"Put the string in the brick" was the silliest command in all three Zorks."
AMEN! I was able to get through all 3 Zorks without having to seek help (not saying it was easy, just saying I was -able- to). But the stupid "put the string in the brick" (isn't it obvious that makes dynamite?!), with no variation in syntax accepted, was just utterly ridiculous.
Infocom games were the -best-.
Does anyone else remember "A Mind Forever Voyaging"? Yeah, it was a liberal anti-conservative propaganda piece, but at the time I was too young to recognize that, and at the time I thought it was quite fun and well written.
I'm still pissed that they never made a sequel to Hitchhiker's Guide. (speaking of which, has anyone seen the promos for the movie? I caught the promo for the first time yesterday - looks awesome!)
Qwinn
Several years ago, Adams hooked up with an obscure company called the Digital Village and they created a game called "Starship Titanic", which was kind of the unofficial official sequel to Hitchhiker's.
While the graphics were quite beautiful (for the time), the game itself was difficult, annoying, and just generally pretty horrible, and not really worthy of the genre.