The Game of the Ages is an Adventure Game based on "The Duel of the Ages," a parody novella that was based in turn on two poorly selling fantasy series by Sam Stoddard and Dave Parker.
Your hometown, the Village of Boredom, is plagued by a race called the Shadows. To defeat them, you must explore other worlds, become a wizard and conquer an army or two along the way.
The game includes a much-hyped "secret area" that offers no particular clues as to its location. It's playable online
at Adventure Games Live.
The Game of the Ages provides examples of:
- Bag of Holding: Gasald's sack is big enough to carry the entire nearby cave. The character's counterpart in the source novel had an entire world in his sack.
- Broken Bridge: A wide desert keeps you from progressing until the plot sees fit to offer you a horse and a map.
- Clap Your Hands If You Believe: Many magical items turn out to contain no intrinsic power, but your initial belief in them imbue them with actual magic.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Besides the Village Idiot of Stupidity, enjoy your Magic Armor of Magic.
- The Ditz: The Village Idiot of Stupidity, who thinks a pick in the corner of the room keeps the roof from falling down.
- Gold–Silver–Copper Standard: Each town has just one coinage, but the first has copper, the second silver and the third gold.
- Literal Soapbox Speech: A man in the Laorsis Square stands on a soapbox to protest littering. His soapbox turns out to be the object of this particular puzzle, and you use it several times in your later adventures.