[fov]

I knew five, four of which were Sierra games.

<-- Sierra junkie

Congrats to the winner(s). I think they should have to duke it out. Err... or maybe a tiebreaker question is in order?

[Fien]

Originally Posted by Tramboi

And VoodoFX and AFGNCAAP have it all correct, though the others come real close!
(Special mention to Richard who proves that SOME journalists DO know some stuff about adventure games!)

Now we have a tie!
Fienepien, how do we resolve this situation, dear?

WOW! They got ALL the answers correct?!? Chapeau!

Yep, let's have a tiebreaker question. I know just the one:
What's it got in its pocketsesss..? [evil cackle]

Okay, okay....
Another game, that's what. No winner should go home empty-handed.
So you come up with a final question and the winner gets to choose between the Neverhood and Duckman (both unboxed).

Over to you, Tramboissie!

[Tramboi]

Originally Posted by Fienepien

WOW! They got ALL the answers correct?!? Chapeau!

Yep, let's have a tiebreaker question. I know just the one:
What's it got in its pocketsesss..? [evil cackle]

Okay, okay....
Another game, that's what. No winner should go home empty-handed.
So you come up with a final question and the winner gets to choose between the Neverhood and Duckman (both unboxed).

Over to you, Tramboissie!

*Retires in his secret lab*

[PolloDiablo]

1) How many prisoners has the AM computer taken to torture them?
5, in "I have no mouth and I must scream"
Missed that one, although by some strange coincidence I did answer 5 (wrong game though)
2) Which cowboy has an indian sidekick?
Freddy Pharkas, though in fact he is technically a pharmacist, ( Mimus )
check
3) In which game does a Most Infamous Puzzle involve making rain with a butterfly?
Discworld
check
4) Who is slimy, jumpy, green and fancies being a rock'n'roll star?
Green Tentacle, in Maniac Mansion!
check
(Jaap, I never managed to run Kingdom of Magic so you might be right about Thidney!)
5) How do you secure your treasures in the white house?
In zork you put them in the trophy case
Missed this one too. Interpreted it as a cryptic way to describe "How do you save in Zork"
6) Which famous text adventure author has a comics author homonym?
Scott Adams, 2-words-parser-man
check
7) In what game do you have to track a group of dangerous anarchists as a goldfish?
Magnetic Scrolls' Fish!
check
8) What adventure games were designed with the help of Giger?
Darkseed 1 and 2
check
9) Who are you tricking with mandrake root, cat hair, fish oil and porridge?
The evil wizard Mannanan in Kin's Quest 3
check
10) In which interactive fiction are you kidnapped in a dirty bar in Ohio by aliens at the beginning?
Leather goddesses of Phobos
check
11) Which mighty hero with a fiery green companion nonetheless has to tidy his bedroom and go to school?
Willy Beamish
check
12) Put back these irritating robots in their original games (and close the lid) : Floyd, Marvin, Joey and Arthur
Planetfall, Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, Beneath a steel sky, and The Journeyman Projects
check
(though Fienepien likes Floyd!)
13) Whose hand is giving Zanthia a bad time?
Hand of Fate, or Marco's hand (or Bal Rom's hand according to Richard)
check
14) In which adventure spy game do you have the opportunity to pilot a submarine?
Codename Iceman, though you went in a submarine in Indy 4 and Operation Stealth too
check
15) Who is the the last of the Ritters?
Gabriel(, or its son? )
check

[Richard]

4) Who is slimy, jumpy, green and fancies being a rock'n'roll star?
Green Tentacle, in Maniac Mansion!

Doh! After answering questions about blummin' Fish, I cannot believe this was the one I got wrong...

And both Arthur and Joey were great, incidentally. To quote Legacy of Time: Arthur! They call him Arthur! He was an artificial intelligence that was cool. Artificial as soap. Artificial as rope. Artificial! Artificial! (fades out on the song)

[Mimus]

Originally Posted by Richard

4) Who is slimy, jumpy, green and fancies being a rock'n'roll star?
Green Tentacle, in Maniac Mansion!

I can't believe I got that one wrong either... That's the only one I'm kicking myself about, as I hadn't played the other ones that I got wrong.

Congratulations to both winners though! Good luck in the tiebreaker

[Tramboi]

Here comes the tiebreaker!

What is the size (in bytes) of Quizz.txt on my desktop?
The nearest wins!

And, thanks to Fienepien, the other one can still have a free game!

Ain't life beautiful?

[jaap]

My mistakes:

4) Who is slimy, jumpy, green and fancies being a rock'n'roll star?
I totally forgot about the green tentacle, however i knew Kingdom O Magic has this green lizard character Thidney, and there was an Elvis statue in the game, so I figured it was about Thidney.
7) In what game do you have to track a group of dangerous anarchists as a goldfish?
I didn't have a clue and my google searches didn't help me, so I chose the only fishy adventure I knew: the fish files. It has a conspiracy in it though, but the wrong one
13) Whose hand is giving Zanthia a bad time?
I got this one right, but i thought it was a trick-question. That the game was Hand of Fate was for me very easy, however to figure out to whom this giant hand really belongs is very hard. I knew that Zanthia first encounters the hand together with Marcus, but somewhere in the game there is an animation of the true origin of that Hand. I thought it was some evil wizard, but didn't know the name "Bal Rom".

But it was a very nice quizz!!


Jaap

[Tramboi]

Originally Posted by Tramboi

Here comes the tiebreaker!

What is the size (in bytes) of Quizz.txt on my desktop?
The nearest wins!

And, thanks to Fienepien, the other one can still have a free game!

Ain't life beautiful?

PS : Hacking my PC would be nasty

[Mimus]

Originally Posted by jaap

My mistakes:

4) Who is slimy, jumpy, green and fancies being a rock'n'roll star?
I totally forgot about the green tentacle, however i knew Kingdom O Magic has this green lizard character Thidney, and there was an Elvis statue in the game, so I figured it was about Thidney.
7) In what game do you have to track a group of dangerous anarchists as a goldfish?
I didn't have a clue and my google searches didn't help me, so I chose the only fishy adventure I knew: the fish files. It has a conspiracy in it though, but the wrong one
Jaap

For question 4, I thought it was Willy Beamish's frog, Horny (although wasn't at all sure about the rock'n'roll star bit... he fit the rest of the description though)

I did actually google successfully for number 7, and found out that it was Fish, but as I'm very honest, I didn't add it. Never played the game...

[Tramboi]

Originally Posted by Mimus

I did actually google successfully for number 7, and found out that it was Fish, but as I'm very honest, I didn't add it. Never played the game...

You should have added it!
(And you should play some Magnetic Scrolls games, even with a walkthrough)

[Richard]

I knew that Zanthia first encounters the hand together with Marcus, but somewhere in the game there is an animation of the true origin of that Hand. I thought it was some evil wizard, but didn't know the name "Bal Rom".

I think it's Bal-Rom, although it's been years since I played it - it's certainly something LIKE that. It's after you find out the Hand is evil - you find a group chasing a giant foot around, throw some tacks under it, and they tell you what it is. But it's an optional puzzle, so it's quite easy to get to the end of the game and just think it's an Evil Hand.

[Fien]

Originally Posted by Tramboi

(And you should play some Magnetic Scrolls games, even with a walkthrough)

Yeah, you'll need that walkthrough. I've played all of them minus one. All of them extremely unforgiving. You can ruin the endgame in the first ten minutes and not have a clue that something's wrong.
Save every twenty-five turns or so.

But apart from that, they're really good games. And hard. I remember Fish! as the least unforgiving of the lot (or maybe that was Wonderland?) and not really hard.

[VoodooFX]

Tramboi, how do you want your answer to the extra question served? Email, PM or right here?

[Tramboi]

Originally Posted by VoodooFX

Tramboi, how do you want your answer to the extra question served? Email, PM or right here?

PM or mail will be ok!

[gillyruless]

I protest. Voodoo's too good looking to be winning and playing computer games! Just look at his avatar or ask Trep.



I did alright. I think I ended up getting 11 questions right. I also missed the Green Tentacle. Maniac Mansion wasn't even in my radar! I missed Scott Adams as well. I can't believe Scott Adams didn't occur to me. I'm so ashamed.



Congrats to the two winners by the way.

And bog thanks to Fienpien and Tramboi. It was super fun. We should do this again. In fact, I'm willing to donate a game just so that we can give the contest another go. Maybe we should try to make this a regular feature of the AG forum?

[VoodooFX]

Voodoo's too good looking to be winning and playing computer games!

No he is not

[AFGNCAAP]

Yay!

I sent you a PM with my guess, Tramboi.

And I'd like to thank Fienepien for the unexpected extra prize for the second place.

Also: that was great fun! Actually, when I have some time, I may prepare a similar quizz myself.

[Fien]

Originally Posted by AFGNCAAP

And I'd like to thank Fienepien for the unexpected extra prize for the second place.

There is no second place, there are two winners.

Also: that was great fun! Actually, when I have some time, I may prepare a similar quizz myself.

If I had the time, which I haven't right now, not even to play Voyage, I would try to come up with a dozen very hard questions about 1st-person FMV games.

[Tramboi]

After a thorough analysis of the propositions of our competitors by our team of rocket scientists, it appears that our Ageless, Faceless, Gender Neutral, Culturally Ambiguous Adventurer Person is closer than Voodoo FX on the Tie-Breaker question (The answer was 2011 but who cares?)

So let's all congratulate both of them, and let them share the booty!