Do You Think Death Could Possibly Be A Boat?

Among my many oddities is an obsession with old Infocom games and text adventures in general.  I can never solve them (ok, so I solved one that I beta tested for the IF contest years ago), but I still love them.  In fact, one of the largest applications on my Palm is Frobnitz, a Z-code interpreter.  Not that it's all that fun to play a text adventure with Graffiti or a stylus keyboard, but it's still there.

Anyways, I discovered an online text adventure based on Hamlet.   Yes, that Hamlet.  The one written by Shakespeare, with the murders, and the madness, and the suicides, and all that stuff.  It's not too easy, and doesn't always work in anything other than Internet Explorer, but how can you not love a game where the command 'kill Claudius with scissors' elicates the following response:

"Hamlet!" she snaps. "How many times have I told you NOT to murder your relatives! I know it's difficult for a Shakespearian lead, but…"

While you're at it, why not check out the Shakespeare Monkey Simulator, which tries to answer the age old question without resorting to RFC 2795.

Today's title is worth 2 points.