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From: grover@emunix.emich.edu (Grover Thomas)
Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom
Subject: RtZork (was Re: Okay.  Get a Cd-rom now or later?)
Date: 20 Apr 1994 16:18:22 GMT
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In article <766904567snx@sound.demon.co.uk>,
jon jennings <jon@sound.demon.co.uk> wrote:
[Return to Zork]

>RTZ is driving me up the wall. There is nothing more amateur than an
>adventure which:
>
>	a) kills you for unforseeable actions (eg. entering a room, pressing
>	   a button etc)
>or      b) requires you, without being hinted, to perform certain actions at
>	   one stage in the game or else, many hours later, you discover
>	   you can never finish (eg. picking/not picking up bonding plant
>	   at start of RTZ).

     Sounds a lot like the original "Zork" adventures.  Nothing amateur
about that.  In fact, it wouldn't be the same if they watered it down to
the easy degree that most Sierra-type adventures are nowadays.

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