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Do you want a hand?
mbarker:
LOL! For some reason, a head in a jar asking whether someone wants a hand cracked me up...
Peter Ahlstrom:
Double punchline is awesome. Also, second panel must be a reference to the H2G2 text adventure.
mbarker:
You mean "a maze of twisty passages, all alike?" I thought that was in Colossal Cave, the original adventure game... actually, I'm sure of it. Which might have been recycled for later adventure games?
Shivertongue:
Ha! I didn't even notice the hand thing. Yesterdays had me laughing for a solid five minutes, though.
--- Quote from: Peter Ahlstrom on August 16, 2010, 06:15:49 AM ---Double punchline is awesome. Also, second panel must be a reference to the H2G2 text adventure.
--- End quote ---
Oh, wow... the Infocom game? That was frustrating and fun at the same time. Did you ever play the other one Adams wrote for Infocom, Bureaucracy?
Peter Ahlstrom:
I didn't. And we never did beat the original H2G2 text adventure back when we bought the Mac version in like 1986. Though we got close. We never figured out that the thing your aunt gave you that you didn't know what it was was actually a bag of infinite holding, and either we weren't able to get one of the fluffs or we didn't know to put them in the flowerpot and go into the sauna. But the game is online now in a couple different places, and I finally beat it (like...10 years ago?) due to reading cheat guides. :)
The maze of twisty passages line could have been put into H2G2 as an homage.
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