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Article #697714Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Toby Newman
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:09
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:09
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On 2017-04-17, Spalls Hurgenson <spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > The first computer game I owned - barring whatever came on the > "Getting Started" diskettes for my Apple IIc - was Zork I. It wasn't > the first video game I played - that was probably Pong - or even the > first computer game - my memory is hazy in this regard, but I think it > was Ultima I - but Zork is where I officially count my start as a > computer gamer. Not dependent on an endless stream of quarters or the > use of somebody else's hardware, I could play Zork whenever I wanted > and at my own pace. Embarrasingly, I never played Zork, but I did put a lot of time into the parody game: "Pork 2 - The Gizzard of Showbiz", a spin off of "Zork 2: The Wizard of Frobozz". I spent a long time struggling uphill with the interface because it had a "Lewd mode" and, in 1989, this 11 year old boy would seek out any sources of titilation he could get access to. I make no apology for that. My memories of it are very thin but I can picture a scene by a cliffside with some motorbike gangs that may have been where I got stuck. -- -Toby Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.
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