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Article #1047Re: XYZZY
From: ai... David A. Sinclair
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 13:00
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1990 13:00
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In article <422@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
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> I don't know where it [xyzzy] came from, but my daughter was once playing
>another adventure game (Isle of {something}) and typed it. She got back
>the response "We do not recycle used magic words from other games."
>Broke us up.
Not bad. Typing in 'PLUGH' in Level 9's Snowball invoked a robot which
accused you of insanity and then threw the player into a padded cell in
the game. Most level 9 games gave some sort of response to the old
Crowther and Woods magic words.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aidas From: ai...@castle.ed.ac.uk (David A. Sinclair) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: XYZZY Message-ID: <1753@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 22 Jan 90 13:00:12 GMT References: <4504@rtech.rtech.com> <422@sixhub.UUCP> Reply-To: ai...@castle.ed.ac.uk (David A. Sinclair) Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service Lines: 11 Posted: Mon Jan 22 14:00:12 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit