Controller1.Com THE PODCATS: Text Sells
Or at least, it did in the early 80′s. Text Adventures aren’t dead, but they aren’t doing too well, like Tiger Woods trying to sell car upholstery cleaning products. Get your Zork on!
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December 15th, 2009 at 5:08 am
I didn’t get a computer of my own until late 1993, when Doom threw the PC gaming scene into chaos. The only adventure games I played were graphical, like Loom, King’s Quest VI, and the Kyrandia games. I tried out the Hitchhiker’s game after listening to this podcats, though, and enjoyed the little secrets the parser allowed, like “enjoy mud.” I’m a fan of the books, and I’m curious to see how closely the game follows them.
December 15th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
I loved text adventure games, including the original Adventure which I was never able to complete.
I don’t really know what the current equivalent would be, there’s nothing quite like the experience of playing with the parser and coming up with the proper combination of available objects and subjects and verbs to overcome obstacles.
Man, if text adventures were online and multiplayer it wouldn’t be dominated by 14 year-olds or Koreans, that’s for sure.
Oh who am I kidding, of course it would.
December 15th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
> You are in the woods, twisty paths extend in every direction.
> N
> You are in the woods, twisty paths extend in every direction.
> N
> You are eaten by a Zerg Rush!!! OMG you are a n00b!!
December 15th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
did we say on the podcats about scribblenaughts? that’s about all I can think of offhand.
I was too impatient as a child but now… Why lie? I’m still impatient as an adult!
December 16th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
Well, yeah, Scribblenaughts is very close, you’re right.
But it’s just one game, and not a genre.
December 19th, 2009 at 12:27 am
Man I miss text adventures, I used to love playing them. The first Spider-Man game I ever played was a text only version, about as much fun as you would imagine a text only version of Spider-Man would be, but strangely still better than the game of the 3rd Movie.
“Mr George sits down and sings a song about games.”
December 19th, 2009 at 2:20 am
>shoot m16 at enemy
>you’ve missed the enemy but hit the red barrel he was standing next to. It erupts in a fireball, throwing the enemy backwards in an amusing fashion.
>”lol”
>A nub is running at your spawnpoint with a Javelin missile
>”fuck”