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Text Adventures in Politics

April 24th, 2008 at 10:30 am by David Farrar

Lyndon Hood has a very amusing feature at Scoop where NZ Politics is a text adventure. Extracts:

There is a small mailbox here.

> open mailbox

Opening the mailbox reveals a leaflet.

> get leaflet

Taken.

> examine leaflet

I see nothing special about the leaflet.

> See if leaflet breaches electoral finance act

I don’t understand that.

> You’re not the only one. …

A HUGE GREEN FIERCE SNAKE BARS THE WAY!

> kill snake

WITH WHAT? YOUR BARE HANDS?

> slap snake with ‘slippery’ tag

THE TAG STICKS TO THE SNAKE. YOU HAVE INJURED THE SNAKE.

> slap snake with ‘slippery’ tag

YOU ALREADY DID THAT

> slap snake with ‘slippery’ tag

NOTHING HAPPENS

> slap snake with ‘slippery’ tag

NOTHING HAPPENS

> slippery slippery slippery slippery …

and then the conclusion:

NOTHING HAPPENS

> slip-slip-slip-slippery

YOU HAVE BEEN EATEN BY THE SNAKE.

NEW GAME? (Y/N)

> explain snake was suffering from confusion

Read the whole thing. It should become a regular series.

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5 Responses to “Text Adventures in Politics”

  1. anonymouse (488) Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    you are in a Twisty little maze of passages

    “XYZZY”

    NOTHING HAPPENS

    Sigh!, Geek Nostalgia, :)

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  2. Rex Widerstrom (4,965) Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

    Brilliant. “LOL” is thrown around online these days to indicate even the slightest smirk. But I did indeed laugh aloud at that. Well done Lyndon.

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  3. llew (1,532) Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

    “XYZZY”

    Bugger – first thing I thought when I read this. I read Trace Kidder’s pullitzer prize winning “The Soul of a New Machine” some decades ago, apparently Data General coders tested their experimental Eclipse machine by playing this game.

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  4. lyndon (321) Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Well cheers.

    I somehow doubt you’ll see a repeat version – I basically grabbed most of the standard cliches I could find. And then discovered some of them were eerily useful.

    Incidentally, DPF – for the benefit of future researchers, you spelled my name wrong in the tags.

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  5. The Double Standard (72) Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    Ex-cellent work Lyndon. Brings back memories of my Apple II days.

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