tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316858898012232577.post2966084905265348661..comments2024-03-22T01:44:16.042-07:00Comments on CRPG Adventures: Colossal Cave Adventure II: Victory!Nathan P. Mahneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01184246437497081701noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316858898012232577.post-34913444873089085332017-03-22T03:52:46.623-07:002017-03-22T03:52:46.623-07:00Hi Lloyd, thanks for checking out the blog. If you...Hi Lloyd, thanks for checking out the blog. If you're looking for a text adventure to play, you can't do better than Zork if you've never played it. The original mainframe version is currently the highest-rated game on the blog; it's genuinely great. Nathan P. Mahneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01184246437497081701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316858898012232577.post-30159947418450320162017-03-21T15:05:02.220-07:002017-03-21T15:05:02.220-07:00I am amazed to find so many links for a 40-y-o tex...I am amazed to find so many links for a 40-y-o text game ADVENTURE which I first played in 1981 on an office screen having just installed an online app to run on company's IBM mainframe. I never got to the endgame when I stayed late in the office maintaining the IBM OpSys but remember others giving hints after they had read thru' the BASIC script.<br />Anyway, 36 years on, and I found this excellent Euclidean map (i.e. straight lines) :-<br />http://rickadams.org/adventure/maps/CaveMap.jpg<br />So played adv (V1) again and actually got to endgame to win on 6th attempt.<br />Then played it again using someone's optimal guidelines - just like yours at top of this entry - and won again !<br />So, then decided to play ADV II after finding the port and exc. map on gobberwarts.com.<br />Thanks to your hints and tips, I feel I may be making progress towards magic 440 points and old endgame with dynamite (masked as rods w/o rusty stars).<br />Unicorn saga appears to have cost you 4 points, so might try visiting reservoir but not riding unicorn into Hell.<br />Incidentally, if you ever wanted to play ADV II again :-<br />a) When visiting circular cellar to "get orb", "drop chalice" will summon the wizard thru' portcullis to banish you with both treasures.<br />b) Only way to get Tusk out is to visit Sea View at low tide; then up pipes to maze (MTPS) and then north to BedQuilt with treasure.<br />c) I got the golden eggs for the 3rd time from Giant Room with FFFF, and then decided to visit him (Giant) in his Living Quarters expecting to be thrown into his dungeon !<br />There he was sitting on his couch eating the 1st lot of eggs that I had gotten !<br />d) Anyway, you can escape from his dungeon with "get flagstone" which lifts part of the flooring and sends you to the bottom of the dry well underneath the Well House (building). Then "climb" gets you up through a magical slab back into the safe building.<br /><br />What game would you now recommend to a non-gamer who enjoys the challenge of text-based adventure games? Perhaps top-of-the range ADV 770 ?<br />Thanks again for your hints and tips.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17656683715802778865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2316858898012232577.post-61074225541208516822017-01-12T22:02:47.034-08:002017-01-12T22:02:47.034-08:00You were intrigued by the Unicorn, and wondering w...You were intrigued by the Unicorn, and wondering where the missing points are. I never got this far in this precise version, but Mike Arnautov's Adventure 770 on mipmip.org is the only game in the world that I know of that took this and ran with it. There's more you can do with the Unicorn in that game, altho riding it still kills you like it does in this version. So i'm not sure if the more you can do with it results in your missing four points or not.<br /><br />I don't recommend continuing in 440 unless you have a save game with everything else done and could just try it out for two minutes, but rest assured this line goes further in the 770 point version. Note I believe in both versions, unlike the original, the food gets replenished. Actually, I am only certain of that in 770.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />another adventure fanJessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18153389330240020674noreply@blogger.com