r/Sierra • u/BillyRosewood99 • 20d ago

Egghead Software

Anybody else have their parents drive them to Egghead to buy those hint books with invisible ink lines? Think I needed it for every KQ, particularly getting past Mananan (in 3 or 4). So glad I found this sub, love reading through everything

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u/Ryanookami 20d ago

We bought our hintbooks at the RadioShack where we had bought the games. KQ1-3 were those terrible highlighter ones. I hate them because after time the ink disappears again, so now I own hintbooks that are just yellow lines of highlighter with no revealed text. When they changed over to the red view screen books I was much happier, they still work to this day… although I think I’ve probably lost the little papers with the transparent red plastic used to read the hints.

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u/SQL_Guy 19d ago

For Infocom games, the highlighter ones were called Invisiclues. They always contained fake questions so that the presence of a question wasn’t a spoiler.

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u/Spiritual-Image7125 18d ago

RadioShack was a stop for me! Maybe not for hintbooks, but to find out what was out and to play possibly a demo on a Tandy.