Topic: Text Games (Read 15973 times)

Johnny C · « **on:** 29 Jun 2005, 19:16 »

YOU ARE IN A DARK ROOM. THERE IS A TEXT ADVENTURE HERE.

>take text adventure

I CAN'T SEE THAT.

>take text

I CAN'T SEE THAT.

>take adventure

I CAN'T SEE THAT.

>dammit

I CAN'T SEE THAT.

>
>turn on lights

YOU TURN ON THE LIGHTS.

>take text adventure

YOU TAKE THE ADVENTURE GAME.

Does anyone else love text adventures? A really good one will keep me occupied for days, and I like how some people take the opportunity to turn it into almost an art form.

Inlander · « **Reply #1 on:** 30 Jun 2005, 02:44 »

Best text adventure ever.

torg · « **Reply #2 on:** 30 Jun 2005, 04:02 »

i like the online version called MUD: http://www.evermore.org

twentyfour · « **Reply #3 on:** 30 Jun 2005, 06:11 »

There was a great Hulk text adventure I played when I was a kid. The big issue was that you could dig and travel underground and get lost very fast as the world seemed huge(if you were a hyper-imaginative kid with ADD).

SO I just kept digging until Hulk fell into the lava at the centre of the earth, probably the stupidest death you could have in a game.

I always liked the old LucasArts/Sierra adventure games. So many great games came out on 4+ floppies back then

Sathanas · « **Reply #4 on:** 30 Jun 2005, 08:27 »

The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure had what was probably the most stupidly hard puzzle in it ever. The objective was to get a Babel Fish in your ear before the Vogon guards seized you. However, holes in walls, drains, and cleaning robots all conspired to stop you.

What made it hard was not the 'how do I solve this' part, but the fact that what you needed wasn't obvious in the slightest. Like, you needed your dressing gown to block the hole in the wall, but by the time you'd gotten to that puzzle, you'd forgotten about it because you were wearing it, so it didn't show up in your inventory.

I had to resort to the hints to solve that puzzle. I'm not proud.

EDIT: Also, one of the rooms had the description 'The only exit is to the north'. So you would try to go north, and it said 'There is a wall there'. Eventually, after poking around for a while, the game would say 'We lied. The exit is east'.

happybirthdaygelatin · « **Reply #5 on:** 30 Jun 2005, 11:14 »

Infocom and it's many Zork games stole many of my hours.

Bishop · « **Reply #6 on:** 30 Jun 2005, 12:06 »

Ive played the Hitchhikers one, well the online version of the original but I like graphics adventure games better

FreshJive787 · « **Reply #7 on:** 09 Jul 2005, 02:48 »

when you say text based adventure game i think about the 2d game based on text and your character is a green @ symbol, i recall it to be called adam or something or adom?

est · « **Reply #8 on:** 09 Jul 2005, 05:06 »

i can remember a text adventure game about pirates for the Vic20 where you had to do a bunch of stuff in a modern-day room, then get up on the windowsill and shout "YOHOHO" or something like that in order to get into the real game.

GebStar · « **Reply #9 on:** 10 Jul 2005, 06:47 »

Quote from: happybirthdaygelatin

Infocom and it's many Zork games stole many of my hours.

I love you.

Zork was the best and funniest series of my childhood.

Not so much a text game, but Liesure Suit Larry was a lot of fun as a kid.

Sythe · « **Reply #10 on:** 10 Jul 2005, 08:48 »

Dungeonman from Homestarrunner is one of the greatest text adventures of all time. I also liked a mud i played that i cannot remember the name to.

Valrus · « **Reply #11 on:** 10 Jul 2005, 09:47 »

Quote from: FreshJive787

when you say text based adventure game i think about the 2d game based on text and your character is a green @ symbol, i recall it to be called adam or something or adom?

ADOM, for Ancient Dungeons of Mystery. It's a pretty good blend of NetHack and Angband, although the fact that it's only available for Windows is a travesty.

Stifled Dreams · « **Reply #12 on:** 10 Jul 2005, 10:43 »

Oh, I love text games! My mind went directly to Zork when I saw this thread title. Of course, when it originally came out, I didn't exist, but my parents did. We still have a bunch of them, and my dad put them on my computer. I used to play them pretty often.

I've also played Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but I never got very far in that one.

I've also beaten Dungeonman, I think.

Kai · « **Reply #13 on:** 10 Jul 2005, 16:12 »

Text Adventures own my soul.

Also, MUD's rule. I play on mad.rom.org, port 1536, because it is the best MUD ever.

FreshJive787 · « **Reply #14 on:** 10 Jul 2005, 16:48 »

theres a java game being made by the guy who made adom as well, all my friends cant wait for it, but that may be because they have rather lame computers and i can run bf2 haha

elcapitan · « **Reply #15 on:** 11 Jul 2005, 08:09 »

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was the first game I ever completed (at age 7, I think), and it remains the best lateral-thinking text game ever, IMHO.

happybirthdaygelatin · « **Reply #16 on:** 15 Jul 2005, 09:07 »

Yet another reason Something Positive is awesome.

Hado-Ken · « **Reply #17 on:** 17 Jul 2005, 10:19 »

http://discworld.atuin.net/lpc/

TEH UBAR! A game with Sex, Drugs n' Rock & Roll! (Okay maybe not the last one)

It's difficult to start but keep with it and it's great, it can't be described in words, jsut play it and see!

(By the way if you a curious about the sex and drugs I was kidding, well if you have a lot of ingame money you can get it from certain player, you sad, sad people...)

tetsuotheironboy · « **Reply #18 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 13:54 »

anyone ever play the discworld online text based RPG? You started off in the pub and had to pick a guild to join except the maps were so incomprehensible i always got lost down an alleyway....ahh the days before broadband

happybirthdaygelatin · « **Reply #19 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 16:27 »

I've been tempted to check that out, as I use to be fond of playing MUDs quite a bit. Then I realized ze boss probably would not appreciate it.

thehoopiestfrood · « **Reply #20 on:** 25 Aug 2005, 17:19 »

I found the Hitchhiker's one suprisingly easy, but then again, that shouldn't really come as a surprise.

happybirthdaygelatin · « **Reply #21 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 09:34 »

I am in complete shock! The first couple of times I played it I had trouble and then I hadn't had much chance as it was on someone elses computer. And I figure I shouldn't play the online version while at work.

Tedd · « **Reply #22 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 12:45 »

I once did a very simple text adventure in PHP and I was a co-author of a simple Pokemon (it was the other author's idea, I swear to God, if it had been mine you would play the role of a whore trying to bang Mick Jagger) text adventure.

I'll have to check these out..

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #23 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 19:32 »

my friend likes to make text adventure games for the calculator, I think you can actually download them from his website

Inlander · « **Reply #24 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 21:01 »

Well give us the damned U.R.L., then!! Don't leave us hanging, man!

Switchblade · « **Reply #25 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 21:28 »

Eric the Unready as the coolest game EVER.

est · « **Reply #26 on:** 26 Aug 2005, 23:28 »

> GET YE FLASKE

judeau · « **Reply #27 on:** 27 Aug 2005, 08:55 »

I used to MUD alot (Medievia.com). I'm pretty sure my eyes were destroyed from reading that much text that many hours.

Blue Kitty · « **Reply #28 on:** 27 Aug 2005, 12:30 »

It was oddly hard to find but here it is http://www.bensonbasement.com/

nickyandthefuture · « **Reply #29 on:** 27 Aug 2005, 13:03 »

I played a lot of these when I was little, but I always had absolutely no idea what was going on. I managed to get surprisingly far in a few of them, but I don't remember ever thinking about solving a puzzle; I would just say words and things would happen and that's all I was really interested in. I also used to read Choose Your Own Adventure books in first and second grade and thought that they were just about the greatest thing ever.

I still can't do the Hitchhiker's Guide game, though. I can't even get the babel fish to go in my ear.

CidHighwind · « **Reply #30 on:** 29 Aug 2005, 14:53 »

I used to play both text adventures and MUDs, but oh how I loathed playing "Find the Syntax". Theres a command thats not mentioned anywhere, its only used once, and you need to use it to progress. -.-

And speaking of the calculator, I actually finished about 75% of the SNES RPG Front Mission on a TI-82. BUt trying to get a map-based battle was nigh-impossible, so I resorted to basing on the games arena. I knew exactly how to code it, but I never finished it. All of the graphics were drawn on the spot, and you have no idea how hard that is to do when you need a command to draw every line, and every pixel, and another to erase every one. As far as erasing goes, I found workarounds.

The game got to the point where I was constantly running the risk of running out of memory.

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torg

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Bishop

Stifled Dreams

Hado-Ken

tetsuotheironboy

thehoopiestfrood

Tedd

judeau

CidHighwind