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Re: Roberta Williams is a FRAUD

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From: sjoh... Robin Adams
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 00:00
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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.
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Subject: Re: Roberta Williams is a FRAUD
Date: 1998/03/01
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