Text Adventures

[Pengwin]

I have a hankering to play a good text adventure. Any recommendations?

I'm not really fussed whether it has graphics or not.

 

I have and have completed Hitchikers, so don't worry about that one

Edited March 16, 2007 by Pengwin

[Rybags]

Infocomm had the best adventures IMO.

 

You don't need graphics with a good adventure - your imagination does better than any graphics card will ever be able to render.

 

I mainly played Zork 1 and 2 - but they had plenty of others. AtariMania should be able to list all Infocomms stuff, to make it easy to download.

 

 

There's the Scott Adams series as well, but I never really got into them

[deathtrappomegranate]

Infocom text adventures are all worth playing.

 

I'd also suggest the Mysterious Adventures series and anything by Jymm Pearson, if you like your games on the surreal side.

[JamesD]

You can try looking at this thread for others:

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=103622

[Pengwin]

I agree what people sat about the Infocom adventures, they are all worth playing.

 

And I know that Atarimania has quite an extensive list of text and text/graphic adventures. I was just after people opinions of which ones to have a play with.

[Goochman]

Asylum is a good text/graphic adventure. Ulysses and the GOlden Fleece is a bit slow and short but ok overall.

[Avram]

Look at the Level 9 adventures:

 

http://www.atarimania.com/lst_soft.php?MEN...n_sauver=Search

[Wrathchild]

I'd second the Level 9 vote - especially the Silicon Dreams trilogy.

 

Jymm Pearson's adventures - Curse of Crowley Manor is great!

 

I'd compiled the Mysterious Adventures onto a 128KB FlashCart

but the image has only been downloaded 14 times .

So here are the ROM images for playing under emulation

and/or blowing to a EPROM and putting on a real cart.

 

On the menu, the 'select' key moves the game selector on

which then wraps back to the top (no up I'm afraid)

 

Pressing the 'start' key then begins that title. Pressing start

by itself brings up the Channel 8 loader screen that was usually

seen on the cassette loader. To skip this, have the 'option' key

held down when you press 'start'.

 

Regards,

Mark

MysteriousCart.zip

[Pengwin]

I'd second the Level 9 vote - especially the Silicon Dreams trilogy.

 

Jymm Pearson's adventures - Curse of Crowley Manor is great!

 

I'd compiled the Mysterious Adventures onto a 128KB FlashCart

but the image has only been downloaded 14 times .

So here are the ROM images for playing under emulation

and/or blowing to a EPROM and putting on a real cart.

 

On the menu, the 'select' key moves the game selector on

which then wraps back to the top (no up I'm afraid)

 

Pressing the 'start' key then begins that title. Pressing start

by itself brings up the Channel 8 loader screen that was usually

seen on the cassette loader. To skip this, have the 'option' key

held down when you press 'start'.

 

Regards,

Mark

 

Well, that's 15 time now Mark

 

Thanks for that. Your efforts in converting games to cartridge are always appreciated.

[Wrathchild]

Now I've some time on my hands I should try completing

those Infocom flash carts that will let you save to flash or

disk (and I may even throw cassette in for good measure!)...

Games how we'd have loved to have had them back then

 

Then again I should also get back to the AR titles but

I'm on "decorating the little one's bedroom" duties this week.

[The Eidolon]

For Atari 8 bits I only played the Infocom ones. My favorites of those are

 

Enchanter

Zork 1-3

Infidel

Planetfall

Starcross

Suspended

 

I honestly can't remeber which ones came out on which platform.

 

I enjoyed Jewels of Darkness on the ST, and I know there was an 8-bit version.

The first one is the original Adventure/Colossal cave. I got quite a ways into the

second but nowhere on the third.

 

If you're not only interested in Atari platform text adventures, there's a number of good

ones for mainframes that you might not have encountered. Warp and Mystery Mansion

of the HP 3000 platform were both great. I don't have an HP 3000 of course, but there is

a public one that will let you log in and try them out remotely as a guest with save game

capability at:

 

http://hp3000.empireclassic.com/other_games.html

 

Warp is quite elaborate with a flexible parser and a huge number of puzzles. If anyone tries

it let me know--I could use some help! I'm only about 2/3 of the way through and have played

it on and off since it came out when I was a kid...

[dinosaur]

Not that it was really wonderful,but I loved (and stiil do!) Gruds in Space.

[advfan]

There's also The Mask of the Sun and The Serpent's Star for lovers of graphic/text adventures.

 

Other titles worth mentioning may be The Blade of Blackpoole, The Rainbird ones (Pawn, Guild of Thieves), some of the early Sierra titles (Dark Crystal) and a little known one from Melbourne House (text only) called Mordon's Quest.

[Wrathchild]

I've never played these two but can anyone who else comment if they were good?

They're "Essex" and "Mindwheel" from Synapse Software.

 

I ask as they may make good FlashCart conversion candidates, e.g. by removing any disk swap requests.

(Although remowilliams has first call on me doing Omnitrends Universe on cart first )

Edited March 20, 2007 by Wrathchild

[dinosaur]

There's also The Mask of the Sun and The Serpent's Star for lovers of graphic/text adventures.

 

Other titles worth mentioning may be The Blade of Blackpoole, The Rainbird ones (Pawn, Guild of Thieves), some of the early Sierra titles (Dark Crystal) and a little known one from Melbourne House (text only) called Mordon's Quest.

 

I agree 100% with Blade of Blackpool!

 

These mixed text and graphics adventures were (and still are!) my favorites!

[+RetroElectroDad]

Hi all, first post so be gentle!

 

I just had to recommend an Infocom title that I played years ago and still have somewhere - Leather Goddesses of Phobos. I really enjoyed that one with the different naughtiness settings (I think from "tame" to "lewd" if I remember rightly) and the scratch 'n sniff card. Very funny. I loved all the extras that Infocom put in their packaging and I think Goddesses also had a 3D comic with red/green glasses.

 

Also the Zork trilogy is a real classic and a "must play" and the Level 9 games are good. A bug I discovered in Level 9's Red Moon was that you could bury anything, even a giant that was blocking your path at one stage so you didn't need the actual solution. You had to be careful though as anything buried was gone forever.