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- From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
- Subject: Re: Classic Infocom Mumblings
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <neilg.725753122@sfu.ca> <1992Dec31.001431.25298@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 10:09:16 GMT
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- jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
-
- >Suspended gets my vote - it was my first Infocom game, and the only one
- >I got through without ANY help whatsoever. Took me three months, though.
- >The robots were great, lots of red herrings,
-
- Planetfall must have had more red herrings than all the other games put
- together (well, probably not, but it sure seems like it.) It's one of my
- favourites. Making you go past the body of Floyd again right at the end
- of the game was brilliant. I swear I got a second stab of pain in my chest
- when that happened.
-
- > and when you got down, you
- >could replay it to reduce your damage score, or you could even customize
- >your own game.
-
- Yes, the ability to customise your own game was a most original features;
- one which I used all the time.
-
- >Suspended also had some interesting "hidden" features such as having
- >Auda follow the two humans around to listen in on their conversation. Great
- >fun.
-
- Auda, on first glance, seemed to be an almost entirely useless robot, but
- she had a good deal of the "hidden features". Try asking Auda to read the
- plaque, for instance. As for Poet, I sent him to every room and made him
- look at everything just to read his descriptions. Poet was the only robot
- who correctly identified the "large object" in <don't remember the room>
-
- BTW, one of my favourite hidden features was the ability to kill the humans
- (kept them from killing you.) Unfortunately, a second set of humans enter,
- completely undetected, and you don't know about them until the open the
- door of your cylinder.
-
- --
- Keith_Lim@sfu.ca Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada
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