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Posted: Oct 9th 2010 4:55AM Pure Black World Tendency said

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I have vivid memories of playing this with my dad on the Spectrum 48K. I found the Grue so scary at the time.

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 5:22AM Rather Dashing said

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If you haven't played an Infocom adventure, you don't deserve to be called a "gamer" and you don't know the meaning of narratives in games.

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 5:41AM Benjamin said

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You can play a lot more than just Zork on your Kindle. There's a Javascript app called "Parchment" that lets you play interactive fiction in a web browser, and it works with the Kindle's.

http://parchment.toolness.com/

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 6:13AM Esposch said

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Someone should port Crab Nicholson's Extreme Sleepover.

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 7:46AM Marzz said

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What are you implying?

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 7:56AM ElTiante said

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Floyd here now!

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 9:51AM JonahStein said

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I was expecting there would be a text adventure game for the iPhone when I went searching last year. As far as I know nothing has been placed on the App Store yet. Maybe if these Kindle games are successful, who knows?

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 11:02AM quarlie said

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@JonahStein

Frotz is on the iPhone: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frotz/id287653015
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Posted: Oct 9th 2010 10:19AM littletmart said

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I would play the shit out of some Zork... for about ten minutes and get bored and move on to something else. You can never go home again.

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 2:53PM Courtney said

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@littletmart

I don't know, I fire up Zork occasionally on my PC. Seems like I would be more likely to sit and play through the entire thing again on a portable device.
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Posted: Oct 9th 2010 10:27AM MowDownJoe said

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The Kindle port of NetHack is an inevitability. Now, people everywhere will experience the humiliation of dying because they slipped trying to mount their horse!

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 10:34AM Luckyduke24 said

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This makes ne happy. I've has winfrotz for a very long time.

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 10:56AM VioletArrows said

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Aww. My first thought went to Choose Your Own Adventure books and got all excited. :(

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 11:07AM drhitts said

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@VioletArrows

I thought the same thing, until I read the word Zork.

*still searching for clean pants*
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Posted: Oct 9th 2010 12:39PM TravisO2 said

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@VioletArrows I second that idea, "choose your own adventures" makes perfect sense on a digital reader, because you can pick a choice and it just takes you to the next section. Preferably you can't go back, so cheaters can't win.
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Posted: Oct 9th 2010 8:17PM ILPC said

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@TravisO2 They have a bunch of classic choose your own adventure books just released on the kindle too
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Posted: Oct 9th 2010 12:20PM Jovrick said

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The Kindle seems like the best place for text adventures yet. Do you just download these games individually or is there a program like Frotz where they're all organized?

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 12:53PM Courtney said

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Sadly, this actually makes a Kindle more attractive to me. Also, looking at my ever growing book collection, having one might actually keep my house from being overrun by real books.

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 1:13PM Lune said

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>Get ye flask

Posted: Oct 9th 2010 5:59PM muir666 said

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@Lune
you've pulled?
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Posted: Oct 10th 2010 11:31AM Hatchet said

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Well they do have an app for fighting fantasy books on the iphone if youre interested

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