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Profanity Adventures

Posted by Zonk on from the swearing-at-character-based-characters dept.

Ant writes " Profanity Adventures is a nostalgic look at what used to happen when you tried typing swear words into 8-bit text adventure games. From the web site: "I typed in swear words into as many games on the Spectrum 48k as I could find, and below are the ones which understood - which a pleasing amount did."

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  1. Why I hated "Robin of Sherlock" on Spectrum by forgotten_my_nick · · Score: 0, Redundant

    By the same makers of "The Boggit" and "Bored of the Rings".

    Basically if you put in a swear word the computer did a reboot. What was annoying was it took 5 minutes to load the game.

    Ok so it is teaching you a lesson on swearing.

    The problem was these games were built using a program called "The Quill". Excellent program for its time but it only reconised the first four characters of a word.

    So for some unknown reason it had "Wind" as an expletive (possibly for "Pass Wind"). However in one part of the story you are standing outside a house with a window. Typing "Look through window" caused the game to reboot. It took me sometime to realise that the reboot was intentional.