Granddad is an old wheelchair-bound git, who can never remember what day it is, where he is and on occassions, who he is. This is to be expected of a man his age but what makes Grandad even more of a git than most is his habit of hiding everything in rather strange places and them forgetting where he put it.
Waking up one morning he discovers that there is a bit of a nip in the air and decides that he'll need to put on his string vest but can't quite remember where it is...
Grandad can't remember what tropes do appear in his game:
- Bigger on the Inside:
- From outside Granddad's house looks fairly narrow since it's attached to a row of similar houses. Yet the interior consists of several large rooms on every floor.
- The same can be said about Granndad's toolshed which is absurdly spacious inside despite being hardly larger than a porta-potty.
- Bait-and-Switch: A moderate pile of straw in the toolshed just screams "There's a needle hidden in me somewhere!" but examining it yields nothing at all.
- Blackout Basement: Evetually Granddad's search leads him into his house's basement. There's no lights so he has to use a flashlight to navigate.
- Character Name and the Noun Phrase: Granddad and the Quest for the Holey Vest
- Child Hater: According to his immediate comment Granddad doesn't like kids very much.Granddad: It's that spoiled spotty little brat from next door.
- Dirty Old Man:
- One of the possible answers to the well-endowed female neighbor asking for butter is to show Granddad her knockers in return. It doesn't yield the desired outcome though.
- The upper floor is also riddled with large posters and paintings of conventionally attractive nude women.
- Last but not least Granddad has hidden a porn stash under his mattress.
- Double Entendre: Granddad's young and well-endowed female neighbor asks for some butter. She says a little knob is enough. Granddad ponders whether she realizes what she just said.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": All people you talk to in the game address you as Granddad. Well except the nurse who calls you an old git instead.
- Evil Cripple: Downplayed. Granddad isn't really that evil, just a sore wheelchair-bound Jerkass. When he does harm other people, it's usually through his dementia-induced recklesness.
- For the Lulz: Granddad tied and gagged his nurse with a sticky tape, closed her into a linen basket in the spare bathroom which he locked for two days. The reason? It was fun to him. It certainly wasn't for her and she's not shy to tell him.
- Guide Dang It!:
- There is a particularly obscure "puzzle" in the game that has no hint leading to it. One item is buried in the backyard three steps from the rightmost garden gnome. Even examining the groung doesn't give you any hint. If you have no idea where to look you just have to dig up your whole garden.
- The cellar under Granddad's home is a literal maze, you have no idea how large it is and there's no hint on what to search for and where it is.
- Hairpin Lockpick: The only way to open the door to the lounge is to pick it with a hairpin.
- Here We Go Again!: Granddad finally gets his hands on the coveted vest and realizes, he doesn't even need the thing. Then he notices his fingernails could use a trim. Now where did he put that nail clipper...?
- Jerkass: The titular character doesn't spare a kind word to anyone.
- Loads and Loads of Loading: Transfering between rooms takes some time to load all the data on the old 8-bit system. What's worse, there is no loading indicator so it looks like the game just froze. Have we already mentioned that there's quite a lot of rooms?
- Minimalist Cast: There are only three people besides Granddad in the game. His neighbor, her son and a nurse.
- Missing Child: Grandchild in this case as on the top of Granddad's drawers stands a framed photo of his long lost granddaughter Sharon.
- Mouse Hole: There is one in the wardrobe next to his bedroom. It serves no other purpose than make Granddad mad.Granddad: "Bloody mice!"
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Looking out the bedroom window nets you the following comment.Far away outside two people can be seen jumping in tall grass. They look a bit like Syd Barett and Lord Lucan.
- Scatterbrained Senior: The root of all Granddad's problems is his constant forgetting where he put his belongings due to advanced dementia.
- Secret Room: As if hiding his things in improbable places wasn't enough, Granddad also has a secret room somewhere in his house as the angry nurse tells him. This is where he put his coveted string vest.
- "Shaggy Dog" Story: Once Granddad finally gets his hands on the coveted string vest he realizes it's nice and sunny outside so he has no idea why did he even want the thing. At least he admits he had fun looking for it. Then he notices his fingernails could use a trim and wonders where he put his nail clipper.What a day it's been! It's nice and sunny outside so what the hell do you want this bloody vest for anyway?
- Shareware: The keypad in the cellar locks you out of the rest of the game and you had to purchace the code from the developer. Nowadays the code is availiable online for free if you can Google a bit.
- Sound-Coded for Your Convenience: Every time you get an item or succesfully solve a problem, the game plays a peculiar jingle.
- Ungrateful Bastard: The neighbors' boy who keeps throwing his ball into Granddad's front yard acts like a jerk to him, when you give it back to him.Kid: My mom said you smell of pee.
- Unintentionally Unwinnable:
- The wheelchair is electric and has limited battery power. Thus if you aimlessly roam around too much, you can end up stuck forever. Good thing you can save your game at any time, right?
