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One of my favorite games of all time.
Anyone remember:
The object of this game is figure out the object of this game.
We played the forerunner to Zork, simply called 'Adventure', on a terminal at Oakland University. It printed out text on green and white striped paper -no screen. We played for hours... It was absolute magic. Must have been 1977 or thereabouts. Good memories, very good memories.
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Hell yeah. There is a lot to be said for the power of the imagination. It has qualities no audio/visual can touch. That's why I have a fondness for tabletop RPGs. :) I almost pity kids these days. They are always given more, when sometimes less is so much more fun. Well, actually now that I think of it, there is Minecraft. I wont even touch that game. It looks like too much fun.
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I rarely play RPGs anymore... Last one my kids got I couldn't recognize. It was full of movement rules and miniature placement, it was I think replacing imagination with arguable rules. Made me think the designers got into too many arguments with their DMs. So sad. I love to see my kids still dress in costumes and run around the back yard, carrying out 'cat warrior' adventures. Imagination is alive and well.
AnSionnachRua · 5137 days ago · link ·
Makes me feel sad that I missed out on the era of text-based adventure games; they were before my time.
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> Makes me feel sad that I missed out on [...] text-based adventure games
There's a hobbyist community still making these games. They're free and many of them are quite good: http://ifdb.tads.org/search?sortby=rcu&newSortBy.x=0&...
No reason why you can't live the adventure today! http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/zork1.html
Protip: Stay out of the dark. :) Honestly, the game does have a great mix of humor, puzzles, and exploration.
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thenewgreen · 5137 days ago · link ·
This is fun, took up way too much of my time though... but fun.
AnSionnachRua · 5137 days ago · link ·
Thanks for linking it. I'm, well, lost. But at least I've discovered where that line "You are likely to be eaten by a grue" comes from.
I should make a map...
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Spoiler alert. http://almy.us/image/dungeon.jpg This was the one used by the developers, if I remember correctly.
"You are likely to be eaten by a grue" I think it should say very likely. :)