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jazzfishI'm looking for a young girl. She is being escorted by two groboclones.
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uilos's fault. She reminded me that the happy-wiggle originated with the happy-Twinsen-dance. (You know, the one where you find a cool item, and you stand in place while waving your arms and wobbling from side to side? "You've recovered your Holomap!" "You got back all your items!" Et cetera.)
So I dug in my Box O'CD-ROMs, and pounded on DOSBox and poked around on the Internet, and found this, which appears to do the trick.
Stop squirming, prisoner Twinsen!
Man. This is taking me back.
. . . dammit, I'd forgotten you take damage from running into the walls.
. . . and how bloody difficult it is to aim the magic ball.
. . . and how Twinsen is too drunk to walk in a straight line.
You just jump into the garbage and be VERY DISCREET about it.
Too late. I'm hooked.
It's all
uilos's fault. She reminded me that the happy-wiggle originated with the happy-Twinsen-dance. (You know, the one where you find a cool item, and you stand in place while waving your arms and wobbling from side to side? "You've recovered your Holomap!" "You got back all your items!" Et cetera.)So I dug in my Box O'CD-ROMs, and pounded on DOSBox and poked around on the Internet, and found this, which appears to do the trick.
Stop squirming, prisoner Twinsen!
Man. This is taking me back.
. . . dammit, I'd forgotten you take damage from running into the walls.
. . . and how bloody difficult it is to aim the magic ball.
. . . and how Twinsen is too drunk to walk in a straight line.
You just jump into the garbage and be VERY DISCREET about it.
Too late. I'm hooked.
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Date: 2006-10-12 12:00 pm (UTC)If all else fails there's always virtualization these days, which is free thanks to Microsoft and VMWare competing like crazy.
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Date: 2006-10-12 01:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-12 11:22 am (UTC)But you're a fool to dismiss the text games. Overconfidence is dangerous. I've seen people who blazed through Far Cry without batting an eyelid get caught up and destroyed in the eternal glory that is Nethack. And that's not even really text based! Don't get cocky.
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Date: 2006-10-12 08:55 pm (UTC)And real text games have me pulling my hair out, too. It's just that the Zorks in particular (and some others, like the Enchanter trilogy, or Wishbringer) I played through so many times growing up that the puzzles are more "Oh, I remember that" instead of "Argh what the devil do I deal in these %&$ Oddly-Angled Rooms."
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Date: 2006-10-11 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-10-12 03:37 am (UTC)It was always Lode Runner for me. The premise is so simple: you want to get all the gold, then escape.
Who are those guys? Oh, they're just the monks, they'll eat you if they catch you, but you have a laser gun.
What, your laser gun is almost out of battery? Oh, well, you can still blast holes in the floors. The monks will fall into the holes.
Oh, you fell into the holes too and the Monks ate you? Well, better be more clever next time...
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Date: 2006-10-12 11:11 am (UTC)Cheer up. That that's even notable means you're at least aware of an alternative, which puts you far ahead of most people.
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Date: 2006-10-12 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-13 12:36 pm (UTC)If letters being moved around bothers you, why don't you just pop the keys off and move them into proper place?
Also, in situations where it gets difficult, all you need to do is clear your head and repeat the following mantra to yourself: "Damn you, Sholes!" It should help.
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