Adventure

Game, game, game left the largest impression on me in that it reminded me of a director that I love very much, Wes Anderson. He's done such gems as The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Royal Tenenbaums. Game, game, game also reminded me of the movie The Science of Sleep directed by Michel Gondry.
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http://www.simmphonic.com/programming/adventure.htm
...is a link I used to play the Atari 2600 game "Adventure". It took a few tries to get the hang of moving around the dragons, especially the green one, who seemed too fast to avoid while trying to seize upon another key. Then as my title suggests, I found that the spear that matched the color of the first dragon would slay any of them regardless of their speed. Is it possible that when Scott Pehnke "recreated" the game he left out some elements, such as the bat moving items at random?
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I found each of these games to be interesting i their own sense. Eliza, as we discussed last week in class, was very boring to me, in that she never really answered any questions, she just simply spat back out completely obvious programmed responses that were totally mundane and boring. Adventure was slightly more entertaining for me. I spent quite a bit of time going over and over and over this game. I NEVER made it to the end. After about ten try's I GAVE UP. I KNOW, I'M A QUITTER!!!!!
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