erichenneke Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Zork was the gold standard of course. I spent a lot of time playing all the Scott Adams adventures too. Also, I remember Wizard and the Princess, Blade of Blackpool, Ulysses and the Golden Fleece, Mission Asteroid. Ah, good times. For a couple of years I remember thinking in two word verb+noun phrases. Kind of freaky when I think back about it now. MOVE RUG OPEN TRAP GO DOWN ...get eaten by a grue. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMil Posted January 7, 2017 Author Share Posted January 7, 2017 There are some decent text adventures from ANALOG computing and the public domain from back in the day, too... I remember Crash Dive and Spare Tire being fun. You may very well be right adam242. I remember that we took Analog magazine and one year we got the magazines with the diskettes. I'll look through my rather large pile of diskettes and see if I can pull any of those disks out. Come to think of it I think, I believe that I got some of those from Atarimax too. Thank you and thanks to everyone for all the feed back! David Milsop Kingwood, Texas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMil Posted January 7, 2017 Author Share Posted January 7, 2017 Zork was the gold standard of course. I spent a lot of time playing all the Scott Adams adventures too. Also, I remember Wizard and the Princess, Blade of Blackpool, Ulysses and the Golden Fleece, Mission Asteroid. Ah, good times. For a couple of years I remember thinking in two word verb+noun phrases. Kind of freaky when I think back about it now. MOVE RUG OPEN TRAP GO DOWN ...get eaten by a grue. Those were the days when I learned the Magic Phrase of gaming.... SAVE OFTEN!!! David 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 I have a game called Starship Titanic that I thought was a Scott Adams game, but as I look at the title I see that is was written by Douglas Adams. Is this the same person? The sadly late Douglas Adams is NOT the same person as Scott Adams of Adventure International fame. He is famous for his Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio plays and books and wrote a Hitchhiker game for Infocom as well as Bureaucracy. According to a Douglas Adams biography Starship Titanic was the first product of The Digital Village, an early multimedia/games/publishing company attempting to re-create something like the HHGTTG online. Starship Titanic didn't do well as it was probably the wrong product for the time and The Digital Village ceased to exist. I recently bought in on GOG but have yet to play it. If you liked it, give HHGTTG and Bureaucracy (and all of his books) a try, although both are very hard and probably not suitable for your great granddaughter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+David_P Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 I'm a fan of Planetfall, and still have a dot matrix copy of the Ballad of the Star Crossed Miner somewhere. (Anyone else wipe away a tear when you remember that moment?) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 There was a text/graphic adventure called Ulysses's and the Golden Fleece I think. One of the first games I played on my 8-bit. There is also Asylum which is a text/graphic adventure. Dallas Quest was pretty good also in the text/graphic genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormtrooper of Death Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 The Neverending Story had some nice graphics on the Atari 8bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savetz Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Carrington Vanston and I are doing a newish podcast where we play, then discuss, Infocom games. We announce what the next game we're going to play is, and invite people to play 'em too. The podcast is called Eaten By A Grue: you can hear in your podcast app or at http://monsterfeet.com/grue/ Kevin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 My old favourite was "Lords of Karma" a 48k game that came out on tape - that you should find easily these days. It took about 5 minutes? to initialize itself at the very start, when it would say "working...". It's one of the few games in which you can die, and then restart again on a mountain top. While not exactly capturing the flavour of - do good deeds and you'll do well in the game - it's a little bit different to others of the standard text adventure game - although it is one. I did manage to map it out - and it's not as hard as say the Scott Adams text adventure games. Harvey I love that game! I loved it so much, in fact, that I asked Nir Dary to burn me a copy on cart years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+davidcalgary29 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Wishbringer is a fantasy adventure thats easier than Zork and the Enchanter series and might appeal a bit more to kids. It is a bit younger than Zork and AFAIK has an improved parser and some hint features. I think you need to download the Wishbringer map as well but that's easily found using google. (One of my kids gave it a try but didn't finish it.) Playing experience much enhanced by the glow-in-the-dark feelie stone that came with the game. I used that thing as a nightlight until the glow finally faded out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMil Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 Thanks to all for all the suggestions. Now it's a matter of sifting through it all to find some games for a young girl (and me too)! David Milsop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 I don't think I ever laughed so loudly, playing a videogame by myself, as when I thought I had figured out the Babelfish puzzle, only to have yet ANOTHER problem show up. I was going to guess you were referring to MUD2, but if you didn't have the Internet, then I guess it must've been some other game. I loved how in Hitchhikers, if you typed something stupid, you might find it becomes part of the story later in the game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 I have a game called Starship Titanic that I thought was a Scott Adams game, but as I look at the title I see that is was written by Douglas Adams. Is this the same person? It's a good game with a very Scott Adams like theme and a rather droll sense of humor. I tested it and it plays well on my computer with XP but nothing after that. David Douglas Adams was a British author/humorist who later got into writing games. He also wrote a few Doctor Who episodes, and even appeared in at least one Monty Python Flying Circus sketch. So he's kinda like a 70s/80s geek icon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Here's a few I remember. I've include some that are text adventures with pictures. But back then the pictures were often crudely drawn and generic, and didn't really add much to the game. The Quest (Penguin) - graphics/text adventure Dark Crystal (Sierra) - graphics/text adventure based on the movie. The Sands of Egypt (Datasoft) - had some animation too IIRC Mindwheel (Broderbund) - In the early days of the text adventure genre, most developer had parsers that recognized only ACTION/NOUN commands "GO NORTH" "EAT APPLE", etc. While Infocom's understood full sentences. In the mid-80s, there was an effort by other text adventure developers to outdo the Infocom parser. Mindwheel was one of the first of these The Pawn (Firebird) - This first came to the Atari ST and made a splash because instead of crudely drawn graphics, it had some gorgeous bitmaps for graphics, as well as a full text parser. It was later ported to the Atari 8bit, and it still had good graphics for that system. It also had a full-sentence parser. Guild of Thieves (Firebird) - Like The Pawn, full sentence parser and graphics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricortes Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 I remember Knight Orc for having something of an anti hero. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_OrcI only played it on my ST though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakidski Posted January 23, 2017 Share Posted January 23, 2017 Knight Orc might be text only for Atari 8-bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitchcock4 Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 (edited) Your Grand daughter can play ZORK I online: https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/5zyoqrsugeopel3ffhz_vq/zork A rubber mat saying 'Welcome to Zork!' lies by the door. >take mat Taken. >eat mat I don't think that the welcome mat would agree with you. Edit: Zork 2 and 3 are available here. http://www.play.vg/games/153-Zork0Trilogy.html Edited January 24, 2017 by hitchcock4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaki Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 The podcast is called Eaten By A Grue: you can hear in your podcast app or at http://monsterfeet.com/grue/ Now I have that song stuck in my head again... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE This video really, really makes me want to waste my cash on a green monochrome Apple ][ monitor >_< I've include some that are text adventures with pictures. But back then the pictures were often crudely drawn and generic, and didn't really add much to the game. I feel like it's fair to count those types of games. Games like The Hobbit or Amazon were certainly different from games like Deja Vu or King's Quest, where you couldn't really play the game without the images. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 This video really, really makes me want to waste my cash on a green monochrome Apple ][ monitor >_< Man, I'd kill for one of those. And being that it's just a composite display, I could play all my retro consoles on the green screen. XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidMil Posted January 25, 2017 Author Share Posted January 25, 2017 The suggestions keep coming, and my list is getting long. But that's not a problem. Thanks to all for the suggestions and keep 'em coming. David Milsop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaki Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Man, I'd kill for one of those. And being that it's just a composite display, I could play all my retro consoles on the green screen. XD A lot of eBay auctions for them show that they're working (in the photos) by hooking them up to a DVD player =) It's kind of surreal to see black and white...in green. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
advfan Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 There is a little known German adventure that had an English version published in the UK. Lapis Philosophorum - The Philosopher's Stone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Android8675 Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 This HUGE thread on text adventures and NO mention of the IF Archive or the IFDB? (Think IMDB, but for Interactive Fiction) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Android8675 Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 Zork is kinda the big one, (based on the older game called Adventure). Actually it was originally called Colossal Cave Adventure. It ran on a PDP-10 mainframe and was based off the Mammoth Caves in Kentucky. Most recently featured in AMCs Halt and Catch Fire series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WIZZARD77 Posted January 25, 2017 Share Posted January 25, 2017 (edited) Does anyone have an English .atr of Lapis Philosophorum that works properly? The ones I can find lockup shortly after leaving the house. There is an .atx version on the forum but its a bit difficult to use on MyIDE II. Edited January 25, 2017 by WIZZARD77 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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