[Coco] Interesting article on text adventrues.
Jim Cox
jimcox at miba51.com
Sun Jul 15 00:39:22 EDT 2007
Rogelio:
I am actually looking forward to getting back to playing a
lot of text based adventures. Manny turned me on to
Colossal Cave (aka Adventure) and now that I am really
close to getting not only my CoCo set back up, but also my
Atari ST, I looking forward to having some fun.
I have had a lot of false starts over the last 10 years
and I am quite certain that some people get a chuckle when
they read I am getting the system back up, but this time,
it is for real. I have turned my dinning room into Geek
Central. A bachelor has a right to do that you know :)
I am at that age where a lot of men end up having a
midlife crisis and dump their wives and/or get a
Corvette, but for me, I want to play with old computer and
watch 50's Sci-Fi.
Younger girlfriends and Corvettes are a lot more higher
maintenace than a CoCo :)
Getting back to text based games, I like the fact that
they make you use your brain, and having to think through
and remember certain things or routes, may actually be
good for my bubble memory :)
If you ever read User Friendly, you may remember the
recent battle of wits between Sid and Pitr:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070615
It lasted almost two weeks, but Sids reply was worth it :)
Cheers!
Jim
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:14:36 -0400
"Rogelio Perea" <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very good article, thans for posting the link Jim!.
>
> Won't say it brings back a lot of memories as I still
>play many of the
> 'text' based games noted in there. I thought for a
>moment I might see Rogue
> thrown in there but perhaps the fact that it was not
>really interactive
> fiction prescribed it from being taken as a 'text'
>adventure.
>
> Just this past week I was showing a colleague at work
>the Mocha on-line CoCo
> emulator and tried it with Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide
>to The Galaxy. My
> friend was 'blown' away by the nature of the game, even
>though he's an old
> timer and had a Commodore 64 once.
>
>
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
>
>
> On 7/13/07, Jim Cox <jimcox at miba51.com> wrote:
>>
>> This looks interesting. I plan to give it a read.
>>
>> http://www.2old2play.com/News/Text_Based_Adventures__Before_the_Graphics
>>
>> Jim
>
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