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A bit of lighthearted silliness

dmsmithdmsmith
edited August 2011 in Chit chat
No disrespect at all is intended towards the character of Sherlock Holmes, or Arthur Conan Doyle either for that matter.

Scene: Waterloo Station:

Inspector Lestrade: Well Holmes it seems you can take a few days off. HaHa!

Sherlock Holmes::roll: You reckon?

Lestrade: Sure! We will have the culprit in our grasp before you can light your pipe! :razz:

Holmes feels his coat pocket just to be sure he has his pipe with him.

Lestrade: Well here is my train Holmes.

Holmes: Indeed, mine also.

Lestrade :-o: You mean to say you insist on accompanying me to Leatherhead!? Worry not my friend, Lestrade is on the case. The scoundrel will be on trial before you can hail a cab. :smile:

Holmes: To be sure.

Cabby enters: :mad: Where's me money Guv'nor?

Holmes :oops:: Ah, yes, quite, my good man. Looks at Watson.

Ask Watson for help.

Watson: You've got the money, not me, Holmes. :lol:

Give money to Cabby

You give 4 pounds, 5 shillings, and sixpence to the cabby.

Ask Cabby for change

You do not see any Hansom Cab Driver here.

Holmes: :???:You're right Lestrade, I could do with a few days off!
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Comments

  • milemile
    edited August 2011
    read it tiwce. :-?
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited August 2011
    Oh darn, I think I better explain my post, I was in a daft mood a few hours ago. Most on here and over 35 years old will remember Sherlock, the great adventure game from Melborne House. Was there ever an adventure game on the spectrum that I spent more time playing? No. What made this game so darn appealing to me? Not sure, probably its Inglish (was that how they spelt it) command interpreter. Anyway despite its bugs it was a great game IMHO. What made it so immersive? Was it the opening and closing of the doors, "someone closes the sittingroom door" etc. We had a huge map of London. And I started scaring it (map opened in the middle of the living room floor) for streets to tell the cabbie to go to. The Pawn came close, and is in some ways much better, but its story is it seems to me just a jumbled mish-mash mostly of elements from various mythology, fairy tales, literature, Spagetti westerns:-o with some very dry humour. What a crazy combination. Seriously. I mean Spagetti westerns (the horse with no legs) and medieval knights? Anyhow. Seemed hilarious to me at the time to accidently give all the money to the cabbie.

    Tell you the truth I hardly ever use smilies and just thought I'd have a little fun with them.

    Not to say I didn't have fun playing the pawn, just its whole setting seems rather nuts now that I think about it.
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited August 2011
    Yes, I am 39 years old!
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited August 2011
    I have forgotten the name of the game. It was a text based adventure.

    You entered your name. i.e SpecChum


    It would prompt you "What next SpecChum?"


    You'd enter a command, like, "Get to Feck"


    "I do not understand Get to Feck"
    "What next SpecChum?"


    So.....


    I put in my name as I do not understand, and entered the command I do not understand

    and so it said on the screen

    What Next I Do Not Understand?
    I Do Not Understand.
    I Do Not Understand I Do Not Understand
    What Next I Do Not Understand?


    :)

    can't remember the name of the text adventure now
  • dmsmithdmsmith
    edited August 2011
    It sounds like Pimania. The christmas I got my first spectrum out of the newspaper ads, and there were some taped games thrown in. Pimania was one of them, It was one the few times we were nearly all round the computer at once. We were all trying to figure what on earth to type in!! So long ago I can barely remember, but my sister must have asked me about the game - what it was, and I am like :???: Now I know how they posed those 80s home computer adverts with the family round the machine.
  • beanzbeanz
    edited August 2011
    I was expecting a joke involving the riots and someone getting shot.
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