doubleKO

I still want to play a proper 3rd person action/adventure game set in the Hill Valley universe. Driving, flying cars, skating, hoverboarding, stealth, puzzles... it could even have a guitar hero type level or two (if you like that sort of thing) and a quick draw shooting game. Kind of like Bully but with everything BTTF. Someone make it right now!!!

*re-installs GTA Hill Valley mod*

xhonzi said:

doubleKO said:

Ahem!

 My bad.  I didn't know that thread existed.  Still, this is a little different, right?

You posted a lot in that thread for someone oblivious to its existence.

And, yes. This thread is newer and was made by xhonzi. That's you.

:p

Ryan McAvoy said:

cocoon: the return of the kingdom of heaven's gateway way back to the future world war z

That's 11 movies for you. Beat that

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and I Am Legend of Sleepy Hollow Manhattan Murder Mystery Team America: World Police Story 2 Days in the Valley of the Dolls

Ahem!

georgec said:

One of the best adventure games ever made. I hope that can be released on GOG.com in the near future.

I love GOG. If anyone is desperate to play Blade Runner in the meantime, I found a page that tells you how to create your own installer. Haven't tried it yet but I have found the game on several abandonware sites. I'm not sure if the instructions are specific to BR or if you can use the method to bypass other 16-bit installers.

Tobar said:

Dang, hey doubleKO in your searchings did you come across a game that was said to have been developed by a 7 year old?

Doesn't ring any bells. It definitely helped that I remembered a specific phrase from Wizard 1. Nobody else on the internet seemed to remember the "one-eyed, two-thumbed torkie" but OCR software saved the day. I'm glad Highlands could afford some advertising!

xhonzi said:

doubleKO said:

Holy carp, I found it! This is the first computer game I ever played. Originally called Wizard 1, the name was changed to Oldorf's Revenge because of confusion with Sierra's games.

Reminds me of the one that Tom Hanks played in Big.  Wait, is that the right movie?

Yep, I just watched Big about a week ago and they are quite similar. That may even have subconsciously spurred my further searching. Although I think it was mainly Ryan's game porn that sparked my latest adventure revival.

JEDIT: That Last Crusade game is crazy so far. Who the hell would try to dissolve a piece of sticky tape? And find a key inside it? Sometimes logic and intelligence just don't help.

Holy carp, I found it! This is the first computer game I ever played. Originally called Wizard 1, the name was changed to Oldorf's Revenge because of confusion with Sierra's games. At the time I was indeed convinced that Sierra's Wizard and the Princess was the sequel to Wizard 1.

While it was mainly a text-based graphical adventure, the game had an RPG element where you could change your character to a wizard, a cleric, a strongman, gladiator etc. in order to accomplish different tasks. You could only use each character 5 times, so you couldn't "cast a spell" every time or you would use up your wizard.

After numerous exhaustive searches I finally got a handful of results from some old computing magazines scanned with OCR software. The name change explains why I could never find it before. Internet grail search complete!

From Compute (Nov-Dec 1980):

It's not listed at mobygames even under Oldorf's Revenge, but this site reckons only 1000-2000 copies were sold.

xhonzi said:

DoubleKO- are you going to join the Steam OT.com group?  I can pretty much guarantee you'll be player of the week by the end of the month.

Er... I don't have Steam. It's a bit of a thing with me.

I don't play games online, so I don't want my games inextricably tied to the internet. If I move somewhere with no internet (a matter of a few kilometres around here) I want to be able to install and play the games that I've paid for. I've pirated games that I've bought just to get them working without Steam.

Point-and-clickery continues; I'm almost half-way through Broken Sword and really enjoying it. Keyboard head-banging has been reduced.

I think modern games are making me stupid and impatient. When I was ten I could wrestle with a text parser for hours to come up with the right command. There was no internet to obtain hints or walkthroughs if I got stuck.

If I didn't know the name of Roy Rogers' dog, I had to ask every single person I met and spend days trying to guess the answer. "I know his bloody horse is called Trigger! What about the DOG?!"

If I didn't have a set of encyclopaedias at home I never would have found Carmen Sandiego, or figured out puzzles with Roman numerals. I have started playing some adventure games lately and am beating my head on the keyboard every two minutes. Hopefully it knocks some cobwebs loose.

JEDIT - Re-reading this post it seems I was always stupid and impatient. Or at least had bad general knowledge of cowboy actors' dogs names, geography and Roman numerals over X. It could be argued fairly successfully that I am just bad at adventure games. Modern games are making me old and rambling!

Ladies and fellas, I was hella bored
So I pedalled hella hard to a seminar in Zanzibar
Ben & Jerry, tennis star and Pat Benatar ridin' on my handlebars
That I had gaffled from a scrap metal yard

When it fell apart, I got a rental car with Meadowlark Lemon's credit card
Double-parked on the boulevard in front of Cinnabon
Won a tug-of-war with the Minotaur
Then I toured the far north on a Portuguese man-o-war

Santa Claus handed me a catalogue
The envelope attached on it said that you can have it all
So I got an antelope from Manitoba, salad bowl, a catapult
A can of soda, paddleboat, a camera phone

And also a Barry Manilow autographed cantaloupe
And every episode of "Solid Gold"
The antidote to Babylon, an Amazon in an acid-wash camisole
And her friend that tagged along, who looked a lot like Apollonia

Here's the story folks, totally stoned
I rode the slopes of Mount Holyoke at 40 below,
Lo and behold, my homie poked too many holes in my snowmobile wheels
Now I'm rollin' on some Boboli's with spokes

Had to pony up the dough to get it on, green and gold mobile home
Stole an Oreo, a Polaroid, some Saltines, an overcoat
From Walgreens, some corduroys, some sardines, canola oil
All singin' "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"

On and on, with Obi-Wan Kenobi, Shinobi and Kobe Bryant
Pokemon and Pinnochio on the Okefenokee Swamp
Touring Portugal, Tokyo, Borneo and Coney Island
With the Horny Toad Memorial Orchestra with Barry White

Lyrics Born on rhymes, Maury Povich on viola
Berry Gordy on organ and Joe Torre on chimes
Don Corleone on accordion tommorrow morning
We're re-recording Jerome & Morris singin' "Oh-wee-oh-wee-oh!"

Well Abracadabra I saddled up a camel
Travelled the Sahara and the avenues of Casablanca
Ran into the madam and family snackin' on an Abba-Zaba
Cabbage patchin' and practising the Macarena with - who?

Santana, Santa, a panda, my Grandma
Dracula, Aladdin and the Dalai Lama
Beretta and a mannequin and then I slipped on a banana
Landed on a hammock in Havana sippin' on a can of apple Fanta

Bit by a piranha when I swam into Atlantis
On the back of a manta I paddled with a spatula
Back to Atlanta where I had a hamburger with Hammer's manager
Afterwards he handed me eleven laminates for

The Tropicana where I had a romantic encounter
With Janet, Pamela, glamorous Salma, Anna, Calamity Jane
Samantha, Vanity, Miss Japan, Canada
And Bananarama in the back of an Acura

Do That There - Lyrics Born

xhonzi said:

1.a. I have to keep reminding myself that Steam is a single user environment.  Mrs. xhonzi and I are playing Trine 2 together (ah, yeah... some classic splitscreening ON AN UNSPLIT SCREEN!) and only I get achievements and whatnot.  Not that she cares... but, it's the principle of the thing.  At any rate, I've only really purchased single player games that will be played (or not, as is so often the case with Steam) by me. 

Steam recently announced Family Sharing.

Davnes007 said:

The "YES! YES! YES!" sounds like a woman in the throws of passion.

A woman ventriloquist?

:p

The Heart, She Holler

I'm a fan of both Patton Oswalt and Kristen Schaal but this is just horrible. I made it through two episodes and felt like I needed a shower to wash it off me.

Mr. Show

I really like David Cross and had never seen this before. Frink's references finally persuaded me to check it out and I'm glad I did.

Favicon!

TV's Frink said:

Oh no you don't, we have too many threads about that damn site as it is.

Sorry Frink :(

No thread announcement as yet, but a certain bountiful 3-disc edit has appeared on the Spleen!

Ryan McAvoy said:

In British culture "Bugger" has almost no negative connotations anymore. It's a term of endearment if anything.

Same here. It is not really considered crass or vulgar - old ladies say it.

Popular advertisement in Australia

Godzilla isn't hungry this time.

In the Prodigy song "Climbatize" the main drum loop was sampled from "Air Drums from Outer Bongolia" by English electronic duo The Jedi Knights.

Liam Howlett sampled the drums without the group's permission, and The Jedi Knights threatened to sue The Prodigy. However, Howlett already knew that The Jedi Knights themselves had sampled the drums from an older track entitled "Bongolia" by American funk group Incredible Bongo Band without permission.

XL Recordings, the Prodigy's record label, bought the rights to the Incredible Bongo Band track and threatened to sue The Jedi Knights. Media coverage of the event attracted film producer George Lucas, who sued The Jedi Knights for taking their stage name from the Star Wars term "Jedi Knight", which Lucas created.

- You're just being superstitious.

- I am not! Just extra-stitious.

SilverWook said:

And before anyone starts kvetching about J.J. hiring people he's worked with before, remember George kept hiring that Harrison Ford guy long after American Graffiti.

Isn't it bad enough that the Human Torch is Captain America and Daredevil is going to be Batman?!!1!

Say NO to mixed space relations!

Disparate! Defunct!

valinkrai said:

doubleKO said:

valinkrai said:

in Django Unchained it was hard to not understand anything.

Except for their whole ham-fisted plan.

As I indicated, I was talking about the dialogue itself.

Apologies for using your quote out of context; my comment was just intended as an addition, not a rebuttal.

HI DAYV! DID YOU LOSE YOUR VOICE AS WELL AS YOUR PASSWORD? ;)

Sorry about your woes, but good to see you are still alive!

You pack a suitcase by throwing handfuls of unfolded clothing inside.

You only overhear part of a conversation about yourself and then take it out of context.

You frame badly photoshopped pictures of yourself.