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more about #textadventures Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: ADVENT! How fondly I remember gathering around the one CRT at the school lab with the other geeks, arguing which direction to go, what to throw, and w... more » A Pimp Named DaveR: I was partial to "Suspended". Sometimes, it was fun to ask Poet random stuff just to see what the hell he'd say.... more » Daveinva: "The game progresses through years in the simulated city, and you observe the slow growth of dystopia" DRINK! more » NefariousNewt: And for those of us with longer memories, who got our start on Unix systems, there was Moria. I still have a copy for PC somewhere (on a floppy!), tha... more » -
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The Text Adventure Games That Ate Our Brains
Long before computer animation and virtual reality, people were creating virtual worlds in a more traditional way: text. And some of the most vibrant and complete virtual worlds existed in a quirky genre of video game called the text adventure.
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