Article 37541 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!daresbury!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!qmw!orac.sunderland.ac.uk!usenet From: Gaz Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 9 Feb 1995 15:21:40 GMT Organization: University of Sunderland Lines: 5 Message-ID: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> Reply-To: gareth.ellis@Sunderland.Ac.UK NNTP-Posting-Host: ml_opac_45.sunderland.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.91.4 I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had to pass the vortex, oh such a long time a go, i think they should be another sereies. Article 37548 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!daresbury!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!mole.bio.cam.ac.uk!lm From: lm@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Laurence May (Pharm)) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 9 Feb 1995 17:41:08 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge, England Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mole.bio.cam.ac.uk Gaz writes: >I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used >mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to >sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had >to pass the vortex, oh such a long time a go, i think they should be another >sereies Oh yeah...and they had to guide a robot out of a maze using a BBC micro computerI think ?????? The vortex game was bloody excellent....I can imagine playing that and being really nervous about where the thing was. Your move !!! Loz. Article 37592 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!warwick!news.ncl.ac.uk!usenet From: Dasmut Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 10 Feb 1995 11:12:55 GMT Organization: Newcastle University Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3hfhnn$dsm@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pool12.ncl.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 In article <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk>, Gaz says: > >I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used >mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to >sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had >to pass the vortex, oh such a long time a go, i think they should be another >sereies. Wasn't the plant called the Gronda Rando or something similar? There was also (in the red corner) the Red Salamander and some bloke who talked backwards and said "Doogy rev" a lot. Article 37593 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk From: samwise@nrvt.demon.co.uk (Samwise the Cat) Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!peernews.demon.co.uk!nrvt.demon.co.uk!samwise Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Organization: Aardvarks R Us Reply-To: samwise@nrvt.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Newswin Alpha 0.7 Lines: 47 X-Posting-Host: nrvt.demon.co.uk Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:13:08 +0000 Message-ID: <297012109wnr@nrvt.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article: <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> lm@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Laurence May (Pharm)) writes: > > Gaz writes: > > >I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used > >mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to > >sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had > >to pass the vortex, oh such a long time a go, i think they should be another > >sereies > > Oh yeah...and they had to guide a robot out of a maze using a BBC micro computerI think ?????? > > The vortex game was bloody excellent....I can imagine playing that and being > really nervous about where the thing was. > > Your move !!! > > Loz. Don't forget the asperdistra Gronda, Gronda your majestry - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Marcus James Adams | IT Support, BR - Network Road Vehicle Team Tel Int 00 49357 | CP 32, 1 Eversholt St, London. NW1 1DN Ext 0171 214 9357 | internet:samwise@nrvt.demon.co.uk Mob 0850 373483 | X400:c=gb/a=cwmail/p=rail/o=ems/u=nrvt/s=adams/g=marcus -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- With a gun for a lover and a shot for the pain.............................. .......................Life is short and love is always over in the morning Article 37595 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!leicester!leicester!not-for-mail From: ljg2@le.ac.uk (L.J. Gretton) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 10 Feb 1995 11:10:45 -0000 Organization: University of Leicester, UK Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3hfhjl$nv1@hawk.le.ac.uk> References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: irix.le.ac.uk In article <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk>, wrote: >I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used >mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to >sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had >to pass the vortex, oh such a long time a go, i think they should be another >sereies. Gronda gronda! Me and my girlfriend were chatting about TAG just recently. I'd cast my vote for a re-run or new series. Liam Article 37596 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!charlie.lif.icnet.uk!europa.lif.icnet.uk!ewart From: ewart@europa.lif.icnet.uk (David Ewart) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 10 Feb 1995 11:32:57 GMT Organization: Imperial Cancer Research Fund Lines: 23 Message-ID: <3hfit9$5lc@charlie.lif.icnet.uk> References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <3hferp$j9c@hippo.shef.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: europa.lif.icnet.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] D R Blythe (ge937170@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk) wrote: : : Gaz writes: : : >I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used : : >mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to : : >sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had : : >to pass the vortex, oh such a long time a go, i think they should be another : : >sereies Hmmm ... the currency was called "drogna", I believe. A red circle was worth 1 drogna, a blue pentagon was 25 drogna. And what about that "funny looking plant" ... an aspidistra (sp?) or sommin'? "Odily-bodily ..." was what it seemed to say ... Sad ... Dave. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dave Ewart | ** WWW last changed 09/02/95 |"Turning in my sleep | | ICRF CEU | ftp://ftp.icnet.uk/ | you call me a fool, | | Radcliffe Infirmary | icrf-public/davee/index.html | To fall in love, | | Oxford, UK | ewart@europa.lif.icnet.uk | is it so uncool?" | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Article 37602 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!news.duke.edu!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.alpha.net!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!news.coventry.ac.uk!news.coventry.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: cei352@coventry.ac.uk (The Freak) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 10 Feb 1995 12:09:33 -0000 Organization: Coventry University Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3hfl1t$4vh@cc_sysk.coventry.ac.uk> References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cc_sysk.coventry.ac.uk In article <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, Laurence May (Pharm) wrote: >Gaz writes: > >>I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used >>mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to >>sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had Wasnt this the Grunda Grunda plant.? Love and troublesome personal lives The Freak . -- ******************** cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk ************************* * 08.02.1995 * * Phrase for the day : These EBAT days are happy days... * ************************************************************************ Article 37603 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!zippy.dct.ac.uk!phyd4c5.caledonia.hw.ac.uk!phyprt Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Message-ID: <1995Feb10.124130.11347@zippy.dct.ac.uk> From: phyprt@caledonia.hw.ac.uk Date: 10 Feb 95 12:41:30 GMT Reply-To: phyprt@caledonia.hw.ac.uk Sender: phyprt@phyd4c5.caledonia.hw.ac.uk (Paul Richard Taylor) References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> Distribution: world Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Nntp-Posting-Host: phyd4c5.caledonia.hw.ac.uk Lines: 14 gareth.ellis@Sunderland.Ac.UK writes: >I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used >mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to >sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had >to pass the vortex, oh such a long time a go, i think they should be another >sereies. It became, in another form - The Crystal Maze. Now, if I remember correctly, wasn't it Richard O'Brian who starred in it? Paul Article 37607 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!warwick!news.shef.ac.uk!sunc!ge937170 From: ge937170@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (D R Blythe) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 10 Feb 1995 10:23:53 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3hferp$j9c@hippo.shef.ac.uk> References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunc.shef.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] : Gaz writes: : >I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used : >mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to : >sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had : >to pass the vortex, oh such a long time a go, i think they should be another : >sereies Paul Darrow of "Blake's Seven" once appeared in it! With a beard! Dan d.r.blythe@sheffield.ac.uk Article 37611 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uknet!seralph9!dmu!c1kd From: c1kd@dmu.ac.uk (Kevan Davis) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 10 Feb 1995 14:46:33 GMT Organization: De Montfort University, Leicester Lines: 32 Message-ID: <3hfu89$6i9@macondo.dmu.ac.uk> References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hfhnn$dsm@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: merlin.cms.dmu.ac.uk In article <3hfhnn$dsm@whitbeck.ncl.ac.uk>, Dasmut writes: > In article <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk>, Gaz says: > > > >I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used > >mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles > to > >sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they > had > >to pass the vortex, oh such a long time a go, i think they should be another > > >sereies. > > Wasn't the plant called the Gronda Rando or something similar? Yers, although he became a teapot in the second series, or something. Great voice, though - didn't it crop up as a sound effect in Rick Dangerous II, somewhere (the slime monsters, or somesuch)? > There was also (in the red corner) the Red Salamander and some bloke who > talked backwards and said "Doogy rev" a lot. Used to sing "Waltzing Matilda" backwards, as well. Great days. / X-Local-Date: Friday, 10th February 1995 at 1:23pm GMT Originator: imc@msc5.comlab Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 13:23:40 GMT Lines: 13 >I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used >mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to >sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had >to pass the vortex, Oh no, not again! Shall we resurrect the Marmite thread as well?... Ian Collier - Departmental Lecturer (and perpetual postgrad student) - imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk - Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD - WWW Home Page: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/ian.collier/index.html Article 37675 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk From: zeus@myth.demon.co.uk (Mike Cowgill) Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!daresbury!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!doc.news.pipex.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!myth.demon.co.uk!zeus Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> Organization: The Home for Deranged Hackerfolk Reply-To: zeus@myth.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.27 Lines: 10 X-Posting-Host: myth.demon.co.uk Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 01:30:09 +0000 Message-ID: <792379809snz@myth.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> gareth.ellis@Sunderland.Ac.UK writes: > I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used Is it that time of year all ready? This really should be in an FAQ. The discussion will shortly veer over to Treasure Hunt and The Interceptor I suspect. Mike. Article 37682 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!convex!news.duke.edu!eff!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!ames!waikato!auckland.ac.nz!malefic!nacjack!codewks!rfreeman Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk From: rfreeman@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Robert Freeman) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Message-ID: Date: Sat, 11 Feb 95 02:02:49 +1200 References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> Organization: The Code Works Limited Lines: 29 Gaz writes: > I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used > mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles t > sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they > to pass the vortex, oh such a long time a go, i think they should be another > sereies. Yes yes yes! And they had a game where they had to guide a 'thing' through a maze by computer. It was actually a BBC Model B running one of those graphical maze programs! Do you remember that the coinage was different coloured and shaped discs. Players had to work which correct colour/shape would open doors in the game area. I always thought the vortex was very frightening and those who stepped on the same square as the vortex got dematerialised and had to walk home to Earth! Wasn't one of the aliens from Beetlejuice? I seem to remember there was a 'mole' who pretended to be with the players but was really against them. Was this Leslie Judd? I remember one episode where the first letter of each title of books on a shelf spelt: Leslie is the mole Rather Clever! rfreeman@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz If at first you don't succeed, call it Version 1.0 Article 37838 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk From: Liam@kerravon.demon.co.uk (Liam Cairney) Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!doc.news.pipex.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!kerravon.demon.co.uk!Liam Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> Organization: The Bedroom at the End of the Universe Reply-To: Liam@kerravon.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Demon Internet Simple News v1.29 Lines: 12 X-Posting-Host: kerravon.demon.co.uk Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 23:18:03 +0000 Message-ID: <792631083snz@kerravon.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk The Adventure Game had two quite distinct phases. When it first came out, it was very good, but they messed about with the format, and the second incarnation was nowhere near as good. Still can't look at an Aspidistra the same way, though... Liam. ====- -- Liam Cairney -- liam@kerravon.demon.co.uk |"I'm not expendable, I'm +++ .sig under construction. Business as usual +++| not stupid, and I'm not Location: Somewhere near Glasgow, Scotland. | going" - Kerr Avon (B7) Article 37847 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!psgrain!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!news.camosun.bc.ca!turing!dbarker From: dbarker@turing.camosun.bc.ca (Deryk Barker) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 12 Feb 1995 11:37:34 GMT Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <3hkrtu$hfb@news.camosun.bc.ca> References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <3hfl1t$4vh@cc_sysk.coventry.ac.uk> Reply-To: dbarker@camosun.bc.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: turing.cs.camosun.bc.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] The Freak (cei352@coventry.ac.uk) wrote: : In article <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, : Laurence May (Pharm) wrote: : >Gaz writes: : > : >>I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used : >>mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to : >>sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had : Wasnt this the Grunda Grunda plant.? Gronda. As somebody else has pointed out the coin was a drogna, and wasn't the leader called the argond? All - you will have noticed - anagrams of 'dragon'. Excellent tv. -- Deryk. =========================================================================== |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Across the pale parabola of Joy | |Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada | | |email: dbarker@camosun.bc.ca | Ralston McTodd | |phone: +1 604 370 4452 | (Songs of Squalor). | =========================================================================== Article 37855 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!liffe.com!solaria.liffe.com!paul.rhodes From: paul.rhodes@liffe.com (Paul Rhodes) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Message-ID: Lines: 20 Sender: usenet@liffe.com (USENET news) Nntp-Posting-Host: solaria.liffe.com Organization: London International Financial Futures Exchange X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:29:27 GMT In article <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> burforar@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr AR Burford) writes: >The first series of The Adventure Game never had the vortex at the end. The >game used to start with a board of differently coloured tiles (corresponding >to the drogna) which the contestants used to have to cross. At the end, if >the contestants made a wrong move, they would be disintegrated - no "long >walk home" for them! I seem to recall Paul Darrow (Avon from Blake's 7), >amongst others, suffering this fate. The first series was, IMHO, much better than the later ones, where all the anagrams of dragon got a bit silly. The puzzles seemed more complicated as well; whereas the later series relied more on (fairly peurile) comedy. ISTR Janet Fielding was also disintegrated. _________________Joolz - she always works SO hard!____paul.rhodes@liffe.com "The trouble with the drink talking is that the drink knows too much" Article 37879 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!overload.lbl.gov!news.kreonet.re.kr!insosf1.infonet.net!newshost.marcam.com!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!olivea!rahul.net!a2i!news.clark.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!imc From: imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Message-ID: <6061.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg> X-Local-Date: Monday, 13th February 1995 at 5:32pm GMT Originator: imc@msc6.comlab Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <1995Feb10.124130.11347@zippy.dct.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 17:32:26 GMT Lines: 14 In article <1995Feb10.124130.11347@zippy.dct.ac.uk>, phyprt@caledonia.hw.ac.uk wrote: >It became, in another form - The Crystal Maze. What is it that makes people think that the Adventure Game is related to the Crystal Maze any more than, say, the Krypton Factor? Perhaps they have the same designers or production team. But otherwise, they are just two programmes which are superficially somewhat similar but substantially different. Ian Collier - Departmental Lecturer (and perpetual postgrad student) - imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk - Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD - WWW Home Page: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/ian.collier/index.html Article 37894 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!news.cs.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!uknet!festival!leeds.ac.uk!news From: cenrpa@leeds.ac.uk (R.P. Augood) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Message-ID: Organization: University of Leeds Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 12:00:02 +0000 (GMT) References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Lines: 30 In article paul.rhodes@liffe.com (Paul Rhodes) writes: >From: paul.rhodes@liffe.com (Paul Rhodes) >Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? >Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:29:27 GMT >In article <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> burforar@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr AR Burford) writes: >>The first series of The Adventure Game never had the vortex at the end. The >>game used to start with a board of differently coloured tiles (corresponding >>to the drogna) which the contestants used to have to cross. At the end, if >>the contestants made a wrong move, they would be disintegrated - no "long >>walk home" for them! I seem to recall Paul Darrow (Avon from Blake's 7), >>amongst others, suffering this fate. >The first series was, IMHO, much better than the later ones, where all the >anagrams of dragon got a bit silly. The puzzles seemed more complicated as >well; whereas the later series relied more on (fairly peurile) comedy. >ISTR Janet Fielding was also disintegrated. Yes, and when she typed the instructions to tell the little robot thing to go round the maze, she didn'tusethespacebaronce. Funny what one remembers, isn't it? ************************************* *** Captain Zep *** *** Super Space Detective *** ************************************* Article 37949 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!news.coventry.ac.uk!news.coventry.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: cei352@coventry.ac.uk (The Freak) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 14 Feb 1995 12:42:21 -0000 Organization: Coventry University Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3hq8fd$18k@cc_sysk.coventry.ac.uk> References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <3hfl1t$4vh@cc_sysk.coventry.ac.uk> <1995Feb14.083544.67521@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: cc_sysk.coventry.ac.uk In article <1995Feb14.083544.67521@ucl.ac.uk>, Brian Neal Ruth wrote: > >>******************** cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk ************************* >>* 08.02.1995 * >>* Phrase for the day : These EBAT days are happy days... * >>************************************************************************ > >What's EBAT? Oh dearie me. Me thinks you shouldn't have asked that question Love and oops I forgot to change my signature The Freak -- ******************** cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk ************************* * 13.02.1995 * * Phrase for the day : You can play your joker by snogging Sadie * ************************************************************************ Article 37980 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!uknet!bcc.ac.uk!rs6-224.ucl-26.bcc.ac.uk!zcbtl29 From: zcbtl29@ucl.ac.uk (Brian Neal Ruth) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Sender: news@ucl.ac.uk (Usenet News System) Message-ID: <1995Feb14.083544.67521@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 08:35:44 GMT References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <3hfl1t$4vh@cc_sysk.coventry.ac.uk> Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium Lines: 36 In article <3hfl1t$4vh@cc_sysk.coventry.ac.uk> cei352@coventry.ac.uk (The Freak) writes: >In article <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>, >Laurence May (Pharm) wrote: >>Gaz writes: >> >>>I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used >>>mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to >>>sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had The planet was called Arg. The coins, which were pieces of see through plastic with geometric shapes on them, were drogna, and the plant (an aspidistra) was the Rangdo of Arg (also referred to as 'Uncle'). In later series, it became a teapot. When angry, it made a really great noise, and blew out steam as a teapot.... > >Wasnt this the Grunda Grunda plant.? No, it was Gronda Gronda. Everything was an anagram of 'Dragon'. There was also a kind of robot dog thing called a ???? which the contestants guided through a maze. It was very bad tempered, and often insulted them. This has to be one of my all time favorite programs (what does that say about me....?), infinitely better than the Crystal Maze (kind of a pale imitation really), and I wish they would put it back on the telly IMMEDIATELY! Where can I write to to demand this.... >******************** cei352@cck.coventry.ac.uk ************************* >* 08.02.1995 * >* Phrase for the day : These EBAT days are happy days... * >************************************************************************ What's EBAT? Brian. (Why do postings to this group always take a week to get here. Bah!) Article 37995 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!uknet!bhamcs!burforar From: burforar@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr AR Burford) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 13 Feb 1995 07:36:54 GMT Organization: The University of Birmingham, UK Lines: 45 Message-ID: <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: burforar@sun1.bham.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: sun1.bham.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Laurence May (Pharm) (lm@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk) wrote: : Gaz writes: : >I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used : >mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to : >sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had : >to pass the vortex, oh such a long time a go, i think they should be another : >sereies : Oh yeah...and they had to guide a robot out of a maze using a BBC micro computerI think ?????? : The vortex game was bloody excellent....I can imagine playing that and being : really nervous about where the thing was. : Your move !!! : Loz. The first series of The Adventure Game never had the vortex at the end. The game used to start with a board of differently coloured tiles (corresponding to the drogna) which the contestants used to have to cross. At the end, if the contestants made a wrong move, they would be disintegrated - no "long walk home" for them! I seem to recall Paul Darrow (Avon from Blake's 7), amongst others, suffering this fate. Don't think anyone else on this thread so far has mentioned Lesley Judd as the Mole. She used to pretend to be a contestant for the purpose of luring the real contestants into trouble after the first series. And the correct greeting for his highness was "Gronda gronda rangdo". Remember the title sequence where the contestants always used to crash on Arg (with dodgy BBC Micro graphics, I assume)? Did the green cheese rolls used to come from the BBC Canteen? Their only use was in checking where the vortex was, by throwing them onto a square. Hope all this helps, Andy B. Article 38033 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!daresbury!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!doc.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!imc From: imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Message-ID: <6055.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg> X-Local-Date: Monday, 13th February 1995 at 12:35am GMT Originator: imc@msc6.comlab Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <792631083snz@kerravon.demon.co.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 12:35:28 GMT Lines: 19 In article <792631083snz@kerravon.demon.co.uk>, Liam@kerravon.demon.co.uk wrote: >The Adventure Game had two quite distinct phases. When it first >came out, it was very good, but they messed about with the format, >and the second incarnation was nowhere near as good. At last - someone who remembers it the way it really was! All these people who are remembering his highness the Rangdo of Arg and the backwards Antipodean are simply too young to remember the _proper_ programme. :-) I seem to remember that originally the puzzles were interesting and different each week, but when the aspidistra was introduced it became rather formulaic. But it was always on at teatime and I always missed most of it. :-( Ian Collier - Departmental Lecturer (and perpetual postgrad student) - imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk - Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD - WWW Home Page: http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/ian.collier/index.html Article 38049 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!eru.mt.luth.se!news.luth.se!sunic!news.funet.fi!mordred.cc.jyu.fi!u9348913 From: u9348913@qub.ac.uk (Ender) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 14 Feb 1995 18:05:45 GMT Organization: The Queen's University of Belfast Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3hqrdp$4m8@mordred.cc.jyu.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lis27.causeway.qub.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] They also had to try to cross a bubbling pool at the start of the program, though that may have been later series. I think the king was also a tea-pot at some point. This is the sort of thing I'd love to see repeats of! ------------------------------------------------------------ Stephen Rushe u9348913@qub.ac.uk WWW Page : http://boris.qub.ac.uk/ds/solitude.html "Please could you stay a while to share my grief, it's such a lovely day to have to always feel this way" ------------------------------------------------------------ Article 38066 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!sable.ox.ac.uk!kebl0110 From: kebl0110@sable.ox.ac.uk (Chris M. Dickson) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Message-ID: <1995Feb13.134616.1947@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> Organization: Oxford University, England X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <792631083snz@kerravon.demon.co.uk> <6055.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 95 13:46:16 GMT Lines: 64 Ian Collier (imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk) wrote: : In article <792631083snz@kerravon.demon.co.uk>, Liam@kerravon.demon.co.uk wrote: : >The Adventure Game had two quite distinct phases. When it first : >came out, it was very good, but they messed about with the format, : >and the second incarnation was nowhere near as good. : At last - someone who remembers it the way it really was! All these : people who are remembering his highness the Rangdo of Arg and the backwards : Antipodean are simply too young to remember the _proper_ programme. :-) : I seem to remember that originally the puzzles were interesting and : different each week, but when the aspidistra was introduced it became : rather formulaic. : But it was always on at teatime and I always missed most of it. :-( Oops, I nearly missed this thread. I should have been paying more attention to rec.arts.tv.uk . Am I being very, very mistaken or did the bloke who spoke backwards (yes, Ian, in version 2.0 - the non-proper programme!) not appear in a load of kids' TV shows a year or two later, this time talking forwards? I vaguely seem to recall some show about Spies or Spying or something that stretched over two days (the second show of which I always used to miss due to trampolining). The Adventure Game was - arguably! - the first really original game show on TV, or at least the first I can remember. It hasn't really been equalled since in that it was so far ahead of its time, and even things like The Crystal Maze are somewhat losing their bite and their bottle. Some reminiscences (spelling?) concerning - presumably - the last series: on the grid of squares and symbols, didn't they have the answer printed fairly prominently on the wall? Immediately before the vortex game didn't they have some sort of weird puzzle where they used to gamble their currency - and invariably lose. Did anyone ever figure it out? Wasn't there a fixation, or at least a running gag, with using wads of chewed gum as an adhesive to obtain objects in hard-to-reach locations? I'm sure there's a MUD on which you can still play the Vortex game. I've seen people play it. If I find out where then I'll let you know. I wish I had had a video then, and I would have recorded some episodes. This is why I record game shows now - it's useful to trade with US people and there's a chance that in 10-20 years time people will be saying exactly the same thing about one of today's / this decade's game shows (Scavengers, Crystal Maze or Interceptor - all of which I have episodes of for posterity). It's an unlikely scenario, perhaps, but my tapes might be valuable commodities then. Perennial plug: if there's anyone interested in trading tapes of game shows, past or present, UK or otherwise, with me, then e-mail me at once, please! I'll swap anyone about 5 hours of anything they like for 1 hour of The Adventure Game! How I wish there were shows of the calibre of the Adventure Game around today... this is why Scavengers, although not without considerable merits, was so, so disappointing. (IMHO!) Still, sympathy goes out to the Americans, who never ever had the show, or indeed anything else like it! All the best! Chris. ============================================================================== Chris M. Dickson chris.dickson@keble.oxford.ac.uk Maths Student at Keble College, Oxford University. My opinions only. Fermat's Last Theorem: I have discovered a truly wonderful proof, but it is too large to fit in this .sig Article 38101 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!den From: den@festival.ed.ac.uk (David E Newton) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? References: <6055.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg> Message-ID: Organization: Edinburgh University Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 11:45:35 GMT Lines: 31 imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) writes: > At last - someone who remembers it the way it really was! All these > people who are remembering his highness the Rangdo of Arg and the backwards > Antipodean are simply too young to remember the _proper_ programme. :-) > > I seem to remember that originally the puzzles were interesting and > different each week, but when the aspidistra was introduced it became > rather formulaic. Yes! Yes! Yes! At last people remember. All the later series were absolute pish, but it was brilliant beforehand. Every time this thread comes up, there's stuff about Lesley Judd and moles and cobblers like that. Piss easy games identical week after week more like. I never saw any program degenerate as much as that. Yeah, please let's have repeats, but only the old ones (I'm not usually nostalgic, but I was just saying last night how I remember the outrage when a portion of chips went over 20p) dave -- --- David E Newton The opinions expressed in this message Department of Linguistics are not necessarily those of the University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh. I'd like to Article 38146 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!uknet!bcc.ac.uk!rs6-224.ucl-26.bcc.ac.uk!zcbtl29 From: zcbtl29@ucl.ac.uk (Brian Neal Ruth) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Sender: news@ucl.ac.uk (Usenet News System) Message-ID: <1995Feb15.081525.44189@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 08:15:25 GMT References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <6048.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg> Organization: University College London Lines: 17 In article <6048.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg> imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) writes: >>I have vague memories of this crystal maze sort of game on BBC2, it used >>mostly childrens television stars like john Craven, they had little puzzles to >>sort out and give coins to the funny looking plant, and then at the end they had >>to pass the vortex, > >Oh no, not again! What do you mean, not again!!!?? It's one of the best programs *EVER*, and warrants as much discussion as possible (perhaps if we ask enough, they'll even show it again...?) Hang on, I've just rememebered the maze creature's name. It was a dogran (another dragon anagram). And weren't the people called 'Argonds'? Classic program..... Brian. Article 38157 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!news From: robin.goodall@cai.cam.ac.uk (Robin Goodall) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 15 Feb 1995 10:09:56 GMT Organization: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3hsjtk$mtb@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <3hdk3k$dhk@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <6048.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg> <1995Feb15.081525.44189@ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: perseus.acad.cai.cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ Judging by the length of this thread, I'm sure there's a great demand for repeats for this program (all series, I can only just remember the 1st). Who knows who we can all email to get them shown (hopefully they weren't thrown away, what a terrible thought). Maybe UKGold has a better chance of showing them. Here are a couple more moments: At the beginning of the episodes in the later series (was there only 2?), they were attached by ropes to a wall and had to pickup and insert drogna to get the rope lengthened. How about the drogna game were a contestant played against the Red Salamander of ???? on a board of tiles like drogna. This was 'converted' to a two player game on the BBC Micro, which I actually still have. I think this board was used at the beginning of the episodes in the 1st series. Wasn't the prices of the drogna done of a system where the number of sides (Circle=1,Ellipse=2,Triangle=3,Square=4,Pentigon=5) was multiplied by the colour in it's position in the rainbow (Red=1,Orange=2,Yellow=3,Green=4, Blue=5)? So a Yellow Square is 3 x 4 = 12. The 'R'ichard 'O'f 'Y'ork 'G'ave 'B'attle ... saying was on a plaque to give them a clue. Wasn't the Doogy Rev man Jonny Boid (sp?), or am I just mistaken. Robin ____________________________ / \_ robin.goodall@cai.cam.ac.uk | R.J.Goodall | \ | Assistant Computer Officer | | There's just 2 things wrong with this .sig | Gonville & Caius College | | 1) I don't have a non-proportional font | Cambridge, CB2 1TA | | 2) I don't have a non-proportional font | England | | I know that technically this is only one thing \____________________________/ | but I thought it so important that I'd mention \____________________________/ it twice -- Kryten, Red Dwarf (sort of). Article 38180 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!blanket.mitre.org!eff!news.duke.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!eru.mt.luth.se!news.luth.se!sunic!news.funet.fi!mordred.cc.jyu.fi!u9303898 From: u9303898@qub.ac.uk (Nip) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 15 Feb 1995 20:29:19 GMT Organization: The Queen's University of Belfast Lines: 7 Message-ID: <3hto6v$i3q@mordred.cc.jyu.fi> References: <3hqrdp$4m8@mordred.cc.jyu.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: elm8.causeway.qub.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Was this the programme where they contestants were in a dark room which had a pit around the edge. They had to get tokens which were hanging up over the pit bits and the teammates had to guide their teammate who was blindfolded in the room. If they fell into the pit, that was it, they were gone. But then again, maybe my memory is playing tricks on me..... Article 38267 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!ash.shu.ac.uk!usenet From: a.r.mckay@shu.ac.uk (Anthony R. McKay) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 16 Feb 1995 08:30:04 GMT Organization: Sheffield Hallam University Lines: 1 Message-ID: <3hv2ec$q9j@ash.shu.ac.uk> References: <3hqrdp$4m8@mordred.cc.jyu.fi> <3hto6v$i3q@mordred.cc.jyu.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: hb4207.lfm.shu.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.90.4 Gronda gronda Ragnor! Article 38433 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!uknet!bcc.ac.uk!rs6-224.ucl-26.bcc.ac.uk!zcbtl29 From: zcbtl29@ucl.ac.uk (Brian Neal Ruth) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Sender: news@ucl.ac.uk (Usenet News System) Message-ID: <1995Feb17.083959.40474@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 08:39:59 GMT References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <792631083snz@kerravon.demon.co.uk> <6055.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg> Organization: University College London Lines: 28 In article <6055.imc@uk.ac.ox.prg> imc@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Ian Collier) writes: >In article <792631083snz@kerravon.demon.co.uk>, Liam@kerravon.demon.co.uk wrote: >>The Adventure Game had two quite distinct phases. When it first >>came out, it was very good, but they messed about with the format, >>and the second incarnation was nowhere near as good. > >At last - someone who remembers it the way it really was! All these >people who are remembering his highness the Rangdo of Arg and the backwards >Antipodean are simply too young to remember the _proper_ programme. :-) The thing with it was (in V1.00 at least) that it was a light entertainment program, but with the science fiction element as well, and also kind of menacing (the way those contestants got vaporised if they got the sequence wrong on the drogna maze thing. >I seem to remember that originally the puzzles were interesting and >different each week, but when the aspidistra was introduced it became >rather formulaic. > >But it was always on at teatime and I always missed most of it. :-( Ah, now I remember why I kept missing it. The Adventure Games always reminds me of the early 80's, when the BBC computer was *THE* last word in computing (it still is as far as I'm concerned), and I didn't have long, boring essays to write. Life was so much better then. Now, why can't I have repeats or even a new series of The Adventure Game? Brian. Article 38434 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!uknet!bcc.ac.uk!rs6-224.ucl-26.bcc.ac.uk!zcbtl29 From: zcbtl29@ucl.ac.uk (Brian Neal Ruth) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Sender: news@ucl.ac.uk (Usenet News System) Message-ID: <1995Feb17.084840.62249@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 08:48:40 GMT References: <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> Organization: University College London Lines: 51 In article cenrpa@leeds.ac.uk (R.P. Augood) writes: >In article paul.rhodes@liffe.com (Paul Rhodes) writes: >>From: paul.rhodes@liffe.com (Paul Rhodes) >>Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? >>Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 11:29:27 GMT > >>In article <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> burforar@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr AR Burford) writes: > >>>The first series of The Adventure Game never had the vortex at the end. The >>>game used to start with a board of differently coloured tiles (corresponding >>>to the drogna) which the contestants used to have to cross. At the end, if >>>the contestants made a wrong move, they would be disintegrated - no "long >>>walk home" for them! I seem to recall Paul Darrow (Avon from Blake's 7), >>>amongst others, suffering this fate. > >>The first series was, IMHO, much better than the later ones, where all the >>anagrams of dragon got a bit silly. The puzzles seemed more complicated as >>well; whereas the later series relied more on (fairly peurile) comedy. It was still quite good, though. Well, I watched it, anyway. It was definitely better than most of today's junk TV. >>ISTR Janet Fielding was also disintegrated. > >Yes, and when she typed the instructions to tell the little robot thing to go >round the maze, she didn'tusethespacebaronce. Funny what one remembers, isn't >it? There used to be a game you could get for the BBC, called 'Drogna', which was a version of the maze robot's (dogran's?) game. Just goes to prove what a cult program The Adventure Game was, even having a computer game made of it.... >************************************* > *** Captain Zep *** > *** Super Space Detective *** >************************************* Ah, now you really are talking! Captain Zep was, I remember, one of those typically hi-tech type programs around at the time. I always thought the way all the 'cadets' wore an excess of hair gel a little disgusting (how could they bear to walk about looking like an oil slick all day???), but the mysteries were kind of entertaining, and the theme tune was rather funky, too. If only kids TV today was as good as it has been. Anyone know of any decent kids programs worth watching? (It's a kind of escapism, isn't it...?) Brian. Article 38464 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!daresbury!hgmp.mrc.ac.uk!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!doc.news.pipex.net!pipex!liffe.com!solaria.liffe.com!paul.rhodes From: paul.rhodes@liffe.com (Paul Rhodes) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Message-ID: Lines: 15 Sender: usenet@liffe.com (USENET news) Nntp-Posting-Host: solaria.liffe.com Organization: London International Financial Futures Exchange X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] References: <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> <1995Feb17.084840.62249@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 19:55:29 GMT In article <1995Feb17.084840.62249@ucl.ac.uk> zcbtl29@ucl.ac.uk (Brian Neal Ruth) writes: >Ah, now you really are talking! Captain Zep was, I remember, one of those >typically hi-tech type programs around at the time.... Funny, I thought it was crap. >If only kids TV today was as good as it has been. Anyone know of any decent >kids programs worth watching? Hmmm. Elidor, I suppose. As Seen on TV is pretty good. Going back a bit, Dark Season and Century Falls. ______________________________________________________paul.rhodes@liffe.com "...I stand upright in my wheelbarrow and pretend I'm Boadicea (Hi Ho)" Article 38500 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk From: alec@wessex.demon.co.uk (alec baker) Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!wessex.demon.co.uk!alec Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? References: <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> <1995Feb17.084840.62249@ucl.ac.uk> Organization: None Reply-To: alec@wessex.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Newswin Alpha 0.7 Lines: 13 X-Posting-Host: wessex.demon.co.uk Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1995 11:46:03 +0000 Message-ID: <129154748wnr@wessex.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk No-one's yet mentioned Gnoard, the aspidistra's granddaughter, and an extremely fetching young lady IMHO. She used to 'phone up a few kids during the show (they would appear in pre-filmed inserts) who would each have a suggestion about what her grandfather should change into. Anyone know whether the actress who played Gnoard has appeared in anything else? Actually, for rec.arts.tv purposes, shouldn't we have an abbreviation of that question? eg "DAKI [Sean Pertwee|Zoe Ball|Angelo Muscat|Sally Thomsett|the_woman_in_the_bus_queue_in_the_Tango_ad] HAIAE ?" It would save some time. -- alec, in havenpool, wessex Article 38524 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!uknet!bhamcs!burforar From: burforar@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr AR Burford) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 19 Feb 1995 09:57:54 GMT Organization: The University of Birmingham, UK Lines: 69 Message-ID: <3i74n2$22n@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> References: <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> <1995Feb17.084840.62249@ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: burforar@sun1.bham.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: sun1.bham.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Paul Rhodes (paul.rhodes@liffe.com) wrote: : In article <1995Feb17.084840.62249@ucl.ac.uk> zcbtl29@ucl.ac.uk (Brian Neal Ruth) writes: : >Ah, now you really are talking! Captain Zep was, I remember, one of those : >typically hi-tech type programs around at the time.... : Funny, I thought it was crap. : >If only kids TV today was as good as it has been. Anyone know of any decent : >kids programs worth watching? : Hmmm. Elidor, I suppose. As Seen on TV is pretty good. Going back a bit, Dark : Season and Century Falls. : : ______________________________________________________paul.rhodes@liffe.com I'd certainly go along with "Dark Season" - cool. "Century Falls" wasn't bad either. I wasn't greatly impressed by what I saw of "Elidor", though. On other kids' sf series around right now, there's the new "Tomorrow People" (in my opinion, this is "The Tomorrow People" in name only - no resemblance/ references to the old series whatsoever, but why? It would make a useful connecting thread), which seems to be continuing from weakness to weakness, supported largely by its ability to attract big name guest stars like Christopher Lee. In the last series, there were Connie Booth and Jean Marsh, too (known names rather than big stars, before someone quibbles with my terminology). Bring back the old series, that's what I say - the Tomorrow People as thirtysomethings, still wearing flares and using stun guns. There's also the curious thing which precedes it, "Reboot" - I've decided I don't like this, I'm afraid. Experimental and revolutionary it may be, corny the dialogue certainly is - was this written by the computer, too? It relies too heavily on the use of "buzz words" being taken out of context and used for awful puns (even I don't make puns this bad). I'm not sure how you'd classify "The Tick" (kids' programme or not, sf or not), but it's a damn funny programme and so it's worth watching just for this reason. The first episode featured cameos by so many recognisable parodies of genuine comic book superheroes that I was rolling around laughing. My favourite one so far was the one with the Breadmaster... And, finally, I'm going to come back to the programme "Captain Zep - Space Detective" - I couldn't miss out on this one. Does anyone actually have a SOLVE badge for having correctly answered the question in an episode, or from actually being in the audience for a show? I particularly liked the constant use of matte paintings as sets in this programme - not that this show had absolutely zero budget or anything, and no time for location shooting. And weren't there two series of "Captain Zep", with the second one featuring different assistant(s)? (certainly his female assistant was different) Hmm, I think that's enough for now. I've changed my mind. While I think about it, someone mentioned the several anagrams of "dragon" that were used in "The Adventure Game". I don't think anyone has mentioned Gnoard yet, played by Charmian Gradwell (oh no - I really am a repository of utterly trivial information) - she was the female Argond who used to wander around and "help" the contestants (in an unhelpful manner, naturally). I don't think she was in the (definitive) first series, though - the series which, I have observed from other postings, people are almost inclined to regard as a different programme. Andy B. "Oh archivist of all things in the past, can you tell us what the future will hold?" "Repeats." Article 38573 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!holonet!colossus.holonet.net!agate!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!bay.cc.kcl.ac.uk!rlju100 From: rlju100@bay.cc.kcl.ac.uk (Steve Phillips) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Message-ID: <1995Feb20.093225.6433@bay.cc.kcl.ac.uk> Date: 20 Feb 95 09:32:25 GMT References: <3hdbu4$82e@orac.sunderland.ac.uk> <1995Feb17.083959.40474@ucl.ac.uk> Organization: King's College London Lines: 9 In article <1995Feb17.083959.40474@ucl.ac.uk>, zcbtl29@ucl.ac.uk (Brian Neal Ruth) writes: > Ah, now I remember why I kept missing it. The Adventure Games always reminds > me of the early 80's, when the BBC computer was *THE* last word in computing > (it still is as far as I'm concerned)..... Yes, even the TARDIS had a BBC computer! Steve Article 38645 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!uknet!warwick!news.shef.ac.uk!sunc!ge937170 From: ge937170@sunc.sheffield.ac.uk (D R Blythe) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 20 Feb 1995 13:22:50 GMT Organization: University of Sheffield, UK Lines: 11 Message-ID: <3ia53a$5bk@hippo.shef.ac.uk> References: <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> <1995Feb17.084840.62249@ucl.ac.uk> <3i74n2$22n@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: sunc.shef.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mr AR Burford (burforar@sun1.bham.ac.uk) wrote: : And weren't there two series of "Captain Zep", with the second one featuring : different assistant(s)? (certainly his female assistant was different) I think it stretched to three. And there was not only a change of assistant, but a change of Captain Zep. It was passed on like a title, rather than a personal name. The first Zep was Paul Greenwood, but the second... anyone? Dan d.r.blythe@sheffield.ac.uk Article 38649 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!uknet!festival!leeds.ac.uk!news From: cenrpa@leeds.ac.uk (R.P. Augood) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Message-ID: Organization: University of Leeds Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 13:49:50 +0000 (GMT) References: <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> <1995Feb17.084840.62249@ucl.ac.uk> <3i74n2$22n@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Lines: 18 In article <3i74n2$22n@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> burforar@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr AR Burford) writes: >From: burforar@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr AR Burford) >Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? >Date: 19 Feb 1995 09:57:54 GMT >far was the one with the Breadmaster... >And, finally, I'm going to come back to the programme "Captain Zep - Space >Detective" - Hey, buster! Don't forget the 'super' bit. ************************************* *** Captain Zep *** *** Super Space Detective *** ************************************* Article 38705 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!uknet!bhamcs!burforar From: burforar@sun1.bham.ac.uk (Mr AR Burford) Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Date: 21 Feb 1995 00:05:36 GMT Organization: The University of Birmingham, UK Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3ibaog$733@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> References: <3hn26m$4vd@percy.cs.bham.ac.uk> <1995Feb17.084840.62249@ucl.ac.uk> <129154748wnr@wessex.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: burforar@sun1.bham.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: sun1.bham.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] alec baker (alec@wessex.demon.co.uk) wrote: : No-one's yet mentioned Gnoard, the aspidistra's granddaughter, and an extremely fetching young : lady IMHO. She used to 'phone up a few kids during the show (they would appear in pre-filmed : inserts) who would each have a suggestion about what her grandfather should change into. Anyone : know whether the actress who played Gnoard has appeared in anything else? : Actually, for rec.arts.tv purposes, shouldn't we have an abbreviation of that question? eg "DAKI : [Sean Pertwee|Zoe Ball|Angelo Muscat|Sally Thomsett|the_woman_in_the_bus_queue_in_the_Tango_ad] : HAIAE ?" It would save some time. : -- : alec, in havenpool, wessex That's funny - I seem to remember some bloke by the name of Mr AR Burford posting on Sunday morning that no-one had mentioned Gnoard, played by Charmian Gradwell. Coincidence, or something more sinister?... Andy B. (wondering if he should mention that Gnoard used to speak to kids on the phone during the show, but not with suggestions about what the aspidistra should turn into - the suggestions were for gifts for His Highness) Article 38825 of rec.arts.tv.uk: Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.uk Path: yama.mcc.ac.uk!keele!daresbury!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!doc.news.pipex.net!pipex!uknet!bcc.ac.uk!link-1.ts.bcc.ac.uk!zcbtl29 From: zcbtl29@ucl.ac.uk (Brian Neal Ruth) Subject: Re: Does anyone remeber the Adventure Game? Sender: news@ucl.ac.uk (Usenet News System) Message-ID: <1995Feb22.081302.36353@ucl.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 08:13:02 GMT References: <1995Feb17.084840.62249@ucl.ac.uk> <129154748wnr@wessex.demon.co.uk> Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium Lines: 20 In article <129154748wnr@wessex.demon.co.uk> alec@wessex.demon.co.uk writes: >No-one's yet mentioned Gnoard, the aspidistra's granddaughter, and an extremely fetching young >lady IMHO. She used to 'phone up a few kids during the show (they would appear in pre-filmed >inserts) who would each have a suggestion about what her grandfather should change into. Anyone >know whether the actress who played Gnoard has appeared in anything else? She was (is?) called Charmain Gradwell, and has since appeared in a (rather dismal) kids program called 'Wilderness Edge' about a hostel for delinquents. If only I could remember important things as well as I remember useless trivia... >Actually, for rec.arts.tv purposes, shouldn't we have an abbreviation of that question? eg "DAKI >[Sean Pertwee|Zoe Ball|Angelo Muscat|Sally Thomsett|the_woman_in_the_bus_queue_in_the_Tango_ad] >HAIAE ?" It would save some time. But wouldn't it get kind of confusing? I have enough trouble with the existing abbreviations.. Brian