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Article #697747Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: rri... Ross Ridge
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 17:13
Date: Mon, 08 May 2017 17:13
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Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> wrote: >I guess that was somewhat common back then. I remember playing Asylum on >a C64, it was kind of a text adventure but you're in an asylum and it's >a maze. Mapping was pretty hard, it looked like it's all straight angles >but then there was a hexagonal structure, complete with six straight >angles :) Kinda hard to put on paper, that. Also the maze wrapped so you >never reached an edge as I recall. I remember my (partial) map was >rather messy. > >I never finished Asylum, only what was kind of a first quest, right at >the start you're told you can get out if you find a doctor's coat and >stethoscope. I got that far but the game didn't end there and it seemed >there was a larger part (and a larger maze) to go through. I tried playing the original TRS-80 version of Asylum on a friends computer a couple of times, but I never even got that far. I couldn't get out of the first room. Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db //
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