Lost Infocom Games Discovered 112
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Archivists at Waxy.org have gotten a copy of the backup of Infocom's shared network drive from 1989 and are piecing together information about games that were never released. In particular, there is the sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy called Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and there are two playable prototypes of it. And yes, they have playable downloads available."
The submitter says it all... (Score:4, Funny)
Summary of summary: Some people got ahold of someone's hard drive and published the contents online.
Yeah.
Just don't! (Score:5, Funny)
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Nostalgia (Score:5, Funny)
I was in fourth grade when I first played with the Zork triology of text-adventure games on the C-64. An innocent kid and budding geek, I tried feeding novel combinations of nouns and verbs to the primitive parser.
I tried "EAT LAMP"... got back "You can't eat the lamp."
"EAT BREAD"... "That was delicious."... Etc.
I tried "EAT ME". I couldn't comprehend why my dad, who had just bought the game for me and was supervising over my shoulder, started laughing so hard.
Several years later I finally understood why he laughed even harder when the computer responded:
"Auto-cannibalism is not the answer."
You can mod this offtopic, but those 1983 game designers had a real sense of humor and subtly implemented it in 64KB.
Re:Nostalgia (Score:0, Funny)
Ah, the good old days, when 64KB was enough for anybody!
Re:Strange Description... (Score:5, Funny)
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Zork knows me better than I do (Score:5, Funny)
West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.
>kill mailbox with hands
I've known strange people, but fighting a small mailbox?
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Re:Educational value: (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hard drive archeology (Score:3, Funny)
Now, time to go back to trolling alt.
LOOK! A pony!
Re:The submitter says it all... (Score:5, Funny)