# Games that I miss: Acrophobia **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 6, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-that-i-miss-acrophobia/455437 "2008-07-06T06:20:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-that-i-miss-acrophobia/455437/1 "2008-07-06T06:20:13Z")
From about 1998 - 2000 I used to play a wonderful web game, [Acrophobia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrophobia_(video_game)) 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! ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-that-i-miss-acrophobia/455437/2 "2008-07-06T06:33:08Z")
I love, love, love acrophobia. I found a web-based acrophobia ([acrowars.com](http://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 ---
**Author:** ![Madgolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Madgolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madgolf)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-that-i-miss-acrophobia/455437/3 "2008-07-06T08:27:48Z")
Muppets coupled with bizarre sexual innuendo were crowd pleasers. I always choked at the showdown, but surprisingly made it there quite often. ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-that-i-miss-acrophobia/455437/4 "2008-07-06T12:25:52Z")
[tams11.com](http://tams11.com) has it.It is a small, yet good gaming community,might take awhile to locate enuff players for a good game. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-that-i-miss-acrophobia/455437/5 "2008-07-06T18:05:19Z")
Nitpick to the game name, though. Acronyms have to form pronounceable words. Otherwise they are just regular abbreviations. ---
**Author:** ![yodin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4da419/32.png) [@yodin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yodin)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2013, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-that-i-miss-acrophobia/455437/6 "2013-05-05T23:11:16Z")
[Acrowars.com](http://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](http://www.acrowars.com) that redirects you to [http://www.livehubs.com/chat\_room/Acro](http://www.livehubs.com/chat_room/Acro) Have fun! ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/games-that-i-miss-acrophobia/455437/7 "2013-05-28T03:19:40Z")
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. ☹ Strange someone didn’t pick it up and place it on a site someplace in it’s original glory.