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Sun 28/07/02 at 10:35
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Starting intro alarm clock roars away and you let out a moan. From under the covers your arm reaches out and begins to franticly strike at the bedside table until you hit the clock onto the floor.
You remove your sheets, sit on the edge of your bed and put your head in your hands. You let out another moan. You wobble to the bathroom and open the cabinet above the sink.
My head, you say, I shouldnt have drank so much last night

Level 1 with blurred vision and the concentration span of a house brick you must choose one pot of pills out of around 10 in the cabinet. This is a kind of puzzle as you cant read the labels fully and all you remember about the hang over tablets pot is that is a dark colour and has the letters TH and R on it.
Also you know that pot one is aspirin, one is the hang over pills and one is the cats ear medicine.
(Depending on which one you choose decides weather your cured, you feel great, you feel worse, nothing happens or you die)

Level 2 time to get dressed. This section is really for the girls who want to dress up and try on different clothes. There are various suits, T-shirts, jeans and other stuff to put on and mix and match.
As this isnt really a must in the game you can skip it by pressing L1.

Cut scene walk down stairs and make a coffee, drink it and go into the living room.

Level 3 heres where it starts to get messy. Your living room looks like a bomb hits it. Piles of clothes everywhere, a bin tipped over, magazines opened across the floor and bits of last nights pizza stuck to the sofa. In this mess you have to try and find your car keys with a time limit of 10 minutes.

Level 4 (and probably the hardest level yet) Dodge the landlady. Trying to get from your front door to your car without a confrontation with the landlady. There are various items such as bins and hedges you can crouch behind. If you found your keys in level 3 you can use the laser door opener on them and make a dash to it from a distance. If not you must rush to the car and get the spare key located next to the front left wheel. However in the event of getting caught you will end up having mindless chat for half an hour before receiving a lecture about where the last 2 months rent should be, namely in her hands.

Level 5 heres the driving sim level! For all those white knuckle fans who love fast cars racing through the city streets at high speeds not here Im afraid. Moving 2 miles an hour driving a ford fiesta in grid lock traffic.

Level 6 now this ones challenging. Youve got out of the traffic and now have to find a place to park in a busy urban city center. Going through back alleys, under bridges and up into multi-story car parks you must hunt down a free parking space trying not to get a ticket. Once found you have 5 minutes to find your way to the offices on foot.

Level 7 - as you get to the offices you see your desk in the middle of the room. At the other end of the room the boss is walking down making sure everybody is in on time. A race to your desk, trying to get there before the boss catches you being late. Its one of those push X repeatedly jobs as fast as you can to make you run quicker.

End cut scene if you manage to get there before your boss you sit down to your to your desk and turn on your computer. Once its loaded you look at the time and the date. Then you look at the calendar stuck to your partition wall and realize its your day off!

Credits rolls down the screen and you have the option to play solitaire and mine sweeper before making a walk of shame past the receptionist back to your car. (if you can find it that is)

---Game over---
Sun 28/07/02 at 18:10
Regular
"always swirling"
Posts: 2,852
i wasn't really ment to be a game.
it was a p*ss take on everyday life put into game form
Sun 28/07/02 at 17:40
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"Selected"
Posts: 4,199
I'm sorry, I was a bit too harsh....no offence intended Linx

I'd rather play this then the Big Brother 3 Game...

Aieee!
Sun 28/07/02 at 17:31
Posts: 0
mikelar10 wrote:
> lol, I'm sorry but I can't lie.
>
> This is bad.
>
> This is very bad Linx.
>
> Infact the game couldn't be worse if 3DO made the game for you.
>
> Thank god your not actually a games designer.
>
> Sorry that I had to be frank, I'm not saying the post is bad - nice
> try - just the idea. IT STINKS!
>
> Sorry.


Harsh Fish dude! I thought it was alright. (:)
Sun 28/07/02 at 17:26
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"Selected"
Posts: 4,199
lol, I'm sorry but I can't lie.

This is bad.

This is very bad Linx.

Infact the game couldn't be worse if 3DO made the game for you.

Thank god your not actually a games designer.

Sorry that I had to be frank, I'm not saying the post is bad - nice try - just the idea. IT STINKS!

Sorry.
Sun 28/07/02 at 17:14
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Posts: 15,681
All those characters were meant to be two musical note symbols that are in the Times New Roman font.
Sun 28/07/02 at 16:38
Regular
"[SE] Acetrooper"
Posts: 2,527
Interesting post, Linx. That would be a original game :-)

What was that message supposed to say, Edgy?
Sun 28/07/02 at 14:54
Regular
Posts: 461
This would be a great game, playing out your life, but it would be much too short, maybe if you added more to it then re-posted, you could win a GAD.
Sun 28/07/02 at 13:12
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Posts: 15,681
oh great - so the font works when I type it, however when it coes to displaying it submitted it comes out with those numbers....

Sun 28/07/02 at 13:11
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Posts: 15,681
♫YOU CAN BE A WINNER OF THE GAME OF LIFE♫

(if you can't see '♫' you need to update your fonts methinks)
Sun 28/07/02 at 10:35
Regular
"always swirling"
Posts: 2,852
Starting intro alarm clock roars away and you let out a moan. From under the covers your arm reaches out and begins to franticly strike at the bedside table until you hit the clock onto the floor.
You remove your sheets, sit on the edge of your bed and put your head in your hands. You let out another moan. You wobble to the bathroom and open the cabinet above the sink.
My head, you say, I shouldnt have drank so much last night

Level 1 with blurred vision and the concentration span of a house brick you must choose one pot of pills out of around 10 in the cabinet. This is a kind of puzzle as you cant read the labels fully and all you remember about the hang over tablets pot is that is a dark colour and has the letters TH and R on it.
Also you know that pot one is aspirin, one is the hang over pills and one is the cats ear medicine.
(Depending on which one you choose decides weather your cured, you feel great, you feel worse, nothing happens or you die)

Level 2 time to get dressed. This section is really for the girls who want to dress up and try on different clothes. There are various suits, T-shirts, jeans and other stuff to put on and mix and match.
As this isnt really a must in the game you can skip it by pressing L1.

Cut scene walk down stairs and make a coffee, drink it and go into the living room.

Level 3 heres where it starts to get messy. Your living room looks like a bomb hits it. Piles of clothes everywhere, a bin tipped over, magazines opened across the floor and bits of last nights pizza stuck to the sofa. In this mess you have to try and find your car keys with a time limit of 10 minutes.

Level 4 (and probably the hardest level yet) Dodge the landlady. Trying to get from your front door to your car without a confrontation with the landlady. There are various items such as bins and hedges you can crouch behind. If you found your keys in level 3 you can use the laser door opener on them and make a dash to it from a distance. If not you must rush to the car and get the spare key located next to the front left wheel. However in the event of getting caught you will end up having mindless chat for half an hour before receiving a lecture about where the last 2 months rent should be, namely in her hands.

Level 5 heres the driving sim level! For all those white knuckle fans who love fast cars racing through the city streets at high speeds not here Im afraid. Moving 2 miles an hour driving a ford fiesta in grid lock traffic.

Level 6 now this ones challenging. Youve got out of the traffic and now have to find a place to park in a busy urban city center. Going through back alleys, under bridges and up into multi-story car parks you must hunt down a free parking space trying not to get a ticket. Once found you have 5 minutes to find your way to the offices on foot.

Level 7 - as you get to the offices you see your desk in the middle of the room. At the other end of the room the boss is walking down making sure everybody is in on time. A race to your desk, trying to get there before the boss catches you being late. Its one of those push X repeatedly jobs as fast as you can to make you run quicker.

End cut scene if you manage to get there before your boss you sit down to your to your desk and turn on your computer. Once its loaded you look at the time and the date. Then you look at the calendar stuck to your partition wall and realize its your day off!

Credits rolls down the screen and you have the option to play solitaire and mine sweeper before making a walk of shame past the receptionist back to your car. (if you can find it that is)

---Game over---

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