Talk:Acrophobia (game)

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The caption to the image and the paragraph about Acrophobia's relationship to Acronymble clearly disagree.

Shouldn't the Berkley Systems game be mentioned on here? It was one of the more popular pastimes on the web in the late 90s.

Well, some form of the Bezerk game is pictured in that screenshot. You can even still play some form of it on Uproar.com though the site seems to be a bit on the flaky side since it's kinda old. They had made it into an inline web version instead of the old .exe so that they can hit you up with ads. (Never mind that Bezerk's software allowed for full-screen ads that were more noticeable, people like to sell banners.) Sadly it's the only one of those great Berkeley games I can find in working form anymore. There's a version of Cosmic Consensus someone made called "Discordi" that I can't get working, and other old favorites like "Get The Picture" are completely gone. Not that mourning over old classic games with solid concepts tucked away in some company's "things we could sue if you remake" file is a proper topic for an encyclopedia, I suppose. --70.39.65.101 05:43, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, Berkeley should be mentioned in some way; it's the version I first heard of, and it gave me the impression it was a Berkeley-originated game; I wasn't aware of a pre-existing IRC based version. It appears that Berkeley still holds the trademark .  The first use is claimed as November 17, 1997.  It appears at one time they also held a trademark on the term for "board games and hand-held electronic games" but it was abandoned in 2000.  Pimlottc 20:44, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

The IRC example should be a complete example, i.e. with full voting results, scoring, etc. Pimlottc 20:04, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Variation of Acronymble
OK, I've no knowledge or interest in this. But I've changed the following statement
 * Acrophobia is an online variation of the board game "Acronymble,"

To say that they are similar. If the article wishes to claim that it is actually a variation on the earlier game, then a reliable citation will be required to support the contention. 'Variation' implies it is derivative: i.e. that the author knew of the earlier game and deliberately adapted it. That may be true (I don't know) but it requires a citation to back it up. Who says so? Where? --Docg 21:21, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Again, Acronymble comes up in the Acrophobia article. I created this game in early 1994 as a variation of a word game I created in second grade. (1982.) Learning the acronym for the Great Lakes (HOMES - Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) I started making other things that fit it.

The Acronymble reference should be deleted outright, by someone else. In the meantime, I deleted the text that heavily implied that Acrophobia was a descendant of that game and went on to describe how that game differs. It has its own Wikipedia page for that, doesn't it?--Andrea Shubert (talk) 03:09, 28 September 2010 (UTC)

Variants

 * Acrowars
 * AcroChallenge
 * Acrony
 * Alphabet Soup
 * Acroblast
 * Livehubs Acro
 * Acrophobia
 * Acrofever: Desktop and mobile Acrophobia clone
 * AcroFriends: a turn-based Acrophobia-inspired mobile and desktop browser game

Article name
On 2007-10-14, SquareOuroboros renamed this article from Acrophobia (game) into Acrophobia (video game) with the summary of “consistancy among titles”. I think it's a bad description for this game, because it is completely text-based, and a blind person could play it and call it an audio game. --AVRS (talk) 16:45, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I moved the article back to Acrophobia (game) on 2009-03-20 because the move to Acrophobia (video game) didn't seem to make any sense. --Tothwolf (talk) 23:51, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Original creators of Acrophobia?
I've read somewhere that "Andrea Shubert" was responsible for an early version of Acrophobia on IRC chat... which she eventually made "Berkeley Systems" in 1997 (and then sold off to Sierra). My point is that I have no idea if the fact I just mentioned has any more plausibility than the details of orignial creators stated at the start of this page. If you feel you are justified in deleting this comment, can you please dig up something verifiable yourself? (At least I have a name of a company to help research). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.246.6 (talk) 04:58, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

I created this game in grade school, then brought it to IRC (with others coding it) in the mid 90s, then to Berkeley Systems with an eventual commercial release in 1997. My name was Anthony then, that was legally changed to Andrea in 2004. There is no process by which I can "prove this to Wikipedia." Andrea Shubert (talk) 19:04, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

Source

 * https://web.archive.org/web/19980218070422/http://www.pcgamer.com:80/news/news-1997-11-03.html
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20050209071829/http://www.cdmag.com:80/articles/002/099/e3_day2_part1.html
 * https://web.archive.org/web/19970720112349/http://www.gamecenter.com:80/Features/Exclusives/E3/News/061897/story02.html
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20050209071829/http://www.cdmag.com:80/articles/002/099/e3_day2_part1.html
 * https://web.archive.org/web/19990222152545/http://www.gamespot.co.uk/news/1998/12/1310.html
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20000309180509/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_09/17_jack/index.html
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20000226083014/http://headline.gamespot.com/news/97_11/03_bezerk/index.html