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Re:The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games by ranting-moth on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:46AM (#37248132)
It's peculiar how you can write an article subtitled "The rise and fall of type-in text games" without even mentioning the words Sierra, Zork or Infocom.

Btw, if you played the original Sierra games you'll find this story very interesting (and saddening), How Sierra Was Captured, Then Killed, by a Massive Accounting Fraud: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3vem8/inside-story-sierra-o...

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Re:The Antagonists: The rise and fall of type-in text games by mryall on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:55AM (#37248202)
Not sure if you read TFA, but it was about games whose code you “type in” from a book or magazine. I did it a lot back in the 80s when I first started programming.

The Sierra games took typed commands, but you got the games on diskettes. That was a later era than the games mentioned in the article.

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