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Sadly Wiki have blocked the chicken article due to "orchestrated attacks".

Yep. The same thing happened when Dinosaur comics suggested that everyone go to Wikipedia and replace all instances of the word "Evil" in the entry on "Evil" with the phrase "Irish Evil" (he reasoned he could use that one what with being Irish himself.)

How boring of them.

I feel that many people should cull as many commas from wiki as possible, firstly to see if anyone notices, secondly to see if they object (as it is not technically altering information), and thirdly it will be very funny to watch wiki decline due to becoming unreadable.

That might be funny.

I'm not really keen to see wikipedia decline. I just think it's fun to mess with 'em.

Maybe I should start a rival web-based knowledge repository: Wacky-Pedia!

Oh dear, then Im guessing you havent enjoyed the Uncyclopaedia yet then. May the following link provide you with much amusement.

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

It took me a few entries to really enjoy that link, but then I looked up Zork and found the entry on "Unfocom."

Now THAT is the funniest thing I've heard this week!

...considering that it's Sunday, I'll ammend that to say the funniest thing over the previous six days.

Ah bless'ed Infocom, how I miss it, how I yearn for that simpler time, how I wish I could forget all the damn solutions for Inquisitor cos it only took two days to finish and I would like to play it without taking even less time cos I know all the solutions.
Happily though Zork III took about a fortnight, and I have never got to the end of Zork Zero, but still, sigh...

Bet you dont have the George Alec Effinger book. I do, its dead good.

..then a memory stirs, I look up your entry on Zork and finally crash through the scabs of my mind to remember that the damn Zork book was the very first thing I talked to you about. Sigh...

To be fair, if you'd accused me of not owning any other book, you would've probably been right. I only own the George Alec Effinger one, and the "What Do I Do Now?" books.

Oh, and I own Infocomics, although those aren't really books.

*shakes head in sympathy*
I feel for you man. Dont worry, you will recover one day.
Did you ever play a spectrum game caled Seabase Delta? Same humour as Zork, cept it was on...well a seabase.

No, I'm afraid I haven't.

I've played through nearly everything that Infocom ever produced, not much more.

The only exceptions being Shogun (the game just didn't appeal to me), LGOP2 (yeah, I can only go along with that franchise so far. Thank goodness for Tame mode), and Cornerstone (which wasn't a game.)

Ah my gender neutral friend, but did you ever break through your textual barrier into the realm of the lucasarts puzzle game back catalogue? I somehow feel you did.

I probably dabbled in it. I've played a few graphical games, but I can't recall which ones might have been lucasarts. Did they do Kings Quest? Or The Big Dig?

One graphical puzzle game company that I've not played as much as I'd like to is "The Adventure Company." I loved their "Crystal Key" game, and "The Mystery Of The Nautilus." Those two alone demonstrate that they know what they're doing, although since I've not had the time/money to pick up many other adventure games recently I can't vouch for whether or not they're still good.

Hmm, I think it was adventure company that did the Schism games which are certainly very good puzzle games and pretty looking to boot.
Lucasarts did the Monkey Island lot, Sam n Max Hit the Road and probably one of the best ever Day of The Tentacle.
Alas for my obsessions.

King's Quest was Sierra, who did basically any game with "Quest" in the title. Dunno about Big Dig.

*brandishes sword at gorfynnub*

You fight like a dairy farmer!

First you better stop waving it like a feather duster.

...

..no wait

Ooo, I have a very old sierra adventure for my amiga, I think it was Hunt For the Holy Grail or whatever stupid name it had. I hated it because if you didnt get a rose from the garden right at the very begining, you died and had to start again at the end.
Bloody sierra.

Dont suppose you know Gilbert Goodmate and the Mushroom of Phungoria?

I think you were playing this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquests_of_Camelot

Sorry, don't know Gilbert.

It twas! I applaud your research skills, but am dismissive of the source.
Gilbert is one of those rarites that should have been a lot more popular and well known than it actualy was, being much the same style as Monkey 3, only with more effort put in and the occasional crude joke. It also had a conversation system which meant you had to ask the right things before you were allowed to notice other things, which was wonderful. Sigh...