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    Quote Originally Posted by Flack
    The first text adventures were by a guy named Scott Adams.
    The first? They were probably some of the most famous early ones, but they were not the first. That honor goes to Colossal Cave by most accounts.

    (I also seem to recall that the license holder for Mr. Adams's games is still selling them online.)

    There are lots of high-quality freeware amateur "interactive fiction" pieces out there. I've heard lovely things about Photopia.

    I highly recommend Rematch, a particularly ingeneous use of the medium, in which you have an opportunity only to type a single command before you or your friends die in a tragic car accident. Such a satisfying game.
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    A huge favorite of mine was Infocom's "The Lurking Horror". I remember picking the Apple II version up at a computer convention in the mid 80's at the Cow Palace (for a whopping 2 bucks...that was like...holy shit what a find!). Cool little horror text adventure game set in an isolated college building (supposedly laid out exactly like a building at MIT...so I remember hearing) during a storm. Features 1 hand typing hackers, satanic professors, a term paper and cold Chinese food.

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    I remember one where you were in a vampire's mansion and you had to kill him in X amount of turns before he woke up and stalked you down and killed you. I never could beat it. Ring a bell for anyone?
    Thats from Scott Adams and the game is called "THE COUNT"

    "You wake up in a large brass bed in a castle somewhere in Transylvania. Who are you, what are you doing here, and WHY did the postman deliver a bottle of blood? You'll love this ADVENTURE, in fact, you might say it's Love at First Byte... "

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jorpho
    Quote Originally Posted by Flack
    The first text adventures were by a guy named Scott Adams.
    The first? They were probably some of the most famous early ones, but they were not the first. That honor goes to Colossal Cave by most accounts.
    I do believe Scott Adams was the first company to make commercial game software for personal computers, as I think his earliest titles came out in early 1978 for Apple ][ and TRS-80. (Maybe PET?). So, no, not the first text adventures, but the first for a personal computer. Unless there is an Adventure for the Altair, which is quite possible.
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    I do believe Scott Adams was the first company to make commercial game software for personal computers
    I am not sure if this is true or not. I really think there was another game out before his (ie Zork or CC ) but Scott Adams believes this and states it on his website.

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