Comments on: HitchHikers Text Adventure Sequel – Oh Em Gee http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/hitchhikers-text-adventure-sequel-%e2%80%93-oh-em-gee/ Lollards in the high church of low culture Tue, 29 May 2012 00:37:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: anatol_merklich http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/hitchhikers-text-adventure-sequel-%e2%80%93-oh-em-gee/#comment-407783 anatol_merklich Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:45:38 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/games/2008/04/hitchhikers-text-adventure-sequel-%e2%80%93-oh-em-gee/#comment-407783 I think it was Infocom who had one of the weirdest adventure games I've ever played -- it was called "Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head Nor Tail of It", and was based entirely on wordplay -- double meanings, spoonerisms, proverbs etc. I remember an elaborate setup where someone had set light to a foam mattress or something lying on the ground next to a book of enigmatic puzzles. To get any further, you obviously had to > riddle while foam burns I think it was Infocom who had one of the weirdest adventure games I’ve ever played — it was called “Nord and Bert Couldn’t Make Head Nor Tail of It”, and was based entirely on wordplay — double meanings, spoonerisms, proverbs etc. I remember an elaborate setup where someone had set light to a foam mattress or something lying on the ground next to a book of enigmatic puzzles. To get any further, you obviously had to

> riddle while foam burns

]]> By: Tracer Hand http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/hitchhikers-text-adventure-sequel-%e2%80%93-oh-em-gee/#comment-407740 Tracer Hand Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:26:45 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/games/2008/04/hitchhikers-text-adventure-sequel-%e2%80%93-oh-em-gee/#comment-407740 incroyable! incroyable!

]]> By: Alan http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/hitchhikers-text-adventure-sequel-%e2%80%93-oh-em-gee/#comment-407716 Alan Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:41:41 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/games/2008/04/hitchhikers-text-adventure-sequel-%e2%80%93-oh-em-gee/#comment-407716 no rick roll i swear. not even that MS Vista video. it's REAL! really real. no rick roll i swear. not even that MS Vista video. it’s REAL! really real.

]]> By: Raw Patrick http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2008/04/hitchhikers-text-adventure-sequel-%e2%80%93-oh-em-gee/#comment-407712 Raw Patrick Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:21:01 +0000 http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/games/2008/04/hitchhikers-text-adventure-sequel-%e2%80%93-oh-em-gee/#comment-407712 Rick rolling is over surely. Rick rolling is over surely.

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