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(...) I may have missed the boat on Scott Adams, but the only text-ish adventures of his that I ever played were those Marvel Comics "Questprobe" games, which I found, let us say, disappointing. Were there other good ones that I didn't get to play? (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Scott Adams created (or licensed) a set of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text-based adventure games that were not quite as humorous as the books and not quite as good as Zork or Colossal Cave. Mainly because these games had a strict (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Woah, wrong Adams. Wow, this whole discussion belongs on .geek. :) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Uh, yeah... DOUG Adams. I think I meant Douglas. Never heard of Scott Adams, I'm afraid. Or was that Morticia Addams? (...) At least until this post! - Chris. (Feeling rather foolish for not remembering the name of one of my favorite sci-fi (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) There is a Scott Adams that does the Dilbert comic... (URL) comic used to be wildly funny to me, but I'm finding it less funny lately. Must be that my sample size of office environments that match its setting, more or less, has gotten too (...) (20 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) I think it's objectively less funny. The schtick is worn out and tired. (20 years ago, 22-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Kids today... The various Zorks were all great. Infocom generally did the best of the text adventure games - the fiendish Babel-Fish puzzle in Hitchhiker's Guide is one of the great classics of text adventures. The Scott Adam's adventures (not (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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