriate to having failed the copy protection, even though you never even saw it.
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** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella'' actually has a copy protection joke inserted into the coding. Activating the command box at the start (Ctrl + D) and typing in "Pirate" causes the game to play a small bit clip of "Drunken Sailor" and show a picture of a Pirate, while a text box above reads "Your privileges to this game have been revoked because you are a pirate! 'Yo ho ho!'" See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDwu_OiOeTM here]]! In a straight example, before starting, the game asks you for a certain word in the manual (for example, the fourth word in the second paragraph on page 3).
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** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella'' actually has a copy protection joke inserted into the coding. Activating the command box at the start (Ctrl + D) and typing in "Pirate" causes the game to play a small bit clip of "Drunken Sailor" and show a picture of a Pirate, while a text box above reads "Your privileges to this game have been revoked because you are a pirate! 'Yo ho ho!'" See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDwu_OiOeTM com/watch?v=4SfRykg145I here]]! In a straight example, before starting, the game asks you for a certain word in the manual (for example, the fourth word in the second paragraph on page 3).
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* Nearly all AGI games had key-disk copy protection that required the original disk to be in the drive to start, even if they were installed to the hard drive. The technical details are [[http://www.sierrahelp.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=4212 here]]. Any AGI game that was later placed in a CompilationRerelease has this protection pre-cracked.
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* Nearly all AGI games had key-disk copy protection that required the original disk to be in the drive to start, even if they were installed to the hard drive. The technical details are [[http://www.sierrahelp.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=4212 here]]. Any AGI game that was later placed in a CompilationRerelease has this protection pre-cracked. Note that for some of the VGA games, Sierra actually ''encouraged'' you to make copies of the games as backups and use the backups to play. (Some even had instructions on how to do this.) Of course, copying the manuals and guidebooks and other "feelies" are a no-no.
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Almost all of {{Creator/Sierra}}'s point-and-click adventure games have copy protection in their manuals, meaning that those who used illegal copies of the game (or who just plain lost their manual) couldn't progress any further. Most of these copy protection checks occurr occur when starting the game, although a few subvert this trend by placing them about halfway through the game. Some of Sierra's examples:
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* Nearly all AGI games had key-disk copy protection that required the original disk to be in the drive to start, even if they were installed to the hard drive. The technical details are [[http://www.sierrahelp.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=4212 here]]. Any AGI game that was later placed in a CompilationRerelease has this protection pre-cracked.
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** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'': Randomly during the game, you have to cast a spell from Crispin's (dead) wand to get past mundane parts. To cast the spell, you have to look up the symbol on Page X of the manual. Entering the wrong code makes the game {{unwinnable}}. It was excised in the CD version, which then creates a problem in that you don't remember you have the wand when you need it [[spoiler: at the end of the game]] because it literally has no other use.
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** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'': Randomly during the game, you have to cast a spell from Crispin's (dead) wand to get past mundane parts. To cast the spell, you have to look up the symbol on Page X of the manual. Entering the wrong code three times makes the game {{unwinnable}}. It was excised in the CD version, which then creates a problem in that you don't remember you have the wand when you need it [[spoiler: at the end of the game]] because it literally has no other use.
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** Its sequel, ''The Dagger of Amon Ra'', also requires the player to dig information out of the museum guide book that came with the game. However, since in this case the questions all revolve around real Egyptian mythology, they're the kind of thing an obsessive adventure game player would ''already know''.
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** Its sequel, ''The Dagger of Amon Ra'', also requires the player to dig information out of the museum guide book that came with the game. However, since in this case the questions all revolve around real Egyptian mythology, they're the kind of thing an obsessive adventure game player would ''already know''. The CD version ditched this.
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** ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'' didn't have copy protection, but ''age'' protection - to play the game, you have to answer a question that you'd have to be fairly old to know the answer to. (Presumably.) [[http://www.allowe.com/Larry/1questions.htm See for yourself.]] The VGA remake added actual copy protection questions based on the included {{Feelies}}.
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** ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'' didn't have manual-based copy protection, but ''age'' protection - to play the game, you have to answer a question that you'd have to be fairly old to know the answer to. (Presumably.) [[http://www.allowe.com/Larry/1questions.htm See for yourself.]] The VGA remake added actual copy protection questions based on the included {{Feelies}}.
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** In the VGA remake of ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest 1'', to get the cartridge, you have to enter the symbols from the manual corresponding to the term the dying scientist tells you into the library computer. A ''second'' copy protection code is used for the coordinates of the Deltaur near the end of the game. Definitely copy protection overkill. The original EGA game doesn't have ANY copy protection.
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** In the VGA remake of ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest 1'', to get the cartridge, you have to enter the symbols from the manual corresponding to the term the dying scientist tells you into the library computer. A ''second'' copy protection code is used for the coordinates of the Deltaur near the end of the game. Definitely copy protection overkill. The original EGA game doesn't have ANY any manual-based copy protection.
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** The first game originally didn't have copy protection, but ''age'' protection - to play the game, you have to answer a question that you'd have to be fairly old to know the answer to. (Presumably.) [[http://www.allowe.com/Larry/1questions.htm See for yourself.]] The VGA remake added actual copy protection questions based on the included {{Feelies}}.
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry II'', you have to insert the correct phone number of a woman by inputting it from the manual.
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry III'', there's a promotional code you have to type (which is on a certain page of the magazine the game came with) when presenting your show ticket. In another, you have to know the right locker combination.
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry 5'', to obtain airline tickets, the player must enter the corresponding symbols from the Aerodork timetable, which was printed in black on red in an attempt to make it uncopyable.
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry II'', you have to insert the correct phone number of a woman by inputting it from the manual.
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry III'', there's a promotional code you have to type (which is on a certain page of the magazine the game came with) when presenting your show ticket. In another, you have to know the right locker combination.
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry 5'', to obtain airline tickets, the player must enter the corresponding symbols from the Aerodork timetable, which was printed in black on red in an attempt to make it uncopyable.
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** The first game originally ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry1InTheLandOfTheLoungeLizards'' didn't have copy protection, but ''age'' protection - to play the game, you have to answer a question that you'd have to be fairly old to know the answer to. (Presumably.) [[http://www.allowe.com/Larry/1questions.htm See for yourself.]] The VGA remake added actual copy protection questions based on the included {{Feelies}}.
** In''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry II'', ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry2LookingForLoveInSeveralWrongPlaces'', you have to insert the correct phone number of a woman by inputting it from the manual.
** In''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry III'', ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry3PassionatePattiInPursuitOfThePulsatingPectorals'', there's a promotional code you have to type (which is on a certain page of the magazine the game came with) when presenting your show ticket. In another, you have to know the right locker combination.
** In''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry 5'', ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry5PassionatePattiDoesALittleUndercoverWork'', to obtain airline tickets, the player must enter the corresponding symbols from the Aerodork timetable, which was printed in black on red in an attempt to make it uncopyable.
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* ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'' hass the map of Shapeir, though luckily you can guess your way to the money changer, and from that point onwards purchase an ingame map.
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* ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'' hass has the map of Shapeir, though luckily you can guess your way to the money changer, and from that point onwards purchase an ingame map.
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* In the 1991 Sierra game ''VideoGame/EcoQuest'' the player must enter a four digit combination lock, available in the manual, to exit the first room of the game.
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* The first ''VideoGame/LauraBow'' game (''The Colonel's Bequest'') requires you to identify a fingerprint to it's respective character from a sheet that came with the game; originally, the fingerprints could only be viewed with a special magnifying glass, but this was too unfair (since some of them are fairly similar to begin with), so later printings just did it in black and white.
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* The first ''VideoGame/LauraBow'' game (''The Colonel's Bequest'') requires you to identify a fingerprint to it's its respective character from a sheet that came with the game; originally, the fingerprints could only be viewed with a special magnifying glass, but this was too unfair (since some of them are fairly similar to begin with), so later printings just did it in black and white.
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* The first ''VideoGame/LauraBow'' game (''The Colonel's Bequest'') requires you to identify a fingerprint from a sheet that came with the game; originally, the fingerprints could only be viewed with a special magnifying glass, but this was too unfair (since some of them are fairly similar to begin with), so later printings just did it in black and white.
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* The first ''VideoGame/LauraBow'' game (''The Colonel's Bequest'') requires you to identify a fingerprint to it's respective character from a sheet that came with the game; originally, the fingerprints could only be viewed with a special magnifying glass, but this was too unfair (since some of them are fairly similar to begin with), so later printings just did it in black and white.
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Almost all of {{Creator/Sierra}}'s point-and-click adventure games had copy protection in their manuals, meaning that those who used illegal copies of the game (or who just plain lost their manual) couldn't progress any further. Most of these copy protection checks occured when starting the game, although a few subverted this trend by placing them about halfway through the game. Some of Sierra's examples:
* ''VideoGame/CodenameIceman'': The game begins as the main character is on vacation in Tahiti. A nearby volleyball player drowns in the surf and the player must rescue him and perform CPR. Obnoxiously, the game didn't tell you that it wanted you to look in the manual and type off the instructions verbatim. However, the introductory walkthrough in the game's manual offers step-by-step instructions, making this section trivial for legitimate first-time players.
** ''Conquests of Camelot: The Search For The Grail'' also used this system - you had to look in the manual to solve various riddles throughout the game (but you learned some interesting mythology in the process).
* ''The Even More Incredible Machine'' required you to look into the instruction manual to input a code on a randomly decided page each time you opened it. However, during the game's intro, if you clicked to get past it at ''just'' the right time (specifically, when it switches from the second screen back to the first) it would almost always request the code on the first page of the book, requiring you to remember only one code.
* ''VideoGame/CodenameIceman'': The game begins as the main character is on vacation in Tahiti. A nearby volleyball player drowns in the surf and the player must rescue him and perform CPR. Obnoxiously, the game didn't tell you that it wanted you to look in the manual and type off the instructions verbatim. However, the introductory walkthrough in the game's manual offers step-by-step instructions, making this section trivial for legitimate first-time players.
** ''Conquests of Camelot: The Search For The Grail'' also used this system - you had to look in the manual to solve various riddles throughout the game (but you learned some interesting mythology in the process).
* ''The Even More Incredible Machine'' required you to look into the instruction manual to input a code on a randomly decided page each time you opened it. However, during the game's intro, if you clicked to get past it at ''just'' the right time (specifically, when it switches from the second screen back to the first) it would almost always request the code on the first page of the book, requiring you to remember only one code.
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Almost all of {{Creator/Sierra}}'s point-and-click adventure games had have copy protection in their manuals, meaning that those who used illegal copies of the game (or who just plain lost their manual) couldn't progress any further. Most of these copy protection checks occured occurr when starting the game, although a few subverted subvert this trend by placing them about halfway through the game. Some of Sierra's examples:
* ''VideoGame/CodenameIceman'': The game begins as the main character is on vacation in Tahiti. A nearby volleyball player drowns in the surf and the player must rescue him and perform CPR. Obnoxiously, the gamedidn't doesn't tell you that it wanted wants you to look in the manual and type off the instructions verbatim. However, the introductory walkthrough in the game's manual offers step-by-step instructions, making this section trivial for legitimate first-time players.
** ''Conquests of Camelot: The Search For The Grail'' alsoused uses this system - you had have to look in the manual to solve various riddles throughout the game (but you learned learn some interesting mythology in the process).
* ''The Even More Incredible Machine''required requires you to look into the instruction manual to input a code on a randomly decided page each time you opened open it. However, during the game's intro, if you clicked click to get past it at ''just'' the right time (specifically, when it switches from the second screen back to the first) it would will almost always request the code on the first page of the book, requiring you to remember only one code.
* ''VideoGame/CodenameIceman'': The game begins as the main character is on vacation in Tahiti. A nearby volleyball player drowns in the surf and the player must rescue him and perform CPR. Obnoxiously, the game
** ''Conquests of Camelot: The Search For The Grail'' also
* ''The Even More Incredible Machine''
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** A certain line of code in the ''VideoGame/KingsQuest Collection'', which included games I-VI, had a misprint in it, leading to a player most likely getting the spell wrong until they noticed that the misprinted manual decided to rhyme "thither" with [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "thither"]] instead of "hither". The VGA remakes with the protection stripped out that allow the player to just work the entire spell with a single command actually make the game vastly easier.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'': A very large part of the game revolved around copying lengthy, exact instructions for magical spells from the game manual. Getting the instructions even slightly wrong would [[HaveANiceDeath end the game]]. The correct phrasing was to simply type over the exact sentence in the manual, although words like "the" and "a" could be omitted. This was ''in addition'' to the disk check at the beginning of the game (that all Sierra games had at the time).
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella'' actually has a copy protection joke inserted into the coding. Activating the command box at the start (Ctrl + D) and typing in "Pirate" causes the game to play a small bit clip of "Drunken Sailor" and show a picture of a Pirate, while a text box above reads "Your privileges to this game have been revoked because you are a pirate! 'Yo ho ho!'" See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDwu_OiOeTM here]]! In a straight example, before starting, the game would ask you for a certain word in the manual (for example, the fourth word in the second paragraph on page 3).
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'': Randomly during the game, you have to cast a spell from Crispin's (dead) wand to get past mundane parts. To cast the spell, you would have to look up the symbol on Page X of the manual. Entering the wrong code made the game {{unwinnable}}. It was excised in the CD version, which then created a problem in that you didn't remember you had the wand when you needed it [[spoiler: at the end of the game]] because it literally had no other use.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' came with a "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles", which contained clues needed to ascend the Cliffs of Logic. A wrong answer would cause the stone step you stood on to retract, sending Alexander plummeting to his death. Later on the same island was a puzzle where you had to step on floor tiles in an order hinted at by a poem in the guidebook. In a sneakier example, the background on which the manual's text is printed also serves as the map for the catacombs, a maze with [[TrialAndErrorGameplay several no warning instant death traps]].
* The first VideoGame/LauraBow game (''The Colonel's Bequest'') required you to identify a fingerprint from a sheet that came with the game; originally, the fingerprints could only be viewed with a special magnifying glass, but this was too unfair (since some of them were fairly similar to begin with), so later printings just did it in black and white.
** Its sequel, The Dagger of Amon Ra, also required the player to dig information out of the museum guide book that came with the game. However, since in this case the questions all revolved around real Egyptian mythology, they were the kind of thing an obsessive adventure game player would ''already know''.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'': A very large part of the game revolved around copying lengthy, exact instructions for magical spells from the game manual. Getting the instructions even slightly wrong would [[HaveANiceDeath end the game]]. The correct phrasing was to simply type over the exact sentence in the manual, although words like "the" and "a" could be omitted. This was ''in addition'' to the disk check at the beginning of the game (that all Sierra games had at the time).
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella'' actually has a copy protection joke inserted into the coding. Activating the command box at the start (Ctrl + D) and typing in "Pirate" causes the game to play a small bit clip of "Drunken Sailor" and show a picture of a Pirate, while a text box above reads "Your privileges to this game have been revoked because you are a pirate! 'Yo ho ho!'" See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDwu_OiOeTM here]]! In a straight example, before starting, the game would ask you for a certain word in the manual (for example, the fourth word in the second paragraph on page 3).
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'': Randomly during the game, you have to cast a spell from Crispin's (dead) wand to get past mundane parts. To cast the spell, you would have to look up the symbol on Page X of the manual. Entering the wrong code made the game {{unwinnable}}. It was excised in the CD version, which then created a problem in that you didn't remember you had the wand when you needed it [[spoiler: at the end of the game]] because it literally had no other use.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' came with a "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles", which contained clues needed to ascend the Cliffs of Logic. A wrong answer would cause the stone step you stood on to retract, sending Alexander plummeting to his death. Later on the same island was a puzzle where you had to step on floor tiles in an order hinted at by a poem in the guidebook. In a sneakier example, the background on which the manual's text is printed also serves as the map for the catacombs, a maze with [[TrialAndErrorGameplay several no warning instant death traps]].
* The first VideoGame/LauraBow game (''The Colonel's Bequest'') required you to identify a fingerprint from a sheet that came with the game; originally, the fingerprints could only be viewed with a special magnifying glass, but this was too unfair (since some of them were fairly similar to begin with), so later printings just did it in black and white.
** Its sequel, The Dagger of Amon Ra, also required the player to dig information out of the museum guide book that came with the game. However, since in this case the questions all revolved around real Egyptian mythology, they were the kind of thing an obsessive adventure game player would ''already know''.
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** A certain line of code in the ''VideoGame/KingsQuest Collection'', which included includes games I-VI, had a misprint in it, leading to a player most likely getting the spell wrong until they noticed notice that the misprinted manual decided to rhyme "thither" with [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "thither"]] instead of "hither". The VGA remakes with the protection stripped out that allow the player to just work the entire spell with a single command actually make the game vastly easier.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'': A very large part of the gamerevolved revolves around copying lengthy, exact instructions for magical spells from the game manual. Getting the instructions even slightly wrong would will [[HaveANiceDeath end the game]]. The correct phrasing was is to simply type over the exact sentence in the manual, although words like "the" and "a" could can be omitted. This was is ''in addition'' to the disk check at the beginning of the game (that all Sierra games had at the time).
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella'' actually has a copy protection joke inserted into the coding. Activating the command box at the start (Ctrl + D) and typing in "Pirate" causes the game to play a small bit clip of "Drunken Sailor" and show a picture of a Pirate, while a text box above reads "Your privileges to this game have been revoked because you are a pirate! 'Yo ho ho!'" See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDwu_OiOeTM here]]! In a straight example, before starting, the gamewould ask asks you for a certain word in the manual (for example, the fourth word in the second paragraph on page 3).
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'': Randomly during the game, you have to cast a spell from Crispin's (dead) wand to get past mundane parts. To cast the spell, youwould have to look up the symbol on Page X of the manual. Entering the wrong code made makes the game {{unwinnable}}. It was excised in the CD version, which then created creates a problem in that you didn't don't remember you had have the wand when you needed need it [[spoiler: at the end of the game]] because it literally had has no other use.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' came with a "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles", whichcontained contains clues needed to ascend the Cliffs of Logic. A wrong answer would cause causes the stone step you stood stand on to retract, sending Alexander plummeting to his death. Later on the same island was is a puzzle where you had have to step on floor tiles in an order hinted at by a poem in the guidebook. In a sneakier example, the background on which the manual's text is printed also serves as the map for the catacombs, a maze with [[TrialAndErrorGameplay several no warning instant death traps]].
* The firstVideoGame/LauraBow ''VideoGame/LauraBow'' game (''The Colonel's Bequest'') required requires you to identify a fingerprint from a sheet that came with the game; originally, the fingerprints could only be viewed with a special magnifying glass, but this was too unfair (since some of them were are fairly similar to begin with), so later printings just did it in black and white.
** Its sequel,The ''The Dagger of Amon Ra, Ra'', also required requires the player to dig information out of the museum guide book that came with the game. However, since in this case the questions all revolved revolve around real Egyptian mythology, they were they're the kind of thing an obsessive adventure game player would ''already know''.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'': A very large part of the game
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella'' actually has a copy protection joke inserted into the coding. Activating the command box at the start (Ctrl + D) and typing in "Pirate" causes the game to play a small bit clip of "Drunken Sailor" and show a picture of a Pirate, while a text box above reads "Your privileges to this game have been revoked because you are a pirate! 'Yo ho ho!'" See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDwu_OiOeTM here]]! In a straight example, before starting, the game
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'': Randomly during the game, you have to cast a spell from Crispin's (dead) wand to get past mundane parts. To cast the spell, you
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' came with a "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles", which
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** The first game originally didn't have copy protection, but ''age'' protection - to play the game, you had to answer a question that you'd have to be fairly old to know the answer to. (Presumably.) [[http://www.allowe.com/Larry/1questions.htm See for yourself.]] The VGA remake added actual copy protection questions based on the included {{Feelies}}.
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** The first game originally didn't have copy protection, but ''age'' protection - to play the game, you had have to answer a question that you'd have to be fairly old to know the answer to. (Presumably.) [[http://www.allowe.com/Larry/1questions.htm See for yourself.]] The VGA remake added actual copy protection questions based on the included {{Feelies}}.
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** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry III'', there's a promotional code you have to type (which is in the a certain page of the magazine the game came with) when presenting your show ticket. Another which you have to know the locker combination.
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** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry III'', there's a promotional code you have to type (which is in the on a certain page of the magazine the game came with) when presenting your show ticket. Another which In another, you have to know the right locker combination.
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* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest'' (VGA): The combination to the main character's locker, which you needed to get into to retrieve his uniform, was the score of a football game reported on in the fake newspaper included with the game, and also inputting violation codes while putting an arrested man in jail. The sequel required the player to identify the last name of the person on a mugshot before playing the game.
** Also, in the first ''Police Quest'', you had to exactly follow "police procedures" from the manual in order to advance in the game, and a large chunk of the gameplay was taken up with following just these procedures.
* ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'' had the map of Shapeir, though luckily you could guess your way to the money changer, and from that point onwards purchase an ingame map.
* ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'': In order to get potions from Dr. Cranium, the player needed to help him remember the "formula" for various elements that went into the potions. Interestingly, the copy protection may not seem to matter since it's "just potions"; however, one of the puzzles required to beat the game requires a potion, meaning that without the manual you can effectively do everything ''except'' beat the game.
* ''Robin Hood: VideoGame/ConquestsOfTheLongbow'' featured a number of puzzles which involved having to consult the papers which came with the game. On the plus side, reading through these provided papers allowed you to learn about everything from medieval heraldry, to a secret "hand code", which used letters assigned to different parts of a hand to spell out words, to the purported magical properties of gemstones and trees. There were also dire consequences if you failed.
** Also, in the first ''Police Quest'', you had to exactly follow "police procedures" from the manual in order to advance in the game, and a large chunk of the gameplay was taken up with following just these procedures.
* ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'' had the map of Shapeir, though luckily you could guess your way to the money changer, and from that point onwards purchase an ingame map.
* ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'': In order to get potions from Dr. Cranium, the player needed to help him remember the "formula" for various elements that went into the potions. Interestingly, the copy protection may not seem to matter since it's "just potions"; however, one of the puzzles required to beat the game requires a potion, meaning that without the manual you can effectively do everything ''except'' beat the game.
* ''Robin Hood: VideoGame/ConquestsOfTheLongbow'' featured a number of puzzles which involved having to consult the papers which came with the game. On the plus side, reading through these provided papers allowed you to learn about everything from medieval heraldry, to a secret "hand code", which used letters assigned to different parts of a hand to spell out words, to the purported magical properties of gemstones and trees. There were also dire consequences if you failed.
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* ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest'' (VGA): The combination to the main character's locker, which you needed need to get into to retrieve his uniform, was is the score of a football game reported on in the fake newspaper included with the game, and also inputting violation codes while putting an arrested man in jail. The sequel required requires the player to identify the last name of the person on a mugshot before playing the game.
** Also, in the first ''Police Quest'', youhad have to exactly follow "police procedures" from the manual in order to advance in the game, and a large chunk of the gameplay was is taken up with following just these procedures.
* ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII''had hass the map of Shapeir, though luckily you could can guess your way to the money changer, and from that point onwards purchase an ingame map.
* ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'': In order to get potions from Dr. Cranium, the playerneeded needs to help him remember the "formula" for various elements that went go into the potions. Interestingly, the copy protection may not seem to matter since it's "just potions"; however, one of the puzzles required to beat the game requires a potion, meaning that without the manual you can effectively do everything ''except'' beat the game.
* ''Robin Hood: VideoGame/ConquestsOfTheLongbow''featured features a number of puzzles which involved involve having to consult the papers which came with the game. On the plus side, reading through these provided papers allowed allows you to learn about everything from medieval heraldry, to a secret "hand code", code" which used letters assigned to different parts of a hand to spell out words, to the purported magical properties of gemstones and trees. There were are also dire consequences if you failed.fail.
** Also, in the first ''Police Quest'', you
* ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII''
* ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'': In order to get potions from Dr. Cranium, the player
* ''Robin Hood: VideoGame/ConquestsOfTheLongbow''
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** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest 1'' (VGA), to get the cartridge, you had to enter the symbols from the manual corresponding to the term the dying scientist told you into the library computer. A ''second'' copy protection code was used for the coordinates of the Deltaur near the end of the game. Definitely copy protection overkill. The original EGA game didn't have ANY copy protection.
** ''Space Quest 4'' had its copy protection when you first enter the timepod, and you have to use the [[{{Feelies}} Space Piston Magazine]] included with the game to solve the code. The CD version excised it.
** ''Space Quest 4'' had its copy protection when you first enter the timepod, and you have to use the [[{{Feelies}} Space Piston Magazine]] included with the game to solve the code. The CD version excised it.
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** In the VGA remake of ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest 1'' (VGA), 1'', to get the cartridge, you had have to enter the symbols from the manual corresponding to the term the dying scientist told tells you into the library computer. A ''second'' copy protection code was is used for the coordinates of the Deltaur near the end of the game. Definitely copy protection overkill. The original EGA game didn't doesn't have ANY copy protection.
** ''Space Quest 4''had has its copy protection when you first enter the timepod, and you have to use the [[{{Feelies}} Space Piston Magazine]] included with the game to solve the code. The CD version excised excises it.
** ''Space Quest 4''
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** ''Space Quest 6'' had the datacorder puzzle, which you needed the [[{{Feelies}} Popular Janitronics magazine]] which came with the game to solve. [[GuideDangIt Unfortunately, the 2006 re-released ''Space Quest Collection'' didn't include it]].
* In ''Gold Rush'', failing to enter a given word from the manual when prompted would cause your character to be accused of claim jumping and sentenced to the gallows.
* In ''Gold Rush'', failing to enter a given word from the manual when prompted would cause your character to be accused of claim jumping and sentenced to the gallows.
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** ''Space Quest 6'' had has the datacorder puzzle, which you needed need the [[{{Feelies}} Popular Janitronics magazine]] which came with the game to solve. [[GuideDangIt Unfortunately, the 2006 re-released ''Space Quest Collection'' didn't include it]].
* In ''Gold Rush'', failing to enter a given word from the manual when promptedwould cause causes your character to be accused of claim jumping and sentenced to the gallows.
* In ''Gold Rush'', failing to enter a given word from the manual when prompted
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* ''FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'' requires that you look up recipes in the enclosed "home health manual" and create the prescriptions to solve certain puzzles. Only problem is, when the game was re-released in the Sierra Originals version, only a truncated version of the manual was included in the CD booklet, and one of the required recipes was left out entirely. Oops! Al Lowe, the game creator, has since put the entire doc on his [[http://www.allowe.com/ website]].
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* ''FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'' ''VideoGame/FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'' requires that you look up recipes in the enclosed "home health manual" and create the prescriptions to solve certain puzzles. Only problem is, when the game was re-released in the Sierra Originals version, only a truncated version of the manual was included in the CD booklet, and one of the required recipes was left out entirely. Oops! Al Lowe, the game creator, has since put the entire doc on his [[http://www.allowe.com/ website]].
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Almost all of {{Sierra}}'s point-and-click adventure games had copy protection in their manuals, meaning that those who used illegal copies of the game (or who just plain lost their manual) couldn't progress any further. Most of these copy protection checks occured when starting the game, although a few subverted this trend by placing them about halfway through the game. Some of Sierra's examples:
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Almost all of {{Sierra}}'s {{Creator/Sierra}}'s point-and-click adventure games had copy protection in their manuals, meaning that those who used illegal copies of the game (or who just plain lost their manual) couldn't progress any further. Most of these copy protection checks occured when starting the game, although a few subverted this trend by placing them about halfway through the game. Some of Sierra's examples:
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* ''QuestForGloryII'' had the map of Shapeir, though luckily you could guess your way to the money changer, and from that point onwards purchase an ingame map.
* ''QuestForGloryIV'': In order to get potions from Dr. Cranium, the player needed to help him remember the "formula" for various elements that went into the potions. Interestingly, the copy protection may not seem to matter since it's "just potions"; however, one of the puzzles required to beat the game requires a potion, meaning that without the manual you can effectively do everything ''except'' beat the game.
* ''Robin Hood: ConquestsOfTheLongbow'' featured a number of puzzles which involved having to consult the papers which came with the game. On the plus side, reading through these provided papers allowed you to learn about everything from medieval heraldry, to a secret "hand code", which used letters assigned to different parts of a hand to spell out words, to the purported magical properties of gemstones and trees. There were also dire consequences if you failed.
* ''QuestForGloryIV'': In order to get potions from Dr. Cranium, the player needed to help him remember the "formula" for various elements that went into the potions. Interestingly, the copy protection may not seem to matter since it's "just potions"; however, one of the puzzles required to beat the game requires a potion, meaning that without the manual you can effectively do everything ''except'' beat the game.
* ''Robin Hood: ConquestsOfTheLongbow'' featured a number of puzzles which involved having to consult the papers which came with the game. On the plus side, reading through these provided papers allowed you to learn about everything from medieval heraldry, to a secret "hand code", which used letters assigned to different parts of a hand to spell out words, to the purported magical properties of gemstones and trees. There were also dire consequences if you failed.
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* ''QuestForGloryII'' ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryII'' had the map of Shapeir, though luckily you could guess your way to the money changer, and from that point onwards purchase an ingame map.
*''QuestForGloryIV'': ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'': In order to get potions from Dr. Cranium, the player needed to help him remember the "formula" for various elements that went into the potions. Interestingly, the copy protection may not seem to matter since it's "just potions"; however, one of the puzzles required to beat the game requires a potion, meaning that without the manual you can effectively do everything ''except'' beat the game.
* ''Robin Hood:ConquestsOfTheLongbow'' VideoGame/ConquestsOfTheLongbow'' featured a number of puzzles which involved having to consult the papers which came with the game. On the plus side, reading through these provided papers allowed you to learn about everything from medieval heraldry, to a secret "hand code", which used letters assigned to different parts of a hand to spell out words, to the purported magical properties of gemstones and trees. There were also dire consequences if you failed.
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** A certain line of code in the ''VideoGame/KingsQuest Collection'', which included games I-VI, had a misprint in it, leading to a player most likely getting the spell wrong until they noticed that the misprinted manual decided to rhyme "thither" with [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "thither"]] instead of "hither". The VGA remakes with the copyright stripped out that allow the player to just work the entire spell with a single command actually make the game vastly easier.
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** A certain line of code in the ''VideoGame/KingsQuest Collection'', which included games I-VI, had a misprint in it, leading to a player most likely getting the spell wrong until they noticed that the misprinted manual decided to rhyme "thither" with [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "thither"]] instead of "hither". The VGA remakes with the copyright protection stripped out that allow the player to just work the entire spell with a single command actually make the game vastly easier.
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* ''PoliceQuest'' (VGA): The combination to the main character's locker, which you needed to get into to retrieve his uniform, was the score of a football game reported on in the fake newspaper included with the game, and also inputting violation codes while putting an arrested man in jail. The sequel required the player to identify the last name of the person on a mugshot before playing the game.
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* ''PoliceQuest'' ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest'' (VGA): The combination to the main character's locker, which you needed to get into to retrieve his uniform, was the score of a football game reported on in the fake newspaper included with the game, and also inputting violation codes while putting an arrested man in jail. The sequel required the player to identify the last name of the person on a mugshot before playing the game.
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** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' came with a "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles", which contained clues needed to ascend the Cliffs of Logic. A wrong answer would cause the stone step you stood on to retract, sending Alexander plummeting to his death. Later on the same island was a puzzle where you had to step on floor tiles in an order hinted at by a poem in the guidebook.
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** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' came with a "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles", which contained clues needed to ascend the Cliffs of Logic. A wrong answer would cause the stone step you stood on to retract, sending Alexander plummeting to his death. Later on the same island was a puzzle where you had to step on floor tiles in an order hinted at by a poem in the guidebook. In a sneakier example, the background on which the manual's text is printed also serves as the map for the catacombs, a maze with [[TrialAndErrorGameplay several no warning instant death traps]].
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** ''QuestForGloryII'' had the map of Shapeir, though luckily you could guess your way to the money changer, and from that point onwards purchase an ingame map.
** ''QuestForGloryIV'': In order to get potions from Dr. Cranium, the player needed to help him remember the "formula" for various elements that went into the potions. Interestingly, the copy protection may not seem to matter since it's "just potions"; however, one of the puzzles required to beat the game requires a potion, meaning that without the manual you can effectively do everything ''except'' beat the game.
** ''QuestForGloryIV'': In order to get potions from Dr. Cranium, the player needed to help him remember the "formula" for various elements that went into the potions. Interestingly, the copy protection may not seem to matter since it's "just potions"; however, one of the puzzles required to beat the game requires a potion, meaning that without the manual you can effectively do everything ''except'' beat the game.
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** Also, in the first ''Police Quest'', you had to exactly follow "police procedures" from the manual in order to advance in the game, and a large chunk of the gameplay was taken up with following just these procedures.
* ''QuestForGloryII'' had the map of Shapeir, though luckily you could guess your way to the money changer, and from that point onwards purchase an ingame map.
** * ''QuestForGloryIV'': In order to get potions from Dr. Cranium, the player needed to help him remember the "formula" for various elements that went into the potions. Interestingly, the copy protection may not seem to matter since it's "just potions"; however, one of the puzzles required to beat the game requires a potion, meaning that without the manual you can effectively do everything ''except'' beat the game.
* ''QuestForGloryII'' had the map of Shapeir, though luckily you could guess your way to the money changer, and from that point onwards purchase an ingame map.
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* In the early Sierra adventure/edutainment game ''Gold Rush'', failing to enter a given word from the manual when prompted would cause your character to be accused of claim jumping and sentenced to the gallows.
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* In the early Sierra adventure/edutainment game ''Gold Rush'', failing to enter a given word from the manual when prompted would cause your character to be accused of claim jumping and sentenced to the gallows.
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** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' came with a "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles", which contained clues needed to ascend the Cliffs of Logic. A wrong answer would cause the stone step you stood on to retract, sending Alexander plummeting to his death.
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** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' came with a "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles", which contained clues needed to ascend the Cliffs of Logic. A wrong answer would cause the stone step you stood on to retract, sending Alexander plummeting to his death. Later on the same island was a puzzle where you had to step on floor tiles in an order hinted at by a poem in the guidebook.
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* The first VideoGame/LauraBow game (''The Colonel's Bequest'') required you to identify a fingerprint from a sheet that came with the game; originally, the fingerprints could only be viewed with a special magnifying glass, but this was too unfair (since some of them were fairly similar to begin with), so later printings just did it in black and white. Its sequel, The Dagger of Amon Ra, also required the player to dig information out of the museum guide book that came with the game.
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* The first VideoGame/LauraBow game (''The Colonel's Bequest'') required you to identify a fingerprint from a sheet that came with the game; originally, the fingerprints could only be viewed with a special magnifying glass, but this was too unfair (since some of them were fairly similar to begin with), so later printings just did it in black and white.
** Its sequel, The Dagger of Amon Ra, also required the player to dig information out of the museum guide book that came with thegame.game. However, since in this case the questions all revolved around real Egyptian mythology, they were the kind of thing an obsessive adventure game player would ''already know''.
** Its sequel, The Dagger of Amon Ra, also required the player to dig information out of the museum guide book that came with the
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Almost all of {{Sierra}}'s point-and-click adventure games had copy protection in their manuals, meaning that those who used illegal copies of the game (or who just plain lost their manual) couldn't progress any further. Most of these copy protection checks occured when starting the game, although a few subverted this trend by placing them about halfway through the game. Some of Sierra's examples:
* ''VideoGame/CodenameIceman'': The game begins as the main character is on vacation in Tahiti. A nearby volleyball player drowns in the surf and the player must rescue him and perform CPR. Obnoxiously, the game didn't tell you that it wanted you to look in the manual and type off the instructions verbatim. However, the introductory walkthrough in the game's manual offers step-by-step instructions, making this section trivial for legitimate first-time players.
** ''Conquests of Camelot: The Search For The Grail'' also used this system - you had to look in the manual to solve various riddles throughout the game (but you learned some interesting mythology in the process).
* ''The Even More Incredible Machine'' required you to look into the instruction manual to input a code on a randomly decided page each time you opened it. However, during the game's intro, if you clicked to get past it at ''just'' the right time (specifically, when it switches from the second screen back to the first) it would almost always request the code on the first page of the book, requiring you to remember only one code.
* ''FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'' requires that you look up recipes in the enclosed "home health manual" and create the prescriptions to solve certain puzzles. Only problem is, when the game was re-released in the Sierra Originals version, only a truncated version of the manual was included in the CD booklet, and one of the required recipes was left out entirely. Oops! Al Lowe, the game creator, has since put the entire doc on his [[http://www.allowe.com/ website]].
* The ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' series:
** A certain line of code in the ''VideoGame/KingsQuest Collection'', which included games I-VI, had a misprint in it, leading to a player most likely getting the spell wrong until they noticed that the misprinted manual decided to rhyme "thither" with [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "thither"]] instead of "hither". The VGA remakes with the copyright stripped out that allow the player to just work the entire spell with a single command actually make the game vastly easier.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'': A very large part of the game revolved around copying lengthy, exact instructions for magical spells from the game manual. Getting the instructions even slightly wrong would [[HaveANiceDeath end the game]]. The correct phrasing was to simply type over the exact sentence in the manual, although words like "the" and "a" could be omitted. This was ''in addition'' to the disk check at the beginning of the game (that all Sierra games had at the time).
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella'' actually has a copy protection joke inserted into the coding. Activating the command box at the start (Ctrl + D) and typing in "Pirate" causes the game to play a small bit clip of "Drunken Sailor" and show a picture of a Pirate, while a text box above reads "Your privileges to this game have been revoked because you are a pirate! 'Yo ho ho!'" See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDwu_OiOeTM here]]! In a straight example, before starting, the game would ask you for a certain word in the manual (for example, the fourth word in the second paragraph on page 3).
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'': Randomly during the game, you have to cast a spell from Crispin's (dead) wand to get past mundane parts. To cast the spell, you would have to look up the symbol on Page X of the manual. Entering the wrong code made the game {{unwinnable}}. It was excised in the CD version, which then created a problem in that you didn't remember you had the wand when you needed it [[spoiler: at the end of the game]] because it literally had no other use.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' came with a "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles", which contained clues needed to ascend the Cliffs of Logic. A wrong answer would cause the stone step you stood on to retract, sending Alexander plummeting to his death.
* The first VideoGame/LauraBow game (''The Colonel's Bequest'') required you to identify a fingerprint from a sheet that came with the game; originally, the fingerprints could only be viewed with a special magnifying glass, but this was too unfair (since some of them were fairly similar to begin with), so later printings just did it in black and white. Its sequel, The Dagger of Amon Ra, also required the player to dig information out of the museum guide book that came with the game.
* The ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' series:
** The first game originally didn't have copy protection, but ''age'' protection - to play the game, you had to answer a question that you'd have to be fairly old to know the answer to. (Presumably.) [[http://www.allowe.com/Larry/1questions.htm See for yourself.]] The VGA remake added actual copy protection questions based on the included {{Feelies}}.
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry II'', you have to insert the correct phone number of a woman by inputting it from the manual.
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry III'', there's a promotional code you have to type (which is in the a certain page of the magazine the game came with) when presenting your show ticket. Another which you have to know the locker combination.
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry 5'', to obtain airline tickets, the player must enter the corresponding symbols from the Aerodork timetable, which was printed in black on red in an attempt to make it uncopyable.
* ''PoliceQuest'' (VGA): The combination to the main character's locker, which you needed to get into to retrieve his uniform, was the score of a football game reported on in the fake newspaper included with the game, and also inputting violation codes while putting an arrested man in jail. The sequel required the player to identify the last name of the person on a mugshot before playing the game.
** ''QuestForGloryII'' had the map of Shapeir, though luckily you could guess your way to the money changer, and from that point onwards purchase an ingame map.
** ''QuestForGloryIV'': In order to get potions from Dr. Cranium, the player needed to help him remember the "formula" for various elements that went into the potions. Interestingly, the copy protection may not seem to matter since it's "just potions"; however, one of the puzzles required to beat the game requires a potion, meaning that without the manual you can effectively do everything ''except'' beat the game.
* ''Robin Hood: ConquestsOfTheLongbow'' featured a number of puzzles which involved having to consult the papers which came with the game. On the plus side, reading through these provided papers allowed you to learn about everything from medieval heraldry, to a secret "hand code", which used letters assigned to different parts of a hand to spell out words, to the purported magical properties of gemstones and trees. There were also dire consequences if you failed.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'':
** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest 1'' (VGA), to get the cartridge, you had to enter the symbols from the manual corresponding to the term the dying scientist told you into the library computer. A ''second'' copy protection code was used for the coordinates of the Deltaur near the end of the game. Definitely copy protection overkill. The original EGA game didn't have ANY copy protection.
** ''Space Quest 4'' had its copy protection when you first enter the timepod, and you have to use the [[{{Feelies}} Space Piston Magazine]] included with the game to solve the code. The CD version excised it.
** ''Space Quest 5'' has the codes you need to enter to get to the various planets in the manual. Since you need to keep entering the codes throughout the game, it's borderline overkill. And there's no brute forcing here: going to the wrong coordinates wastes time getting there and kills you as soon as you're there.
** ''Space Quest 6'' had the datacorder puzzle, which you needed the [[{{Feelies}} Popular Janitronics magazine]] which came with the game to solve. [[GuideDangIt Unfortunately, the 2006 re-released ''Space Quest Collection'' didn't include it]].
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* ''VideoGame/CodenameIceman'': The game begins as the main character is on vacation in Tahiti. A nearby volleyball player drowns in the surf and the player must rescue him and perform CPR. Obnoxiously, the game didn't tell you that it wanted you to look in the manual and type off the instructions verbatim. However, the introductory walkthrough in the game's manual offers step-by-step instructions, making this section trivial for legitimate first-time players.
** ''Conquests of Camelot: The Search For The Grail'' also used this system - you had to look in the manual to solve various riddles throughout the game (but you learned some interesting mythology in the process).
* ''The Even More Incredible Machine'' required you to look into the instruction manual to input a code on a randomly decided page each time you opened it. However, during the game's intro, if you clicked to get past it at ''just'' the right time (specifically, when it switches from the second screen back to the first) it would almost always request the code on the first page of the book, requiring you to remember only one code.
* ''FreddyPharkasFrontierPharmacist'' requires that you look up recipes in the enclosed "home health manual" and create the prescriptions to solve certain puzzles. Only problem is, when the game was re-released in the Sierra Originals version, only a truncated version of the manual was included in the CD booklet, and one of the required recipes was left out entirely. Oops! Al Lowe, the game creator, has since put the entire doc on his [[http://www.allowe.com/ website]].
* The ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' series:
** A certain line of code in the ''VideoGame/KingsQuest Collection'', which included games I-VI, had a misprint in it, leading to a player most likely getting the spell wrong until they noticed that the misprinted manual decided to rhyme "thither" with [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment "thither"]] instead of "hither". The VGA remakes with the copyright stripped out that allow the player to just work the entire spell with a single command actually make the game vastly easier.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'': A very large part of the game revolved around copying lengthy, exact instructions for magical spells from the game manual. Getting the instructions even slightly wrong would [[HaveANiceDeath end the game]]. The correct phrasing was to simply type over the exact sentence in the manual, although words like "the" and "a" could be omitted. This was ''in addition'' to the disk check at the beginning of the game (that all Sierra games had at the time).
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIVThePerilsOfRosella'' actually has a copy protection joke inserted into the coding. Activating the command box at the start (Ctrl + D) and typing in "Pirate" causes the game to play a small bit clip of "Drunken Sailor" and show a picture of a Pirate, while a text box above reads "Your privileges to this game have been revoked because you are a pirate! 'Yo ho ho!'" See it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDwu_OiOeTM here]]! In a straight example, before starting, the game would ask you for a certain word in the manual (for example, the fourth word in the second paragraph on page 3).
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder'': Randomly during the game, you have to cast a spell from Crispin's (dead) wand to get past mundane parts. To cast the spell, you would have to look up the symbol on Page X of the manual. Entering the wrong code made the game {{unwinnable}}. It was excised in the CD version, which then created a problem in that you didn't remember you had the wand when you needed it [[spoiler: at the end of the game]] because it literally had no other use.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIHeirTodayGoneTomorrow'' came with a "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles", which contained clues needed to ascend the Cliffs of Logic. A wrong answer would cause the stone step you stood on to retract, sending Alexander plummeting to his death.
* The first VideoGame/LauraBow game (''The Colonel's Bequest'') required you to identify a fingerprint from a sheet that came with the game; originally, the fingerprints could only be viewed with a special magnifying glass, but this was too unfair (since some of them were fairly similar to begin with), so later printings just did it in black and white. Its sequel, The Dagger of Amon Ra, also required the player to dig information out of the museum guide book that came with the game.
* The ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' series:
** The first game originally didn't have copy protection, but ''age'' protection - to play the game, you had to answer a question that you'd have to be fairly old to know the answer to. (Presumably.) [[http://www.allowe.com/Larry/1questions.htm See for yourself.]] The VGA remake added actual copy protection questions based on the included {{Feelies}}.
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry II'', you have to insert the correct phone number of a woman by inputting it from the manual.
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry III'', there's a promotional code you have to type (which is in the a certain page of the magazine the game came with) when presenting your show ticket. Another which you have to know the locker combination.
** In ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry 5'', to obtain airline tickets, the player must enter the corresponding symbols from the Aerodork timetable, which was printed in black on red in an attempt to make it uncopyable.
* ''PoliceQuest'' (VGA): The combination to the main character's locker, which you needed to get into to retrieve his uniform, was the score of a football game reported on in the fake newspaper included with the game, and also inputting violation codes while putting an arrested man in jail. The sequel required the player to identify the last name of the person on a mugshot before playing the game.
** ''QuestForGloryII'' had the map of Shapeir, though luckily you could guess your way to the money changer, and from that point onwards purchase an ingame map.
** ''QuestForGloryIV'': In order to get potions from Dr. Cranium, the player needed to help him remember the "formula" for various elements that went into the potions. Interestingly, the copy protection may not seem to matter since it's "just potions"; however, one of the puzzles required to beat the game requires a potion, meaning that without the manual you can effectively do everything ''except'' beat the game.
* ''Robin Hood: ConquestsOfTheLongbow'' featured a number of puzzles which involved having to consult the papers which came with the game. On the plus side, reading through these provided papers allowed you to learn about everything from medieval heraldry, to a secret "hand code", which used letters assigned to different parts of a hand to spell out words, to the purported magical properties of gemstones and trees. There were also dire consequences if you failed.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest'':
** In ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest 1'' (VGA), to get the cartridge, you had to enter the symbols from the manual corresponding to the term the dying scientist told you into the library computer. A ''second'' copy protection code was used for the coordinates of the Deltaur near the end of the game. Definitely copy protection overkill. The original EGA game didn't have ANY copy protection.
** ''Space Quest 4'' had its copy protection when you first enter the timepod, and you have to use the [[{{Feelies}} Space Piston Magazine]] included with the game to solve the code. The CD version excised it.
** ''Space Quest 5'' has the codes you need to enter to get to the various planets in the manual. Since you need to keep entering the codes throughout the game, it's borderline overkill. And there's no brute forcing here: going to the wrong coordinates wastes time getting there and kills you as soon as you're there.
** ''Space Quest 6'' had the datacorder puzzle, which you needed the [[{{Feelies}} Popular Janitronics magazine]] which came with the game to solve. [[GuideDangIt Unfortunately, the 2006 re-released ''Space Quest Collection'' didn't include it]].
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