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Who here likes old (or new) text only games, a.k.a. Interactive Fiction?

Some were tedious...but the good ones were fun.

you can still play the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy one online some where. you can get to it from the FHM site

Zork!

Yes, they were a lot of fun way back in the day.....what ever happened to the likes of "Day of the Tentacle" or "Sam and Max : Hit the road" the graphic adventures and the text adventures of the good old days....where humor reigned supreme....

I liked muds, but i thought stuff like Zork was gay ... no interactivity.

Zork, Planetfall, and Suspended all hold special memories for me.
There was another that was cool, SpellBreaker I think ???

I played a game called GeneForge in December. It has simple graphics and a lot of reading. Not exactly the same, but the stories are deep and involving.

Spiderweb Software is already making a Geneforge 2.

The Exile/Avernum/Nethergate series are also fun to play.

I thought text adventures were fun. I found parser-based graphic adventure games even more fun, though.

I've always thought them fun, if a little clumsy on computer, I loved those choose your own adventure books.

I make this thread because once in a while I like fooling around with game making tools, like TADS or Inform... it's fun but I don't really have good writing skills (specially in english) so I always end up stuck with a neat plot and no text

My favorite is between Hitchhiker and Planetfall. Floyd rules

I find a well made Text Adventure Game to be far more enjoyable then almost all other types. But that's just me.

I've played one on my TI-83 before... Sucked.

It might be because the TI-83 wasn't really designed for text...

Slartibartfast wrote:I make this thread because once in a while I like fooling around with game making tools, like TADS or Inform... it's fun but I don't really have good writing skills (specially in english) so I always end up stuck with a neat plot and no text

My favorite is between Hitchhiker and Planetfall. Floyd rules

I usually name my primary computer Floyd.

Iv only played the Hitchhikers game, I got stuck.

Let me guess. You forgot your towel.

Or he did not know where to put the fish.