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hulk go hole

codacorolla — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:12:09 -0800

"Now that the Hulk has closed his eyes, shoved wax down his ears and is holding his nose, he is immune to the attacks of the space-ants. No, really. Just picture that scene for a moment and be glad that it didn't find its way into any of the Hulk movies." VGJunk takes a look at the baffling Incredible Hulk text adventure game.

Via Obscure Videogames.

By: Egg Shen

Egg Shen — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:31:33 -0800

BAD GAME WEAKEN HULK BRAND. HULK FIND NEW AGENT.

By: Horace Rumpole

Horace Rumpole — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 07:44:51 -0800

I was going to comment, but then some gas filled the room and permeated my skin.

By: Mezentian

Mezentian — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:00:46 -0800

Seems legit. At least compared to the Dallas adventure.

By: Redfield

Redfield — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:13:20 -0800

That shade of green used for some of the dialogue is very pleasant. #6ACF6F.

By: angrycat

angrycat — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:06:49 -0800

what if the ants go up his butt or his urethra

By: The World Famous

The World Famous — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:20:56 -0800

Hulk has neither.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:31:49 -0800

We clearly have to spend the rest of the day debating the existance of Hulk junk.

By: Zed

Zed — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:35:47 -0800

For a lot of other horrible text adventures, and some very good ones, someone has bundled something approaching every z-code game ever -- almost 1800 of them -- for download.

By: biffa

biffa — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:56:04 -0800

When Hulk is angry, Hulk's urethra is angry.

By: klapaucius

klapaucius — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:01:50 -0800

You wouldn't like Hulk's urethra when it is angry.

By: davros42

davros42 — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:08:47 -0800

Questprobe featuring 50% of the Fantastic Four drove me mental with frustration in my youth. Someday I'll track it down and finally beat it but I imagine it's nearly as nonsensical as this.

By: jcruelty

jcruelty — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:59:29 -0800

Ways to make Dr. Banner angry (someone should make a game out of this list, I'd buy it)

By: Sphinx

Sphinx — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:04:31 -0800

When I was a kid I was really into text based adventure games, yeah Infocom was the big fish in this particular little pond but I had a special place in my heart for the Scott Adams games. Sure, the parser sucked, but until a friend and I actually sat down and tried to write one and failed miserably, we didn't understand just how tough it was, "Hello, Sailor!" excluded. Even being so young, like nine or ten, I knew enough to skip the superhero (tm) ones. They were almost egregiously bad. I seem to remember playing the SAGA games as a kid, then shifting to the Infocom games as a teenager, they writing was so much better. The Zork trilogy, the Enchanter trilogy, the whodunit/mystery "trilogy" were on a different level than anything that Scott Adams came up with, they really deserved the moniker of "Interactive Fiction".

By: yerfatma

yerfatma — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 11:17:18 -0800

The Internet: solving old C64 games I could never get through a quarter of a century later.

By: panboi

panboi — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:12:05 -0800

If I have a disturbing dream tonight about angry space ants up The Hulk's bum, can I sue Metafilter?

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:26:30 -0800

No you are required to write them down and post them.

By: RobotVoodooPower

RobotVoodooPower — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:10:26 -0800

Some text adventures were bad. Like Rambo: First Blood Part II (warning: spoilers!) where you have to GET KNIFE QUICKLY during a knife fight.

By: The Giant Squid

The Giant Squid — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:27:11 -0800

I played the C-64 Spider Man game, and for years, I'll be haunted with the phrase: Okay, I hit fan... SPANG!

By: The Giant Squid

The Giant Squid — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:29:35 -0800

More SPANG!

By: Sparx

Sparx — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:51:53 -0800

Back in the day, before the internet made walk throughs trivially easy to obtain, i actually made it through both hulk and Spiderman questprobe games, but they are incredibly stupid compared to some ofScott Adams' earlier efforts. The almost ridiculously unfair savage island two parter was the beginning off the end, but many of the earlier games fitted wonderfully interlocking puzzles with a surprising amount of humour into 16k of memory.

By: This, of course, alludes to you

This, of course, alludes to you — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 07:29:44 -0800

@angrycat it would be gross and maybe funny to some people

By: ManyLeggedCreature

ManyLeggedCreature — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 08:14:37 -0800

Ha, the "hardest adventure games ever" post had just made me think of the Questprobe Spiderman game, and now the mention of the fiendish Natter Energy Egg has brought it all flooding back. We had it for the BBC Micro, and dear god, it was completely impossible. I don't suppose we even came close to finishing it. I encountered it again online a few years ago and was dispirited to realise grown-up me was just as flummoxed by it as child me had been. "SPIDER-MAN (tm) is no vandal!" Two-countries-divided-by-a-common-language filter: one of the items you can find in Spiderman is "baby formula". I'm British, not American, and I'd never heard the term. I thought I had picked up a piece of paper bearing a chemical formula that, could I but find the necessary ingredients, would let me create a baby. It says volumes about the quality of the logic in the game that I actually thought that would be a plausible puzzle. I still don't know what you were supposed to do with the baby formula.