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Earth will be destroyed in 12 minutes...
(lemmy.world)
This is accurate gameplay from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure that INFOCOM made with the help of Douglas Adams in 1984.
I thought people would find it interesting to see the way a game would creatively do a demo in print in the 1980s since doing it other ways was either too expensive or not very useful from a marketing perspective.
More info on the game- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(video_game)
It was very challenging. I never got all the way through it. Amazingly, it only covers a small portion of the first book despite taking hours and hours to play.
I got so frustrated getting killed over and over that I typed:
into the prompt. The game responded with:
Which is how I found out that was British slang for ~~porn.~~ graphic horror films, apparently.
Video nasty was slang for graphic horror movies, not porn. Not heard anyone say it since the 80s though.
Ahh, TIL. Thanks!
I'm not sure if I'm missing something here...but what did you think "fuck" meant? Lol
more likely he thought 'video nasty' was slang for porn (unless of course it was a joke)
Lmao yes, you're absolutely right. That's what I missed.
I still like my misinterpretation though, ahaha
Just about anything
Fuck the fucking fuckers.
The only English word that can be used as an infix...
It's truly beauti-fucking-ful!
It's absobloodylutely not the only one
Unbe-cunting-lievable.
Can't bebloodylieve I forgot bloody.
Wait, yes I can, I'm Canadian and we don't use that.
Thanks for the correction!