Knightmare Challenge!
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With early text adventure games, before parsers became more advanced, you'd often find yourself in a situation with a problem that you knew the solution for, but you couldn't get past it because you weren't using quite the right combination of words, as far as the author was concerned. It tended to get called "guess-the-verb" syndrome; you'd solved the puzzle to all intents and purposes, but until you guessed the correct verb, you were 'stuck' on that puzzle.
*pick lock safe
unlock safe key
use key safe
unlock safe
open safe key
put key lock
turn key round
fit key lock
open safe door
unlock door safe
unlock safe door
get safe open
scream
swear
kill self*
Yes, I remember those well.
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whenever I put "Kill self" I always got "Suicide is not an option" as a response ::)
Yes! There was usually something like that. It was always worth a try though.
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I remember seeing that game at school. It was pretty darn scary, if I remember rightly.
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I think I smell a rat..... has anyone EVER actually found the talisman screens without trouble? Everyone appears to be going round in circles.
LMFAO @ the parser jokes btw.
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Does anyone remember the Red Riding Hood type game for the BBC?! With a wolf in anyway?! I got scared absolutely s**tless by that game - i was 4 when i first played it!!
I know that I don't usually use emoticons, but I think this warrants a few.
I was terrified of that! The blue, blocky wolf face accompanied by the Villain's Theme music - the way it was played over the crude internal speaker just made it even more terrifying.
I played it in Primary 3, I think. Was scared of the thought of it for years afterwards. Also, I loved the way that even at that age I could tell that the game was full of forces choices.
Game: Do you want to go inside?
You: No.
Game: Yes, you do.
(This, as far as I remember, is an actual quote from the game).
On the subject of other adventure games, there was one that my brother found - I can't remember its name - where I got frustrated and typed "damn!" in to the game. It responded with an advert for a hint book.
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Let me be honest - the thought of the wolf still scares me, even though I've gone up a few levels in fear tolerance by now (I just watched Braindead, and maybe next time I'll watch it with my eyes open).
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That's definitely Granny's Garden.
The second part was the worst... it seemed to be rather random whether you got captured or not when wandering around that map, and for some reason one of the nasties on the way wanted a key to eat...
"I don't think THAT was a very good idea..."
argh, the witch...
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Another strange thing is that text adventure games frighten me a lot more than they should - it's the way that they describe what's going on rather than actually showing it, I think, and there's no pace to it but it fools you in to thinking there is.
"There is a threatening little dwarf in the room with you!"
Seriously, I wouldn't even play Colossal Cave alone at night. Weirdness scares me, and that game has a lot of it.
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Alternatively, I could just be a complete chicken.
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