Text Adventures

I'm curious what the numbers are for playing this niche genre. I'm talking adventure games that are all or virtually all in text form not graphics + text stuff like Phoenix Wright.

I play them occasionally. I liked them as a kid in the '80s, avoided the genre for the entire '90s decade for some reason, and got back into them in the early 2000s.

I like messing around with them from time to time, especially the Infocom stuff. I've never finished one save Photopia.

I'm playing a text adventure right now called "Read the Forums"

but on topic, I don't think I've played a text adventure game since I had my old ass tank of a ][e

Zork!

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Originally Posted by cka

I'm playing a text adventure right now called "Read the Forums"

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Watch out for the Grues.

I play a lot of them. I always make a point to play the IFComp entries. There's just something about the purely text-based form that I find magical.

The straight up text adventures tend to be a little frustrating, but I play them occasionally.

I've beaten the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, A Mind Forever Voyaging, and I think that might be it. Played a few more though.

I have played Zork when I was a kid. Never got very far since my Engrish was very limited.

I occasionally replay Gateway I & II. I got a Z5-interpreter on my Palm, which I rarely use.

Does reading "Choose Your Own Adventure" books as a kid count?

When I first got a Commodore a decade or so ago, the first thing I did was hunt down the Infocom stuff. I played them but I cheated like a mother fucker, liked them, don't have the patience/time to really devote to them.

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Originally Posted by Nash

Does reading "Choose Your Own Adventure" books as a kid count?

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I read those as well. I have Fighting Fantasy boxset. ^^

Lone Wolf 4-Lyfe

I haven't played one in many years.

I used to love Enchanter and Sorcerer and my cousin and I spent a lot of time playing a Vic 20 cassette game called Pirate's Cove.

Of course I also spent plenty of time playing Zork.

Fun stuff. I should give them another shot.

Text adventures aren't really my thing, but I'm more into ARPGs (Ys, etc). Right now, I've almost got Ys Book I & II completed. Good times.

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Originally Posted by bVork

I always make a point to play the IFComp entries.

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Me too. I find they tend to be more accessible than a lot of the classics, too, mostly due to shorter lengths. Older, commercial IF also had a tendency to extend play time by having super difficult puzzles.

I can't play them anymore. I suppose a list of the best ones would be nice...I'd give one a shot again

I hate those Choose Your Own Adventure books, because I always get into an infinite loop.

I used to play a ton of these on my Commodore computers growing up. I had almost all of the "Scott Adams Adventure Series" games for the Vic-20, and later several of the Infocom games on the 64.

I never really got to experience Zork in all it's greatness until years later when I bought a collection for Windows 95. Good stuff.

I would recommend the stuff from Legend Entertainment. You don't even need to type, just point and click on the words or on the visuals.

http://forum.connect-webdesign.dk/ou...s/gateway2.PNG

http://www.adventureclassicgaming.co...te/reviews/86/

http://www.adventureclassicgaming.co...te/reviews/81/

I have a whole box full of those old text adventure games, on the C-64. I've tried Borrowed Time, Deja Vu, Planet Fall, Wishbringer, Leather Goddesses of Phobos and the Zork Series.

I'd either get bored, or frustrated with figuring out the right words to type to progress the game. Borrowed Time was the most interesting of the bunch, but I just didn't have the patience to play the game.

I used to play the singleplayer stuff a little bit. Not a ton. I'm assuming that singleplayer is implied in 'Text Adventure'.

On the other hand, I played on a MUD for about eight years. Then it went way downhill with a change of management.

I'd enjoyed a lot of Text adventures when I was kid. Zork is my oldest memory and I played that a hell of a lot.

I've never played one, although I would like to. But whether or not I have the patience for this stuff is questionable.

Eh kinda ended with Adventure and Plundered Hearts (both of which i enjoyed alot) but never got past the damn ball.

I used to have a couple of pirated text adventures for the A500. One was called The Pawn, and the other escapes me at the moment.
They both had some superfluous graphics and I never finished either of them because they had some form of copy protection that would randomly ask for shit from the manual.
It was fun to play them in the dark with the screen off and just use my imagination, because the Amiga would speak the text output