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Infocom Text-based games!

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I found a link on the Jargon File to this site:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/

It has Java ports of lots of old games like Zork, the original Hitchhiker game, and many others!
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Text adventure (interactive fiction) games are cool. The ending of Babel made me depressed for awhile though.

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Wow, this is cool.
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LONG LIVE ZORK
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I already finished them all :P

I even wrote one once, but never "published" it.
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Ahh...I actually have a Zork CD collection.....
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I think SeaDiver or something like that was the first one of those I ever beat, and the only one with out using a faq
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