View Full Version : Ms. Gorf, lost forever?
Zaxxon
02-09-2003, 11:00 AM
Is there any effort being made to recover this game, has it just been dismissed as a lost game or does no one else care? I read that it still resided on some old 8" floppy disks for the dev system. I'm sure someone out there in internet-land could be able to figure out how to get it up and running and recover it.
Raccoon Lad
02-09-2003, 12:47 PM
Do you have any more info on this game?
It probably needs a little more publicity before anyone gets off their ass and tries to achive it.
Zaxxon
02-09-2003, 01:06 PM
It is on the original programmers home page, Jamie Fenton. I don't have the url. Search on google and you'll find it.
Arcade Antics
02-10-2003, 11:17 AM
Jamie brought the only footage of the game to CGE 2K1. She had it as a holdover from her programming work on the game, sort of a video-diary. It was great to see what she had worked up for Ms. Gorf, but she pretty much said to not expect to see it finished any time soon.
digitalpress
02-10-2003, 11:49 AM
Ms. Fenton didn't make it to CGE2k2 but when I spoke with her at CGE2k1 all she had positively located was the video of the game, not the source code. Some discussion about re-creating the game was bandied about but I don't think she really took me seriously. We're counting on her attending this year, and you can be sure that I'll bring it up again! I really want to see that game get finished or at least released in the state it was in (which looked pretty playable to me).
I just discovered that "Gorf" is "frog" backwards. Doh!
Tempest
02-10-2003, 01:33 PM
I just discovered that "Gorf" is "frog" backwards. Doh
Actually that's a coincidence. GORF actually stands for Galactic Orbiting Robot Force.
Tempest
Do you know for a fact that it's a coincidence? To me it sounds like she invented the word Gorf first, and then came up with "Galactic Orbiting Robot Force" to force an acronym out of it. But I'm just guessing.
Cafeman
02-10-2003, 04:05 PM
"Gorf" is also similar to "Gort". Wasn't he the robot in The Day the Earth Stood Still?
http://members.yourlink.net/jgerard/gort/ultim2.jpg
Zaxxon
02-10-2003, 10:17 PM
I just discovered that "Gorf" is "frog" backwards. Doh
Actually that's a coincidence. GORF actually stands for Galactic Orbiting Robot Force.
Tempest
I could swear I saw an upside-down frog in the game. I remember this because I was playing it on CV ages ago and when I saw that frog looking thing it clicked, Gorf backwards.
Tempest
02-11-2003, 12:10 AM
I guess Jamie would be the only one who would know for sure. But I swear I read somewhere that the frog thing was a coincidence. I'd buy the GORT explaination before the frog thing.
Tempest
chocobokick
02-11-2003, 12:21 AM
Gorf reminds me of Dorf
slapdash
02-12-2003, 02:10 PM
I guess Jamie would be the only one who would know for sure. But I swear I read somewhere that the frog thing was a coincidence. I'd buy the GORT explaination before the frog thing.
Jay's nickname was "Frog". No Gort required. I think I heard that from Brett Bilbrey (another Astrocoder) originally...
Savedman
02-12-2003, 03:35 PM
I really want to see that game get finished or at least released in the state it was in (which looked pretty playable to me).
Would that have been the state of Nevada???
gamergary
02-12-2003, 04:00 PM
He meant how much work was finished on the game :-D .