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offline Mr_Flappypants from Louisville (United States) on 2002-04-22 00:02 [#00188131]
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monkey island, kings quest, broken sword, grim fandango
(even though i dont like the new 3d look to adventure
games), full throttle, maniac mansion, theyre all so great!


 

offline lctroboy from BorÃ¥s (Sweden) on 2002-04-22 00:02 [#00188136]
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I know.

Man. The theme-song from Monket Island almost makes me
cry... it's so beautiful. I have to download all the
versions now.


 

offline Mr_Flappypants from Louisville (United States) on 2002-04-22 00:05 [#00188138]
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=O
damn straight
michael lands a genious

er...for b3ns sake...
michael land is very talented


 

offline lctroboy from BorÃ¥s (Sweden) on 2002-04-22 00:08 [#00188145]
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sure is.

Now my friend, me listen soundtrack.


 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2002-04-22 00:09 [#00188146]
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Monkey Island was a great game...I haven't played it in so
long though!


 

offline Gonzola from Stockholm (Sweden) on 2002-04-22 00:09 [#00188147]
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did anyone play Little Big Adventure? one of the best games
in the world IMO. beautiful theme song too.

Beneath a Steel Sky was good too, any one remember that?


 

offline Mr_Flappypants from Louisville (United States) on 2002-04-22 00:11 [#00188154]
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good job with jades nipple, xlr!


 

offline lctroboy from BorÃ¥s (Sweden) on 2002-04-22 00:12 [#00188155]
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gonzola.

Yah, played both LBA 1 and 2. Loved them... really weird
games actually =D
nice nice!
yes. mesa like.



 

offline Quoth from Sweden on 2002-04-22 00:13 [#00188156]
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really weird


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-04-22 00:14 [#00188158]
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Its ok, I won't be offended =)

I liked Day Of The Tentacle, an ingenius plot, the way you
go backwards and forwards.


 

offline lctroboy from BorÃ¥s (Sweden) on 2002-04-22 00:16 [#00188160]
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Sam & Max Hit The Road !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND DONT U FORGET IT!


 

offline B3n from Manchester (United Kingdom) on 2002-04-22 00:17 [#00188162]
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I couldn't finish that *sob*


 

offline lctroboy from BorÃ¥s (Sweden) on 2002-04-22 00:17 [#00188164]
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Me neither. But it was cool anyway. =)


 

offline Gonzola from Stockholm (Sweden) on 2002-04-22 00:23 [#00188170]
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i played 1 and 2 too. yea the games were a bit surreal...the
spaced out graphics, good music, mysterious story lines and
characters created an original atmosphere...i'm definately
gonna play lba 1 again.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-04-22 00:39 [#00188184]
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Jackaranda Jim - Old text adventure. Brilliant, you must
download it! (It's shareware)


 

offline Asche XL on 2002-04-22 00:45 [#00188197]
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why play action games when u can play wipeout?


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-04-22 00:51 [#00188206]
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because its bloody impossible


 

offline aneurySm from Ypsilanti (United States) on 2002-04-22 00:55 [#00188209]
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Zork was the game that always confused the hell out of me.
I think the only one me ever actually had on our family
computer was Beyond Zork where it seemed you;d just wander
forever and get beat up alot till you were dead.
I was a Sierra kid, grew up on King;s Space Quest games and
even beat Leasure Suit Larry I when it was still kinda new.


 

offline Mr_Flappypants from Louisville (United States) on 2002-04-22 00:57 [#00188211]
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lucasarts are the masters


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-04-22 00:58 [#00188213]
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yeah there were a lot of rather dodgy adventure games, some
it seemed without any boundaries, i.e. if you decided to go
in one direction for an hour into nothingness, you'd spend
another hour coming back or end up having to start again

i used to like ant attack though precisely for that reason


 

offline Cabbog from Chautauqua (United States) on 2002-04-22 01:06 [#00188220]
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Yeah, Twinsun's Odyssey was one of my favorite games as a
young lad. I also really liked King's Quest 5 and 6...
All the mid-era Lucas Arts adventure games(Sam & Max, Day of
the Tentacle, Full Throttle, The Dig,..)too. I never liked
the Space Quest series because your character (Roger Wilco)
was a complete loser. I play games to get away from real
life, not to remind me of it!



 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2002-04-22 01:18 [#00188227]
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Ant Attack, man that was great!


 

offline pachi from yo momma (United States) on 2002-04-22 01:26 [#00188234]
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Indiana Jones!


 

offline urb from Trondheim (Norway) on 2002-04-22 01:52 [#00188259]
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lucasarts rule! monkey island 1 & 2 and indy iv are all
1000%. and michael z. land is king. anybody noticed that the
music in lucasarts amiga games are much better than in the
pc (midi) versions? try downloading them and compare..

if you want to play all those classic lucas games on your
modern computer, check out ScummVM.. it's so so nice.


 

offline RobinsAlter-Ego from a suburban hellhole (United States) on 2002-04-22 02:36 [#00188271]
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three words:

THE

LONGEST

JOURNEY



 

offline RobinsAlter-Ego from a suburban hellhole (United States) on 2002-04-22 02:43 [#00188273]
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where can these lucasarts games be downloaded?


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-04-22 02:44 [#00188274]
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the ultimate in adventure games....

The Hobbit!

fuck, what was that like? you waited what seemed like an
hour waiting for it to download. then confronted with a
shitty parser which never understood anything you typed in.
apart from go north - which was followed by a quick death
for no apparent reason. the 1st 48k game if my memory serves
me correctly.


 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2002-04-22 02:52 [#00188277]
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I didn't know there was a hobbit game...



 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2002-04-22 02:54 [#00188280]
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1983 i think


 

offline urb from Trondheim (Norway) on 2002-04-22 02:54 [#00188281]
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scummVM is just an interpreter, you'll need the data files
from some other source. there are pleny of sites on the net
if you search google.

or if you want to stay legit, you can get lucasarts classics
packages at your local computer store


 

offline xlr from Boston (United States) on 2002-04-22 02:55 [#00188283]
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geez...the year i was born. hehe.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-11-16 17:49 [#01397513]
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.. ya think there's some sort of fanatical coorelation
between idm and adventure games?


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-11-16 18:32 [#01397548]
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yes there is. similarly, there is one between idm and people
who bought their own lunch to school.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-11-16 18:36 [#01397551]
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oh, i did that as well.

did you guys as well make it through at least 2 decades of
life having never interacted in any way with a female, other
than your mother?
err.. nevermind.


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2004-11-16 18:39 [#01397552]
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I used to have a text-adventure version of "the hitchhiker's
guide to the galaxy" on my hyper-knackered old pc when i was
about 8. I think i was condemned to geekdom from then on.


 

offline horsefactory from 💠 (United Kingdom) on 2004-11-16 18:40 [#01397554]
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Profanity Adventures


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-11-16 18:40 [#01397555]
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thats online somewhere, it's been posted before


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-11-16 18:41 [#01397556]
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I had that too.
has anyone played the text-adventure game "A mind forever
voyaging" that game changed my fucking life, as pathetic as
that may sound..
it was by the same company as "hitchhiker's...." , infocom.


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2004-11-16 18:48 [#01397562]
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Don't make me search that shit out again. It was bad enough
the first time round, i completed it a stupid amount of
times without ever having heard of the book.

I had another text adventure called "leather gods of phobos"
on there too. Only now am i beginning to unravel the many
layers of filth contained in that game.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-11-16 18:48 [#01397563]
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i'm old skool, i preferred the choose your own adventure
books


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-11-16 18:51 [#01397566]
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"you are a millionaire"

or

"you are a genius"

those were good


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2004-11-16 18:52 [#01397567]
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Hah! I read those as well, there was a craze on them when i
was at primary school. I remember some dude called
christopher (?) livingstone wrote a load of them or
something.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-11-16 18:55 [#01397569]
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ken livingstone & steve jackson did the more popular
role-playing books, warlock of firetop mountain, citadel of
chaos, & starshop something or other. i liked the smaller
white books myself, some of them were quite bizarre.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-11-16 18:55 [#01397570]
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i remember being banned from using those on book reports.
it must've been too entertaining for the children.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-11-16 18:55 [#01397571]
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those really must've been a pain to write.


 

offline virginpusher from County Clare on 2004-11-16 18:56 [#01397572]
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I wonder if those are still floating around my house.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-11-16 18:58 [#01397575]
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i've lost mine :( i will make an attempt to buy some back at
some point, they were great.


 

offline Q4Z2X on 2004-11-16 19:00 [#01397581]
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They had some nice hatching-type illustrations.

i remember trying to write one of those kind of books with a
friend when i was about twelve, but we got tired of writing
since we made way too many choices, and my friend just
eventually set every ending to "You fall onto a knife and
die. The end."


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2004-11-16 19:02 [#01397583]
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i think lots of people had a go at writing text adventures.
the problem was then you had to get someone to play it!
fortunately i had my brother to try all my little games on.


 

offline deepspace9mm from filth on 2004-11-16 19:03 [#01397584]
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Ken livingstone, that was it. I've still got a couple of
these weird post-apocalyptic choose-your-own-adventure type
books in a sort of gothic mad max vein, revolving mainly
around very bloody violence and acquiring guns. I forget who
they're by.

Looking back, i suppose their target market was kids who've
grown out of rubbish magic spells and into wanting to shoot
things.


 


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