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What are some of your favorite text adventures, /vr/?

And don't say Zork, faggots. Be original.

>> No.907820

Hitchiker's Guide to the Zork__

>> No.907850

>>907801
There was a port of Wumpus to DOS in the late 80s by none other than Apogee, as part of an Adventure Fun-Pack, iirc. One of the first I played and really liked.

Does princess tomato count?

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>>907850
Yeah, here it is. It was called "The Thing", but it really was just Hunt the Wumpus.

With Monochrome or Color modes!

There was also a Puzzle Fun Pack by them that came with it on another 360K diskette. I remember using the printer at my dads work to print out mazes made with the maze generator. Neat that I found these again on 3DRealms ftp.

>> No.907860

Adventure
Trinity
Indiana Jones: Revenge of the Ancients

>> No.908023
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908023

Scott Adams, not that Dilbert guy. Check that 'fro.
http://www.msadams.com/

I remember playing a bunch of his games when I was a kid. Never did finish any of the though. ;_;

The site contains links to online versions of some of his games.

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>>908023
>oh cool, he has a new game out
>it's even a text adventure just like the olden days
>mitebkool
>it's a bible game...

>> No.908071

>>908043
Yeah, when I saw that I was looking all over the site and his wikipedia page to see if he turned into some kind of born again christfag.

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>>908023
Please tell me all his games aren't like this.

>> No.908079

>>908043
>>>/b/

>> No.908081

>>908078
Shouldn't you be playing Barbie Super Model?
Leave the video game talk to the men sweety.

>> No.908091

>>908043

Some bible games are good. Spiritual Warfare, for example.

Judge how good the game is based on design, not other shit.

>> No.908116

>>908091
not that guy but how would a text based bible game be any good? It would either be about shit in the bible itself which is good damn goofy enough but they left out the most zany shit, or it would be about pushing your beliefs on others probably and trying to convert people or maybe the goal is marry some christian girl lol. It wouldn't be any fun like a radical islam text adventure I betcha.

>> No.908117

Colossal Cave Adventure

>> No.908201

Bureaucracy

>> No.908252

Has anyone actually watched the documentary, Get Lamp, by Jason Scott and is about text adventures?

It's really engaging and VERY comprehensive: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRhbcDzbGSU

>> No.908265

>>908252
I've seen it. It was really entertaining.

>> No.909143

Photopia is really amazing.

>> No.909179

>>909143
Photopia isn't even a game.

>> No.909195

Leather Goddesses of Phobos is fucking amazing. A lot better than Space Quest IMO.

And while it's not much of an actual adventure game, A Mind Forever Voyaging has some pretty damn good writing. Check out the manual before you play, good stuff in there too.

>> No.910413

>>909195

I don't see how AMFV is "not much of an adventure game". It doesn't need to have puzzles arbitrarily integrated into the narrative to be an adventure game. It's brilliant exactly how it is, and precisely because it forgoes puzzles which would be detrimental to the setting. It's INFOCOM's finest work, imo.

>> No.910862

MUDs.

>> No.911242
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Gateway
Gateway 2
Eric the Unready
Time Quest
Leather Goddesses of Phobos
Planetfall
Wonderland

>> No.912117

Varicella

>> No.912142

Enchanter trilogy.

>> No.912152

>>910413
> It's brilliant exactly how it is
It'd be a stronger game if a third of it wasn't spent on political pandering, what with bashing Reagan and implying his christianity would bring about malnourishment and kids stoning the malnourished in the streets.