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From: chil@fraser.sfu.ca (Keith Lim)
Subject: Re: Classic Infocom Mumblings
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Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 10:09:16 GMT
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jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:

>Suspended gets my vote - it was my first Infocom game, and the only one 
>I got through without ANY help whatsoever. Took me three months, though.
>The robots were great, lots of red herrings,

Planetfall must have had more red herrings than all the other games put
together (well, probably not, but it sure seems like it.) It's one of my
favourites. Making you go past the body of Floyd again right at the end
of the game was brilliant. I swear I got a second stab of pain in my chest
when that happened.

> and when you got down, you 
>could replay it to reduce your damage score, or you could even customize
>your own game. 

Yes, the ability to customise your own game was a most original features;
one which I used all the time.

>Suspended also had some interesting "hidden" features such as having
>Auda follow the two humans around to listen in on their conversation. Great
>fun.

Auda, on first glance, seemed to be an almost entirely useless robot, but
she had a good deal of the "hidden features". Try asking Auda to read the
plaque, for instance. As for Poet, I sent him to every room and made him
look at everything just to read his descriptions. Poet was the only robot
who correctly identified the "large object" in <don't remember the room>

BTW, one of my favourite hidden features was the ability to kill the humans
(kept them from killing you.) Unfortunately, a second set of humans enter,
completely undetected, and you don't know about them until the open the
door of your cylinder.

-- 
Keith_Lim@sfu.ca   Simon Fraser University, Burnaby B.C., V5A 1S6, Canada
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