[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane

[Chris Ott]

Christopher DeMarco wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:36:02PM -0600, Vance Kochenderfer wrote:
> 
>>   West of House
>>
>>   You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a
>>   boarded front door.
>>
>>   There is a small mailbox here.
> 
> XYZZY!

Since you're the second person who commented on this, I'll make a 
correction: the above isn't Advent, it's Zork. I've played 4 different 
versions of Advent and none has a mailbox, though I'll have to admit, it 
really does look a lot like the opening screen to Advent and I had to 
look at the output closely to notice the difference.

On the same subject (and since I mentioned DG earlier), if you've ever 
read "Soul of a New Machine", you'll see that Advent figures prominently 
in DG's past. If fact DG's "shell" for their AOS operating system 
actually has an "XYZZY" command built in. When you type it, it says 
"Nothing happens." Hilarious.

Finally, as far as Infocom games go, my favorite was always "Leather 
Goddesses of Phobos". I'm sorry, but you just can't beat a game that 
comes with 3D glasses and a scratch-n-sniff card. :-)

Chris