Retrospective : Text Adventures

Neil79 · 12 Jul 2011 at 02:05

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-07-08-retrospective-text-adventures-article

A lot of the time I wanted to see what replies the author has reserved for potty-mouthed players. It would usually be something like "How rude!" or "Wash your mouth out!" One exception was a game called Quest for the Golden Eggcup where swearing would see you thrown into "God's dungeon" from which you had to escape.

GO EAST

Cannot go east

GO NORTH

You travel north and see two giant dildos

PLAY WITH A *****

It vibrates in your hand

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Ahhh those were the days

whitecrook · 12 Jul 2011 at 02:18

KENTILLA on the Speccy was great.

PermaBanned · 12 Jul 2011 at 02:20

I was reading Starship Titanic not too long ago, i remember Douglas Adams mentioning the text based HHGttG game, and saying that as graphics got better and better over time you get more and more out of touch with the story. Something he wanted to fix on the game he was working on.

lokiss · 12 Jul 2011 at 06:11

Ultimate adventure 4.

One of the first games i played when i got the dragon 32, it's classic go north/search/use flashlight.

Still got an original copy, fantastic game.

badcompany · 12 Jul 2011 at 06:15

Gremlins on speccy was tricky if I can remember.

Fred · 12 Jul 2011 at 06:27

Used to love text adventure games.

Memorial site for Magnetic Scrolls where you can actually play all the games via java HERE
:cool:

bushmins · 12 Jul 2011 at 07:48

Two words....

Granny's Garden.