Games that I miss: Acrophobia

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From about 1998 - 2000 I used to play a wonderful web game, Acrophobia

The game went like this:

The game server would present a randomly chosen acronym with a given them (“Sports”, for example). All players in the room would submit a sentence that fit that acronym. After the submissions were in, players would vote on which was the best sentence to fit the acronym.

Example (from an acro that I did well on):

Theme: “Romance”
Acronym “LPCSWCF”

Acro: “Love problems… can’t sleep. Women? Cruel. Forget.”

Man I miss this game. It was so much fun. AFAIK it disappeared early in the 2000s. There’s plenty of replacements, but I can’t find any that have a large and consistent playerbase.

Bring back Acrophobia!

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I love, love, love acrophobia. I found a web-based acrophobia (acrowars.com) but it doesn’t have the same punch as the IRC version. IRC acro games tended to be incredibly foul and irreverant: exactly the way they should be.

The most memorable acro I can remember was RVAE

Rectum, vagina’s arch enemy

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Muppets coupled with bizarre sexual innuendo were crowd pleasers.

I always choked at the showdown, but surprisingly made it there quite often.

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tams11.com has it.It is a small, yet good gaming community,might take awhile to locate enuff players for a good game.

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Nitpick to the game name, though.

Acronyms have to form pronounceable words. Otherwise they are just regular abbreviations.

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Acrowars.com was the best online acrophobia game but it was down for years.

They have now released a better version and you can get there by using the original address: http://www.acrowars.com that redirects you to http://www.livehubs.com/chat_room/Acro

Have fun!

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I used to play that.

I found one later on, but it wasn’t the same cheesy fun.

Then I forgot all about it again…till now. :frowning:

Strange someone didn’t pick it up and place it on a site someplace in it’s original glory.