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Profanity Adventures
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."
Remember that "Ask Slashdot" the other day where the guy wanted to know how to keep up on all the technical reading his job requires, and included Slashdot on his list of stuff he had to keep current on?
I hope that guy learns a lot from this story.
I'M ON TOPIC SO FUCK YOU ALL
Ahh the good old days. Now when voice recognition hits its peak, will games understand swear words like this? Something to think about :)
I can imagine this:
I say: "F--king Conservitives"
Reply: "F--king liberals"
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CodeRed, the lower user #. No relation to SirCam.
Nothing too amazing, just swear three times and the game ends.
Then again, this was a game that did something unexpected when you looked up, too...
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Try to talk to the evil gypsy tribe in Ultima 6 about sex and prostitution. And they are quite ... umm ... flexible.
One of my favorites was Phantasy Star Online. Can't say if this occurs in the newer versions, but in v2 at least the filter takes out the phrase "hoes", regardless of context.
;)
Fun for when you're talking about your latest pair of s@#$%-- err, sh0es..
Always wondered if the filter was also in effect for international players, but alas, swearing in kanji isn't my strong point. Never did get a chance to test it.
"An infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never make a good program."
But I remember that there was a version of Maple that responded to the command 'Fuck' with 'Your place or mine'...
Robin of Sherlock by Delta 4 on the Speccy. Geez, that had a nasty swear filter. Basically, whenever anything slightly rude was typed in, the message 'SWEAR YE NOT' was displayed, and then the computer reset itself.
All very well and good, but this was a Quill adventure (Quill was kinda like a text adventure generation kit), and thus any words were limited to four characters apiece.
The result of this was that an innocuous command like 'BREAK WINDOW' was equivalent to 'BREAK WIND'. Which apparently deserved a reset. Or any command with 'WIND' in, come to think of it.
Halfway through the game there was a window where it seemed reasonable that to progress you had to listen at it. Which, naturally, warrented a reset.
My, how I regretted only ever using the Ramsave that evening.
"fuck a frog"
"I don't think that's biologically possible"
"Fuck anton"
"I don't think he'd like that"
Who says the spectrum games writers don't have a sense of humour
Get paid to search..It's geniune and
I remember playing Police Quest (the old old version), and dropping my pants in the secretary's office just to see if it would do it. IIRC, it did. That and you could walk out of the lockerroom wearing nothing but a towel.
"Better to be vulgar than non-existent" -Bev Henson
If anybody remembers Dr. Sbaitso, it was an old computer psychiatrist sort of thing that came with old school Sound Blaster Pro cards. Messing with by using curse words and asking it about sex was about as much fun as I remember having at 8 years old.
Look it's a joke about my sig IN MY SIG! LOL!
...the original You Don't Know Jack! did some pretty funny stuff when you swore at it.
It swore back, and changed your name to "Wanker" or other such things. It also put you into the -$100,000 range. If you did it twice it would call you a child, tell you to go whack off, and come back when you were ready to be a bit more grown up.
Some of the funniest stuff in a game ever, IMHO.
I can't remember the name of it, but there was a Space sim on the Apple II that would swear back at you... with puns.
Type in "Fuck you" and the game would respond with "Up your asteroid!"
Why Ask Why?
Because you aren't a Golabi, that's why.
I still don't understand the meaning/reference of this, and Google isn't much help.
Nothing to see here; Move along.
I spent years thinking that you needed to attempt to sexually assault the bear to finish the game until I found an old magazine that had the solution printed in it. To fit the whole game into the VIC-20's 3.5 KB of RAM it only looked at the first four letters of the word. The preferred solution was to scream bear. I liked mine better.
Dok
"You can't screw the system, but you can give it a good fondling." -- Too lazy to look it up
...(and maybe other versions) would suggest you to buy Leisure Suit Larry (another Sierra title) whenever you suggested the Princess Rosetta do something naughty.
WARNING: DO NOT LET DR. MARIO TOUCH YOUR GENITALS. HE IS NOT A REAL DOCTOR.