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by Alastair
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 ...
by Alastair
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. :thumb:
by Alastair
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 ...
by Alastair
Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:00 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964673

Re: Adventure Challenge

Clue posted.
First guess:
shornet wrote:Welcome to the Kingdom of Relative Concepts
Gunness wrote:Correct :)
Wow!
by Alastair
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.
by Alastair
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.
by Alastair
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.
by Alastair
Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:19 pm
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964673

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?
by Alastair
Thu Jan 14, 2016 1:14 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964673

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 ...
by Alastair
Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:26 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964673

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...
by Alastair
Fri Jan 08, 2016 11:30 pm
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964673

Re: Adventure Challenge

Is everyone ready for a second clue?


Game 13. Clue 2:

1478
+57
by Alastair
Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:48 pm
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964673

Re: Adventure Challenge

No, it's neither The Commute nor Cloudburst.
by Alastair
Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:28 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964673

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 ...
by Alastair
Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:24 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964673

Re: Adventure Challenge

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.
Yes, it is Venus and that's some obscure reasoning, just not as obscure as the reasoning I'm using. :wink:
by Alastair
Wed Dec 30, 2015 12:34 am
Forum: It's all fun and games
Topic: Adventure Challenge
Replies: 461
Views: 4964673

Re: Adventure Challenge

Steady on! I posted barely an hour ago, you don't need to be that quick in replying. :D
Alex wrote:"Blue Crystal" by Rainbow arts.
No, it would help if you identified the object on the left, then once you have identified it you need to...