<Li> A mill chute ride, called' Journey to the Center of the Earth' and loosely based on the book, existed at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom from 1960 to 1992 . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Video games called Journey to the Center of the Earth: in 1984 by Ozisoft for the Commodore 64; in 1989 by Topo Soft for the ZX Spectrum and in 2003 by Frogwares . </Li> <Li> A board game adaptation of the book designed by Rüdiger Dorn was released by Kosmos in 2008 . </Li> <Li> A concept album called Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Rick Wakeman, was released in 1974 . It combines song, narration and instrumental pieces to retell the story <Ul> <Li> Rick Wakeman released a second concept album called Return to the Centre of the Earth in 1999, it tells the story of a later set of travelers attempting to repeat the original journey . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Alien Voices, an audio theater group led by Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie, released a dramatized version of Journey to the Center of the Earth through Simon and Schuster Audio in 1997 . </Li> <Li> Christopher Lloyd's character of Doctor Emmett Brown, one of the two main fictional characters of the Back To The Future film series, attributed the origins of his lifelong devotion to science to having read as a child the works of Jules Verne in general, and Journey to the Center of the Earth in particular . (This is evident when he reveals that he tried to dig to the Center of the Earth at the age of twelve .) Back to the Future Part III, especially, pays homage to Journey of the Center of the Earth where Dr. Brown carves his initials in a mineshaft after storing the time machine, just like Arne Saknussemm did to help guide future explorers . At the end of the film, it is also revealed that Dr. Brown's two sons are named Jules and Verne . </Li> <Li> Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote the Pellucidar series using the Journey to the Center of the Earth concept . </Li> <Li> The surname of Kathy Ireland's character in Alien From L.A. (1988), a film about a girl who falls through the earth and discovers a repressive subterranean society, is Saknussemm . </Li> <Li> The 1992 adventure / role - playing game Quest for Glory III by Sierra Entertainment used Arne Saknoosen the Aardvark as a bit character for exploration information, alluding to the explorer Arne Saknussemm . </Li> <Li> The DC Comics comic book series Warlord took place in Skartaris, a land supposed to exist within a Hollow Earth . Its creator, Mike Grell, has confirmed that "the name comes from the mountain peak Scartaris that points the way to the passage to the earth's core in Journey to the Center of the Earth ." </Li> <Li> Louis MacNeice's final play Persons from Porlock contains a reference to Journey to the Center of the Earth at the beginning . Because his mother used to read it aloud to him, Hank became' completely fascinated' with' caves and pot - holes and things' (p 111). At the end of the play' Herr Professor Lidebrock' is one of the characters Hank meets down the pot hole . Hank says to him,' Oh, my dear Professor, I've always wanted to meet you, since my mother used to read me your adventures . How you went down the volcano and ran into all those mastodons . But, of course, in your case you got out again .' The Professor replies,' That was because I am a character in fiction .' He continues,' Jules Verne invented me' (p 141). </Li> <Li> Halldór Laxness, the only Icelandic author to be awarded the Nobel Prize, situated his novel Under the Glacier in the area of Snæfellsjökull . The glacier has a mystic quality in the story and there are several references to A Journey to the Center of the Earth in connection with it . </Li> <Li> In the Exile computer game series and its remake, the Avernum series, the player's party is exiled to a vast underground cavern similar to the one described in A Journey to the Center of the Earth . It also contains a subterranean ocean and networks of tunnels, but it is lit by bioluminescent mushrooms rather than an electric phenomenon . One of the goals of several of the games is to escape from the cavern . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Video games called Journey to the Center of the Earth: in 1984 by Ozisoft for the Commodore 64; in 1989 by Topo Soft for the ZX Spectrum and in 2003 by Frogwares . </Li> <Li> A board game adaptation of the book designed by Rüdiger Dorn was released by Kosmos in 2008 . </Li>

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