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Re: Text-based Adventures
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:07:03 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote:
> Kids today. They act like they never saw Colossal Cave, Zork, Scott Adams...
> ;-)
I may have missed the boat on Scott Adams, but the only text-ish adventures of
his that I ever played were those Marvel Comics "Questprobe" games, which I
found, let us say, disappointing. Were there other good ones that I didn't get
to play?
Dave!
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| (...) Scott Adams created (or licensed) a set of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text-based adventure games that were not quite as humorous as the books and not quite as good as Zork or Colossal Cave. Mainly because these games had a strict (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Kids today... The various Zorks were all great. Infocom generally did the best of the text adventure games - the fiendish Babel-Fish puzzle in Hitchhiker's Guide is one of the great classics of text adventures. The Scott Adam's adventures (not (...) (20 years ago, 23-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) Make a map for yourself. Be clever. Be complete. Know your subject. Be funny and amusing. If you decide to do graphics, for heaven's sake don't have multiple characters that you have to simultaneously have to manipulate and figure out all the (...) (20 years ago, 21-Jan-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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