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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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