Repton Infinity High Score Anagrams

[SimonSideburns]

Was playing Repton Infinity on my Android based phone the other day and I recalled something that was written somewhere stating that the names in the high score table are anagrams, but what of? So I started playing with the letters. Here are the names I took from the screen (and the anagrams I have worked out so far) (edited with already found solutions):

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CARMEN OUTCROP = ACORN COMPUTER
OWEN TRADEMARK = NEWMARKET ROAD
PANDORA LEGUME = 
ANGELA LEOPARD = EDGAR ALLAN POE
WINSTON ANORAK = ROWAN ATKINSON
NORMAN OCULIST = MARTIN COULSON
ERICA DOORNAIL = RADIO CAROLINE
NANCY DEPLORED = 

Edit: Has anyone ever worked out other names from the list? Have a go if you can and see what you get.

There's only two left now...

[danielj]

OWEN TRADEMARK = Newmarket Road (Acorn's offices were there..).

d.

[Pernod]

Here's a few more:
ANGELA LEOPARD = Edgar Allan Poe
WINSTON ANORAK = Rowan Atkinson
ERICA DOORNAIL = Radio Caroline

[streaks]

PANDORA LEGUME: daemon earplug... lamer poundage... plum orangeade... lunar megapode... neural megapod... unpaged morale... napalmed rogue... nodule rampage... omega underlap... among a prelude... a damper lounge... a lumpen dog ear... man glued a rope... a moped granule... a lemon upgrade... undergo a maple... a gulper moaned... a modern plague... a planed morgue... a plumed orange... a demeanor plug... among a prelude... golden puma ear... mop lure agenda... u alarmed pengo... mule adage porn... duel game apron... nude polar game... pun ordeal game... drop algae menu...

up melange road...
enamel pug road...
enema plug road (woa)...
men plague road...

NO GOD DAMN IDEA



NANCY DEPLORED: canyon peddler... needy land crop... danced pronely... preclean noddy... a penny coddler... nerdy plod acne... add nylon creep... pond and celery... encradled pony.... a precoded lynn.... AGH MY BRAIN

The answers must be names of people or bands I don't know... pamela gounder/guerdon/grouden?

[joachim]

I've just realised the obvious: that there are sixteen more anagrams in the fictional credits for the included game files. Within each game there are two credits for "Scenery" (because it differs between the G.*A and G.*B files), one credit for each of Casting and Screenplay.

Repton 3 – Take 2:

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ERNEST CREVICE = SERVICE CENTRE
LAURA MENUS    = USER MANUAL
ELINOR DYNAMO  = LEONARD NIMOY
NATHANIEL RISC = CHRISTINA NEAL

Repton 4:

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KEN SOLEMNITY = MILTON KEYNES
DAN WRONGDOER = ANDREW GORDON
LUTHER JOLT   = JETHRO TULL
ROGER LEGENDS = GOLDERS GREEN

Robbo:

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ADAM PERILOUS = AUDIO SAMPLER
COLIN CARPET  = ERIC CLAPTON
BELLMAN PECK  = KEN CAMPBELL
LYDIA NEWTS   = WALT DISNEY

Trakka:

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KENNETH PIGS  = STEPHEN KING
ADAM THEATRES = THE MARAT/SADE
VERGIL RETINA =
ALICE MACHINE = MICHAEL CAINE

[sbadger]

Kenneth pigs = stephen king
Alice machine = michael caine
Elinor dynamo = leonard nimoy

[mjforbes]

NATHANIEL RISC = Christian Lane (who?)
KEN SOLEMNITY = Milton Keynes
DAN WRONGDOER = Andrew Gordon
COLIN CARPET = Eric Clapton
BELLMAN PECK = Ken Campbell
LYDIA NEWTS = Walt Disney

[joachim]

Thanks! That leaves Adam Perilous, Adam Theatres and Vergil Retina that we don't have answers to.

Also, who are Christian Lane, Andrew Gordon and Martin Coulson? Did we actually solve those correctly?

[streaks]

NATHANIEL RISC = Altiranischen / Christian Lane
DAN WRONGDOER = Andew Gordon / Gordon Andrew
ADAM THEATRES = The Marat/Sade

ADAM PERILOUS = Audio Sampler, Dualism Opera, Aplaudiremos (Portuguese first-person plural future-indicative of "aplaudir" which means "applaud"). Long shot.

VERGIL RETINA: gin retrieval... relieving art... virgin elater... girlie tavern... granite liver... trivial genre... relative grin... viral integer... genital river... real riveting.... clueless.

[SimonSideburns]

Also, who are Christian Lane, Andrew Gordon and Martin Coulson? Did we actually solve those correctly?

A quick search online would suggest that Martin Coulson was from a company called Atomwide. I didn't actually search further than what appeared on the search results in Google.

[barbarossa69]

NATHANIAL RISC is an anagram of CHRISTINA NEAL, who was an editorial assistant on Acorn User.

Too much of a stretch?

[davidb]

NATHANIAL RISC is an anagram of CHRISTINA NEAL, who was an editorial assistant on Acorn User.

Too much of a stretch?

No, I don't think it's too much of a stretch. I seem to remember that the authors of Repton Infinity both wrote for Acorn User, so it seems likely (to me, at least) that they would incorporate the names of their colleagues in their game.

[Kecske Bak]

No, I don't think it's too much of a stretch. I seem to remember that the authors of Repton Infinity both wrote for Acorn User

As did Rob Miller who did the music and graphics.

[joachim]

Also, who are Christian Lane, Andrew Gordon and Martin Coulson? Did we actually solve those correctly?

There's an Andrew Gordon named in the credits section of the OS 1.20 ROM (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_MOS#Credits).

[joachim]

Yet more anagrams! These are from Pipe Mania, another game (converted) by David Lawrence. There are sixteen names in cyclic order, and each time you load the game it randomly picks eight successive names to form the high-score table.

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LORINDA GIANT    = NATIONAL GRID
OSWIN MILLIBAR   = ROBIN WILLIAMS
AXEL TREESPANKER = EXTERNAL SPEAKER
FIONA THERMO     = FAITH NO MORE
LESLIE CRANIUMS  = NUCLEAR MISSILE
SUSIE GLANCE     = ALEC GUINESS (sic)
ENOCH MEMORIAL   = MICHAEL MONROE
KESTER FINNAN    = FRANKENSTEIN

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PETER SUNRISES   = USS ENTERPRISE
RUPERT BEAST     = PETER STRAUB
MARK STROBE      = BRAM STOKER
TONY SERAPHIN    = PIERS ANTHONY
BARONESS DELPHIC = CONSIDER PHLEBAS
PATTY EUROCLOWN  = CLAYTOWN TROUPE
SETH MAORI       = AEROSMITH
LAURA CONDUCT    = COUNT DRACULA

[Pernod]

Filled in some of the blanks:

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LORINDA GIANT    = NATIONAL GRID
OSWIN MILLIBAR   = ROBIN WILLIAMS
AXEL TREESPANKER = EXTERNAL SPEAKER
FIONA THERMO     = FAITH NO MORE
LESLIE CRANIUMS  = NUCLEAR MISSILE
SUSIE GLANCE     = ALEC GUINESS
ENOCH MEMORIAL   =
KESTER FINNAN    = FRANKENSTEIN

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PETER SUNRISES   = USS ENTERPRISE
RUPERT BEAST     =
MARK STROBE      = BRAM STOKER
BARONESS DELPHIC =
PATTY EUROCLOWN  =
SETH MAORI       = AEROSMITH
LAURA CONDUCT    = COUNT DRACULA

[joachim]

That's not how you spell "Alec Guinness" … but you're probably right.

[joachim]

Yet even more still again! (to quote a famous forum member). This is from Tactic by Andrew Pepperell (Superior 1991). From the ones I've solved, these are definitely anagrams but not of names of people or things:

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SLICE OUT TRACK! =
BIKE MOTHS CAME  =
STROCTLOW FALCON =
THREE NATO PINS  =
HIRO CHASE FROG  =
LONWAY PACT      = TWO CAN PLAY
MITHA GATES      = AT THIS GAME
EL LOUSY TSUNAMI = SIMULTANEOUSLY

[jms2]

First line is Tactic Rules OK!

[barbarossa69]

It's instructions to the game... Not sure I've got this entirely right though..

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SLICE OUT TRACK! = TACTIC RULES OK!
BIKE MOTHS CAME  = MAKE THE COMBIS
STROCTLOW FALCON = FOLLOW CONTRACTS
THREE NATO PINS  = IN ANOTHER STEP
HIRO CHASE FROG  = GO SEARCH FOR HI
LONWAY PACT      = TWO CAN PLAY
MITHA GATES      = AT THIS GAME
EL LOUSY TSUNAMI = SIMULTANEOUSLY

[joachim]

Ok … I think the middle lines should be:

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THREE NATO PINS  = EARN THE POINTS
HIRO CHASE FROG  = FOR A HIGH SCORE

[barbarossa69]

Ok … I think the middle lines should be:

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THREE NATO PINS  = EARN THE POINTS
HIRO CHASE FROG  = FOR A HIGH SCORE

Haha of course yes, that makes much more sense!

[Rich Talbot-Watkins]

Codename Druid from Acorn User is another game by Daves Lawrence and Acton (credited to "Chris Ruseman"). And the high score name is LEO BRIEFCASE, which I can only assume is also an anagram.

Also in the article itself are some odd names ("cumentexis" and "Brationst") which are either anagrams or just made-up words. The latter kinda sounds too awkward not to be an anagram. Having said that, I can't solve any of them.