Longshot...but any of you guys into the old Infocom games?

[+davidcalgary29]

Another' date=' non-Infocom paser-based game I enjoyed was Mask of the Sun.[/quote']

 

Great game, though it took me nearly a week to get past the lava river with the randomly-disappearing stone. The A8 version was on 4 disks, and load times were incredibly long.

[Jess Ragan]

I liked the text adventure games when I was a kid... I even WROTE one when I was in high school. Mind you, it wasn't a great game (it was filled with buggy code and silly in-jokes), but it was a text adventure.

 

Anyway, I don't really play those kinds of games anymore, but I was lucky enough to find a copy of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for IBM PCs at a Goodwill store. It had everything in it, including the DON'T PANIC! button and the intergalactic fluff. I think I might have misplaced the microscopic space fleet, though... I mean, I've still got the bag, but I can't tell for sure if the fleet's still in there or not!

 

JR

[+Random Terrain]

I played a lot of them back in the 1980s and then in the early 1990s on my Amiga 500, but I don't care for them as much anymore. I get tired of going from here all the way back over to where I was because I missed an important object that I should have found. I used to think I would like a graphical version better, but games like Silent Hill make you do the same kind of thing. Walk a million miles one way, then the game makes you walk all the way back as if that's supposed to be fun.

[SimonTemplar]

I remember Zork and Leather Godesses of Phobos.

 

I especially enjoyed the Telarium (not infocom but text adventures) games like Dragonworld, Farenheit 451 and Moon over Rama. The greatest was Perry Mason.

[tiggerthehun]

So nobody else tried "enjoy mud"?

Give it a shot next time you play Hitchhiker's, upon lying down in front of the bulldozer.

[tyranthraxus]

As a kid they were a bit mystifying. I wondered why did people make

games with no graphics

 

Just before I got rid of the 64 at about age 12 or so. I did start to

appreciate them a bit more. Maps and notes are a must. Some of them

are pretty brilliant. Mask of the Sun was a favorite since it had some

graphics to go with the text. Hitchikers I also spent a lot of time

with, but also never got off the Heart of Gold.

 

In my eary teens, I was really into Sierra's graphical text games.

King's Quest, etc. All were a lot of fun but for some reason the new

adventure games don't appeal as much, apart from the horror set

ones like Resident Evil and Silent Hill.

[gdement]

I finally finished "Witness" on my Apple //c just about a year ago, after it had been sitting idle for a very long time. So at ~17 years, it holds the record for the longest time to completion for any game I've beaten. I bought Zork Zero sometime in the late 80's, but I've never played it to this day because that game actually requires 2 disk drives, and I only have one. Even though it can't access both drives simultaneously, it won't let you load the game without 2 drives.

 

If Atari had sold the keyboard attachment, it might have been interesting to see Infocom games on the 7800, free of load time. I wonder if that would have worked.

[Bivotar]

I was a HUGE fan of the Infocom games in my teens. I had several titles for my ol' C64, which I still have tucked away along with hand-drawn maps and such. Plantefall was probably my favorite.

 

The link to the collection of games and PC emulator posted early in this thread seems to be dead. Anybody have any clues as to a similar repository???

[Cap5750]

So nobody else tried "enjoy mud"?

Give it a shot next time you play Hitchhiker's' date=' upon lying down in front of the bulldozer.[/quote']

 

>enjoy mud

It occurs to you that you've never deliberately lain in any mud before and that it's actually a pleasant sort of squishy sensation. You let the mud ooze between your toes. You may be here for some time, so you may as well make the most of it.

 

The bulldozer thunders toward you. The ground is shaking beneath you as you lie in the mud.

 

LOL

 

Cap

[Godzilla]

I -LOVE- infocom games, and try to get my grubby hands on as many complete ones as I can. They are truly something that is unemulateable imho. It's just not the same without the stoness and bags of miniturized space fleets and stuff. I really wish they still made games like Infocom did. They still have the best graphics, to this day.

[Cap5750]

I don't need the stones, or the scatch and sniff stickers, though they were cool.

 

I use WinFrotz from here: http://www.latz.org/infocom/index.shtml#ZIP

 

Works very well.

 

Cap

[Cap5750]

And let us not forget that from the ashes of Infocom arose Legend Entertainment. And if you try to go to the Legend Entertainment website, guess where you end up? Yes, that's right, you end up at Atari!

 

Cap

[bcostin]

Yup, I love text adventures. HHGTG, Witness, Suspended, the Enchanter trilogy, and, of course, Zork.

 

I have both of the "Lost Treasures of Infocom" collections, and a bunch of the original games (with the awesome original packaging) in C64 or Amiga format from back in the day. I have some game images and a version of Frotz on my PocketPC, too.

 

The somewhat simpler pre-Infocom adventures like Colossal Cave are a lot of fun too. As are latter-day games using the Infocom engine and other parsers. Look up the Interactive Fiction Archive if you haven't been there before.

[tiggerthehun]

So nobody else tried "enjoy mud"?

Give it a shot next time you play Hitchhiker's, upon lying down in front of the bulldozer.

 

>enjoy mud

It occurs to you that you've never deliberately lain in any mud before and that it's actually a pleasant sort of squishy sensation. You let the mud ooze between your toes. You may be here for some time, so you may as well make the most of it.

 

The bulldozer thunders toward you. The ground is shaking beneath you as you lie in the mud.

 

LOL

 

Cap

 

Glad you enjoyed!

[Cap5750]

Anyone know of a place to get Hacker?

 

I believe that's the one that starts with the

 

Login:

 

and you have to break in.

 

I found it on HOTU, but it says they can't make it downloadable because of Activision. Activision doesn't sell it anymore.

 

Cap

[desiv]

Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but..

 

put "hacker" and "d64" into a google search and the 2nd hit for me had a DL link..

 

Course, you'd have to have a 64 Emulator.

 

I forgot about that game.. Used to love that one..

 

Think I'll search for the Amiga version.. I use to have that one when I had my Ami...

 

er.. I think so.. Or did I have Hacker for the C64 and Hacker II for the Amiga??? It's been so long, I can't remember... :-)

 

Well, I'll see if I can jog my memory..

 

desiv

[Cap5750]

I was thinking of a PC version, but yeah...that was it.

 

And it runs in Vice pretty well.

 

Cap

[tyranthraxus]

Anyone else enjoy the 'hacking' mode of PS2 Matrix? I really enjoyed

having to brush up on my DOS skills for that.