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<LI><em>From</em>: Caliban Tiresias Darklock <<A HREF="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 19 May 1998 11:00:04 -0400</LI>
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On 07:11 AM 5/19/98 -0700, I personally witnessed Koster, Raph jumping up
to say:
>
>Anyone remember the infamous "Hitchhiker's" Gotcha, whereby if
>you did not feed a sandwich to the dog in the first five moves, near the
>end of the game he ate the microscopic fleet you were in? And speaking
>of lateral thinking and bizarre puzzles, that one fits...
I'd hazard the proposal that anyone who bought the HHGTTG game *expected*
things to be extremely lateral and bizarre, myself. Yes, I was frustrated
as hell and cursed Douglas Adams thousands of times over the course of that
game, but it was pretty much what I was letting myself in for in the first
place...
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00690" HREF="msg00690.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! -- By Ernest Adams</A></strong>,
John Bertoglio <a href="mailto:alexb#internetcds,com">alexb#internetcds,com</a>, Tue 19 May 1998, 06:05 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00692" HREF="msg00692.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! -- By Ernest Adams</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Tue 19 May 1998, 08:56 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00737" HREF="msg00737.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! -- By Ernest Adams</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 20 May 1998, 18:48 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00693" HREF="msg00693.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! -- By Ernest Adams</A></strong>,
Koster, Raph <a href="mailto:rkoster#origin,ea.com">rkoster#origin,ea.com</a>, Tue 19 May 1998, 14:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00695" HREF="msg00695.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! -- By Ernest Adams</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Tue 19 May 1998, 15:01 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00735" HREF="msg00735.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! -- By Ernest Ada ms</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Wed 20 May 1998, 18:48 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00700" HREF="msg00700.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! -- By Ernest Adams</A></strong>,
John Bertoglio <a href="mailto:alexb#internetcds,com">alexb#internetcds,com</a>, Tue 19 May 1998, 17:16 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00745" HREF="msg00745.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! -- By Ernest Adams</A></strong>,
John Bertoglio <a href="mailto:alexb#internetcds,com">alexb#internetcds,com</a>, Thu 21 May 1998, 09:56 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00676" HREF="msg00676.html">[MUD-Dev] Bad Game Designer, No Twinkie! -- By Ernest Adams</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Mon 18 May 1998, 23:42 GMT
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