Text-based Classics

[kainemaxwell]

Were your favorite text-based games to play like Zork, The Hermit, etc?

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

[scooterb23]

What PDF said

I also really liked "Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head Or Tail Of It"

Lots of dumb words puzzles and such, I liked it a lot.

[kainemaxwell]

Anyone ever play The Hermit?

[oesiii]

HHGTG of course and Planetfall/Stationfall, those Infocom games had some fun robots in them

[Lady Jaye]

You can play a Java-based version of HHGTG or download the software version (you need the infocom emulator to play it).

[Ze_ro]

Do Rogue and Nethack count?

--Zero

[AB Positive]

I still wish I had the copy of Return to Zork that included the Zork Compilation on it. There was a huge hint book that would mock you for using it... classic.


H2G2 is classic as well, another version of the series written by Adams himself that barely resembles any other version

EDIT: I almost forgot, there's an interactive fiction contest every year, where people make these games and put them up to judging. Not only that, but really bad IF games sometimes get the MST treatment, where people will write in Joel and the bots mocking the narration of the game.


http://www.ifarchive.org/

check it out!

-AG

[TNTPLUST]

You can play a Java-based version of HHGTG or download the software version (you need the infocom emulator to play it).

Really cool! Did not know this. I just remarked in another forum that the Babel Fish puzzle is one of my favorites!

[Sotenga]

Thy Dungeonman, of course. I still can't get ye flask.

Seriously, I've never really been partial to text adventures. But I've always liked HGTTG, and I remember playing that Flash version. I still don't know how the hell you get through the bedroom door. x_x

[Dan Iacovelli]

I used to enjoy playing Scott adams Adventure on the ti-99/4a those were pretty cool back in the day.

[Flack]

Thy Dungeonman, of course. I still can't get ye flask.

Seriously, I've never really been partial to text adventures. But I've always liked HGTTG, and I remember playing that Flash version. I still don't know how the hell you get through the bedroom door. x_x

Nobody was "partial" to them -- we played them because there wasn't anything else to play. Despite how many people claim to love Infocom, we would have all gladly traded those 2 word parsers for a PS2, XBOX, or Gamecube. Or just a joystick.

[scooterb23]

Slap Flack

- With what?

Slap Flack With Fish

- You don't have a fish

Get Fish

- Taken

Slap Flack With Fish

- You slap Flack with the fish, which Flack does not seem to appreciate. Flack throws New York Times Sunday Edition (with Magazine) at your head.

You are dead.


You are in a barn. There is nothing here but yourself, a pitchfork and a lantern. There is a door to the south, and a ladder that appears to lead to a loft.

[oesiii]

Thy Dungeonman, of course. I still can't get ye flask.

Seriously, I've never really been partial to text adventures. But I've always liked HGTTG, and I remember playing that Flash version. I still don't know how the hell you get through the bedroom door. x_x

Nobody was "partial" to them -- we played them because there wasn't anything else to play. Despite how many people claim to love Infocom, we would have all gladly traded those 2 word parsers for a PS2, XBOX, or Gamecube. Or just a joystick.

Hey! Some people like to read just because some kids can't don't put us down

[Flack]

Ok, let me restate that; we played them because there was no alternative.

[scooterb23]

Actually, I have all the alternatives you could ask for, and in the last week, I'm playing nothing but text adventure games

There is a certain charm to these games that you can't get with graphics

*waits for massive AAAAARRRGGGHH followed by Flack's head exploding*

Just playing around man, I know what you mean, and I do agree that once graphics for games got better, that this kind of game went away very quickly. I still like 'em though

[kainemaxwell]

Watch out for grues.

[Ze_ro]

I have to admit that I've never been overly fond of text adventures... I think I just have too short of an attention span for them, or I just can't visualize things well enough to keep track of what I'm doing... however, I've recently been fiddling around with Frotz and some of the stuff I've found over at ifarchive. Anyone have any (non-infocom) favorites from the archive to recommend?

--Zero

[kainemaxwell]

Wow, no one played The Hermit?

[scooterb23]

Sorry Kaine, never heard of the Hermit. Is there someplace to download it from so I can give it a proper run through???

Gotta say again how much I love Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy