Zork… It Is Pitch Black And You Are Likely To Be Eaten By A Grue
Ahhh 1980s video games! I’m pretty sure the Zork was one of the first games that I ever played in my life. It’s twisted passages, jewel encrusted egg, white house and mailbox, water funeling area?… Heck I didn’t even know what half the items in the game were because I was so young… 🙂
But that grue…. boy… it stuck with me… and might be why I play D&D today. 😀
I’m sure if you asked many today if they would play a “text based” adventure game, they would laugh. But to me this is where gaming started. At a time when it took forever to load a basic color CGA few color pattern, “graphic”… Text games were where it was at!
Did you ever play? If not.. you can start right now online, on the magic of the Internets…. Thanks guys from MIT who made this.. (Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling) I wonder if those guys are on gplus? 🙂
http://www.web-adventures.org/cgi-bin/webfrotz?s=ZorkDungeon
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YES. Omg that grue. <3
Now this is a blast from the past.
I tried play Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy, but couldn't figure out how to get the Babel fish.
hi amenda
Xyzzy...
Yup. Muds. Gotta love 'em!
I've moved from those to the fine art of DM'ing.
Currently, I'm about to show my group the world that is Sigil.
It's D&D meets Stargate and they can't wait! ^_^
Hello Sailor
Another vote for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy! +Donagh Reardon getting the Babel fish has something to do with collecting the junk mail from the house before you leave - drop it on the floor and hang the dressing gown on the hook on the wall. The fish then hits the gown and misses the hole in the wall, and the junk mail gets scooped up by the cleaning robot, leaving the fish - it must be 25 years since I played it, so I'm sure I've missed something...
+Donagh Reardon it was a convoluted process for the uninitiated in the arts of the highly respected Douglas Adams
I played all the Infocom games. I miss them, but they're available to play online in a browser if you really want...