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In 1984, Nicholas Coleridge emulated Fogg's trip, taking 78 days; he wrote a book titled Around the World in 78 Days. [17] In 1988, Monty Python member Michael Palin took on a similar challenge without using aircraft, as a part of a television travelogue, called Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin. He completed the journey in 79 days ...
80 Days is an interactive fiction game developed and published by Inkle. for iOS on July 31, 2014, [ 1 ] and Android on December 15, 2014. It was released for Microsoft Windows and OS X on September 29, 2015. [ 2 ]
The game is a typical adventure game. The player must collect objects and go to particular locations to reach the next objective. However, there are three limitations: time, money and fatigue. The latter may be ignored using means of transport and can be restored by eating food.
Around the World in 80 Days is a side-scrolling action-adventure game. Set in the 19th century, [2] it features pre-rendered sprites, and follows almost the film's storyline and most of its locations. [3] In the game, the player controls Passepartout, a Chinese valet hired by an inventor Phileas Fogg in attempts to circumnavigate the world in ...
Around the World in 80 Days (sometimes spelled as Around the World in Eighty Days) is a 1956 American epic adventure-comedy film starring David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton and Shirley MacLaine, produced by the Michael Todd Company and released by United Artists.
Inspired by Jules Verne's classic 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days, in which a character named Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days or less, Palin takes on the same task, prohibited from using aircraft in order to use a combination of trains, boats and other forms of transport, to take him across ...
The game reached Japan in the 7th century CE—where it is called go (碁) or igo (囲碁). It became popular at the Japanese imperial court in the 8th century, [91] and among the general public by the 13th century. [92] The game was further formalized in the 15th century. In 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu re-established Japan's unified national government.
Game board illustrating journalist Nellie Bly's circumnavigation of the globe (1889–1890), in the New York World, 26 January 1890. Round the World with Nellie Bly game board. Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is an 1890 book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly.