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by Mr Creosote
Tue May 31, 2016 8:39 pm
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964654

Re: Adventure Challenge

No. I see that this may not have been quite as easy as I thought ;) One important detail can be found on the left hand side of the picture.
by Mr Creosote
Mon May 30, 2016 4:26 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964654

Re: Adventure Challenge

No, sorry.
by Mr Creosote
Sun May 29, 2016 9:02 pm
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964654

Re: Adventure Challenge

Since there is no such game in the CASA database, I'm going to say no ;)
by Mr Creosote
Sun May 29, 2016 4:24 pm
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964654

Re: Adventure Challenge

Since things have been turning a little complicated lately (normal effect in such a game), I'll try to tune it down a little. This hint translates pretty much directly into the title you're looking for!
by Mr Creosote
Sat May 28, 2016 3:41 pm
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964654

Re: Adventure Challenge

In my usual futile attempt, I'll go with The Beast of Torrack Moor.
by Mr Creosote
Sat May 14, 2016 10:00 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964654

Re: Adventure Challenge

For completeness' sake, I'm going to say "Witch's Brew" ;)
by Mr Creosote
Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:18 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964654

Re: Adventure Challenge

The Citadel of Corruption? There are some artifacts on the picture.
by Mr Creosote
Wed Mar 30, 2016 7:21 am
Forum: The modern era
Topic: AAS (Advanced Authoring System)
Replies: 3
Views: 15858

Re: AAS (Advanced Authoring System)

I think your final paragraph sums it up nicely. Maybe "joke" would be more appropriate than "hoax".
by Mr Creosote
Mon Mar 28, 2016 8:43 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964654

Re: Adventure Challenge

The Child Murderer (Richard Widmark plays Cassetti, the murderer of Daisy Armstrong in that film)
by Mr Creosote
Wed Mar 23, 2016 8:18 am
Forum: Off-topic
Topic: You are the hero - Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
Replies: 31
Views: 90466

Re: You are the hero - Fighting Fantasy gamebooks


Playing through them reminded me exactly how bad Caverns of the Snow Witch was
Why? You kill a yeti, then out of the blue to decide to kill the legendary snow witch, then you find and kill her, then you kill her again, and then you die from a curse many turns later, because you decided not to ...
by Mr Creosote
Mon Mar 07, 2016 7:14 pm
Forum: Site feedback & announcements
Topic: What games should we include?
Replies: 19
Views: 86674

Re: What games should we include?

More than the specific question, my earlier comments reflected my general dissatisfaction with the practice of classifying games according to what I consider fairly fuzzy genres at best. As the years pass, I find it harder and harder to go along with this. What is "clearly an RPG" or "clearly an ...
by Mr Creosote
Mon Feb 29, 2016 1:14 pm
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964654

Re: Adventure Challenge

This also puzzles me. The small picture is inside the larger picture, so the "why" (in whatever spelling) should be neither at the beginning nor the end of the title, I thought.
by Mr Creosote
Mon Feb 29, 2016 8:27 am
Forum: Classics
Topic: MicroMUD for the C64
Replies: 30
Views: 12080

Re: MicroMUD for the C64

Let me be intentionally provocative: why would a game which also has other gameplay features need to do more than "basic" ones to qualify?
by Mr Creosote
Sat Feb 27, 2016 2:24 pm
Forum: Classics
Topic: MicroMUD for the C64
Replies: 30
Views: 12080

Re: MicroMUD for the C64

Alastair wrote: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.
by Mr Creosote
Fri Feb 26, 2016 4:02 pm
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964654

Re: Adventure Challenge

I'm tempted to guess Hawaii (the question being why).