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I Didn't Know You Could Yodel

Authors:Michael Eisenman and Andrew J. Indovina
Genre:Humor
Released:1998
Review:

Childish in the extreme, offensive now and again, and just plain irritating most of the time. Packed with bathroom and sex humor (well, "humor" is generous), and generally pitched at 10-year-olds, except that I wouldn't let any 10-year-old I know see it. The puzzles, for their part, turn on jokes or riddles that completely escaped me. The only thing saving this from one-star-land is that the programming is actually pretty good--the parser is built from scratch, and the authors do things like inset windows quite competently. Unfortunately, the competent programming just makes it less likely that you'll be distracted from the game itself, which is thoroughly repulsive.

Rating: **

Reviewed by Duncan Stevens (17 Jul 2000)

Competitions/
Awards:
24th place, rec.arts.int-fiction competition 1998
Related Links:SPAG review
Downloads:
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2s (1.89 KB)
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readme.txt (1.83 KB)
Author's notes
yodel.exe (526.98 KB)
MS-DOS executable (version: competition release)
yodeltxt.txt (3.22 KB)
Walkthrough


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