Topic: Things that haven't been inventory items... yet

[SSH]

A chesspiece
A chessboard

I don't technically know of any games offhand that use these, but I'd be really surprised if there weren't any.

Broken Sword, in Spain uses both of these (and you have to work out the checkmate, too)

[Mr Jake]

I was gonna say that >.<

[auhsor]

Hmm, didn't this thread drop off 3 weeks ago? Oh well, it seems like a good topic to discuss...

[evilgamemaker]

indeed this topic IS still interesting.

i have yet to see the day where i find these as inventory items;
-a glass, with dried, sticky orange crush on the bottom
-a LCD clock with the liquid crystal part blown out
-a picture of sean connery giving alex trebek the finger, signed 'with love, sean' on the back
-some nice shiny rims
-one of those pencils someones used as a chew toy, complete with with drool
-edible underwear
-a human arm severed above the elbow
-the great big book of 1337 to bad english
-one of those $10 Sears plushies
-the one ring, with 'made in taiwan' written on the inside band in elvish

[Hollister Man]

LOL @ evilgamemaker

One ring to rule them all
Onc ring to rind them
One ring to dring them all
and ing the darkness, bing them

(yes the typos are intentional, I have seen more Taiwanese instruction manuals than I care to relate.)

-a poorly written Taiwanese instruction manual for a tool someone broke because they couldn't read the manual

-a broken Taiwanese powertool

-a bucket of Velveeta

-a Lego(tm) webcam

-an ID card in a bottle

-a talking rotten tomato that wasn't in a bad mood.

[Radiant]

A jojo => Goonies II
A pen-eraser => Enchanter
A rubber-ducky => If it has a pulley in the middle, Monkey Island
A voodoo-mask => Fate of Atlantis
Some garlic => QfGIV and most any other game that has a vampire
An eurocoin => Future wars!
a gameboy => Space Quest Replicated has one, but you can't seem to take it anywhere (requires source hacking)
a sharktooth => I'm making a game that has one...
A copy of an adventure game => Space Quest IV. Okay, you can't TAKE them, but still.
The Sun => Cadaver has a number of planets you can take
91 and a half yards of twine. => Sam & Max?
A thermonuclear bomb => QfGV has a thermonukular spell, that's sort-of an item
A Big Mac => SQIII has a happy meal that assumedly contains one
a kazoo => Zak McKracken
DUCT TAPE?? => Zak McKracken again
Dirty Underpants => MI2 (or a bra in hard mode)
a seahorse => Spellcasting 301 has four of them
dried leaf => Various Dizzy games have leaves
A fart => Abe's Exoddus
some love; death => Ultima III
Have laserguns ever appear in a game before? => of course. Space Quest, to name one
"Lettuce, Broken bottle of ketchup, and a battery" => Maniac Mansion
Has there ever been a mousetrap? => Garfield has one but I don't think you can take it
A roll of toilet paper => Zak McKracken has toilet paper. It is unspecified whether it's a roll or not
A crazy man's hit list => Police Quest II
suction cup boots => Lemmings II ?? Also you use them in SQII but they don't appear in your inv
a violin => King's Quest
One ring to rule them all => Space Quest Replicated. No really!!

[Ali]

A Grim reaper suit

In Discworld II you have to aquire a Sythe and a black cloak for the purposes of reaping. I'm sure that counts.

Unused items...

A Kitten
The Roman Army
Botox

Actually, can you carry Botox?

[Redwall]

Shouldn't this be in "Popular Threads" by now?

[Sam.]

just to fit in...

-A pair of Jam trousers
-A hamster that when you pull one of its legs it turns into a sabutio table
-A broadband modem
-Mr T
-An apple ipod
-Orlando bloom
-a wheely bin with hugh heffner inside
-Reality on the norm
-A reversable duvet cover
-A straberry lasagne
-A pixel artist
-Avril Lavignes new album
-Busted
-Thunderbirds 1,2 and 3
-Spidermans mask
-Shrek and princess fiona
-A hat that turns into proffesor snape
-The entire colleciton of Encarta CDs
-A cycle helmet with a fitted gun turret
-A realtor
-An electric scooter


I think I should let my imagination have a rest now

[Radiant]

    *  handing
    * ing
    * expe
    * horneatologjamandarkover
    * booked
    * trap
    * tawbone
    * boranty
    * beamet
    * abation
    * citionism
    * subasecturme
    * sancureration
    * quaring
    * bow
    * munity
    * plodion
    * capancish
    * guists
    * aches

(from randomwordgenerator.com =) )

[BerserkerTails]

Someone mentioned a chess peice and a chessboard earlier. I know that there was at least ONE chesspeice (I think more) in "Tex Murphy: Overseer". I know you used them on a chessboard, but I don't think you actually possessed the chessboard.

[AGA]

And in Broken Sword and Betrayal at Krondor (although you could argue that that's not really an adventure...)

[Ozwalled]

I'm pretty sure there was a bow in Shannara (I think it was Shella's).

However, I'm not so sure I've ever seen these (and think they could be of some use):

-a thermometer
-a barometer
-a police scanner
-a speed gun (if that what you call those... you know, a device that measures speed of say, a car or of hockey puck or a baseball...)
-a stapler
-a whetstone
-dissapearing ink
-blueprints
-a level
-an exacto knife
-boxcutting knife
-nailclippers
-correcting fluid/ whiteout
-firecracker
-megaphone
-disposable camera
-tazer
-Bic "Crystal" Pen
-meterstick/ yardstick
-aluminum foil
-crampons
-tampons
-a dongle
-a protractor
-sandpaper
-bingo dabber
-a lemon
-a potato
-windowscreening
-grocery bags
-bottle of nasal spray
-contact lens solution
-jewler's eyepiece
-twist tie
-candy thermometer
-meat thermometer
-concealer/ concealing makeup
-sportsteam jersey
-highheel shoe
-plastic/ cellophane wrap

[evilgamemaker]

You forgot Vagasil, taco-sauce, a copy of Syndicate-Plus, and a pimp-mobile. lol

[Sam.]

heres some more
-The famous five
-A LAN cable
-My I.T. Teacher
-A lord of the rings poster with ll of teh faces scratched off and the cast of the matrix stuck over them
-Drew Barrymore
-A road bike
-A piec of A4 paper with eyes drawn all over it and the word spladam in the bottom right corner
-Slobodam Molosovich (sp)
-Spidermans left boot
-a pavement
-Some goats cheese with chocolate chips
-A tinfoil swan

[Minimi]

-A piec of A4 paper with eyes drawn all over it and the word spladam in the bottom right corner

hey, you stole my idea! I was going to use that in my next game!  :'(

[Secret Fawful]

-a poster of sly cooper and guybrush and spiderman beating the ( can i use the word crap on the forums?  ) out of each other for a cup of bug juice

- the ozone
-a cigar store indian
-an eagles nosehairs dipped in old ginger ale
-a grain of sand
-a bunch of schoolbooks from 1935
-the internet
-a fax/printer
-200 printed images of nothing
-a mouse with sam and max painted on its tail
-half of a horseshoe connected to a pistol
-a ps2
-every Batman comic from now to the 1930s

[Radiant]

Bow -> Conquest of the Longbow (duh)
a police scanner -> Police Quest IV iirc
a stapler -> Monkey Island has a staple remover
dissapearing ink -> Day of the Tentacle.
blueprints -> Maniac Mansion
correcting fluid/ whiteout -> Again, Day of the Tentacle
a lemon -> King's Quest II+
grocery bags -> Quest for Glory IV
jewler's eyepiece -> Monkey Island II
sportsteam jersey -> Space Quest II ?
highheel shoe -> Larry III
taco-sauce -> I'm pretty sure one of the Discworld games has wow-wow sauce.
A LAN cable -> juncquest?
Spidermans left boot -> Spiderman: the action game
a pavement -> No, but try it in the first room of Larry Vales
a grain of sand -> Larry II has a handful of sand, obviously containing grains
a bunch of schoolbooks from 1935 -> Indiana Jones TLC
the internet -> Ascendancy
200 printed images of nothing -> Future Wars has a blank stack of paper

Hee hee!

[evilgamemaker]

-a 1st edition CD of the original Warcraft
-a beany baby lizard ripoff
-a nonposable action figure of hellboy motioning 'Heyyyyyy!' with both hands
-a remote control for a vibrating bed
-a wooden nickle
-monopoly money
-a hamster head. on a stick
-the master sword (in a non link game)
-Radiant's brain of extensive adventure game inventory trivia
-antherax, uncontained (is that even possible...?)

wouldn't it be wonderful if somebody used some of these ideas in this thread for a serious game? that would take serious creativity to work

[Mephistophilis]

you get a bag of Wooden nickels in Monkey Island 3 I think.