Games!

Any gamers in the house?

Current hobby project:



Exploring this.

Yes, I play a lot (I play too much actually), but what's this game about ? The character reminds me of something but

Super Mario Bros, the movie where Mario had vertigo, ridiculous. I remember Streefighter, that was so stupid I stopped watching it after ten minutes. Tomb raiser, hahahah, here's the story: Boobs. I haven't watched the adaptation of Doom, but apparently it's crap too, too bad, it could have been a cool Alien type movie.

Never tried Collossal Cave, but I did play a lot of those old Infocom text adventures, like Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Zork, Bureaucracy, etc. Those are tough as hell and you die about every 2 minutes. I tried to finish Bureaucracy last year, but it's near impossible without a walkthrough (being a non-native speaker also doesn't really help).

Those games are kind of like reading Ben Watson's books... they make you feel dumb and uneducated.

[Edited on 24-3-2006 by Puptent]

If you want to try Colossal Cave, it's free-ware and small, and it works on Windows.
We used to have a game like that on our Atari 800XL. I couldn't play it because I couldn't understand it, my dad couldn't play it because he had typed the listing.


Another old favourite of mine, led to surprisingly little teasing: Clyde's Adventure.

Oh you play pretty old games BBP, games I didn't even know the existence of.

BBP, her sister and I play games on the computer since they were very young we started somewhere around 1984 or 1985 with an Atari800XL. To load a game with the cassetterecorder you have to wait for sometimes 25 minutes.
(when it not fails) Most games that time are very principle.
In new games you see the same, only with a much better video. The Atari is now on the attic, I think I take it down sometime to play again the real Donkey Kong.
In the floppy time there was a lot of shareware we bought like jill in the jungle, Prince, and so on. Unfortenately when the cd arrives windows 3.11,dos game W95 games were all on the cd's but most of them didn't work properly due to the various hardware. By then we have stopped buying games in mass. The biggest game we bought was two versions of Fort Boyard. Bbp was a great fan of the French TV program and she have played the game a lot of times. We even visited fort Boyard. With a boat around it. Maybe she still have the picture of that on her homepage.
I myself am playing cards most of the time, they don't die in the game

Boring

[Edited on 25-3-2006 by DED]

I had an "Atari something" when I was younger, I remember now, it was a kind of red keyboard with a cassette player, there was a game where you ran an apple jam business and two other games I don't remember the name of. Yeah it took time to load the game, but I adored the "SCRTHCHITCHTTHCSCRETCH biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip scr scrum scr beep scrtchraaaacktch" the cassetteplayer made. I remember the graphic content was, well, "three rectangles, five squares:well that "looks" like a man.

Fort Boyard ? I didn't know there was a video game version of that show, was it good ? Did you see the real french show or was it the adapted version, since I know there are different versions animated by local presenters ?

There were 2 hosts, a guy (Bas Westerweel) who ran along with the players like Cendrine used to do (was it Cendrine?) and a lady whose name I don't know who was the Patrice Lafont. Dutch version had no actors besides the old guy in the tower, who looked just like French Père Fouras, and Passe-Partout and Horloge which are the same little guys you know as Passe Partout and Passe-Pas.
Instead of the word-guessing, one of the Dutch team members had to swim through a swimming maze where they had to find a code, memorize it, then enter it on the letter board.
Some of the key-games were: the tilted climbling wall, a room with a balance beam on the side (that one was scary), something in a type of haunted room with a lot of chests with disgusting things in it, one of them had a key, and a dark maze.

Bas Westerweel

Patrice Laffont was kind of the Fort Master, an old guy looking like that:
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I asked you that cause I wanted to know what version of the show you watched on TV5.

No we don't. No seriously, was it really that bad ?

Watched the French shows from 1996 to 2000. After that TV5 stopped showing them.
Me outside Fort Boyard:




[Edited on 26-3-06 by BBP]

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Originally posted by aquabot Quote: Originally posted by Gojira1975 You guys dont even want to know how shit the English version of Fort Boyard was...... No we don't. No seriously, was it really that bad ?

Boyard

Nahhhhhhhh the root cause is that its often thought that a good show can be totally translated 1 to 1 in another language... It could have been great it just needed more time, and nicer candidates.
I guess those shows are really made by the teams that participate. And they on the Dutch version at least had that very type of people whom you'd neither see nor want to see, and that accidentally end up standing next to you at camp sites...

Back to the original topic:

Anyone plays Cluedo? It's my favorite board game, unfortunately the recent version is very sensitive to bugs. Also, the rules are American, and not Dutch, even if you play the Dutch version.


Plus this sick little adaptation (has been beautifully animated though). It's the first of a trilogy, but Hasbro won't release the other two, leaving the unfortunate players in the middle of a weird story.


[Edited on 28-3-06 by BBP]

Yeah I know, I was so mistreated when I was a kid. My father's idea of a good sunday afternoon ? Watching the 4 hours long television adaptation of Gunter Grass's "The flounder". When you're 7 year old it quickly gets boring, even if there's a talking fish in this story.

But you can play games now. There is no age limit.
They even have "adult games"
You can start with Mahjong or a more or less complicated pinballgame. Also The Elk Moon Murder is very nice even as death trap dungeon.

Downloaded a gamemaker program today and working
now to get a zappa version of freak out
I think Frank_ out will be the name, but I'm in for sugestions.




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[Edited on 29-3-2006 by DED]

Another game I love:



QBZ!

my best reason to neverever leave linuks:

Best reason for sticking with Windows:

I' ve played the real boardgame with Zaz and bbp. Unfortenately they are very smart and always know Whodunnit rounds before I do. So I don't like the game. I m only allowed to play as the needed third hand. I always try to do a guess in the second round. I frees me from throwing the dice and hopping around the board. My only contribution remaining is to show the cards on the right moments. That will teach them

Congratulations DED.

I play Kingpin- A Life Of Crime. Very violent, bloody, and alot of profanity not for kids .

[Edited on 3-4-2006 by wheatgurm]

Yes, but when I click on dem games I only get a white page with "URL not found" written on it.

Thank you, I'm gonna play pacman again, like when I was young.

Two nights ago I played an hour and a half on one game of this:



My hands were freezing...

My latest addiction:

Letris!
If you want to play Letris, visit http://www.donaldduck.nl/_clubhuis/clubgames
and click on the Letris picture.
The thing is, you can only play it on-line, and it can get a bit slow at times.

yeah I know, I thought exactly as you do when I first heard that. and in 2006 it's even worse. and the show by itself is beginning to bore me.

well, actually it's not boring, but I'm getting tired of watching it, I've been watching that for years. Anyway, I'm glad you can finally fully enjoy the show thanks to the subtitles.

anyway, I think the best current TV show is: Spuiten en slikken.

[Edited on 2-9-2006 by aquagoat]

I've never seen that show, actually, I just saw an extract on tv today. I don't think I would watch that show, especially after you've told me the sex part's not interesting.

We Dutch are strange people.......

Say anyone here ever played The 7th Guest by Virgin Interactive? First game ever to be only released on CD-Rom?



I bought the "Dutch version" which has a booklet translated into Dutch but is still English... that's very problematic since I'm now stuck on the 3rd word game I've found... and too proud to peep into walkthroughs just yet...

Edit: Just passed that point; bloody programme asks for 2 words that are not in the dictionary.

[Edited on 18-12-06 by BBP]

For the fans, Al Lowe (LSL) will have a new game out in 2007.
LSL even had its predecessor, Soft Porn. I understand it's downloadable from Al Lowe's site.

I'm enjoying 7th Guest, really. Except the maze I was just in. I solved that already, there's a puzzle at the end. I clicked one wrong button and, hey presto, I'm way away from the setting and have to walk through the maze AGAIN. I got so pissed I shut down the game.

ha
I like reversi, I'm quite good at it.

Never mind... Eventually I gave up on the Reversi (actually it wasn't really Reversi but something similar).

Finished it today, and don't understand the story. Unfortunately the sound track didn't play on the PC, apart from the credits song. It's a cool game nonetheless.
Ha! You should've seen my sister while I was playing a game and failing all the time, so the computer kept on saying "This is trickier than it looks". She was so annoyed.

[Edited on 19-2-07 by BBP]

Yesterday I got Phantasmagoria at a second-hand-store. At least I thought I did but I only have disk 2 to 7.
Today we're checking out the same store. Fingers crossed! Maybe disk 1 is still there.
Anyone know or have this game?

Update: They had it!

[Edited on 29-12-06 by BBP]

--OK so after day 3 in the game I thought it was a boring piece of shit, but now I've completed part 5 it's getting better. But now I am feeling .

[Edited on 10-1-07 by BBP]

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Originally posted by BBP Say anyone here ever played The 7th Guest by Virgin Interactive? First game ever to be only released on CD-Rom?

Just finished playing The 11th Hour, the sequel to 7th Guest.
This game has different play modes, which was unknown to me when I knocked it off the PC after I finished it. There's a Normal and a Spooky mode, difference is latter is black and white. I played the entire game in Spooky, which is difficult and boring.
11H takes place in the same house, and the concept is similar: walking around and solve puzzles.
Unlike 7G however, you take the place of an actual 'person', named Carl Denning. You're continuously being referred to as Carl, which I thought was very annoying. Also, Carl knows why he is inside the house: to save his ex-girlfriend. As the story unfolds, more and more themes develop.

Unfortunately the acting is complete crap. Apart from the fact that all the characters, including the protagonist, are complete jerks, it's all wooden and unconvincing. This is due to two things. One is blue-screen acting, and talking to people that aren't there and holding things that don't exist, is troublesome. Second: the story is too ridiculous to act against it. Houses don't rape women.

7G contained maybe one puzzle, an anagram, that could bother a non-native English speaker, an anagram puzzle using only the Y as vowel, that contained a Shakespearian verb.
A large facet of 11H is the Chase. While walking around solving puzzles, you receive around 25 cryptic sentences, which all lead to objects that can be found in the house. The bulk of the puzzles is an anagram (Winter coat worn for a mixer e.g. refers to tonic water), but there are 2 code crackers and 2 telephone puzzles. Very few of these can be solved by a non-native English speaker. There are hints that may lead you some place, but they don't always get you there.
Sometimes you will have to have some better knowledge of the items you seek. You need to find, among others, an Irish setter and a gardenia, which means you have to be able to tell them from other dogs and flowers. These make the game very vexatious.

7G only had one AI game that you play against the computer. 11H has 6. While the Infection game in 7G could simply be skipped altogether, you will have to play all these. You can let the computer make the best move all the time, but getting this hint is a drag. The last puzzle is a Pente game, which you have to play all by yourself, and is not easy.

Even worse is the ending, which turns out to be a big disappointment. I replayed the last puzzle in order to see the other 3 endings: but I couldn't beat the PC again at Pente, so I gave up and chucked the game off my PC.

So I'd chucked The 11th Hour off the PC, while not having seen the three remaining endings. Somewhat unfulfilling.

After finding a lot of easter eggs, including short cuts to activate the last puzzle, I installed the game again. It was, once more, black n white.
The first time I played it, I couldn't get the easter eggs going. Nor the second time and third time, so I re-played the game up to the half way point, when I beat the computer in a complicated came and the PC jammed before I could save.

Then I managed to work the cheat mechanism! So I watched the lengthy pre-last game video again, chose a different ending. The ending was a bummer. Had to sit through the credits, then close down and start up again in order to get the load screen (cheat only works in load screen). Sat through the pre-game video again, chose another ending. Another total bummer. Had to sit through the credits again, shut down again, restarted again, watch the video AGAIN to get the 4th remaining ending... and there was no film at all! Just direct cut to credits, which I had to sit through again.

Chucked it off a second time. This time it will stay in my CD holder.

Right now, I'm playing another Sierra game: Shivers. Shivers is relatively low-budget, considering it was released in the same year as money eaters Phantasmagoria, Torin's Passage and King's Quest 7. It hooks on the success of 7th Guest and Myst.

Idea is, your friends dare you to spend a night at a museum that's been closed for a long time. You have to enter the Museum of strange things. In the building, there are 10 evil spirits, Ixupi, on the loose. These may pop up, startle you and cost you a bit of life. While dodging these, you have to find pots and talismans. Each talisman combines with a pot, and that ensemble fits onto one Ixupi. You have to find all pots and talismans, combine them, and catch the spirits.
Not easy as your inventory will only hold one item at a time, so you have to keep on walking about.

In order to open doors, travel more freely or aquire items, you'll have to solve logical puzzles. There's 25 of them.

It's a fun game, though I'm not far yet. Somehow I can't keep up playing. Probably because them Ixupi startle me. They look mildly ridiculous compared to the beautiful animations in the game, but they're quick enough to conceal that.

Here's the Ixupi of Ash (will only hide in ash), as it's attacking you. Good screenshot!

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Originally posted by BBP Yesterday I got Phantasmagoria at a second-hand-store. At least I thought I did but I only have disk 2 to 7. Today we're checking out the same store. Fingers crossed! Maybe disk 1 is still there. Anyone know or have this game? Update: They had it! [Edited on 29-12-06 by BBP] --OK so after day 3 in the game I thought it was a boring piece of shit, but now I've completed part 5 it's getting better. But now I am feeling . [Edited on 10-1-07 by BBP]

It nearly took me forever! He (Clarence, member of this forum and NELG creator) had different tricks up his sleeves on the latest pack and I spent nearly a month on level 183 alone. Fortunately I flew through the rest.