Vrecknidj
Warlord
10493 Posts
    
United States
 | | 01/15/2006 5:39 PM |
| So, did you play Zork when it came out?
I did. Loved it. My 16-year-old stumbled across it the other day and is now officially hooked.
It's free these days: http://www.infocom-if.org/downloads/downloads.html
Dave | |
Knowledge Arcana editor issues 5-9, Phoenix Lore Magazine editor, assistant editor for Rite Publishing;
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Terentia
Sneak
62 Posts
| | 01/15/2006 6:19 PM |
| OMG! I remember playing those games and loving it.
Will it work under Windows XP? | |
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Oni
Underboss
1131 Posts
| | 01/15/2006 8:56 PM |
| The site is either dead or I am once again show how little I know about the web... I loved that game. BRING BACK THE OLD TEXT BASED GAMES!!! Now adays its nothing but eye candy.
I remember playing Return to Zork for half a year thinking the man in the crystal ball needed to be recharged because he was stuttering... come to find out my sound card was below par [:D]. | |
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dj-chuckles
Underboss
2455 Posts
The State that invented Spam!
| | 01/15/2006 10:00 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Oni
The site is either dead or I am once again show how little I know about the web... I loved that game. BRING BACK THE OLD TEXT BASED GAMES!!! Now adays its nothing but eye candy.
I remember playing Return to Zork for half a year thinking the man in the crystal ball needed to be recharged because he was stuttering... come to find out my sound card was below par [:D].
There are some great text based games out there called MUDs... Multi-User Dungeons -
using telnet or a program called zMUD from:
http://www.zuggsoft.com
Or goto:
http://www.aardmud.org - Its a great game 400 players constantly, friendly environment. FREE... | |
Posted By WakeXX on 09/25/2006 4:49 AM OMG DJ!This has to be the spammiest spam thread ever! 
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Corim Danex
Warlord
6842 Posts
West Valley City, Utah
| | 01/16/2006 2:16 AM |
| I played Zork. I wasn't very good at it. But I tried. I never beat it. I recall needing to say Ulysses at one point and various other sundry details. I think I acquired Zork 2 & 3 also, but progressed even less in those games. I am such a visual person that having the game be completely text based was really difficult. I don't mean I need super graphics to enjoy a game. I loved Pool of Radiance (the old game). I just have difficulty tracking what is happening without graphics of any kind.
There was also a similar game that was based on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Since I was lost when I tried reading that book when I was about 12, I never really got past the part when I stuck a wiggly translating thing in my ear. | |
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Terentia
Sneak
62 Posts
| | 01/16/2006 9:30 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Oni
The site is either dead or I am once again show how little I know about the web... I loved that game. BRING BACK THE OLD TEXT BASED GAMES!!! Now adays its nothing but eye candy.
I remember playing Return to Zork for half a year thinking the man in the crystal ball needed to be recharged because he was stuttering... come to find out my sound card was below par [:D].
It's not dead. When you get the error screen click on "here" to get to the main menu and then go to "downloads". I have xp and was able to play Zork I. I forgot how you had to keep track of things. [:D] | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10493 Posts
United States
| | 01/16/2006 11:13 AM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Terentia
I forgot how you had to keep track of things. [:D]
My son said roughly the same thing after he played it for the first time. "Man, I'm gonna need a map!"
Dave | |
Knowledge Arcana editor issues 5-9, Phoenix Lore Magazine editor, assistant editor for Rite Publishing;
My Trade Thread and My Reference Thread; Winner of WBC IV, IX and XIII; Rule #0: bshugg is always right! | |
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Vrecknidj
Warlord
10493 Posts
United States
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Oni
Underboss
1131 Posts
| | 01/16/2006 11:39 PM |
| quote:
Originally posted by Corim Danex
I loved Pool of Radiance (the old game). I just have difficulty tracking what is happening without graphics of any kind.
There was also a similar game that was based on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Since I was lost when I tried reading that book when I was about 12, I never really got past the part when I stuck a wiggly translating thing in my ear.
Pool of Radiance was a great game, but my fav. of that time was Secrets of the Silver Blade. That is the first computer game I ever beat, and loved it! I still fear Umber Hulks crashing threw walls [:)].
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was an odd game. I could never get out of the house alive... if you left without you're towel you died, and I could never find my towel [:(].
And thanks for the fixed link. | |
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Diomedes
Commander
3185 Posts
| | 01/17/2006 10:45 AM |
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Ah text games...
You are lying on a cold stone floor, it's very dark.
> use torch
You can't use the torch, you have a massive head ache. Have you been drinking?
> use asprin
You can't use the aspirin, you're tied to the floor.
-- more --
The ceiling collapses and you are crushed by falling rocks.
-- more --
You die.
Try again? (y/n)
I get nostalgic about some things, text games I'm glad to pass on ;)
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Fry
Underboss
1724 Posts
| | 01/18/2006 7:00 PM |
| | You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike. | |
"Why am I all sticky and naked? Did I miss something fun?"
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jacksonm
Warlord
5560 Posts
River City
| | 01/18/2006 7:05 PM |
| | It's an all time classic. [:)] | | | |
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Fearfrost
Sergeant
518 Posts
| | 01/18/2006 10:55 PM |
| | My favorite text game was called Planetfall. Spent hours on that game. | |
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Fun Guy from Yuggoth
Cthulhufnord
Warlord
11113 Posts
Umass Amherst Baby!
| | 01/19/2006 11:39 AM |
| | I had some very dirty text games for my mac classic years ago.... Bikini clad War Ladies of Mars or something.... | |
Pathetic Earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void - without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe - anything at all - you would have hidden from it in terror. | |
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