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Re: Looking for text adventures
- Subject: Re: Looking for text adventures
- From: "Christopher Ryan" <nogard@cishollywood.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 07:17:15 -0700
- Ath: nntpswitch.com
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Thank you very much!
-Chris
"xorxif" <previous@ddreses.were.invalid> wrote in message
news:SF12f.2894$xD7.2495@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...
> The games you seek are the Scott Adams text adventures, and yes they are
> on the Asimov archive under adventure. The two you specifically refer to
> are Pyramid of Doom and The Count.
> I spent a lot of time on these in the 80's too, though the only one I ever
> actually solved with no hints was Strange Oddysey (well my brother did
> anyway...)
>
> Christopher Ryan wrote:
>> Ok this has been bugging me for ahwile and have decided to finally ask.
>>
>> Way back (1980 or so), I had a disk (maybe 2) of a bunch of text
>> adventures games. I remember one being about going under a pyramid or
>> the sphinx, and one of the other ones was about a vampire and being
>> stuck in a castle (maye with a move time limit). The disk I had at the
>> time had Microsoft labelling on it. Just wondering what this was called,
>> and if it is located on asimov? If not could anybody send me a .dsk
>> image?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Chris
>> nogard at cishollywood dot com
>>
>>
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