69105 is a number that became somewhat of an in-joke in several Infocom games
There are 69,105 Christmas Tree Monsters.
- Bureaucracy
The sample transcript includes a ticket with the description:
"Ticket number 69105. Seat 25F. Acme Building Auditorium.
"
Running the adventure game cartridge causes the Boysenberry computer to crash almost immediately, with the message, "INTERNAL ERROR 69105.....
".
- Deadline
The serial number on the pharmacy label on the tablets is 69105.
- Leather Goddesses of Phobos
There are 69,105 leaves in the sack found in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Trinity
There are 69,105 leaves in the book in the cottage.
At the lake edge, a "count leaves" gives
"A quick count turns up exactly 69,105 leaves.
"
- The Witness
The gun receipt used as a bookmark in the mystery book is number 69105.
Probably its most famous appearance:
On the ground is a pile of leaves.
>count leaves
There are 69,105 leaves here.
"This zoo, with 69,105 cages, is easily the largest in Quendor.
"
Entering the Theater from the Cultural Complex:
- "
Built to the precise specifications of Lord Dimwit Flathead, its excessive structure holds 69,105 seats, …
"
Appearances in later games[edit | edit source]
- In Adam Cadre's game I-0:
>open trunk
You open the trunk, revealing your laundry.
>examine laundry
There are 69,105 pieces of laundry here.
- In the NES version of Ultima: Quest of the Avatar, one of the mages claims he's working on a book that has 69,105 pages so far.
- In the Kingdom of Loathing strange leaflet game-within-game, a parody of classic text adventures, you can
count leaves
and find 69,105 of them.