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This was an exceptionally difficult game from the very first scene. You were particularly hard pressed to even make it off earth if you hadn’t read the book.

After that, it didn’t necessarily coincide with the book, so you had to put yourself into a Douglas Adams mindset for the duration, and that was no easy task.

I think I may have gotten through roughly a third of it before moving on to other games.

Zork was the other game I never did particularly well with. I think I got a little further in it than hitchhikers though.

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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I got so frustrated getting killed over and over that I typed:

Fuck Ford

into the prompt. The game responded with:

This is a family entertainment game, not a video nasty.

Which is how I found out that was British slang for porn.
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- havocpants@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Video nasty was slang for graphic horror movies, not porn. Not heard anyone say it since the 80s though.
  
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  - AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ahh, TIL. Thanks!
    
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- otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  British slang for porn.
  
  I’m not sure if I’m missing something here…but what did you think “fuck” meant? Lol
  
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  - kux@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    more likely he thought 'video nasty' was slang for porn (though of course it isn't)
    
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    otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Lmao yes, you’re absolutely right. That’s what I missed.
    
    I still like my misinterpretation though, ahaha
    
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  - isles@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    but what did you think “fuck” meant?
    
    Just about anything
    
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    samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Fuck the fucking fuckers.
    
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    otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The only English word that can be used as an infix…
    
    It’s truly beauti-fucking-ful!
    
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thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
the only harder text based adventure game of that era was Steven Kings’ The Mist. That game was fucked! I cannot tell you how many times my friend and I tried to survive the god dam grocery store!

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Interesting. I had never heard about that game! I’m going to have to check it out now.
  
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  - thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    say no more friend!
    
    archive.org/…/msdos_Stephen_Kings_-_The_Mist_1985
    
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    FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Thanks!
    
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There were at least five Zork games I can think of that were purely text (graphical ones came later): Zork, Zork II, Zork III, Beyond Zork and Zork Zero.

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- Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I had one two and three but don’t recall playing the latter two. By then I’d moved on to the greatest game released in the mid-eighties - Autoduel.
  
  Then it was on to the original Bard’s Tale.
  
  I played both of those to completion then figured out how to cheat on both by finding character stats with a sector editor.
  
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Whelks_chance@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I didn’t even get out the house

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Simulation6@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
There was another Adams game called something like Starship Titanic. That one went beyond challenging into absurd. It as my first rage quit game.

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Close- Adams made two games for Infocom. This one and a ridiculously hard to the point of impossibility game called Bureaucracy.
  
  Then he made Starship Titanic some years later for The Digital Village.
  
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