h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I wrote one once (text aventure game). If I remember the BBC basic was like this

10 "You are in a maze - Enter Direction N,E,S,W"
20 enter direction
30 goto 10

Could have made a fortune if I sold it.

CH

"You see before you a maze of twisty passages all alike" Or some such stuff. The begining of a legend. Zork. Spawned 7 sequels.

Wot no dwarves??

Syntax error in line 10

Not to boast (yeah, right!) I've completed HL several times, on the hard setting...

Where exactly are you stuck?

I have Zorks 1,2,3 and return to zork, zork nemisis, and the grand iquisitor but I don't have this mysterious 7. Please tell me what its called and whereI can get it.

I have Zorks 1,2,3 and return to zork, zork nemisis, and the grand iquisitor but I don't have this mysterious 7. Please tell me what its called and whereI can get it.

Well, if you've got a decent PC, you can have all those and more... probably. Search for classic gaming, retro gaming, ROMs, and any specific games on your nearest search engine... it's bound to turn something up.

Ever played Tron Fortress Classic?

Chuckie Egg was a fantastic game. Anyone know where to find a windows or linux version? I know there's a bunch of old BBC games converted to linux, but I didn't see Chuckie Egg.

Oh I'm not stuck, have finished, (on medium) but I was just asking about the story. I launched a rocket about half way through but WHY? What part in my overall victory against the nasties did it play?

CH

two words, Bubble Bobble

Bubble Bobble rocked my world when I was a kid. I used to go to the 7eleven by my house just to play that game. Then the introduced Street Fighter II

I can't beleive you've forgotten:

Time pilot
Joust
Donkey Kong
Zaxxon - 1st 3d game?
Gorf
dig dug
battlezone

I could go on all day

Gorf! Me & my sister each used to spend hours & hours playing Gorf!

Anybody remember Omega Race for the Vic-20

Half-Life? >THE< best game ever written. Made me jump out of my chair more than once, a good solid game all through. Why do you have to launch a satellite? Well, I think you just do.

H&K
Z

Yes, but they advertised the storyline of HL as being writen "by awar winning horror novelistMarc Lailaw" So why did I have to launch a smegging great rocket.

Just starter again on hard. Which brings me to a constant gripe, why can you never change the skill level half way thru games these days? by the time I got half way thru HL I could have upped the level.

CH

Get an emulator! PCs are powerful enough to run any old computer game setup now!

Do You know where i could find some Atari ST emulators, wich could run the gaes on the floppy disks.

Try http://www.emulators.com/gematari.htm . I just searched for
?atari emulators. It sounds quite good. Oh, and many emulator sites have games to download. Illegal, yes, but not as bad as a bootleg CD with Win 95, 98, 2000, Office 2000, Norton Utilities, ...

Got to agree with you on ELITE, I played that solid for over a year. Manual docking into a rotating rectangle looked shite but felt great when you mastered it.Of course crashing into the station for weeks on end until I mastered it increased my vocabulary by 10 new swear words. Hovering outside a spaceport blasting police ships as they left it. Happy days. Then when you got really good you got to track down the constrictor ship. When I made it to 'Deadly' I sent off my form that I got with the game and they sent me a crappy badge!! Am I the only sap who shot dots for months to make it to ELITE (I know you did Chris). Did you ever use that trick where you held some keys down during hyperspace so you got ambushed by Thargoids. Then you blasted the shite out of them and scooped up their baby ships to be sold later.

Never got the hang of chuckie egg though. As soon as the cage in the corner opened on the harder levels and that big bird flew after you I panicked every time. What was the name of that BBC platform game where a crappy caveman walked around using a yo-yo as a weapon? What a bag of w**k that was.

Yo! a Elite player as sad as me. Yes I did the shooting police ships, and yes I deliberately got jumped in Hyper space, but no I never sent off the form (think we had a pirate copy, of the disk game)

Bad memories of the Caveman game though, god that was bad, cannot remember the name, will ask my brother at xmas, as I seem to recall he actually liked it!! He got to the levels where for excitement the levels were just the same as before but up-side-down. Oh the skill involved in those level designs.

I recently got a Psion 5mx, and I am realy pleased to see the reurn of realy simple sub megabyte games again. OK so black and white but some realy good programing.

Have fun

Chris

I don't remember any cavemen, but does anyone remember Hunchy - hunchback dodging spears and swinging across moats to rescue Esmerelda? One of the few BBC games more fun with the sound on.

As for a demon bug man being afraid of a bird - you're the chicken
<O (that's a chicken BTW )
. II

Was Elite really all about shooting other ships, regardless of the moral status of their occupants? What happened to good honest trading? I found narcotics to be the most profitable... (and only made it to deadly - no badge to prove it I'm afraid).

Blue