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Re:The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games by shams93 on Monday August 21, 2023 @06:54PM (#37216442)
I grew up on Infocom games on apple iie. However now the focus is largely on graphics to the extreme, it could be that a lot of people simply cannot read and write well enough to get into a text based game, they had a comeback during the dialup internet days with Muds. If one went and then had such a game translated into enough languages perhaps it could find a world wide niche.
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Re:The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games by MikeTheGreat on Thursday August 24, 2023 @01:58AM (#37245501)
This is reaching back a bit, but Old Man Murray had a great article about adventure games that seems relevant.[1] OMM was talking about graphical adventure games, but I think a lot of it applies to pure-text games, too.

[1] http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/77.html

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Re:The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games by arijun on Thursday August 24, 2023 @02:20AM (#37245626)
Great read, and somehow exactly parodies the post you are responding to.
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Re:The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games by anthk on Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:44AM (#37247298)
On graphical adventures, they got killed by Tomb Raiders and alike. Suddenly, you can kill people and solve great puzzles in detailed environments.

Oh, and games like Parasite Eve, Resident Evil... which basically merged graphical adventures, action games and RPG mechanics in a single release.

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Re:The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games by anthk on Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:40AM (#37247267)
On the text games, you have Z Machine games from IF Archive. You need Frotz or any Z machine interpreter.

A good list:

-Anchorhead

-Spider and Web

-Entangled

-All Thing Devours

-Vicious Cycles

-Enemies

-Curses+Jigsaw

-Inside Woman

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Re:The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games by Y_Y on Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:58AM (#37247385)
What about classics like:

- Lost Pig by Admiral Jota

- Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short

- Shade by Andrew Plotkin

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Re:The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games by anthk on Thursday August 24, 2023 @12:59PM (#37251431)
- Lost Pig was an intro to IF, kinda like 9:05 but expanded. It's good but not a masterpiece.

- CM it's like those American crazed crossword puzzles but mixed with text adventures. It's a great example and an oddball, for sure.

- Shade it's an experiment more like a game. From Plotkin I prefer Spider and Web by a lot.

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Re:The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games by DylanSp on Thursday August 24, 2023 @01:13PM (#37251663)
Hadean Lands is a great example of a modern take on parser-based IF, I highly recommend it.
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