Re: Love a Bear


Mon, 25 Sep 95 13:15:37 PDT

On 24 Sep 1995 17:44:15 GMT,
John Holder <jholder@nmsu.edu> wrote:

>] Now that's strange. The way that I heard it (oh no...IF Urban Legends!
>] ;->), it was "Screw Bear", the original intention being to say "Scream
>] Bear". However, as it only processed the first three letters...Screw and
>] Scream meant the same thing to the adventure. ;->
>] -Chris

>I knew that didn't sound quite believable, knowing IF authors as a rule seem
>to avoid the profane...

Well, functionally, yes, but does anyone remember Sierra's epic _Time
Zone_? Insane game--at the time, the largest adventure around (6
double-sided 140K Apple II disks!). Almost unplayable by today's
standards. At one point you're in a house and can go into the bathroom.
The command "take shit" resulted in:

Ahhh...you feel much better now!

Didn't accomplish anything, but worthy of a good laugh and the realization
that--wow!--ostensibly adult game programmers succumb to toilet humor just
like us kids.

Oh, yes, I was about ten at the time (1985).

Matthew