♦ Livestream of 6 ZZT worlds. ♦
♦ Stream Contents ♦
• (2:33) "Com Fight (v1.5)" by Syas669 (1996) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/comfight/]
• (17:14) "Game Collection #1" by Alex Ho (1996) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/gamev01/]
• (27:01) "Humble" by Alex Arrowsmith (1995) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/humblegd/]
• (1:02:13) "Guerrila 2000" by Unknown (1995) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/guerilla2k/]
• (1:15:58) "Puzzler's Hell (Demo, Corrupt)" by eJECTION13 (1998) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/puzzdemo_incomplete/]
• (1:31:51) "Goop" by WiL (1998) [https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/goop/]
Beginning with "Com Fight", a game with a very unusual sense of style. You are dumped in a hub with a number of locked doors whose keys are found at the end of each connecting room. Most rooms consist of a lot of pre-activated bombs that all go off at once, either killing you instantly or missing you outright depending on where you decide to stand upon entering.
Get all the keys, and fight an unbeatable boss that's protected too perfectly by ricochets.
Then, "Game Collection #1", a collection of two single board games. A maze with a slime-powered timer (that doesn't do anything when it expires), and "Battle Pong" which is a traditional ZZT shoot em up. Move side to side, and shoot them before they shoot you. Simple stuff, but at least it works!
"Humble" is a mid-90s comedy with a lot of gross humor, excessive violence, and an obsession with Mr. Wilson (we suspect as in Home Improvement, but it may be as in Dennis the Menace). There are a number of items around the house to interact with, including your parents who are having a real rough time of things. So edgy that the author had to censor it for an AOL upload, inviting you to email them for the uncut version.
It's also loaded with secrets which are actually kind of fun to uncover, though the process of reaching new rooms often has at least one step of "Oh, touch this random wall 5 times."
"Guerilla 2000" is your basic action title that puts you in big rooms with a bit of cover, and a number of built-in enemies scattered around to shoot as you advance towards the next board. Eventually a scroll tries to suggest at a plot, suggesting you look for evidence in the "cocaine storage" room. Not long afterwards, you cross a moat of acid via teleporter before confronting the big boss.
"Puzzler's Hell" very well could have been the star of the stream. Pick from a number of puzzles in the hub and then do your best to solve them, with optional gems to collect for an extra challenge. The included puzzles are well designed and original, putting on a good first impression. Sadly, the game is a demo and partially corrupt, with a number of passages crashing ZZT due to the destination boards being so unrecoverably mangled.
So instead, it falls on WiL's "Goop" to serve as the finale. Another old (and incomplete) upload. This one is also puzzle heavy, with part of the challenge simply being to figure out what you're supposed to do on any given board. It's tough, and WiL's help in chat saved quite a bit of time, but like Puzzler's Hell, there's a lot of neat ideas here, and far more esoteric. Also features "THREE DIMENSIONAL ZZT MOVEMENT" (changing normal walls to fake walls and saying you're flying over them).
The last two games made for a really fun stream! And while sometimes offputting, it's hard to say Humble was devoid of charm entirely. Overall, a rather nice set of games!
♦ Play these worlds directly in your browser ♦
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/comfight/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/gamev01/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/humblegd/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/guerilla2k/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/puzzdemo_incomplete/
• https://museumofzzt.com/file/play/goop/
♦ Originally streamed on January 12th, 2025 ♦
