PITS: A Lost Game From 'The Source'
walt.sto...@gmail.com
message in this news group by MereEdge dated Fri, Jun 8 2001 10:07am in
which he says:
> There was a game on "The Source" many years ago called "PITS" which used a
> simplistic VERB DIRECTOBJ INDIRECTOBJ sentence structure, but was filled with
> enormous text descriptions. The start of the game involved getting a slew of
> cash, and then buying a bridge, which was constructed by hundreds of thousands
> of little dwarves in what could only be described as helicopters. You then
> crossed the bridge, climbed a mountain, went into an old house, and accessed
> other worlds by finding secret passages. The scoring system was as detailed and
> granular as the plot line. I found it far more fun and challenging than Zork.
I've been looking for this game for quite a while and am surprised it
hasn't surfaced in some historical software archive of text interactive
fiction. What trails I've followed have run dry.
Consequently, I'm throwing money at the problem. I'm offering CASH
rewards for the game itself and information about it. Unfortunately,
Google Answers won't let me set the bounty as high as I want, or I'd go
that route, so instead details and leads are at
http://games.wwco.com/pits/.
As of right now, Mar 2006, the reward remains unclaimed at $250 US
dollars. Maybe you'll have better luck Googling than I.