The blog’s shallow thread depth is preventing me from replying in the right place, but whoever wrote the Invisiclues for…
I’ve always wondered about that, but enough people got deeply upset I took them at their word. I still think…
As a Zork-playing Brit, I’m never quite sure where the train of thought regarding this puzzle not being ‘portable’ comes…
I’m worried (not really) that I have some kind of tumor that is causing an illusory sense of deja vu,…
it’s totally plausible this was just ripped off some previous game, but I’ve done every search term I can think…
Absolutely losing my mind here! I distinctly remember playing along with something like this, where we were going over the…
oof, yes, thank you
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(Continued from a post from a year ago. You should probably read that post before this one.) That seems to be…
I typed (or rather, OCR’d and corrected) this one so unless someone else did and nobody found it, that’s unlikely.
This game compares entire words, so if you want to drink the water, you have to type “DRINK WATER” exactly…
Different blogger maybe? I did some searches and no hits and I don’t remember anything like this
Haven’t we seen this exact game before? I distinctly remember levitating with a staff over a useless pit, throw a…
I did not see that with the leaf IT LEVITATES OUT OF YOUR REACH at least the leaf _seems_ magical…
I don’t know if you read replies to old posts, so I’ll keep this fairly brief. To answer your question,…
How many letters does the parser count, again? Because “Wizard Cluton” can anagram into some of the letters of “Drink…
That might well be another OCR oversight, but the game in general is very clumsily programmed, as you probably noticed.
It’s a good comparison I’m fishing with a hope someone knows a reference in the comments Very comparable would be…
Isn’t that how British players reacted to the Zork 2 diamond maze? Clues made no sense, solution made no sense,…
“the end result being that THROW PIE still somehow throws it at the ghost, even when you are nowhere nearby”…
I think you can do without puzzles, even in a spy detective story, if you build everything on intrigue and…
oh, that’s a beautiful bug? WYOU ARE IN THE MEADOW.VISIBLE ITEMS:NOTHING? DROP LEAFO.K.YOU ARE IN THE MEADOW.VISIBLE ITEMS:LEAF? EYOU ARE…
Nothing is clear, but it is very interesting!))
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Thanks, I’ll fix that along with another tiny typo I found.
“if you drop any item you can’t pick it up” You absolutely can, if you happen to be in the…
figured it out from the second hint that leaves “moon logic” into some kind of hyperdimensional space
ugh, I even had fixed one and it somehow unfixed itself should all be good now, thanks
There’s something you need to do in one of the locations you’ve visited but I honestly have no idea how…
They did have one gaming landmark worth noting, possibly a side effect of their “serious” positioning: they have the first…
[…] 1981, not published until 1983. Take your pick. I didn’t have this one on any of my lists but…
Heck, I was really hoping for Pray Hard 4.0.
It’s like the world’s worst dating simulator. Are you sure that’s not Drive-In?
just _offended_ at the thought of processed food, wants generic undescribed item marked “food” (actually what happened is sillier -…
busting back through the wall: “Oh that is it. that is it.”
reflecting how wonderfully the game is coded, after you’ve drive the wolf away, if you drop an item in the…
From checking the CASA walkthrough, a suggestion: unir lbh gevrq srrqvat gur jbys fbzrguvat gung vfa’g pevfcf? this is just…
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mainly for personal reference, a thread I ended up never using from an old alt.folklore.computers conversation on Usenet about CompuServe…
spooky domicile chart is here https://bluerenga.blog/2023/10/06/haunted-house-morgan-1982/
There are multiple games for all those mansion/house combinations. The one with the least is Haunted Mansion (I think we…
There was a table somewhere with one axis labelled with “Haunted” and “Mystery” and the other with “House” and “Mansion”…
yeah, I guess they were forced that implementation? You try to READ MAGAZINE in the room you find it and…
Same year, both self-published, of course.
I’m just waiting for my first nameclash where the games have the same name AND the same author name but…
*I guess to be fair, even Monster’s Final Hour does throw some extra elements in there.
All four games re-use the bookcase/pen/candle/monster section of John’s original game. At least Haunted House/Misty Hill (which seem to be…
I had read the CASA entry already so knew this was coming. I wanted to wait until I could see…
Another entry in what could be called the genre of “Games named Haunted House”. There’s at least 21 of them.
We’ve spent so long looking at the crossover between all Steve’s different games.Always nice to be reminded of Frankenstein Adventure,…
Ah – jinx! You beat me to it
Exploring the history of this game on CASA. Seems as though Steve Lucas was fond of cannibalising his own work…
Ah, yes. I think we’ve linked this one to Steve’s ‘The House on Misty Hill’ & also his ‘Monster’s Final…
Genuinely wondering how much the “you can only read it in the right place” thing emerges from a game with…
In the novel and film, the black coating on the Maltese Falcon is (wrongly believed to be) a lacquer of…
I can make sense of the spice behavior. If I’ve got a little McCormick jar of spices, and I put…
Of the early ones I would probably rank (high to low) 550 (platt) 501 (long) 440 (“adventure II” with dwarves…
Yes, Roberts let you jump off basically everywhere plausible if you had the relevant object. (My personal favorite has to…
If you hang around the boulder long enough, the game offers you a hint for 4 points: “You’re just too…
I’ve really enjoyed reading about this one! The map is probably the best I’ve ever seen for a text adventure,…
I was going to guess fuchsia as the first because it sounds a bit like the magic word “phuce,” but…
SWING SWORD the problem for me was the reference needed to be to the weapon and not to the target…
the way the green light works is it switches to yellow when you get wrong, and red when you get…
Knowing the solution, it seems to me that the green light above the door is possibly meant to be a…
Theatre from 1995 certainly has a piano, but I expect there are other games with pianos as well. If there’s…
yes indeed any particular thought process on that? I brute forced up through 4 out of 5 before I realized…
Regarding the steel door puzzle: Is the answer to [chfu ohggbaf va gur beqre bs shpufvn, anper, benatr, erq, qha?…
I’ll admit I got to digging at the beach quite soo, if only because I’ve played enough other gaes where…
I want to express my gratitude for the work by Al Kossow, LanHawk, Arthur O’Dwyer and Richard Cornwell which all…
I can’t tell if you picked up on all my Casablanca references or not! Anyway, right about 1h36m in (9m30s…
Couple of typos: “cantipede” and “urge to to redo”
I’ve worked it out last night. (Incidentally, I also managed to figure out what I think is the correct way…
You have the most amazing game playing skills! This version of Adventure proves it!
Gentle hint on the centipede: Lbh unir abguvat jvgu juvpu gb gujneg vairegroengrf. Fbyir bgure chmmyrf svefg. Gentle hint on…
A little factual correction: You stated that the Hercules graphics card came out around the same time as the CGA.…
Two whole hours of Internet is a miserly prize, especially when you consider that to solve Adventure, you have to…
I’m afraid I still haven’t dealt with the centipede or the rock (or indeed, getting to the rock in a…
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Oh good, VAX Fortran, that’ll be easy to get working…
Those of you keeping track of “new” games may note that Arthur seems to have sources for a new variant…
Hey, that’s progress. ;) “If you GET TREASURE and it picks the thing up you know it’s worth points” —…
took a lot of fussing around before I could get the shamrock over (including an interruption from the pirate and…
>I remember (from 501) this is because the stone is radioactive and needed to be stored in a special container.…
I think a comment on a previous entry revealed an important thing: gur sabeq ebpx vf n funz ebpx, fb…
One of my five theories on the sham rock is taking the four leaf clover (see next post) over there,…
The “dull passage” with its clover image and “ersatz” rock must be making some kind of dull wordplay on shamrock…
[…] which claims the max score is 500 yet typing SCORE says outright the max score is 501. Also, the…
Despite it describing “cakes”, “eat cake” will always eat all of them, sadly
What happens if you eat *another* tiny cake once you’re already normal-sized?
Haven’t decoded Arthur’s ROT13 above yet (in case it actually is a puzzle spoiler), but I’ve had lots of time…
It would be interesting to do a comparison between this game and Polyadventure 701+ v3.21a ported by David Baggett, Dave…
looks like I put ’84 to give it a try could theoretically end up being placed earlier once I’ve gone…
weird error that time, just some random numbers anyway, it is fixed
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The link at the top that should go to the previous post goes nowhere.
Just checked to confirm on passing the section in my own run; the game in fact does not understand the…
Lrf, ohg V erzrzorerq nsgre cbfgvat guvf gung vg’f abg dhvgr nf fvzcyr nf V znqr vg fbhaq. Pnyy gur…
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