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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #330 on: December 20, 2007, 08:45:51 pm »
Speedball 2, to be more accurate :)

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #331 on: December 20, 2007, 09:06:55 pm »
ok: i was thinking this is quite hard, but lava will probably get it right away :P

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



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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #332 on: December 20, 2007, 10:43:37 pm »
dangit, thats 1 of the 1st games where its text and you have to do all theese things bah i forget name

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #333 on: December 21, 2007, 12:25:06 am »
dangit, thats 1 of the 1st games where its text and you have to do all theese things bah i forget name

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #334 on: December 21, 2007, 04:07:25 am »
Humbug?

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #335 on: December 21, 2007, 04:23:49 am »
Happyland Adventures?

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #336 on: December 21, 2007, 04:30:03 am »
Dis not Toom Rayder u lai

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #337 on: December 21, 2007, 04:36:20 am »
K.. a few searches spluttered up:

Sailor Moon

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

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #338 on: December 21, 2007, 10:45:48 am »
nope, nope and nope.  :)

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #339 on: December 21, 2007, 11:16:57 am »
Revenge on School?

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #340 on: December 21, 2007, 07:29:07 pm »
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"

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #341 on: December 21, 2007, 07:56:50 pm »
Revenge on School?

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

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #342 on: December 21, 2007, 09:09:48 pm »
School revenge?

School on Revenge?

Revenge School?

School's revenge?

Revenge's school?

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #343 on: December 21, 2007, 09:34:45 pm »
Lmao @ Nitrox

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #344 on: December 22, 2007, 01:51:30 am »
Nah it has to be: 'High School Adventures' or 'Locker: The Opening'

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #345 on: December 22, 2007, 12:23:55 pm »
CLOO!!!!

Please :)

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #346 on: December 22, 2007, 01:31:26 pm »
Looks like TextDoom. =/

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #347 on: December 22, 2007, 06:40:07 pm »
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?!?!?!?!?!?




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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #348 on: December 23, 2007, 12:39:05 am »
Menace I think it would be hilarious if it isn't any of those....

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #349 on: December 23, 2007, 09:43:10 am »
it isnt.

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

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #350 on: December 23, 2007, 01:36:17 pm »
"hurr hurr hilaruz"
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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #351 on: December 23, 2007, 05:52:45 pm »
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?

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #352 on: December 23, 2007, 10:55:26 pm »
the name of the said game i guess...
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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #353 on: December 24, 2007, 05:25:00 am »
wiki is just stupid, it doesnt tell u the things u really need to know

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #354 on: December 24, 2007, 10:50:29 am »
wiki is just stupid, it doesnt tell u the things u really need to know
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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #355 on: December 25, 2007, 03:04:06 am »
we need the picture back NOW and we need a hint

gareth

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #356 on: December 25, 2007, 11:21:12 am »
hint: v*****school

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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #357 on: December 25, 2007, 01:34:39 pm »
Virtua school?
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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #358 on: December 25, 2007, 01:48:12 pm »
Yup.


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Re: *Name the game* let's try again?
« Reply #359 on: December 25, 2007, 04:15:45 pm »
nitrox stop using wikipedia to post crap you're not any fun or w/e
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