Text Adventure Purgatory Text Adventure Purgatory

A radical Rebirth of TAPP, where we play through the first part of Michael Gentry's Anchorhead (1998) while talking about rebirth, Alien Ressurection, H. P. Lovecraft, authorial intent in text adventures and more rebirth.

Watch the video to follow along with the adventures visually, if you like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M--9MP7rbE

LINKS TO VISUALS AND REFERENCES:

Play Anchorhead here:
http://pr-if.org/play/anchorhead/

Rebirth Brass Band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhwoGVbY9xU

Wayne June reads Lovecraft:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77xxGopjMbY

Wayne June IS the voice in Darkest Dungeon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rClHWMt9AWI

File gumbo:
http://www.gumbocooking.com/gumbo-history.html
(not canon or anything, but a good jumping off place)

Southern Reach Trilogy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBxXxgRbK7U

Deus Ex Statue of Liberty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNsQb1Vzm2U

The Unnameable by H. P. Lovecraft:

(read aloud) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7QZbPPV318&t=146s

(full movie from 1988 that is loosely related) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOKvEz8hnEA

The Shadow Over Innsmouth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJiSK3KW628&list=PLE78B029F3400EA84
(BBC Version)

REBIRTHS:
(All videos below are graphic and/or violent)

Grace Jone's Strange Presents Afterbirth:
https://youtu.be/qYgpnWoRbXg?t=37

Alien Ressurection Basketball:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0GNKQQPHNU

and Church scene (still):
http://www.atomicfez.com/wp-content/uploads/Alien4-2.jpg

It's Always Sunny (Frank from the sofa):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7T0soHRk-A

Hellraiser II - Frank's mattress:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Lx5_gSJbo&t=205s

Xtro Rebirth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIJzozj4U_I

ABCs of Death 2:
http://26th.abcsofdeathpart2.com/

SOUND EFFECT CREDITS:
http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/

http://freesound.org/people/loopbasedmusic/

http://freesound.org/people/Corsica_S/

"Rain on Windows, Interior, A.wav" by InspectorJ of Freesound.org

We play Counterfeit Monkey yet again!