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- Sun Feb 28, 2016 1:04 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: MicroMUD for the C64
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12080
Re: MicroMUD for the C64
go to X to collect Y then take Y to Z activity Funny, that sounds like an appropriate description of many adventure games to me :D Fetch quests to open up locations, finding hidden objects… there are so many games which don't do more than that. You're quoting me out of context ;) the full quote is ...
- Fri Feb 26, 2016 11:28 pm
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: New 10-Liner BASIC Adventure for TRS-80 MC-10
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2915
Re: New 10-Liner BASIC Adventure for TRS-80 MC-10
Congratulations Jim on being one of the Retrochallenge 2016/1 winners. 
- Fri Feb 26, 2016 12:38 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: MicroMUD for the C64
- Replies: 30
- Views: 12080
Re: MicroMUD for the C64
We started to talk about what should and shouldn't be included in the site a few years back but never came to any definite conclusions. However I stick with what I wrote back then namely, "Regarding RPGs with adventure elements I would base this on the nature of the adventure element. An RPG with ...
- Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:00 am
- Forum: It's all fun and games
- Topic: Adventure Challenge
- Replies: 461
- Views: 4964666
Re: Adventure Challenge
Clue posted.
First guess:
First guess:
shornet wrote:Welcome to the Kingdom of Relative Concepts
Wow!Gunness wrote:Correct
- Mon Feb 15, 2016 12:39 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: MAP making utilities
- Replies: 5
- Views: 19505
Re: MAP making utilities
I still use the copy of DrawPlus that I've owned for donkey's years.
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 12:46 am
- Forum: Off-topic
- Topic: Free Usborne 1980s Computer Books
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16536
Free Usborne 1980s Computer Books
In the early 1980s Usborne published a number of books with type-in listings for adventure games. Now Usborne has released fifteen of its 1980s computer books, including some text adventure books, for download as free PDFs.
- Sat Feb 06, 2016 12:35 am
- Forum: Classics
- Topic: Cyberworld (1983 C64 adventure by Progressive Peripherals)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2643
Re: Cyberworld (1983 C64 adventure by Progressive Peripheral
Often-times opening a disc or cassette image in WordPad will reveal a game's verb list, as well as other details that may be of use.
- Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:19 pm
- Forum: It's all fun and games
- Topic: Adventure Challenge
- Replies: 461
- Views: 4964666
Re: Adventure Challenge
I've searched the site for titles containing 'ghost', 'ghoul', 'spook', and 'spectre' and none of the games seems to match the clues, so would I be right in guessing that the game does not have an English title?
- Thu Jan 14, 2016 1:14 am
- Forum: It's all fun and games
- Topic: Adventure Challenge
- Replies: 461
- Views: 4964666
Re: Adventure Challenge
Utopia Correct! Now for the explanation.
Sir Thomas More lived 1478-1535. I was going to use "1478-1535" as a clue but putting that in Google gives multiple references to Sir Thomas More on the first page - and we wouldn't want the contest to be that easy, would we? - so I instead gave the age at ...
Sir Thomas More lived 1478-1535. I was going to use "1478-1535" as a clue but putting that in Google gives multiple references to Sir Thomas More on the first page - and we wouldn't want the contest to be that easy, would we? - so I instead gave the age at ...
- Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:26 am
- Forum: It's all fun and games
- Topic: Adventure Challenge
- Replies: 461
- Views: 4964666
Re: Adventure Challenge
Welcome Shornet.
Jaco, Shornet, and Alex none of you has yet guessed the right title, but one of you is thinking along the right lines...
Jaco, Shornet, and Alex none of you has yet guessed the right title, but one of you is thinking along the right lines...
- Fri Jan 08, 2016 11:30 pm
- Forum: It's all fun and games
- Topic: Adventure Challenge
- Replies: 461
- Views: 4964666
Re: Adventure Challenge
Is everyone ready for a second clue?
Game 13. Clue 2:
1478
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Game 13. Clue 2:
1478
+57
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:48 pm
- Forum: It's all fun and games
- Topic: Adventure Challenge
- Replies: 461
- Views: 4964666
Re: Adventure Challenge
No, it's neither The Commute nor Cloudburst.
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:28 am
- Forum: It's all fun and games
- Topic: Adventure Challenge
- Replies: 461
- Views: 4964666
Re: Adventure Challenge
Belated happy new year Alex, and everyone else, you did ask for a 'most devious challenge' so I thought I would oblige.
It is quite possible that it is too devious and that has put others off from attempting an answer, so before I post the next clue I will give some pointers on how you should ...
It is quite possible that it is too devious and that has put others off from attempting an answer, so before I post the next clue I will give some pointers on how you should ...
- Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:24 am
- Forum: It's all fun and games
- Topic: Adventure Challenge
- Replies: 461
- Views: 4964666
Re: Adventure Challenge
Yes, it is Venus and that's some obscure reasoning, just not as obscure as the reasoning I'm using.Alex wrote:I thought the object on the left is the planet Venus. That's the reason my first guess was "to catch a rainbow". Rainbow from Zippy and catch from the Venus flytrap plant.
- Wed Dec 30, 2015 12:34 am
- Forum: It's all fun and games
- Topic: Adventure Challenge
- Replies: 461
- Views: 4964666
Re: Adventure Challenge
Steady on! I posted barely an hour ago, you don't need to be that quick in replying. 
No, it would help if you identified the object on the left, then once you have identified it you need to...Alex wrote:"Blue Crystal" by Rainbow arts.