Posts tagged textadventures 
Text adventures arrive on the DS via unofficial channels
We can't tell you to download them (in fact, we'll tell you not to), but we can definitely applaud the technical achievement. A homebrew genius called papafuji has ported a massive selection of classic text adventures and early graphic adventure games to the DS, including all of Infocom's text adve...
Japanese hardware sales, Feb. 19 - Feb. 25: text adventure edition
You wake up disoriented, in a dark room. You have no idea where you are. >look It's a dark room. You can't see anything. We know you're disoriented, but do try to keep up. >look exits Fine. Okay. You stumble around the room until you find a wall. Keeping one hand on the wall, you walk the peri...
Infocom: from Zork to business software
"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here." If you've never experienced the bliss of staring at the above -- the opening line of text adventure classic Zork -- you're missing out on one of the formative titles in video game his...
Stuck on hold? Zork is the new soft jazz
Forget Michael Bolton, Zork is the best hold music ever! From Zasterisk: "I was tinkering with Asterisk and the Festival text-to-speech engine, and wrote some short Asterisk::AGI scripts to read back live weather reports. After that, I thought I needed something more interactive to work with... "Now...
