December 3, 2003, 15:02
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Maybe this will help:
Clue4: In the first game you escape your location by the classic Enid Blyton-esque trick of using a nail to poke out the key on the other side of a door, after of course sliding a newspaper under it so that you can retrieve the key when it falls.
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December 3, 2003, 18:26
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well its the fact of there being four of them that was giving me a hard time.
I been looking through some retro sites and i think i've found the answer, not many went past a trilogy in those days.
EDIT: once i'd seen the title i do remember it as being one of the famous adventures of the time - did it come as free software with a spectrum at one point?
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December 3, 2003, 18:31
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It's clearly the original spectrum version of Myst. Don't know why I didn't spot that before.
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December 3, 2003, 19:15
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I remeber the game, but not the name. If it's what I think it is then it came out on C64 too.
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December 3, 2003, 19:31
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 Hey Dale,
We could turn this into part of the game - if we give vague answers Dr.Spike will have to try to guess what we mean, and thus if we got it right 
I would add i did use google(bad) to get a list of spectrum sites, then had a few hours(good) fun browsing and laughing at the disgusting neon colour graphics 
I would say the third in the series is the most memorable for me, it might just be the name - not sure?? I'm 99.9% certain they didn't come out on the Atari 8bits. maybe C64 although i kinda have a feeling they may have been Spectrum exclusive?:
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December 3, 2003, 19:40
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BB: No
CoT: You are disqualified, but PM me what you think, because you might be wrong from the looks of it.
Clue 5: I played the initial trilogy at a young age, where the immense amounts of toilet humour in the games made me laugh my ass off.
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December 3, 2003, 19:45
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Extra clue: I am reasonably sure it only came out for the Spectrum.
Edit: CoT I got your PM, and I had forgotten those games you mentioned completely. You are free to keep guessing.
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December 3, 2003, 20:00
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December 3, 2003, 20:03
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I would have thought these 5 clues would be enough........where is Cap?
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December 4, 2003, 00:35
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well cant we switch to game sfrom 80s that were on another computer LOL
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December 4, 2003, 02:49
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Toilet humor reminds me only of Leisuresuit-Larry... but that's not only on Spectrum... 
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December 4, 2003, 05:53
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I can't really think of another clue that isn't too blatant. I'll come up with something later.
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December 4, 2003, 07:35
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Well I'm going to have to surrender on this one Dr Spike..............my eyes cant take anymore of the day-glo screen shots i was looking at yesterday, i take my hat of to all spectrum users everywhere - you deserve a special medal 
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December 4, 2003, 09:36
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Ok maybe it is too hard.
Blatant clue: The place from which you are trying to escape in all the games of the initial trilogy is an outdoor toilet.
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December 4, 2003, 10:57
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If someone gets this can we please have links/screenshots of these games?, i feel i've missed out on a real classic 
Edit: the only famous spectrum toilet i can think of was in jetset willy.......i think.......
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December 4, 2003, 10:58
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Crap, three days trying to guess a game on the only computer that I haven't owned.
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December 4, 2003, 11:01
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Originally posted by child of Thor
If someone gets this can we please have links/screenshots of these games, i feel i've missed out on a real classic
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It was a cult classic, but maybe outside of the text adventure scene it is not well known.
As for screenshots:
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December 4, 2003, 11:10
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He! he! I thought you'd like that I just want to SEE this game does exist outside of your neon drenched memmory and nerve endings
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December 4, 2003, 11:38
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Oh so you think my plan is to invent games?!
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December 4, 2003, 11:53
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Well, you have given us "blatant" clues and no one has guessed it yet.
Anymore blatant clues?
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December 4, 2003, 15:37
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Originally posted by DrSpike
I would have thought these 5 clues would be enough........where is Cap?
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Still in the room but I haven´t been giving much thought, yet. So a four part spectrum text adventure series eh?
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December 4, 2003, 15:46
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Well the trilogy is better known.........though there was a fourth game.
Um, as for clues there aren't really any more. Come on, 3 games concerned with escaping from an outdoor toilet.......if you cant get it from that no one can have played it I think.
Just in case: You are Balrog. John Wilson, head of Zenobi games was responsible for this cult classic.
NO GOOGLING THOSE NAMES!!
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December 4, 2003, 15:49
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Difficult, difficult...it doesn´t help that I haven´t actually played any spectrum adventure games! I have to go by memory...  these games...were they released by Delta4? Of ´the boggit´ and ´bored of the rings´fame?
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December 4, 2003, 15:55
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No, Zenobi games released it.
I think, chaps, you have to admit defeat on this one. I win.........mwuhahahahahaha. 
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December 4, 2003, 16:06
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Okay, next time I'll post a game no-one will have heard of, how's that?
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December 4, 2003, 16:12
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Zenobi games!? You would have to be a diehard speccy fan to know that one! Oh wait, you are!
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December 4, 2003, 17:12
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Hmmm....
since the thread title is "Name the Game - part 3"...
So I shall name that game as "Return from the bowl, parts 1, 2 and 3", and the fourth is called "owl in the bowl - tale of two apples swallowed whole"
... and do I win?
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December 4, 2003, 18:04
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I´ve never ever heard of those games! Just goes to show there are limits to even my knowledge.
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December 4, 2003, 18:13
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Spike again then?
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