How about you?

please could you tell me how to find the chest e-mail me at jumpypus@yahoo.co.uk

You can get everything from hints to spoilers in the Virtual Villagers Guide.

ladyscifi, I couldn't help but acknowledge your now endless variations on the theme of RTFG

...you are in a maze of twisting little passages, all different...

rtfg???

In this case, it's read the ... guide The term is derived from a very old acronym dealing with reading the manual. It's now applied in many different settings.

lol i get it She used to tell me that all the time

Maybe because we all know what that acronym actually means (well, most of us, anyway).

I still have hand-drawn maps!

You're KIDDING! Girl, you are a hoarder! lmao

My family said something similar when I hauled out my old, meticulously-drawn Zelda maps when they bought me a GameCube 2 years ago, complete with the Zelda Collector's Edition. I fired up The Legend of Zelda and was ready to go! hahahahaha

Who needed maps? I had them all memorized! I figured a map was a cheat, and who wanted to cheat? LOL

I don't think maps are cheats if you draw them yourself!

Oh my gosh! Barbara do you know that the only thing that kept me out of prison when I was a kid was Zelda games?? Aaahhh its nice to know I'm not the only female. tee hee. (PS do you have any Zelda memorabilia? I have some shirts, a mug, wall decals and a bunch of action figures.)

wow lol i missed the early zeldas but the latest one on the n64 was sweet i beat it and i intend on getting a Nintendo Wii here soon with the newest zelda games. Anyhow i was addicted to a game called Dungeons of Daggorath on the Commodore 64, and yes i have an emulator and the game rom lol. I played it during class in college.

Oh yea, i also had hand drawn maps as well as i took pictures of the map on my tv screen with a camera because when you changed levels it showed you a map briefly for 5 seconds lol. Born a nerd, grew up a nerd, probably die a nerd.

I also played a text based "mud" (multi user dungeon) for probably a good 5 years till the realm finally shut down (very depressing i made so many good friends there) Oh the memories.

I thought i was the only person on earth who did that. I played Untima: Quest of the Avatar on the old school Nintendo before I knew they even made books for games, and I was always so frustrated trying to remember where to boy certain armors and weapons and herbs and where the moon gates led, that I made my own guide. It was over 100 pages lopng and includes world maps, maprs of the villages, lists of what each person you spoke to said, etc. I think I was more obsessed with making the guide than the game after a while. LOL. When I played FF7 on the ps and later on the ps2, i made my own books there as well because i couldn't bear to use the published ones, or even really the ones online. It felt like cheating. I felt so much more pride when I figured out how to beat Emerald Weapon and Ruby Weapon on my own, than if I had used a book to tell me how.

83 hours, just finished my third game, first two villages died.

This game I got extremely lucky and just found this message board 3 hours ago.

Now I am going to bed.

I agree since you're playing the game while you draw (at least I did). I used quad paper to draw my maps of the differnt levels. I was happy when Nintendo came out with all the previous Zelda games so they could be played on the GameCube. I still had my original NES system and a dozen or so games when I gave it away.

Now I'm feeling old... When I made my comment above, I was refering to the original Adventure games. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure

haha.. so was I, sfrose

Me, too! I'm probably older than any of you!

Nah, Lady, I think I got you on that one.

I've just completed a game in 82 hours.



I wasn't trying to go fast, it just happened. I do have a theory, though. In the middle stages when I was beginning to build up the population the balance of the sexes was wrong, with many more boys than girls. When I got up to 30 I had 18 men, 7 kids (mostly boys) and only 5 women (none nursing at that time). That meant that even though the women spent a good part of their lives nursing, not so high a proportion was 'unproductive', as the men carried on working. Does that make sense?

59 hours!

Lucked up and got both an adult runner and a child runner. Also had plenty of females. Both of those made all the difference!

wow

Just looked at your link to collosal cave adventure... actually remember playing the text version in high school. my high school really needed to update its computers... was still one that played it in the sixth form block when i left...5yrs ago! must say quite a few people (ok me tooo!) spent our genral studies classes playing that and trying to hide the fact we'd all sneaked of to the pub at lunch!