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."

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Technical Reading

[LeninZhiv]

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.

Re:Better days.

[krymsin01]

Nah. When the Evangelicals take full power in the next ten years, no one will be allowed to swear, upon punishment of death. You'll still be able to blow ship up with guns, though.

Ultima 6

[Anonymous Coward]

Try to talk to the evil gypsy tribe in Ultima 6 about sex and prostitution. And they are quite ... umm ... flexible.

PSO

[maskedbishounen]

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.

Not really a game...

[RaymondInFinland]

But I remember that there was a version of Maple that responded to the command 'Fuck' with 'Your place or mine'...

"Swear Ye Not"

[darylp]

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.

While it wasn't a text adventure...

[BlueCodeWarrior]

...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.

Adventure for the VIC-20

[Dok Fenderson]

There was a point in the game where there was a bear guarding a magic mirror on a cliff. If you threw the axe at the bear it dodged and the axe struck the mirror. You could give the royal honey to the bear but you needed it to complete the game. One day, out of frustration I typed in "screw bear" and to my surprise, the bear became frightened and jumped off the cliff!

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