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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Oct 2002.
Re: Nerd Boy, episode 291

Re: Nerd Boy, episode 291

"Anonymous" <gue...@guest.net> skrev i meddelandet
 news:aojroe$ktp$1...@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk
>
> Joaquim G�ndara wrote in message ...
> >"Anonymous" <gue...@guest.net> skrev i meddelandet
> > news:aojlgc$hlj$1...@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk
> >>                 vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv--------------------.
> >> Joaquim G�ndara wrote in message ...                |
> >> >"Anonymous" <gue...@guest.net> skrev i meddelandet  |
> >>                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^--'
> >>                                 I did what ?   :o)
> >
> >You noticed that now? :)
>
> Well, I did notice it before, but I kept forgetting to mention it.
>
> Graeme : "Guess what guys?"
> Colleagues : "What?"
> Graeme : "Earlier on, I skrev i meddelandet!!"
> Colleagues : <blank look>

Yes, nothing like a bit of Swedish to confound your friends and
relatives. :)

> >> I only briefly experienced LSL 1, but I have tried (and failed) to get
> >> through its predecessor - "Softcore Porn Adventure", a text adventure,
> >> still available on the Interactive Fiction Archive (http://www.ifarchive.org)
> >> for all to play.
> >
> >Heard about it and heard that they were nearly identical, save for the
> >fact that one actually had graphics, but haven't tried the original text
> >version. We had LSL1 on our 186, so I played that when I wasn't writing
> >silly GWBASIC programs. :)
>
> Not quite; the graphical adventure was a point-and-click affair, with a
> different sense of humour and style.

Not point-and-click. It was "walk around using the numpad and type commands",
like all the early Sierra adventures. I read up on it, and according to this
they are indeed a bit different:
http://abandonrom.tagalaxy.net/leisuresuitlarry.shtml

I played some of it on this page:
http://www.ifiction.org/games/play.php?game=7&mode=html
Couldn't get past the pimp. In LSL1, one just turns on the TV with the remote,
but in this one the pimp won't let me... :\ Oh well.

> >> Round glasses, funny hat, striped jumper...  All you need now is his
> >> magic stick and his dog (called, appropriately, "Woof").
> >
> >A magic stick? He has a magic stick? What can he do with it?
>
> Wouldn't YOU like to know ?   <nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more !>
>
> Nah; it's what he used to move around the place (in the TV show anyway).
> It's what Oddlaw was after all the time (he was the bad guy, with the black
> and yellow striped jumper).

Woah.. I have no idea what you're talking about.

obascii:

    ,,,               ______
     --  *click*     | .--. |
    .\\-=            |(____)|
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Strange looking tv... :\

--
 OO  Joaquim G�ndara
.||. http://www.Nerd-Boy.net
 bb  jg

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