Best text-adventures

[kainemaxwell]

What are the best text-adventures anyone's here played for any system, be it Apple to C=64 to old age DOS games?

For me probably the Zork series and the Hermit (old C=64 game from the Compute magazines).

[lilmisstramp]

VOODOO CASTLE!!!!! YEAH!!!!

:twisted:

[YoshiM]

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! Ca-razy game.

[Griking]

I loved text adventures!!!

Infocom made the best, my favorites were (in order)

Planetfall
Sorcerer
Zork
Trinity
Enchanter

Moving away from Infocom, Telarium made some good games as well, they had graphics, but you still had to type in what you wanted your character to do.

Renduzvour with Rama
Nine Princes of Amber
Amazon

I also used to love Transylvania by Penguin Software/Polarware

Also, anyone ever play any of the Eamon adventure games?

[Raedon]

Great topic!

My fav text (and sometimes graphic) Adventures are:

1) Zork I
2) The Pawn (rainbird/Magnetic scrolls)
3) The Guild of Theves (magnetic Scrolls)
4) Adventure (multi-p
5) Alice in Wonderland (Magnetic Scrolls)
6) Jinxter (Rainbird/Magnetic Scrolls)
7) Hitchiker's guide
8) Zork III
9) Tass Times in Tone Town (Activision)
10) Planetfall

[kainemaxwell]

Anyone ever play The Hermit though?

How about after we get some names diwn we start an "offical" list?

[Britboy]

Adventure!

PLUGH! PLOVER! XYZZY!!!!!

You are in a twisty maze of passages, all alike...

[Buyatari]

I played many hours of Scott Adams on my TI 994/a but when I finnaly got my Atari 130XE I tore some shit up with the Infocom games.

Planetfall
Zork 1-3
and the Enchanter series were the best

For those of you still interested in this genre there seems to be a decent cult following.

Text Adventures are called IF nowadays. Interactive Ficition. Every year they have a contest for the best "homebrew" and you can download the entires for free. Some great stuff very well worth checking out and the price is right !!

ohh here is the link
http://www.wurb.com/if/award/1

Adam

[scooterb23]

I must confess that I never really got into the Zork games, loved Hitchhiker...and "Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head Or Tail Of It"

those were the only text adventures I ever played...

[Sniderman]

Best text adventure (other than the Zork series and any by Scott Adams) has to be The Lurking Horror by Infocom.

Imagine a Lovecraftian horror text adventure. It scared the livin' shit out of me. Remember the first time you played Resident Evil? Yeah, it's like that. Wow. Creepy, intense shit.

[theaveng]

Please explain: Why do you like them?

Troy

P.S. Now that I think about it, I did play ONE text/graphic adventure on my C=64. You were a man stranded on an island with amnesia. You had to find a away off the island, track down the person who abandoned you, and then kill them.

[Griking]

Compared to all of the other games that were out and available at the time, text adventures were just much more interesting. Unlike the repetitive gameplay of arcade games like Pacman, Asteroids, Space Invaders, in text adventures you had to actually think and plan what you were going to do. It wasn't all reflexes. Not to say that those games were bad but I need a variety in my games. Infocom games IMO were the best written adventures with the best volcabulary available.

[Sothy]

Fredrick pohls gateway

[kainemaxwell]

I have the urge to play through Zork now once I find them again...and if I could play Return to Zork, I would.

[mythicon]

I can't say enough good things about Adam Cadre's IF works, in particular Photopia, I-0, and his two shorter ones, 9:05 and Shrapnel. He also has a text-adventure version of golf. (!) They're available for free at http://www.adamcadre.ac/games.html. Some of them might not fit into your more traditional idea of an "adventure", which is kind of cool; the genre has definitely grown since the days of Adventure and the Scott Adams adventures (which is not to diss these games).

I also have a fondness to the hack-and-slash world of the Eamon adventures for the Apple //. They were public-domain and they varied wildly in quality, but even the bad ones were usually fun.

[Jorpho]

Everyone should play Rematch. That is one sweeeet game.

Of course, it was made in 2000, but that shouldn't discourage you. It's available from Underdogs. (9:05 and Pick Up The Phone Booth and Die are also worth a few minutes of your time.)
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