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Below are some new queries I've received recently from readers looking for hard-to-find games, or who are in need of specific help. If you can help answer any of these requests, please don't be shy about chiming in with an answer! --EM

There was a game a long time ago that I tried to play, and never could finish or get out of. You wake up in what appears to be a monastery room. You go out into the courtyard. You go in a hall, and in one of the doors is the Head abbot/wizard's room. In there you discover some stuff. In another room or if you use something found in the master's room, you spring a trap (I don't know what else to call it). This suspends you in the middle of nowhere. Literally. You can't move, you can't talk, you're essentially in a sensory deprivation chamber, near as I can determine, but a magical one.

There's got to be a way out, but I always wound up there. You have to do something before you can go out the gates of the courtyard.

Does this sound familiar? If so, a name would help. This game was originally played on an old HP Portable Plus.

Bill B.
bblohm@boi.hp.com

I am looking for an old game which was published in Softside magazine, I think, in 1980 or so. It was a cowboy theme text adventure. The title was based on an old Abbott & Costello routine; Hide, Hide, the cows outside. That was the name of the game, too. Do you think that you or any of your readers can help locate this? It was really quite funny, and a lot of fun to play. I had it for the Atari system, but it is long gone and I would like to find it for PC.

Richard Press
richpres@ix.netcom.com

My parents and I were discussing old games when my mother mentioned that, gasp, The Legend of Zelda was originally a text adventure, and her favorite to boot. Does anyone remember this game? Is the Legend of Zelda doomed to be remembered only by Nintendo fans? Help!

BChatterje@aol.com

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