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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
Subject: Re: Best & Worst
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 21:14:38 GMT
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In article <C2yzzJ.1s2@ms.uky.edu> durall@mik.uky.edu (Bryan Durall) writes:

>In article <1mgbifINN3p@meaddata.meaddata.com> chuckg@meaddata.com (Chuck  
>Greenwald) writes:
disagree.  The best red herrings ever were in Planetfall.  Don't want  
>to give any spoilers, but I spend weeks and weeks trying to figure out how to  
>get that damn lamp.
>--

And I had to buy the hint book to find out how to use that damned laser.
I was working in a lab surrounded by them .. from little HeNes to big
death rays, and never once had ever said "fire the laser". Why could not they
have allowed "turn on laser" or "shine laser on target" or whatever???

This was the worst "groaner" I've ever had with all of Infocom's games.

Doug McDonald
