*Name the game* let's try again?

[Thorn]

Speedball 2, to be more accurate

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[gareth]

ok: i was thinking this is quite hard, but lava will probably get it right away

was the most obscure yet still gg i could think of.

[firebladez212]

dangit, thats 1 of the 1st games where its text and you have to do all theese things bah i forget name

[The MC Horton Crankfire]

dangit, thats 1 of the 1st games where its text and you have to do all theese things bah i forget name

We're two steps closer, gentlemen: Firebladez seems to have read gareth's very mind and revealed that not only is the game made of text, but you do things in it as well! Uncanny!

[Basilisco]

Humbug?

[thirdstreettito]

Happyland Adventures?

[Death On Ice]

Dis not Toom Rayder u lai

[ODDity]

K.. a few searches spluttered up:

Sailor Moon

So since im the first to say it im gonna stick.. cos i have no idea

[gareth]

nope, nope and nope. 

[/dev/humancontroller]

Revenge on School?

[firebladez212]

dangit, thats 1 of the 1st games where its text and you have to do all theese things bah i forget name

We're two steps closer, gentlemen: Firebladez seems to have read gareth's very mind and revealed that not only is the game made of text, but you do things in it as well! Uncanny!

bah sorry i cant xplain for my explanatory issues ya ass


but yea, it was on tv not to long ago on "raise of the videogame"

[gareth]

Revenge on School?

well no,  but the name looks a bit like that.

[NiTRoX]

School revenge?

School on Revenge?

Revenge School?

School's revenge?

Revenge's school?

[thirdstreettito]

Lmao @ Nitrox

[Knowitall66]

Nah it has to be: 'High School Adventures' or 'Locker: The Opening'

[ODDity]

CLOO!!!!

Please

[Johnpp]

Looks like TextDoom. =/

[Menace13]

HAMURABI (1969) by Rick Merrill
Baseball (1971) by Don Daglow
Oregon Trail (1971) by Don Rawitsch
Star Trek (text game) (1971) by Mike Mayfield
Hunt the Wumpus (1972) by Gregory Yob
Star Trek (script game) (1972) by Don Daglow
dnd (1975) by Gary Whisenhunt and Ray Wood
Dungeon (1975) by Don Daglow
Adventure by Will Crowther (1976)
Empire by Walter Bright (1977)
Mystery Mansion (1977)
Oubliette (1977) by Jim Schwaiger M
Zork (1977) by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling
Acheton (1978) by Jon Thackray, David Seal and Jonathan Partington
Decwar (1978)
Avatar (1979) by Bruce Maggs and Andrew Shapira M
Battlestar (1979) by David Riggle
Brand X (1979) (aka Philosopher's Quest) by Peter Killworth and Jonathan Mestel
HAUNT (1979) by John Laird
Martian Adventure (1979) by Brad Templeton and Kieran Carroll
New Adventure (1979) by Mark Niemiec
Hezarin (1980) by Steve Tinney, Alex Shipp and Jon Thackray
Kingdom of Hamil (1980) by Jonathan Partington
Monsters of Murdac (1980) by Jonathan Partington
Quondam (1980) by Rod Underwood
Rogue (1980) by Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman, and Ken Arnold
LORD (1981) by Olli J. Paavola
FisK (1982)
Avon (1983), a Shakespearean game by Jonathan Partington
Castle (1983) by Barry Wilks
Fyleet (1986) by Jonathan Partington
Crobe (1987) by Jonathan Partington
MIST (1987) M
Nidus (1987) by Adam Atkinson
Quest of the Sangraal (1987) by Jonathan Partington
Spysnatcher (1989) by Jonathan Partington and Jon Thackray

Adventureland series, 2000) by Scott Adams of Adventure International
Zork series) by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels and Dave Lebling
C.I.A Adventure (1980) by Hugh Lampert of CLOAD
Madness and the Minotaur (1981) for Spectral Associates
The Hobbit (1982) by Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler of Beam Software
Forbidden Quest (1983), Pryority Software
The Wizard of Akyrz (1983), Brian Howarth of Mysterious Adventures and Cliff J. Ogden for Adventure International
High Stakes (1984), Angelsoft
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1984) by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky of Infocom
Mindwheel (1984) by Robert Pinsky for Synapse Software
Zyll (1984) by Marshal W. Linder and Scott B. Edwards for IBM
A Mind Forever Voyaging (1985) by Steve Meretzky of Infocom
Brimstone (1985) by James Paul for Synapse
Essex (1985) by Bill Darrah for Synapse
Hampstead (1985) by Peter Jones and Trevor Lever for Melbourne House
Breakers (1986) by Rodney R. Smith for Synapse
Terrormolinos (1986) by Peter Jones and Trevor Lever for Melbourne House
Amnesia (1987) by Thomas M. Disch, the only entirely non-graphical text adventure ever published by Electronic Arts
Braminar (1987)
Dodgy Geezers (1987) by Peter Jones and Trevor Lever for Melbourne House
Jacaranda Jim (1987) by Graham Cluley
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head Or Tail Of It (1987) by Jeff O'Neill for Infocom
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels (1987) by Bob Bates for Infocom
Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I. (1988) by Michael and Muffy Berlyn
The Hound of Shadow (1989) for Eldritch Games
Humbug (1990) by Graham Cluley
Danger! Adventurer at Work! (1991) by Simon Avery
Spy Snatcher (1992) by Jonathan Partington and Jonathan Thackray for Topologika

Wizard's Castle (1978?) by Joseph R. Power
Snipes (1983) by SuperSet
Beast (1984), Dan Baker, Alan Brown, Mark Hamilton and Derrick Shadel
Kingdom of Kroz (1987) by Scott Miller of Apogee Software
ZZT (1991) by Tim Sweeney of Epic MegaGames
MegaZeux (1994) by Gregory Janson of Software Visions
Chibot Ultra Battle (1999)
PAEE (1999) by Enrique D. Bosch

Any of these?!?!?!?!?!?




I <3 Wikipedia

[thirdstreettito]

Menace I think it would be hilarious if it isn't any of those....

[gareth]

it isnt.

hint: it was a (popular) freeware game released in (i think) 1997., it doesnt seem to have a page on wikipedia

[epsy]

"hurr hurr hilaruz"

[NiTRoX]

it isnt.

hint: it was a (popular) freeware game released in (i think) 1997., it doesnt seem to have a page on wikipedia

What did you type into wikipedia?

[epsy]

the name of the said game i guess...

[firebladez212]

wiki is just stupid, it doesnt tell u the things u really need to know

[Johnpp]

wiki is just stupid, it doesnt tell u the things u really need to know

Quote of the day, mind if I sig it?

[/sarcasm]

Wikipedia is a very handy, very reliable archive. While a few things it has are untrue, other things are not.

[firebladez212]

we need the picture back NOW and we need a hint

[gareth]

hint: v*****school

[Karvajalka]

Virtua school?

[NiTRoX]

Yup.

[epsy]

nitrox stop using wikipedia to post crap you're not any fun or w/e