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Article #172490Re: Roberta Williams is a FRAUD
From: kfa... Kathleen A Fallon
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00
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sjoh...@sable.ox.ac.uk (Robin Adams) writes: >thya...@sol.com.br wrote: >: Phantasmagoria was mildly entertaining, but not a game at all. Besides being >:ridiculously easy, the woman robbed all puzzles from previous games - like the >: get-key-with-nail-and-newspaper... it was an original puzzle... IN ALONE IN >: THE DARK 2 !!! >Um.. no. AFAIK, the first computer game to include that puzzle was Zork 2. >It's a fairly well-known trick, anyway; I've read about it in many different >places. I think it was in an Usborne book that I first encountered it. This also appeared (first?) in an Agatha Christie novel. I forget which one, but it might've been "The Secret of Chimneys"
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From: kfa...@callisto.acsu.buffalo.edu (Kathleen A Fallon) Subject: Re: Roberta Williams is a FRAUD Date: 1998/03/01 Message-ID: <6dbns6$mu$1@callisto.acsu.buffalo.edu> X-Deja-AN: 329780258 References: <6db79d$gks$1@nnrp2.dejanews.com> <6dbgpk$9pk$1@news.ox.ac.uk> Organization: University at Buffalo NNTP-Posting-User: kfallon Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit