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Update: Jiblet has created a Spotify playlist of all the songs who's lyrics are featured in the yearly title screens. You can listen to it here. If you're new to the thread! I'm attempting to keep the OP updated so that each update appears on this page. You don't have to go through the entire thread looking for my name and some images on the screen. It's all here. Additionally, I'm adding cool things others have posted, such as stories and art and other things that the game supposedly references from the real world. Feel free to add this kind of thing to the thread, I love seeing it, and I will try to get it into the OP! And now back to the original post: ============================== A bit of a backstory: In anticipation of Diablo III coming out, I set out to play the original Diablo (as I hadn't yet). A friend offered to lend me his original disks after we talked about my plight. Excited, I eagerly anticipated getting my hands on a copy of the game to have something to do while I waited for D3's release. My excitement completely fell flat when I found out the game on the disks were not compatible with 64-bit Windows 7. But all was not lost! I quickly came up with another plan. All I would need is a Windows 95 machine... The next day I visited my parent's house to rummage through my dad's stockpile of spare computer parts he had been accumulating for the better part of two decades. In less than an hour, I had a system setup, though it was hacked together with parts from 1995ish to 2004. Regardless, it was running DOS, which would allow me to install Windows 95. (This would have been a LOT easier just to get the game through less reputable means, but I wanted to experience the game as originally intended.) Determined, I began to rummage for our old Win 95 install disks when I came across something that caught my eye. Something old...  It was labeleld "Moments" and had a copyright date of 1982 on it. The label was in relatively good condition and it was a 5 1/4" disk, which I had a bay for already mounted so that I could install DOS. The "Internal Distribution Only" stamp is what really caught my eye. Here's a close up of the label, including some sticky note thing my father must have stuck on it at one point in time:  At this point I'm gathering it's some old game, and since I've got the hardware and software to run it sitting next to me humming away, I decide to load the disk and see what this was all about. I was greeted with a title logo and a very simple text-based interface. ...Well, I don't want to spoil it because I thought it would be more fun to create a thread and we could do a quasi-Let's Play here in GBS. But I will give you this advice: Don't run around the pool! I learned this lesson the hard way. (Thanks to the mods, btw, for letting me do this. I hope we won't die too quickly, making it all for naught.) So, without further adieu, I present Moments:  I'll go ahead and load up a new game. The instructions are spooky:   And then the game begins.   So what will it be, goons? What option should we choose? How should we start out on this story called 'life'? --- Page 3:   --- Page 6:   --- Page 9:   --- Page 12:    --- Page 15:   --- Page 19:   --- Page 21:   --- Page 23:    --- Page 28:   --- Page 30:   --- Page 34:   --- Page 38:    --- Page 43:   --- Page 46:   --- Page 47:   Wuhao discusses attempted soroicide. jazzyhattrick counters with his own vision of our future. --- Page 55:    --- Page 59:   --- Page 63:   --- Page 66:   --- Page 71:    --- Page 74:   --- Page 78:   --- Page 83:   --- Page 87:    --- Page 91:   --- Page 96:   --- Page 100:   --- Page 105:    --- Page 112:   Bart Fargo posted:The movie will change his life. --- Page 116:   --- Page 122:   --- Page 125:    --- Page 131:   --- Page 135:   --- Page 140:   Wuhao shares his vision of our future... --- Page 145:    --- Page 149:   --- Page 154:   --- Page 158:   --- Page 161:    --- Page 164:   --- Page 168:   --- Page 172:   --- Page 177:    --- Page 181: Okay guys, uh, this is sort of a mess. Sorry for the quality of some of these pics, a lot of stuff happened very quickly. I tried D.  It immediately said "Rebooting..." across the bottom of the screen in which it added more periods to the end and the characters started changing randomly in spots. Then it added a string of numbers to the end:  Then it went blank. When it came back it looked like this:  So the three options had changed and there was now a new option, option D. So I figured I had already gone this far, why not select it since it seems to be what everyone was hoping for? Besides the strange screen wipe and all the bizarre characters, it looks like we got exactly what we were hoping for. Still... odd.   --- Page 185:   --- Page 189:   --- Page 193:    --- Page 196:   --- Page 203: I was ready for it this time when I hit D, but I missed the initial "Rebooting" part. However, I did get this!  Seems to be a part of the story? Sounds like it's later in life, possibly something we'll encounter in the game. It reboot again and then all was back to its regular programming, with a new option:   --- Page 207:   --- Page 211:    --- Page 214:   --- Page 218:   --- Page 222:   --- Page 225:    --- Page 228:   --- Page 233:   --- Page 237:   --- Page 243:    --- Page 248:   --- Page 252:   --- Page 257:   --- Page 262:    --- Page 265:   --- User prinneh does a voice recording of the first choice, ala Computer Phone circa 1983. Page 271:   --- Page 276:   --- Page 281:    --- Page 286:   --- Page 293:   --- Page 299:   --- Page 302:    --- Page 305:   --- Page 310:    --- Page 314:   --- Page 318:    --- Projected Bank Robbery. Read this. Page 328:   --- Page 331:   --- Page 337:   --- Page 340:    --- Page 343:   --- Page 351:   --- Page 361:   --- Page 367:    --- Page 372:   --- Page 379:   --- Page 384:   --- Page 389:    --- Page 393:   --- Page 397:    --- Page 400:   --- Page 403:    --- Page 407:   --- Page 410:   --- Page 415:   --- Page 420:    --- Page 423:   --- Page 427:   --- Page 431:   --- Page 434:    --- Page 440:    --- Page 444:   --- A lot of discussion happened in these pages! The game was leaked? --- Page 451:   --- Page 456:    --- Page 460:   --- Page 463:   --- Page 466:    --- Page 468:    --- Page 473:   --- Page 475:   --- Page 480:   --- Page 484:     --- Page 491:     --- Page 494:   --- Page 496:   --- Page 499:    --- Page 502:   --- Page 504:   --- Page 507:   --- Page 510:    --- Page 514:   --- Page 519:   --- Page 523:   --- Page 527:   
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| # ? May 24, 2013 09:17 |
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My lucky number is 47, and Room 403 both starts with a 4 and has digits that add up to 7. Pick Room 403! EDIT: Since it's easy to bold things now, I'm gonna use the new forum features to say A) Room 403.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:10 |
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Gonna have to go with Room 409, after my favorite cleanser. 
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:12 |
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I'll go ahead and make the obvious joke and imply that room 404 is probably somehow missing. Room 403 (the forbidden room!) is the next closest so I'd go with that. A) Room 403
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:13 |
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Oh yes, bolded helps quite a bit for seeing votes. Let's practice our shortcut keys, everyone. 
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:14 |
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Let's go for forbidden A) Room 403
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:15 |
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ESC 2010 Never Forget
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Haschel Cedricson posted:My lucky number is 47, and Room 403 both starts with a 4 and has digits that add up to 7. Pick Room 403! Using this logic, i'm gonna say D) Room 409 Lucky number 13
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:15 |
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C: 406
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:16 |
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Room 409 is the farthest away from the rest of the rooms. Room 409 must be the room where rich babies are born.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:16 |
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I vote B, Room 404.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:16 |
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Room 403 This looks like it'll be fun.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:17 |
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C) Room 406 Are babies generally the ones who choose the delivery room though?
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:24 |
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[B] Room 404 is the natural choice here.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:26 |
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room 404 Baby not found.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:27 |
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Room 404 fo' sho
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:28 |
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Man I am all about creepy games from the 80s. The 80s were hella spooky! Going for room 409, because it's closest to Room 429, which is my favourite Cop Shoot Cop song, and I will be basing all of my decisions henceforth on my lovely musical preferences.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:28 |
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Also going to go with B) Room 404. This really seems reminiscent of Alter Ego, only several years older than that game!
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:28 |
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Elfgames posted:room 404 Baby not found.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:29 |
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I'm going to have to go with Room 404.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:30 |
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itsgotmetoo posted:Room 409 is the farthest away from the rest of the rooms. Room 409 must be the room where rich babies are born. Seconding this logic, Room 409. Nobody wants to be a peasant baby.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:42 |
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I've gotta go with the dangerous forbidden room as well, Room 403
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:45 |
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403 for forbidden baby room.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:48 |
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I'm pretty sure I'll be miscarried in any room other than 406
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:48 |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ1JhlO2j-g Formula 409
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| # ? May 22, 2012 06:55 |
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I love choose your own adventure type games! Voting Room 404 here.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:04 |
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Wasn't there a browser game very similar to this about 5 or so years ago? It seems very familiar as a concept. And Room 404 can't steer us wrong.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:07 |
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Room 404 please.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:13 |
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404 gets my vote!
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:20 |
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Satanos posted:Wasn't there a browser game very similar to this about 5 or so years ago? It seems very familiar as a concept. Alter Ego, which was originally also a DOS game. 409
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:22 |
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Try typing E.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:22 |
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Room 404 is going to end badly 404 edit: oh god what have I done
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:30 |
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Go with 409, because that song is now stuck in my head.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:42 |
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Gonna have to go with 403. This game looks pretty interesting. Does anyone have have any background on it by any chance?
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:43 |
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Please choose B: 404, just like standardized testing, please...hope for a good average life...
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:45 |
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404
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:47 |
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Room 403
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:54 |
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404 baby not found
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:54 |
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Room 404, naturally.
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| # ? May 22, 2012 07:57 |
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404
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| # ? May 22, 2012 08:00 |
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| # ? May 24, 2013 09:17 |
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gotta go 404
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