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Fire off the question everyone dreads: are you in Codename: Iceman?

Ah, nice. Thanks, Tawm!

Hold on. Why is this BBC interviewer talking to Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson? I'm confused. I know they did a series of books called Fighting Fantasy. But what did they have to do with D&D? Wasn't that created by a rather obscure chap called Gary Gygax?

I tried playing the HHGTTG game, but it is very very difficult to phrase things in exactly the same way that the programmers expected. I think the furthest I got was Arthur Dent's bathroom. *blush* I was brushing my teeth when the aliens vaporized the Earth.

A meeting with cheese, bread, corned beef, olives, and soft drinks??? :shock: Luxury! It's obvious this isn't from the 2000s onwards. :lol: In those, you're lucky if you get a donut. :P Bugs, bugs, bugs. Yep, I remember trying to debug programs in VB, COBOL, Javascript and C++, and pulling my hair o...

YES! I am the front door of the Manor House.

(No-one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition pays attention to the front door!)

Your turn, NBS.

Yep, a pelican is one of these things!

Why do we play board games, or games in general? Because they're fun. *shrug* Does there need to be a reason?

D&D ... a cross between a hobby and a cult? A cult of role-playing games? I remember Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, and those fantasy books (Fighting Fantasy). I still have some of them. ;) I remember Joe Dever's books too. Calling D&D "an empire" in 1983 is a bit of overreach....

Nope, sorry.

Um, I'm not sure what you're referring to, BBP. Ctrl+W simply closes the browser tab on the AGILE games. *shrug* What's so interesting about that? I have three more things to say about this: 1. Some of these other AGI/SCI games don't seem to have much point. I tried the "AGI 256 Demo", but...

"Anyone ever seen one of those? (The IBM PC Jr.) Maybe in a museum? Oh, you have one?"

KQ1 - frustratingly hard. Everything in KQ1 kills you ... if you make stupid mistakes. Wait until he plays SQ2.

*snerk!*

Tawm ... yes, I can be seen there.

NBS ... yes, I can be seen here.

Are you a duck?

(I know it's probably a stupid question, but I've never played this game.

And seeing as everyone always says that Codename: Iceman is such a horrible game, is it worth playing if I don't like being frustrated?)