Software Adventure Games - StupidQuest

Description:

The StupidSoft Zork parody! An all-text adventure game! -Dedication- This game is dedicated to my dead iguana, Fluffy.
Fluffy diedas he lived: Small and green.
-Nostalgia- Anybody who's ever gotten misty-eyed thinking about the hours theyspent glued to their 64K computer trying to conquer Zork, Planetfall, or thenumerous other Infocom and Infocom-esque games will love this.
My firstexposure to this type of game was a game simply titled "Adventure" on theImsai computer that I used to play with while visiting my Dad when he taughtat Clarkson College (now University).
You've probably never seen an Imsai.We're talking ancient.
You had to flick one power switch, wait for thecomputer to warm up, flick the other power switch, and then turn on themonochrome terminal.
We're talking nothing but character graphics here.
Iused to play a Space Invaders clone on it where you were a /\ shooting down abunch of //^\\'s and \\^//'s.
But anyway, I was in like first or secondgrade, and I was trading hints and solutions with college students and evena professor or two who were just as obsessed as I was with trying to get anameless adventurer past obstacles described in all capital letters andstoring treasures to accumulate enough points to win the game.
When Ifinally got the LAST treasure, and tried to store it in the house where youstored treasures, the game crashed.
Psychologists have pinpointed this as the point in my life where my mind broke.
I decided to write this here adventure because I have a job wherehalf the time I just have to look busy.
Programming text adventures is agreat way of doing this.
Anyway, I've tried to capture a lot of the feel of the Zork games inthis parody.
It won't recognize stuff as complex as the Zork games could,but it doesn't require that you type only two-word commands or anything.
Itknows that "Check out the damn rodent" is the same thing as "look gerbil"and so on.
Try out some Zork stuff...you might find something nifty I hidin the game.
:) -The Plot- You have been banished by an evil wizard to...no...um...you lost yourmemory and find yourself in...no, that sucks...uh...
Well, however you got there, you're in Townburgsville (thanks Ted)and you'd rather be elsewhere.
Townburgsville has condemned theme parksdedicated to bodily secretions, homicidal clowns, trolls, bartenders who looklike trolls, people who like washed-up sitcom actors, and even (GASP!) lawyers.
So get the hell out of Townburgsville and you'll win the game.