Text Adventures

[jason h]

Re: Text Adventures

Hmmmm. Hotel Dusk looks realy good. Cheers.

[Wil]

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I've still got my original Lurking Horror (as well as quite a few other Infocom titles) for the Amiga. Complete with campus password card and the little rubbery 'horror'. First Infocom game with sound if I remember rightly.

If you like that sort of game a decent current equivalent (other than modern text adventures) is something like Hotel Dusk on the Nintendo DS.

[jason h]

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Yes, Text Adventures. I always found them a bit dull the first time round - most of them seemed to be stories involving wizards, magic spells, caves etc.
But I've recently got back into them as an antidote to today's modern games that seem to need a £2,000 PC to play them fully.

I would recommend Lurking Horror by Infocom to anyone who fancies a fun, sometimes scary text adventure. Just do a search on Wikipedia and this will throw up lots of links.

Enjoy this best on an 8 bit micro emulator like Applewin 1.13
Alternatively, many websites let you play online such as - www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/lurking.html

And here is the manual for the game itself -
infodoc.plover.net/manuals/temp/lurking.pdf

Enjoy!

[Elbmek]

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Nothing beats a good old fashioned joystick, when playing you need something to grab on too (again not text adventures)

I have a joystick and to configure it needs a degree in science from MIT; so it sits on the floor, gathering dust.

[stevef]

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I prefer the emulators myself for the following reasons:

1. You can play games immediately and don't have to waste time loading them.
2. You don't need a TV for them when someone else wants to watch something.
3. You don't have stuff all over the place (leads, tape player, games, etc.)
4. You don't have to stop the kids from tripping over it or playing with the leads, etc.
5. Get all the games you want for nothing.

The only consoles I have are the PS1 and N64 which I will hang on to as they are cool, especially the N64. Love Beetle Adventure Racing, coolest racing game ever. Oh, and I also have a PSP.

[Heather74]

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I'll tell you what I did hate.. loading the games watching all the coloured lines screeching and moving, only for the game to crash or fail loading when you had to turn the tape over

[LULU2000]

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have hours of fun with mine,you can still buy them at most retro games shops,if you can manage to find them on the net they are usually dirt cheap .

[LULU2000]

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each to his own daz I suppose lol

[Heather74]

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I gave my C64 and Spectrum128k to my niece along with a suitcase full of games, there were hundreds, not all new some from carboot sales and Jumbles, along with freebies from magazines, apparently her mum (my sister) got sick of her leaving them around the house, so she gave them all to the boy next door Wish she'd offered them back to me.

[LULU2000]

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pacman is my favourite heather,all the best from lulu2000

[LULU2000]

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Much prefer the old games unit myself,is what I grew up with,so far in my collection I have the old atari,spectrum 48k and 128k and tons of games to go with them,keeps me occupied for hours

[Heather74]

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Nothing beats a good old fashioned joystick, when playing you need something to grab on too (again not text adventures)

[Wil]

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I must admit that I can't stand emulators. It may sound nerdy (in fact it does!) but playing old tv console stuff on pixel perfect monitors makes it look all wrong (although that obviously doesn't matter with text adventures ).

I'd much rather have the original machine and games.

[joybee]

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You're the expert !!

[sixtyten]

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I can only assume I was using an emulator that didn't run on XP.
I have no problem running Master System,NES, MAME, etc.