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[challenge entry] The old text based adventures were always the best.

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(Squid Bunty, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:00, archived)
# hee hee hee hee
I like that lots : )
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:00, archived)
# He he
that brings back so many memories.
(Tivert, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:02, archived)
# there is a good hitch hikers version
i always died....
edit :- it's here..www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~thompp/h2g2/hgtg000a.html
(I helped save b3ta! 5olly, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:03, archived)
# thats what
its based off.
(Squid Bunty, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:03, archived)
# there's a
Java-based version of it around somewhere... I had the PC version and the Infocom verson on my Psion. playing on a Psion was a bad idea, too easy to throw across the room when another bloody cleaning robot foiled the intricately-laid plans...
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:04, archived)
# playing hitchhikers on a psion
must almost be like having your own copy of The Book, though.
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:07, archived)
# no
it doesn't have "Don't Panic" inscribed in large, friendly letters on the outside of the case...
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:10, archived)
#
/me fetches school-type compass to scratch it into the cover...
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:18, archived)
# it would make
a lovely wallpaper for the 7650...

right, I'm going for a shower. I'm all sticky and I smell of cinnamon.
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:26, archived)
# i found it on
fhm.com

the hitch hikers game that is
(Squid Bunty, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:07, archived)
# you can play it online
here
www.douglasadams.com/creations/infocomjava.html

I forget where the downloadable one is, nothing google can't fix...
(I helped save b3ta! sosumi, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:14, archived)
# hehe, i like that
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:03, archived)
# aw christ
that walrus site is fuckin sick man!
(Squid Bunty, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:06, archived)
# you were warned
thrice...
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:08, archived)
# mehehehe!
"What a loony!" if I remember right. "fuck mailbox"
(I helped save b3ta! stevierar, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:06, archived)
# wasn't it something like
"this is family entertainment, not a video nasty" if you tried to do anything like that?
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:07, archived)
# I only just realised this wasn't about Zork!
Ooohh, I found a shiny silver new-transit van yesterday, I was going to stand next to it and take a photo for you. But I had used up all my photos photoing monkeys :(
(I helped save b3ta! stevierar, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:10, archived)
# awwww
show me your monkeys instead then? does that sound like a euphamism?
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:12, archived)
# yes it does
(Squid Bunty, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:13, archived)
# Good
; )
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:14, archived)
# dirty lady!
www.fucksocks.co.uk/dump/IMG_3121.JPG
(admittedly, a lemur. But these are better :$)

www.fucksocks.co.uk/dump/IMG_3139%20(Medium).JPG(Medium).JPG
(admittedly, a guineefowl, but this was my friend)

and www.fucksocks.co.uk/dump/IMG_3096.JPG
(ORANGETAN!)
(I helped save b3ta! stevierar, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:17, archived)
# none of those are monkeys!
and one of them isn't even a primate ; )

nice pics though, I do like librarians...

definitely going for a shower this time.
(I helped save b3ta! Jadeviper was still alive on, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:28, archived)
# It was monkey world!
so they're all monkeys, even the guineefowl

*FACT*
(I helped save b3ta! stevierar, Sat 19 Apr 2003, 11:29, archived)