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Well, you were warned…
I have fond memories of DeathMaze 5000 and Asylum on the mighty TRS-80.
I was thinking there’s no way this moment isn’t famous.
I’m going to try giving the note to people to see if any of them get caught by the trap.
I think this is in all of Denman’s “Continuum” games – “Deathmaze 5000”, “Labyrinth”, and “Asylum” at least. I am going to try it in “Asylum II” but I’m pretty sure that it worked there also.
This is a very elaborate inminent death!
Perhaps at the funeral afterwards they could play:
“And more, much more than this I did it Steinway.”
…Get out.
Does the death still occur if you don’t look up?
You LOOK UP at any point during the game and a piano falls on you.
The note itself is technically safe.
I probably shouldn’t try to think too hard about the implication that there is constantly a piano hovering over you wherever you go.
My theory is that the ceiling is lined with precisely balanced pianos that tip over if you exhale in their direction.
I suspect this was an homage to the Monty Python’s Flying Circus team, who would end sketches with a sixteen ton weight falling on the protagonist’s head viz. Self Defence Against Fresh Fruit, The Marriage Guidance Counsellor, The Bishop Sketch and others.
I reckon that Monty Python themselves were inspired by early animation films in which pianos would frequently be dropped on poor unsuspecting cartoon animals.
You could well be right. Maybe the trope codifier for piano jokes was Laurel and Hardy’s Oscar-Winning short The Music Box.
Can you GIVE NOTE to someone else and maybe solve a puzzle that way?
Indeed. (I finished yesterday. Post likely up today.)
This is really funny.
I remember this. Early 1980s. Gosh. I was in my mid-teens, if that.
Do you remember how far you got?
I don’t really. I know I finished one adventure game, maybe this one, just not sure. They were the best games I ever played. I miss that computer.
Adventures are good! And there’s always emulators if you want to get back into it, trs80gp is quite good.
http://48k.ca/trs80gp.html
Asylum 2 is on my slate for early 2023 if you want to stick around (probably late Feb-early Mar although that can shift a bit). You’re even welcome to play along, you might notice w Ferret how it is pretty much a collaborative effort.