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Zork anyone?

ShaunW

ShaunW

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Oh man, talk about feeling my age! I was playing this non-stop in high school! when the TRS80 was the big thing, :banghead: :lol: .

I makes me realize how much has changed during my lifetime already, :scratch: . I wonder how I will feel at retirement (if I live that long?)?
 
ulmo

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I can't believe someone created this! Man, this takes me back a long, long time! :)

I wonder what a grue looks like?:scratchch

I can't even begin to calculate how much time was taken up by Zork and D&D!

Thanks for the post.
 
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Chiefmcfuz

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Like being blind. But games like this were the basis of rpg games of today. Hey you never played D&D with the codec's?
 
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cjdevito

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noodleman said:
lol i got that far and read the leaflet....too lazy to read the commands. Can someone give me a the summary :biggrin:
Click to expand...

It's simple; the game has a remarkable complicated text parser. Just type and go, it even understands full sentences. You're not limited to stuff like "take leaflet", you could "Take the leaflet from the mailbox then drop it on the floor."

Think of it as an interactive novel, where the goal is to acquire lots of different treasures scattered around. Infocom, the company that made the Zork series, released dozens of text based adventure games throughout the '80s. Some fantasy, some sci-fi, a couple murder mysteries, many that defy easy categorization.

There's another one on-line that I know of, Suspended, at http://www.xs4all.nl/~pot/infocom/suspended.html

(Quite possibly the most difficult Infocom game ever released. You're the emergency manager of a futuristic city, kept in suspended animation until the advent of a disaster. You're immobile and cut-off, and can only interact with the world through six robotic assistants).

If anyone finds an online version of Starcross I'd love to know :D
 
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