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Article #1048Re: XYZZY
From: David Barr
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1990 18:42
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1990 18:42
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In article <17...@castle.ed.ac.uk>, ai...@castle.ed.ac.uk (David A. Sinclair)
says:
>In article <422@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>> 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...
That's strange.. PLUGH was the 'magic' word in one of the origional
adventure games, Pyramid 2000, written for the TRS-80 model I
It wasn't really all that magical.. it just rearranged the directions
so that north was actually east.. etc.. Thereby confusing the user.
Dave
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!shelby!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!dsb100 From: DSB100@PSUVM.BITNET (David Barr) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: XYZZY Message-ID: <90024.134216DSB100@PSUVM.BITNET> Date: 24 Jan 90 18:42:16 GMT References: <4504@rtech.rtech.com> <422@sixhub.UUCP> <1753@castle.ed.ac.uk> Organization: Penn State University Lines: 21 Posted: Wed Jan 24 19:42:16 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit