04-12-2003 00:02									#241
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Maybe this will help:

Clue4: In the first game you escape your location by the classic Enid Blyton-esque trick of using a nail to poke out the key on the other side of a door, after of course sliding a newspaper under it so that you can retrieve the key when it falls.

	04-12-2003 03:26									#242
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well its the fact of there being four of them that was giving me a hard time.
I been looking through some retro sites and i think i've found the answer, not many went past a trilogy in those days.

EDIT: once i'd seen the title i do remember it as being one of the famous adventures of the time - did it come as free software with a spectrum at one point?

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	04-12-2003 03:31									#243
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It's clearly the original spectrum version of Myst. Don't know why I didn't spot that before.

	04-12-2003 04:15									#244
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I remeber the game, but not the name. If it's what I think it is then it came out on C64 too.

	04-12-2003 04:31									#245
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Hey Dale,

We could turn this into part of the game - if we give vague answers Dr.Spike will have to try to guess what we mean, and thus if we got it right

I would add i did use google(bad) to get a list of spectrum sites, then had a few hours(good) fun browsing and laughing at the disgusting neon colour graphics

I would say the third in the series is the most memorable for me, it might just be the name - not sure?? I'm 99.9% certain they didn't come out on the Atari 8bits. maybe C64 although i kinda have a feeling they may have been Spectrum exclusive?:

	04-12-2003 04:40									#246
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BB: No
CoT: You are disqualified, but PM me what you think, because you might be wrong from the looks of it.

Clue 5: I played the initial trilogy at a young age, where the immense amounts of toilet humour in the games made me laugh my ass off.

	04-12-2003 04:45									#247
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Extra clue: I am reasonably sure it only came out for the Spectrum.

Edit: CoT I got your PM, and I had forgotten those games you mentioned completely. You are free to keep guessing.

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	04-12-2003 05:00									#248
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You have got to be kidding!!! I was 100% sure!! darn

	04-12-2003 05:03									#249
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I would have thought these 5 clues would be enough........where is Cap?

	04-12-2003 09:35									#250
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well cant we switch to game sfrom 80s that were on another computer LOL

	04-12-2003 11:49									#251
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Toilet humor reminds me only of Leisuresuit-Larry... but that's not only on Spectrum...

	04-12-2003 14:53									#252
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I can't really think of another clue that isn't too blatant. I'll come up with something later.

	04-12-2003 16:35									#253
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Well I'm going to have to surrender on this one Dr Spike..............my eyes cant take anymore of the day-glo screen shots i was looking at yesterday, i take my hat of to all spectrum users everywhere - you deserve a special medal

	04-12-2003 18:36									#254
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Ok maybe it is too hard.

Blatant clue: The place from which you are trying to escape in all the games of the initial trilogy is an outdoor toilet.

	04-12-2003 19:57									#255
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If someone gets this can we please have links/screenshots of these games?, i feel i've missed out on a real classic

Edit: the only famous spectrum toilet i can think of was in jetset willy.......i think.......

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	04-12-2003 19:58									#256
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Crap, three days trying to guess a game on the only computer that I haven't owned.

	04-12-2003 20:01									#257
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quote: Originally posted by child of Thor If someone gets this can we please have links/screenshots of these games, i feel i've missed out on a real classic

It was a cult classic, but maybe outside of the text adventure scene it is not well known.

As for screenshots:

	04-12-2003 20:10									#258
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike It was a cult classic, but maybe outside of the text adventure scene it is not well known. As for screenshots:

He! he! I thought you'd like that I just want to SEE this game does exist outside of your neon drenched memmory and nerve endings

	04-12-2003 20:38									#259
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Oh so you think my plan is to invent games?!

	04-12-2003 20:53									#260
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Well, you have given us "blatant" clues and no one has guessed it yet.

Anymore blatant clues?

	05-12-2003 00:37									#261
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quote: Originally posted by DrSpike I would have thought these 5 clues would be enough........where is Cap?

Still in the room but I haven´t been giving much thought, yet. So a four part spectrum text adventure series eh?

	05-12-2003 00:46									#262
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Well the trilogy is better known.........though there was a fourth game.

Um, as for clues there aren't really any more. Come on, 3 games concerned with escaping from an outdoor toilet.......if you cant get it from that no one can have played it I think.

Just in case: You are Balrog. John Wilson, head of Zenobi games was responsible for this cult classic.

NO GOOGLING THOSE NAMES!!

	05-12-2003 00:49									#263
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Difficult, difficult...it doesn´t help that I haven´t actually played any spectrum adventure games! I have to go by memory... these games...were they released by Delta4? Of ´the boggit´ and ´bored of the rings´fame?

	05-12-2003 00:55									#264
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No, Zenobi games released it.

I think, chaps, you have to admit defeat on this one. I win.........mwuhahahahahaha.

	05-12-2003 01:06									#265
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Okay, next time I'll post a game no-one will have heard of, how's that?

	05-12-2003 01:12									#266
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Zenobi games!? You would have to be a diehard speccy fan to know that one! Oh wait, you are!

	05-12-2003 02:12									#267
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Hmmm....
since the thread title is "Name the Game - part 3"...

So I shall name that game as "Return from the bowl, parts 1, 2 and 3", and the fourth is called "owl in the bowl - tale of two apples swallowed whole"

... and do I win?

	05-12-2003 02:38									#268
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quote: Originally posted by Buck Birdseed Okay, next time I'll post a game no-one will have heard of, how's that?

Hehe but this game is not obscure, it's just the players are inept.

It is of course the fondly remembered (but not by you lot obviously ) Behind Closed Doors trilogy, soon followed by a further game featuring Balrog, who has the unfortunate tendency to get trapped in toilets. Veritable classics.

http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/be...seddoorsiii.htm

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/textadv/b.html

http://hjem.get2net.dk/gunn/complete1.html

	05-12-2003 03:04									#269
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I´ve never ever heard of those games! Just goes to show there are limits to even my knowledge.

	05-12-2003 03:13									#270
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Spike again then?