[Coco] Anyone still play text adventure games?

[Aaron Wolfe]

I always saw graphical adventures and text adventures as two very
different things, sort of like novels vs comic books (or movies).
There are great examples of both, and both are enjoyable, but they
really aren't the same thing.  The modern day "interactive fiction"
community focuses on text only work.

Text is my preference, as I also agree with Dr. Sheldon Cooper.

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Nick Marentes <nickma at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>> As someone that wrote the first Animated Graphics Adventure, ...
>> (Steve Bjork)
>
> Let's not forget to mention James Garon and Ralph Burris who also are
> credited for this game in 1982.
>
> Also, Frank Cohen has been credited for this game. Don't know the story
> here. Maybe he did the original design? On the Apple or Atari?
>
> I don't know if it was the first "animated graphic adventure". The game
> doesn't appear to be well  known to the "outside world". I know Sierra's
> Mystery Fun House was released in 1980. I don't know if it was animated. I
> remember the excellent Mark Data series of animated graphic adventures but I
> think they came after Sands of Egypt?
>
> It would be interesting to get the history of this. Can you shed any light
> here Steve?
>
>> Now Dr. Sheldon Cooper (see The Big bang Theory) has a different opinion
>> about textual based Adventure games of the 1980's...
>>
>> "It runs on the world's more power graphics chip, imagination" (as Dr.
>> Sheldon Cooper points to his own head.)
>
> I agree 101% with this.   :)
>
> Nick
>
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